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Games
Pictonary and Lo Tengo (BINGO) La Casa Vocab: Here are two games that facilitate practice with basic vocabulary for the theme la casa. There is a quick warm-up, a vocabulary chart, a space to prepare a for a pictionary game, a Lo Tengo (BINGO) game and a space to reorganize the words on one's Lo Tengo chart according to different categories (rooms in a home, parts of a home, etc). The best part is that you can edit the games to the needs of your students and different themes you teach because it's writen in Word! Great for elementary and middle school students!
Game: Escaleras y Serpientes with cuantos and la casa vocab: Here is a game that helps students practice the use of Cuánto, Cuánta, Cuántos, Cuántas. There is a short warm-up (or pre-evaluation), a basic fill-in-the-blank activity that reinforces the rules of Cuánto, Cuánta, Cuántos, Cuántas, and an Escaleras y serpientes game (Chutes and Ladder). Great for older elementary students and middle school students
Games: Pictionary and Lo Tengo (BINGO) -ar Verbs and Chores: This document includes a warm up and the preparation of 2 games (Pictionary and Lo Tengo or BINGO) for -ar verbs (mostly chore vocab), along with the TENGO board and a post activity. It is written in Word, so you can edit and tailor it as necessary. Great for secondary education Spanish 1 students!
Game: Escaleras y Serpientes (La casa vocab and prepositions of place): Here is a simple game called Escaleras y serpientes, played in the same way as you would play Chutes and Ladders. It's very easy to play. In this game, students will practice the different vocabulary from the theme la casa and prepositions of place. Included in this activity is a warm-up, the game itself (along with an explanation of how to play) and a suggested secondary activity of creating flash cards to further practice the vocabulary. Students can use 3x5 cards or make the flash cards with regular paper and scissors. Great for older elementary students and middle school students in Spanish 1 or a basic Spanish class!
Videos
Style: Bilingual
Name of Video: La casa (SAS Curriculum Pathways
Topic: The home
Resource: NOT Authentic
Suggested Level: Spanish 1 (Grade 6 or below)
Style: Presentation of a house
Name of Video: La casa 2
Topic: The home
Resource: NOT Authentic
Suggested Level: Spanish 1 (Grade 7 or below)
Style: Basic instruction
Name of Video: Dónde está
Topic: Prepositions of Location
Resource: NOT Authentic
Suggested Level: Spanish 1 (Grade 7 or below)
Style: Presentation of a house
Name of Video: Mi casa. Nivel A1
Topic: The home
Resource: NOT Authentic
Suggested Level: Spanish 1
Style: Presentation of a house
Name of Video: Sola casa. Nivel A2
Topic: The home and chores
Resource: NOT Authentic
Suggested Level: Spanish 1
Video: Cuartos del Hotel (Spanish theme of la casa): Here we have a series of activities (pre-listening, listening and post-listening) that are based on an AUTHENTIC video about a hotel commercial from YouTube. The listening activity is DIFFERENTIATED for different levels (challenging, standard and remedial). The post-listening task is a paired activity where students make a poster for their own hotel, using vocabulary from the previous activity. The document is in Word, so you can tailor the tasks to your own students. Great for Spanish 1!
Location for video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N5uhlT98c0
Authentic Interpretive Listening Task (La casa): Whistle While You Work Here is a listening activity based on the AUTHENTIC RESOURCE of Snow White's famous song, "Whistle While You Work" or Silbando al trabajar. There is a pre-listening (prediction based on just hearing the song), listening (idenifying the chores done during the song) and post-listening (writing sentences in the present progressive) activity. The video that goes with the activities is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vdvT2QB9VM. It's written in Word, so you can edit to meet the needs for your students. Great for Spanish 1!
Basic Video: Mi Casa: Here is an activity based on the basic video Mi casa found on the YouTube site https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs3kUMqRvKY. There is a word study activity, where students answer basic questions and make a drawing about one room in their home of their choice. After, they watch the video and write out their answers in complete sentences in Spanish. Everything's written in Word, so you can edit as necessary. Great for Spanish 1 or 2!
AUTHENTIC Video: Spanish Language Hotel Ad La Casa Theme: Here are a several activities (pre-listening, listening and post-listening) for an AUTHENTIC video of a hotel ad in Spanish; it's most appropriate for the theme of La casa. The listening activities are DIFFERENTIATED based on level of difficulty (challenging, standard and remedial). The post-activity is a small project, where students create their own hotel commercial. There are basic requirements for the post-activity and a RUBRIC based on audience, content, grammar, mechanics for the writing component and a clarity of expression for the speaking component. It's written in Word, so you can edit it to meet the needs of of your students. Great for Spanish 1!
AUTHENTIC Spanish Video: Cleaning the Bathroom La Casa Theme: Here are three activities (pre-listening, listening, post-listening) based on an AUTHENTIC video about cleaning the bathroom. (Site for the video is http://www.hogarutil.com/hogar/limpieza-orden/cocinas-banos/201004/limpiar-bano-6399.html). The listening activities are DIFFERENTIATED with different levels of difficulty (challenging, standard and remedial. The post-listening activity asks students to create a comic strip showing how they clean a room in their house. Everything's written in Word so you can tailor it to meet the needs of your students. Great for Spanish 1 or Spanish 2!
Stations Activities
La casa - Stations Activity 1: Here is a stations activity that lets students write about different types rooms in homes in Spanish. There is a warm-up, a stations activity, and a post activity where they evaluate their homes in the same way the evaluated the homes at each station. Students will move from station to station, which is great for kids who don't like sitting the entire class time. Students will also work in pairs, which will give the chance to help each other negotiate correct answers. In order to avoid copyright infringement I've taken out the images, but they are available for free below this description. The best part is that you can edit the activity to tailor them to the needs of your students because it's written in Word!
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La Casa, Hay, Te Gusta Stations 2 Activity: Here is a stations activity where students write about different types rooms and the furniture in those rooms in Spanish using hay and te gusta. There is a warm-up, a stations activity, and a post activity where they describe one of the rooms in their homes in the same way the described the rooms at each station. Students will move from station to station, which is great for kids who don't like sitting the entire class time. Students will also work in pairs, which will give the chance to help each other negotiate correct answers. In order to avoid copyright infringement I've taken out the images, but they are available for free on my website http://gramatichica.wixsite.com/laprofesoragil/la-casa. The best part is that you can edit the activity to tailor them to the needs of your students because it's written in Word!
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La Casa and -ar Verbs (Chores) Stations Activity 3: Here is a stations activity that lets students write about different chores (-ar verbs) done in homes in Spanish. There is a warm-up, a stations activity, and a post activity where they describe the types of chores done in one of the rooms in their homes in the same way they described chores at each station. Students will move from station to station, which is great for kids who don't like sitting the entire class time. Students will also work in pairs, which will give the chance to help each other negotiate correct answers. In order to avoid copyright infringement I've taken out the images, but they are available for free at http://gramatichica.wixsite.com/laprofesoragil/la-casa The best part is that you can edit the activity to tailor them to the needs of your students because it's written in Word!
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Presentational Writing Activities:
Presentational Writing: La Casa, Hay, Ser: Here is a basic presentational writing activity that has students use la casa vocabulary, the verbs hay and ser. There is a warm up, a writing portion, a peer editing portion and a rubric for both teachers and students. It's written in Word in case you want to edit or tailor it for your students. It's best for Spanish 1 learners.
Presentational Writing: La Casa Vocab and Prepositions of Place: Here is a presentational writing activity where students will complete a presentational writing task describing their favorite rooms in their homes in Spanish. Students will use prepositions of place and basic vocabulary from la casa theme. Students will complete a warm up, a rough draft, peer edit another's paragraph, and write a final draft. They can also draw what they wrote. There is also a rubric for you and the students to evaluate the paragraphs. Best for beginning Spanish learners! Also, the document is written in Word, so you edit to serve your students best.
Communicative Activities
Draw and Share Prepositions of Location: Here is a quick activity for students to practice using (writing and in speech) prepositions of place.First, students will draw their living room (real or imaginary) and label the items within. Next, they will write several sentence about their living room in Spanish using prepositions of location. After, they will share their living room in speech only with a partner, while the partner draws what he or she hears. After, the student will write sentences about his or her partner's living room. Great for most basic Spanish learners. The documents are written in Word, so you tailor the assignment to meet the needs of your class.
Communicative Activity:¿Dónde están los cuartos de tu casa? Here is a communicative activity that lets students create their own homes, write sentences about them with tener and estar, and share the sentences with a partner. There is a drawing component, a writing activity, and a partner activity. The best part is that you can edit the activity to tailor them to the needs of your students because it's written in Word!
Quickwrite and ISpeakYouSpeak for Spanish 1: La Casa: Here are 3 activities that gives students the chance to practice writing and speaking in Spanish. Included are a warm up, a brainstorming activity, 2 quickwrite tasks (one on describing one's home and one on describing what one does at home), and 2 ISpeakYouSpeak activities (that have the same themes as the quickwrite). A quickwrite activity encourages fluidity and movement in one's writing. It is like brainstorming, in some ways. Students take 3 minutes and write about a given topic without stopping. There's no time to look up words or check for grammar correctness. Instead, students just write. If they cannot think of what to say, they copy the last word they wrote until they think of a new idea.
ISpeakYouSpeak is a speaking activity where students speak for 30 seconds about a given topic in the target language. It is an activity that also encourages fluidity. This activity is written in Word, so you can tailor it to meet the needs of your students. Great for Spanish 1!
Interpretive Readings
Interpretive Reading 1: la casa: Here's an interpretive reading activity that includes a pre-reading exercise, a DIFFERENTIATED series of questions (3 of varying levels of difficulty - one challenging, one standard and one for remedial or learning disabled students), and a post-reading task (creating a Venn diagram comparing the information from the reading with students' information). The image is not mine, so I cannot put it on the document. But it's at my website http://gramatichica.wixsite.com/laprofesoragil/la-casa. Just scroll down to the reading section and download image of of reading 1 FOR FREE! The activities are written in Word, so you can edit as necessary. Great for Spanish 1.
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Other Activities
Organization of a Paragraph in Spanish: La Casa Theme: Here are a series of activities that will teach Spanish 1 or Spanish 2 students how to organize sentences into a basic paragraph. There is a pre-activity, or warm-up, an activity where students choose the best paragraph out of a small list, an activity where students match each sentence with its type, an activity where students rewrite the paragraph, and an activity where the students generate their own paragraph using the structure of the given paragraph with substitutions of their own information. It's all written in Word, so you can edit as necessary. Great for Spanish 1 students!
GroupWrite: 3 Little Pigs La Casa Present Progressive: Here is a group activity where students are given a series of pictures, and they must make a story using these pictures. In this case, the pictures are of the 3 little pigs. For this assignment, students are put into groups of 5. Each student is given a picture and must write about what is happening in the picture. Originally, I used this activity to practice the present progressive. However, you could use it to practice simple present, simple past, or whatever your students need to practice. The images are not mine; I found them on the Internet for free. The images are for free on my website https://gramatichica.wixsite.com/laprofesoragil/la-casa located under the section Other Activities. Everything's in Word, so you can edit as necessary. Great for Spanish 1 or 2!
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Quizzes
Quiz 1 La casa: Here is a very basic quiz with four sections: a listening task (dictation), a grammar section, an interpretive reading and a presentational writing. They are based on a few of my other la casa activities on TPT (stations activity 1 and ¿Dónde están los cuartos de tu casa?). It's great for older elementary students or middle school students (the level is Spanish 1). The image for the interpretive reading can be found below. I cannot put the image on the quiz before you purchase it because it's a free image I found on the Internet; it's not expressly something I created myself. But it is free to download and insert in the quiz when you are ready to do so. Best of all, you can tailor the quiz to meet the needs of your students because it is in Word.
Quiz 2: La Casa, Indefinite Articles and Hay: Here is a quiz that assesses students' knowledge of la casa vocabulary, indefinite articles and the use of hay. There is a dictation section, grammar section, interpretive reading section and a presentational writing section. The image in for the reading section is on this site, to the right of this description. It's free. This quiz was written in Word, so you can edit as necessary. The writing section is also differentiated; there are sentence starters for medial students. Great for middle school and high school students.
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Bundles
La casa Unit Week One BUNDLE
This bundle includes:
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2 Games (Pictionary and Lo Tengo or BINGO) with a warm-up, vocabulary list and post activity,
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1 Video with a warm-up, relevant writing activities and
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Flap Book Mini-Project,
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Stations 1 Activity with a warm-up and post activity,
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1 Communicative Pairs Activity with the relevant drawing and writing tasks, and
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Quiz 1 La casa with a dictation, grammar section, interpretive reading section and presentational writing section.
All of the pictures and videos you may need for this bundle are on this web page!
These activities are great for older elementary, middle school students, or anyone just learning Spanish for the first time!
La casa Unit Week Two BUNDLE with la casa, hay
This bundle includes:
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1 basic listening activity with a pre-listening and post-listening task,
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1 Escaleras y Serpientes (Chutes and Ladders) Game with a warm up and extra practice,
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Stations 2 Activity with a warm-up and post activity,
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1 Writing Activity with the relevant pre-writing and editing tasks,
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Quiz 2 on La casa, Indefinite Articles and Hay with a dictation, grammar section, interpretive reading section and presentational writing section (with sentences starters for remedial or special needs students), and
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A Rubric for the Writing Activity and Presentational Writing Task on Quiz 2
All images and other resources are located at on this site, just scroll up. These activities are great for older elementary, middle school students, or anyone just learning Spanish for the first time!
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