domingo, 26 de enero de 2014
jueves, 31 de octubre de 2013
Reflexive Verb Commercials
**Update 2/2/15** Jonathan Woodward has created some better worksheets to go along with these commercials. You can find them in this folder. !Gracias!
This is a continuation of a previous post about using commercials in the classroom. In Spanish 2, we use the Realidades level 2 textbook. In chapter 2A, the theme is talking about your morning routine, with an emphasis on reflexive verbs.
So, rather than the book audio activities, I decided to use the seven commercials below as listening/speaking/interpretive activities. Students talk about what they see in the commercials, read the transcription aloud, listen and fill in the blanks, interpret the commercial, and finally, try to imitate the speaker(s) of the commercial. Here is the worksheet that I gave to students.
Below each commercial is the cloze activity for each. These commercials include a lot the chapter's vocabulary and provide a lot of opportunity for students to talk about the morning routines. They also give students exposure to a variety of accents and grammatical structures, including some voseo.
If any of this is useful for you, please consider giving back in a Radiohead style format.
This is a continuation of a previous post about using commercials in the classroom. In Spanish 2, we use the Realidades level 2 textbook. In chapter 2A, the theme is talking about your morning routine, with an emphasis on reflexive verbs.
So, rather than the book audio activities, I decided to use the seven commercials below as listening/speaking/interpretive activities. Students talk about what they see in the commercials, read the transcription aloud, listen and fill in the blanks, interpret the commercial, and finally, try to imitate the speaker(s) of the commercial. Here is the worksheet that I gave to students.
Below each commercial is the cloze activity for each. These commercials include a lot the chapter's vocabulary and provide a lot of opportunity for students to talk about the morning routines. They also give students exposure to a variety of accents and grammatical structures, including some voseo.
If any of this is useful for you, please consider giving back in a Radiohead style format.
noches número cepillarse
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Cuando tus hijos se acuestan sin 1.________________________ los dientes… (ocho veces más bacterias… ocho veces más bacterias). Se exponen a ocho veces más bacterias que causan caries. Asegúrate que usen "Máxima Protección Anticaries" y dile "Buenas 2.________________________" a las bacterias. Colgate. La marca 3.________________________ uno recomendada por odontólogos.
manos vas clases
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A ver. ¿Natalia? Presente. Tú vas a ser la abogada.
¿Pedro? Tú 1.________________________ a ser el bombero. Sí.
Y el doctor va a ser Luisito.
Cuando tu hija falta 2.________________________, pierde oportunidades.
Con Escudo, ayudas a prevenir enfermedades como unas causadas por bacterias.
Presente.
3.________________________ limpias por una mejor educación.
cinco afeitarte ayuda
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¿Tu piel irrita al 1.________________________?
Prueba la crema Gillette anti-irritación.
Ayuda a combatir 2.________________________ signos de irritación en el afeitado.
3.________________________ a defender tu piel.
rosa nunca colonias fragancias
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Nuevas 1.________________________.
Colonias Sanborns.
Roble y agave.
Flores de…
Lluvia de la selva.
2.________________________ y granada.
Y la clásica: Flor de naranja.
Aromas 3.________________________ antes imaginados.
4.________________________ Sanborns.
mamá bañarme peinarme levantarme comprar
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Me cuesta 1.________________________.
Me cuesta ir a 2.________________________.
Me cuesta hasta 3.________________________.
Pero a mi mamá no le va a costar.
En Arrocha vamos a comprar, mochilas, loncheras, el diseño que tú quieras, cartucheras, sacapuntas, plumas pa’l que apunta, cuadernos divertidos para estudiar con estilo, hay libros de texto que no te echan cuentos. Hay juegos de geometría, calculadoras, gomas, cartulinas, y engrapadoras.
Pero a mi 4.________________________ no le va a costar. En Arrocha vamos a 5.________________________.
Farmacias Arrocha. La mejor calidad al menor precio. Todos los días
maquillaje cara consultora
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Natura te invita a pensar por qué te pintás la 1.________________________.
Nueva línea de 2.________________________ Natura Una.
Natura Una, la mejor expresión de vos misma.
Acercate a una 3.________________________ Natura.
Bien estar bien.
manos fácil uñas fashion
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Vamos a brillar. 1. ________________________mágicas.
Viene con cosméticos de verdad. 2.________________________.
Con uñas mágicas, divertirse está de moda.
Brillan en la oscuridad. Sentite creativa. Así de 3.________________________.
Con uñas mágicas, hay magia en tus 4.________________________.
viernes, 27 de septiembre de 2013
Commercials as Quizzes
How about using this commercial for a quiz?!?
Alison Nelson and I are presenting a session called "Using commercials in the Spanish classroom" at MaFLA and NHAWLT in a few weeks and I have been working a lot on the presentation. The session should be fun and participants will walk away with a lot of ideas and worksheets! Commercials are a great way to expose students to short, engaging, comprehensible authentic resources. They are also an easy, fun way to increase their listening proficiency. Students also see some aspects culture (depending on the commercial) and hear a variety of accents if you use commercials frequently.
For Spanish 3, my school use the second half of Realidades 2 textbook, so I am tied to that book and its chapters. We are also reading Robo en la noche on the side (love it, highly recommended). This semester in Spanish 3, I am trying to give one "commercial quiz" per unit. The commercial quizzes will be directly related to the Realidades 2 units, and I will be posting them here as the semester goes on.
Basically the "commercial quiz" is an interpretive assessment in which students have to answer some questions about what they see in the commercial, listen and fill in the blanks of missing words (they don't have to get all of them), and then answer some questions about what the commercial is saying. I am also trying to include some cultural comparison questions (keeping the AP Spanish presentational section in mind). I let them listen to and watch the commercials as many times as they want (limit being that they have to finish by the end of class). The quizzes take about 30-45 minutes and are perfect to do when doing a speaking assessment on the same day.
Some things that I found to be helpful before doing this type of quiz:
- Do a similar activity together in class or for homework. If this is the first time they are being exposed to this type of activity, it can feel very difficult.
- Remind students to listen and look for cognates.
- Tell students to watch the commercial 2-3 times without even looking at the worksheet.
- Keep the answers simple! Don't over-think!
- Explain (or remind) to them the difference between interpreting and translating. This is an interpretive assessment and they should focus on getting the main idea. They do not need to understand all of it.
This was the first "commercial quiz" that students did at the end of chapter 5A called: Un acto heroico. The had already seen two other similar commercials and done similar worksheets (here and here).
This is the second commercial quiz that students did at the end of chapter 5B Un accidente. They had already seen this commercial and similar ones (see Zachary Jones' Aununcios: ¿Qué le duele? + Partes del cuerpo). Click here for quiz.
Here is one that I am looking forward to doing. I think students will be able to relate to this one! I might actually give it as a Tarea Semanal option because I am not sure it will fit with any of the chapters for Realidades. Click here for worksheet.
I also used this catchy commercial in Spanish 2 this year to review school supplies. Students liked it and some even wanted that to be our "song of the week". Click here for worksheet.
Here is a very basic rubric that I created to grade these quizzes. I am sure that this will be improved, but this is a start.
I will be sharing our MaFLA presentation and all of the commercial worksheets here in late October. Two other places to find commercial transcripts are Zambombazo (tag: publicidad) and in this collaborative document (started by Sara Cottrell) with tons of commercial transcripts.
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