HS Spanish Guide

● Exchange information and express opinions about climate change challenges and global migration in your own and other cultures. ● Present information to describe, inform, compare, convince and give advice about environmental and global migration challenges and the support to migrants and refugees in your own and other cultures. Language Functions & Features: ● words and phrases related to environmental problems, solutions, migration, humanitarian assistance (los problemas ambientales, las soluciones ambientales, la migración, la ayuda humanitaria, etc.) ● inde fi nite expressions that end in -quier(a) (eg. cualquier(a)) ● re fl exive verbs to indicate a subject performs an action on or for itself (eg. irse lejos de el país de su origen …)

● impersonal expressions using “ se” ( eg. se debe trabajar mucho para …) ● passive voice (ser + past participle (+ por + agent); se + third person) ● verbs “ser y estar” to describe characteristics or conditions of something or someone

https://wida.wisc.edu/sites/default/ fi les/resource/WIDA-ELD-Standards-Framework-2020.pdf

SCAFFOLDING IN ACTION Skill Building ● Use a graphic organizer to differentiate vocabulary, phrases, & images for students to make associations between objects & vocabulary. ● Pair with partners to practice conversation/group students to allow opportunity for them to practice speaking. Before assigning students a conversation, model the conversation, and provide sentence frames or sentence starters. ● Use gestures and oral repetition of key phrases and words in multiple contexts.

● Provide opportunities for more conversation with fl uent speakers via Zoom or Google Meet. ● Interview or survey other students about a chosen topic in Spanish, then present your fi ndings to the class. ● Provide more complex text in Spanish for students to read. ● Have students record themselves speaking the language and re fl ect on their progress. ● Students can practice translating from English to Spanish in speech or writing.

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*Updated 6.10.24