adjectives describing cities

Latin American cities: Buenos Aires

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students completed attached do now activity.

Students shared what they learned about Buenos Aires for homework.
Buenos Aires es la capital de Argentina.
Buenos Aires tiene muchos inmigrantes de Italia y España.
El tango es de Buenos Aires.
Las personas de Baires se llaman "porteños".

Students completed attached worksheet, reading the text and answering questions. Students modified the text to be about them as much as possible. Ej. Me llamo Nikki y soy de Denver. Denver es una ciudad grande y tranquila. Tiene museos, parques, un jardín botánico...etc.

Tarea: Complete modifying the text to be about them (it's not necessary to adapt each sentence, but as much as possible).

Class topics: 
adjectives describing cities
places in a city
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Review of cities: DF & Cusco

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Goals: 

To review what we've learned so far during during our cities unit.

Class Activities: 

Do now activity: Students translate sentences below:

1.
2.
3.

In four teams, students compete using knowledge from the cities unit so far. Categories include: vocabulario, traducciones, y verdadero/falso. Question examples are below:

¿Cómo se dice________________ en español?
* city
* street
* dangerous
* safe
* clean
* big/small
* dirty
* flag
* mountains
* ruins
* habitants
* trash
* polution
* volcano

traducciones
¿Cómo se dice en español..........?
* There are a lot of tourists in Cusco.
* Cusco has famous ruins.
* Guinea Pig is a specialty in Peru.
* Cusco is an important city in Peru.
* There are a lot of tourists in the historic center.

Verdadero/Falso
* La plaza principal en Cusco se llama El Zócalo.
* Cusco es la capital de Perú.
* Cusco está cerca de Machu Picchu.
* La plaza principal en D.F. se llama la Plaza de armas.
* Cusco es la capital histórica de Perú.
* Cusco no está cerca del aeropuerto.
* Cusco no tiene mucho sol.
* Df es seguro, tranquilo, y bonito.
* DF no es la capital de México.
* DF es una ciudad grande y cosmopolitana.
* Cusco está cerca de volcanes.
* DF no tiene problemas ecológicos.
* Frida Kahlo y Diego Rivera no son famosos.
* El arte de Diego es más político que el arte de Frida.

Tarea: 5 cosas interesantes de la ciudad Buenos Aires.

Class topics: 
adjectives describing cities
review
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Describing cities: DF part 2

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Goals: 

To teach the formula for comparing two things using Denver and Mexico City.

To review vocabulary and information from Monday's text about Mexico City.

Class Activities: 

Do now activity attached (in English) getting students to think about whether or not they would travel to DF.

Taught formula for comparing two things:

Harry es más alto que Lizzie.
Lizzie es menos alta que Harry.

Applied to cities and adjectives we've been learning about cities:

DF es más grande que Denver.
DF es menos tranquilo que Denver.

Students matched vocabulary with photos in the attached worksheet and on the back wrote 10 statements comparing Denver and DF (DF is more dangerous than Denver, etc).

Tarea: 3 sentences describing Diego Rivera and 3 sentences describing Frida Kahlo.
ej. Diego Rivera es artista.
Frida Kahlo es mexicana.

Class topics: 
adjectives describing cities
comparisons
Fluency level: 
Beginner
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