Overview and Background: Unit: Spanish Past Tenses

Kristi Gard : Cheney USD 268

Foreign Language. : Spanish Verb Tenses : Spanish Verb Tenses

Cheney : Grades 11 - 11 : Aug. - Jun.

Title:	Spanish Past Tenses
Topics:	Preterite and Imperfect Tenses
Time Frame:	Four 85 minute blocks
Start Date:	-
Status:	Draft
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Summary:
Students should be able to identify the contexts in which to use the imperfect and the preterite. While writing and speaking, students will be able to correctly choose between the imperfect and the preterite. Students will be able to differentiate between a progressive and completed action in the past. Students will be able to recall past events (such as childhood memories) using imperfect and the preterite.

Print Materials Needed:
Dime! Textbook, D.C. Heath
Spanish-English Dictionary

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Notes:

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

State:	KS
Title:	Spanish
Standard(s):	1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics. 1.3: Students present information, concepts and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics. 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures. 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting.

Understandings:
user	Accurately communicating past events in Spanish requires a solid understanding of the primary past tenses. Past tenses in Spanish express complex ideas.

Essential Questions:
User	Why do we need to understand the differences between the imperfect and preterite? How do the imperfect and preterite express ambiguity and precision in the past? How does changing a verb tense in a sentence change the meaning of sentence, sometimes very subtly?

Knowledge and Skills:

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Identify the contexts in which to use the imperfect and the preterite.
Choose correctly between the imperfect and the preterite while writing and speaking.
Differentiate between a progressive and completed action in the past.
Recall past events (such as childhood memories) using imperfect and the preterite.

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Summary:
Students will write a letter to a friend in Barcelona on past events, using the preterite and imperfect tenses.

Other Evidence:
Students keep a daily diary of the events that happened to them the day before.

Task/Prompt: A Friend in Barcelona

Type:Performance Task

Topics: Preterite and Imperfect Tenses

Summary:
Students will write a letter to a friend in Barcelona on past events, using the preterite and imperfect tenses.

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Notes:

Student Directions:
You are a tourist guide. You have just written a letter to a friend back in Barcelona about the events of the day before when a famous musician came into your agency to book a tour of Costa del Sol in Andalusia.

Be sure your letter accurately uses the past tense to convey the events as they happened.

Other assessment evidence to be collected:
Product check
	Students keep a daily diary of the events that happened to them the day before.

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Learning Activities:

1. Have students compare different sentences in English that contain the past tense to see if they can figure out the differences in meaning.
2. Teacher will visually demonstration using the differences in the past tense and present tense in English. ("I am eating a candy bar." - "I ate a candy bar." I was eating a candy bar when the bell rang.")
3. Dime! textbook past tense activities
4. Coordinating Dime! past tense workbook activities
5. Dime! video
6. Various handouts, preterite games and activities
7. Students keep a daily diary of the events that happened to them the day before.
8. Students peer review of the diary entries.
9. Students will write a letter to a friend in Barcelona on past events, using the preterite and imperfect tenses.