Language and Level/ Novice High/Intermediate Low Approximate Length of Unit 8 weeks

Grade
Spanish 3 Approximate Number of Minutes 250 minutes
Weekly

Essential Question What should we know before traveling to Spain?

Goals: Learners will be able to:

Discuss the weather in Spain. Compare leisure activities in the US to Spain. Identify and communicate their travel needs.
What should learners
Give examples of places they would like to see and why. View, analyze, and identify a persons itinerary.
know and be able to do
by the end of the unit? School, weather, travel, leisure activities

Interpretive Mode

These tasks allow View a travel itinerary of Watch and Identify leisure activities through a View the weather app of a location in
learners to somebody traveling to Spain persons vlog. Spain.
demonstrate how well
they have met the
goals of the unit.

They are integrated

throughout the unit

The template
encourages multiple Presentational Mode Interpersonal Mode
interpretive tasks.
Create their personal itinerary of travel plans With classmates, students will discuss what they like to do in
The interpretive tasks
their free time, and make comparisons of what they see
inform the content of Present the weather of the day to the class
the presentational and
people like to do in Spain.
interpersonal tasks.

The tasks should

incorporate 21st
Century Skills.
Cultures: Product: Vlog
Practice: Leisure Activities
Perspective: What they do in their free time and why they enjoy doing so
Product: Itinerary or Travel Ad
Practice: What is popular in a particular area of Spain
Perspective: Why its popular to the locals and others around the world
Connections Making Connections Acquiring Information and Diverse Perspectives

Social Studies/Geography with weather Using vlogs, itineraries, travel ads, weather apps.

Comparisons Language Comparisons Cultural Comparisons

How they talk about weather vs. how we do Differences in leisure activities and free time. Differences in
travel plans and how they travel differently than we do.

Communities School and Global Communities Lifelong Learning

How our school schedule affects our daily routine versus Being able to arrange travel plans in Spanish can allow you to
their school schedule. School field trips here vs. there. travel to many different countries and be able to see more
than you would if you only spoke English.

Connections to Common Core N/A

Toolbox

Language Functions Related Structures/Patterns Vocabulary Expansion

Making Comparisons
Descriptions or narrations of plans
Express where they want to go and why
Ask and answer questions to make travel
arrangements
Key Learning Activity /Formative Assessment
(representative samples)
Arranging travel plans with an agent
Discusses the weather
Makes comparisons of leisure activities
Ms de, menos de, masque, tancomo Travel necessities, weather related vocabulary, lesiure
Primero, prximo, luego, este noche, maana activities related vocabulary, making travel plans,
Quiero, Me gusta, porque,
Interrogativas
Key Learning Activities / Formative Assessments
How does this activity support the Mode of Communication Interculturality Self
unit goals or performance tasks? Community World
Uses their interpersonal and Interpersonal/Presentational Important locations in Spain
presentational skills to gain an
understanding of what they
would need to know to get
around Spain
Uses their interpretive skills and Presentational, Interpretive Weather around the world
presentational skills to see what
the weather will be like and what
type of activities they would be
able to do according to the
weather.
Has students think and reflect on Interpersonal Our lifestyle versus Spain
two different cultures and use
what they know with the new
grammar forms and functions to
make comparisons between the
 two.

Resources Technology Integration

Vlog Videos

Travel Itinerary Phones to use weather app

Travel Ad YouTube for the vlog, access to a travel itinerary

Weather app Internet to explore important places to see in Spain