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Tour of Cartagena - Advanced (listening exercise)

Class Goals: 

To practice listening and vocabulary about trips, and to practice commands and future tense.

Class Activities: 

Listen to the attached auditory exercise about Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

Download the attached Tour por Cartagena de Indias document which has pictures of the places you will "see" on your tour. As you listen to the guide taking you around Cartagena, put the photos in order of the places you visit.

The transcript is also attached.

Fluency level: 

Exploring Latin America: Travel stories

Class Activities: 

Students completed attached do now activity.

Went over past tense conjugation for irregular verb ir(to go).
fui fuimos
fuiste
fue fueron

Students listened (twice) to three people talking about recent trips they've taken. While listening, students were to answer these questions:
¿Adónde fue?
¿Qué hizo?

Students were given a handout with common travel verbs, and worked in pairs to make up a story about a trip to the Spanish-speaking world.

Tarea: complete story and prepare for test on Exploring Latin America unit. Test will include: past tense verbs about travel, direction vocabulary (north, south, go to the left, etc.), information about Cartagena, Antigua, and Valparaíso, and places in a city.

Fluency level: 
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