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Spanish

La globalización de comida

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Lesson Title: La globalización de comida
Lesson Author: Carol Ready
Instructional Language: Spanish
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year / Intermediate
Text Title: La United Fruit Co.
Text Language: Spanish
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Grammar Play, Symbolic Play

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Text Title: La United Fruit Co.
Text Language: Spanish
Text Author: Pablo Neruda
Genre: Poetry
Topic: Food and Drink

Lesson

Lesson Title: La globalización de comida
Instructional Language: Spanish
Lesson Author: Carol Ready
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year / Intermediate
Pedagogical Practices: Reading
Writing
Grammar Focus: Past participles / metaphor
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
  • Students will interpret and question cultural references and ideological perspectives of the global food industry.
Reading
  • Students will recognize layers of meaning in an authentic literary text.
  • Students will identify descriptive language (e.g. metaphorical and past participles as adjectives).
Writing
  • Students will incorporate descriptive language in their writing.
Texts, Genres & Practices
  • reading poetry
  • writing poetry
Cultural Knowledge & Perspectives
  • interpreting and questioning ideological perspectives of the exportation of fruit
  • creating poetry as a social critique
Language Use & Language Play
  • analyzing metaphor to convey a particular emotion or opinion regarding the subject
  • examining the use of past participles as adjectives as a unique descriptive tool
  • incorporating metaphor into writing
  • using past participles as adjectives
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Grammar Play, Symbolic Play

Una carta para Dios

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Lesson Title: Una carta para Dios
Lesson Author: Marcelo Fuentes
Instructional Language: Spanish
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year / Intermediate
Text Title: Una carta para Dios
Text Language: Spanish
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Genre Play

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Text Title: Una carta para Dios
Text Language: Spanish
Text Author: Anonymous text / picture by Marcelo Fuentes
Genre: Emails, Letters, and Postcards
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Una carta para Dios
Instructional Language: Spanish
Lesson Author: Marcelo Fuentes
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year / Intermediate
Pedagogical Practices: Reading / Writing / Speaking / Listening
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:

To analyze an expression of popular religiosity in Latin American culture, to compare it with the students’ own cultural context, and to practice requests using the epistolary genre

Texts, Genres & Practices
  • Analyzing pictures of cities, churches and religious objects
  • Reading and analyzing letters as cultural and personal forms of expression
  • Writing a letter with personal requests
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
  • Manifestations of popular religiosity as part of Latin American culture
  • Personal letters as cultural and personal expressions of needs and wishes
Language Use & Strategies
  • Vocabulary related to religious expressions and cultural syncretism
  • Grammar choices (verb tenses and mood) related to requests and wishes
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Genre Play

Cuando yo sea mayor…

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Lesson Title: Cuando yo sea mayor…
Lesson Author: Natasha César Suárez
Instructional Language: Spanish
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year / Intermediate, Advanced
Text Title: Desafío a la vejez
Text Language: Spanish
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Symbolic Play

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Text Title: Desafío a la vejez
Text Language: Spanish
Text Author: Gioconda Belli
Genre: Poetry
Topic: Family, Friendships, and Relationships

Lesson

Lesson Title: Cuando yo sea mayor…
Instructional Language: Spanish
Lesson Author: Natasha César Suárez
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year / Intermediate, Advanced
Pedagogical Practices: Reading / Writing / Speaking / Listening
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
  • Writing about elderly
  • Activating the metaphorical competence
  • Adopting an empathetic attitude towards the elderly
Texts, Genres & Practices
  • Reading a poem in the target language
  • Understanding a poem
  • Deconstructing metaphors, and creating metaphors
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
  • Accessing a cultural product in Spanish language
  • Reflecting on intergenerational relations
  • Activating the metaphoric competence.
Language Use & Strategies
  • Language skills: reading, writing, speaking
  • Language competences: subjunctive mode
Design Elements
  • The activity could be supported by some visual materials, in order to cause reflections related to the main theme of the poem. Consequently, these images will stimulate the students to write about their own ideas in this respect
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Symbolic Play

Cosas de ciudad

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Lesson Title: Cosas de ciudad
Lesson Author: Natasha César Suárez
Instructional Language: Spanish
Level of Activities: College / 2. year / Intermediate, Advanced
Text Title: Puerta del Sol 2011
Text Language: Spanish
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Pragmatic Play, Symbolic Play, Visual Play, Word Play

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Text Title: Puerta del Sol 2011
Text Language: Spanish
Text Author: Natasha César Suárez
Genre: Image
Topic: Media and Technology / Historical and Cultural Events

Lesson

Lesson Title: Cosas de ciudad
Instructional Language: Spanish
Lesson Author: Natasha César Suárez
Level of Activities: College / 2. year / Intermediate, Advanced
Pedagogical Practices: Reading / Writing / Speaking / Listening
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
  • Researching about contemporary social movements
  • Activating social / civil commitments
  • Reviewing grammar content (Imperative mode)
Texts, Genres & Practices
  • Analyzing an image with phrases on the target language
  • Understanding the meaning of summarized expressions related to the topic of the activity.
  • Imagining hypothetical social movement in Spanish language.
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
  • Accessing a socio-historical content in Spanish language
  • Reflecting on the relevance of contemporary social movements
Language Use & Strategies
  • Language skills: reading, writing, speaking
  • Language competences: imperative mode
Design Elements
  • This activity is designed for activating the knowledge of social movements, and stimulating the commitment of the students. It could be complemented with images and / or music related to the most recent world social movements.
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Pragmatic Play, Symbolic Play, Visual Play, Word Play

Las narrativas transmedia a partir de un cuento de hadas

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Lesson Title: Las narrativas transmedia a partir de un cuento de hadas [ Transmedia Storytelling with a Fairytale ]
Lesson Author: Maybel Mesa Morales
Instructional Language: Spanish
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year / Intermediate, Advanced
Text Title: Transmedia Storytelling
Text Language: Spanish
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Genre Play, Narrative Play, Pragmatic Play, Symbolic Play, Visual Play

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Text Title: Transmedia Storytelling
Text Language: Spanish
Text Author: Elpublicista Revista
Genre: Social Media
Topic: Media and Technology

Lesson

Lesson Title: Las narrativas transmedia a partir de un cuento de hadas [ Transmedia Storytelling with a Fairytale ]
Instructional Language: Spanish
Lesson Author: Maybel Mesa Morales
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year / Intermediate, Advanced
Pedagogical Practices: Writing / Speaking / Listening / Viewing
Grammar Focus: Pretérito/Imperfecto
Main Objectives:

Learners will be able to recount and expand a story or story experience across multiple platforms through transmedia practices using current digital technologies.

Texts, Genres & Practices
  • Analyzing and interpreting an infographic to elaborate a definition of transmedia storytelling.
  • Analyzing, understanding, and explaining a video about transmedia storytelling.
  • Expanding and writing a new end for the (comic) through personal creative intervention
Cultural Knowledge & Perspectives
  • Telling stories across multiple media allows content to form a larger, cohesive, and rewarding experience.
  • Telling stories across multiple media increases the author’s and reader’s awareness of the characteristics of each medium and genre, promoting digital literacy.
  • Transmedia practices may expand the potential reach of storytelling by creating different adaptations for different audience segments.
Language Use & Language Play
  • Preterite and Imperfect
  • Vocabulary about technology and social media
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Genre Play, Narrative Play, Pragmatic Play, Symbolic Play, Visual Play

El mayor premio es compartirlo

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Lesson Title: El mayor premio es compartirlo [ The greatest prize is to share it ]
Lesson Author: Raychel Vasseur
Instructional Language: Spanish
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year, 3. year / Novice
Text Title: Anuncio de la lotería de Navidad 2015
Text Language: Spanish
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Grammar Play, Visual Play

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Text Title: Anuncio de la lotería de Navidad 2015
Text Language: Spanish
Text Author: Leo Burnett agency
Genre: Emails, Letters, and Postcards / TV and Film / Image
Topic: Family, Friendships, and Relationships / Holidays and Celebrations

Lesson

Lesson Title: El mayor premio es compartirlo [ The greatest prize is to share it ]
Instructional Language: Spanish
Lesson Author: Raychel Vasseur
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year, 3. year / Novice
Pedagogical Practices: Reading / Writing / Cultural Understanding
Grammar Focus: adjectives as nouns, cognate (and false cognate) recognition, dates, telling time on a 24 hour clock
Main Objectives:

Grammatically the main objectives of this lesson are that students will be able to recognize, false cognates, recognize and understand adjectives used as nouns, to recognize, understand, and produce cognates, students will understand and produce written dates, and students will recognize the 24-hour clock system. Culturally, students will understand the practices and perspectives of the Spanish Christmas lottery and compare them to their culture’s lottery and Christmas traditions. Analytically, students will be able to use multimodal elements to support their interpretation and understanding of an advertisement.

Texts, Genres & Practices
  • Watching and analyzing a commercial for the Spanish Christmas lottery.
  • Using multimodal elements (visual and audio) to support interpretation and understanding.
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
  • Interpreting and understanding “The best prize is to share it” as the overarching theme of the Christmas lottery and how this appeals to working-class Spaniards.
  • Making sense of the importance of social solidarity
Language Use & Language Play
  • grammar play: Using adjectives as nouns
  • grammar play: Recognizing cognates (and non-cognates)
  • culture play: Foregrounding relationships to advertise a lottery
  • perspective play
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Grammar Play, Visual Play

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