LESSON PLAN


TEACHER: Erin McCloskey, Concord Academy
           Erin_McCloskey@concordacademy.org

LESSON TITLE  "Opiniones personales" part 1

LESSON SKILL TARGETED  Shrum and Glison's Audio comprehension model

CLASS LEVEL      IV
 
 
 TARGETED STANDARDS

 1.1 Interpersonal Communication 
 1.2 Interpretive Communication
 1.3 Presentational Communication
 2.1 Practices of culture
 3.1 Making connections
 3.2 Acquiring information
 4.2 Culture comparisons 
 5.1 School and Community 

I.  OBJECTIVES:

1.1/5.1 Students will solicit personal opinions about environmental issues from their peers and teachers in Spanish.

1.2/1.3/2.1/3.2 Students will listen to Venezuelans expressing their opinions about environmental issues in Venezuela and demonstrate their understanding by completing two charts of information, and writing a short paragraph

1.3/4.2 Students will further demonstrate their understanding by creating a Venn diagram that identifies similarities and differences between the Venezuelan and American responses.

3.1/3.2/5.1 Students will conduct research on the WWW in order to enhance what they heard from the Venezuelan speakers.

II.  MATERIALS:
A.  Audio tape recording of interview with three Venezuelans talking about the environment.
B.  Audio comprehension charts/activities
III.  PROCEDURES:
A.  Pre-listening:
1.  Students will conduct interviews with 10 other Spanish-studying or Spanish-speaking (non-native) people in the Concord Academy community about their opinions re: environmental issues in the U.S.  They will use the same questions used in the interviews they will hear on the tape: a) ¿Cuál es el problema ambiental mas grave de los Estados Unidos?, b) ¿Ha hecho el gobierno estadounidense algo en cuanto a este problema, y qué medidas ha tomado?, and c) ¿Cómo es la mentalidad de la gente estadounidense con respecto al deterioro ambiental?  Si 1 = muy responsable y 10 = muy irresponsable, ¿qué tan responsable es el norteamericano?
2.  Students will prepare a summary of the information they gather to present to the class, including an average and a mean of the numerical evaluation from question #3.
3.  In class, students will present their information, and the teacher will construct an impromptu chart that reflects the responses given; discussion of information (calculate class average of responses, identify prevalent themes and common answers).  Students will take notes and compose a short paragraph that synthesizes the information, detailing the general themes revealed in the respondents' opinions.
B.  Identification of main ideas:
1.  Teacher introduces the audio tape, explains that the students will hear three interviews based on the questions they used for their own interviews, and explains the organization of the information on the chart they will fill in.
2.  Students listen to the tape once and fill in the first half of each of the three sections on the chart.
C.  Identification of details:
1.  Students listen a second time, and fill in the second half of each of the three sections on the chart.
D.  Revision/organization of main ideas and details:
1.  Students compare charts in pairs.
2.  Students provide information from charts as teacher fills in an overhead transparency of the charts and clarifies difficult points, playing the tape a third time if necessary.
E.  Recreation of text:
1.  In pairs, students discuss the themes in common among the three respondents, and synthesize the information from the chart by composing a short paragraph that details the similarities of the responses.
F.  Reaction to text:
1.  Students use their two paragraphs to create a Venn diagram that details the similarities and differences between the American and Venezuelan responses to the environment interviews.
2.  Students conduct follow-up research on the WWW to determine what are the environmental concerns in Venezuela, and find one example of an organization or group that is doing something to combat it.
** very good sites:
http://www.menssana.com.ve/ecologia/f_secc.htm
http://www.chemedia.com
other sites:
http://cecoda.analitica.com/inparques/default.htm
http://guia.hispavista.com/Sociedad_y_Cultura/Medio_Ambiente
http://www.chasque.net/chasque/informes/junio-2000/info2000-6-05.html
IV.  CULTURAL INFORMATION
A.  Personal opinions about the environment, the people, and the government
V.  TECHNOLOGY USED
A. Internet
B. Audio recording