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Create your "Lista de navidad" using the website below:
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 * Be sure to include IN SPANISH, the item, the family member its for, the cost, and what type of item it is
 * Use your blue vocab for family members and names of items if not listed on the site. Use blue handout for writing out numbers in Spanish :)

Other places to shop in Spanish:
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Exchange rates:
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===****Hand-out to fill in:**** === 


===**Notes for Numbers:** === 

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Billy la bufanda! Me encanta!
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 * A comprehension quiz was also given on this after we listened and filled in the missing information on the above hand-out.**

Quiz on stores:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCTxg7Eqpgc
 * video to accompany quiz:**

Video to help create your dialogue of 4 exchanges between a salesclerk and a customer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SE21mngt2s&feature=related

FOR THE TEACHER:
other resources: [] [] http://www.uni.edu/becker/Spanish3.html Classroom Activities:
 * ** 52. Downtown: A S is in town. He or she is going to several stores in a row. Do this in a circle around the room. Do form circles occasionally to break up the routine of rows in your classroom. You start off by saying. S#1 - I am going downtown. I am going to visit the butcher shop. S2 says. I'm going downtown too. I am going to visit the butcher shop and the bakery. Continue on while adding more stores until a S can no longer come up with the long list. Stop here and have the entire class in unison repeat the list where it stopped. Fun. ** ||


 * 4. Everybody Up: Now focus on having all your students get on their feet __at least once__ every class period. There are endless means to do this. While they are all standing ask if they prefer chocolate ice-cream over vanilla and if so move toward the windows. If they prefer vanilla move toward the door. Chevrolet or Ford? French fries or hamburger? Coke or Pepsi? Movies or TV? IBM or Apple? Red or Yellow? For students who are more advanced, let them come up with the list as an assignment and let them come to the front of the room with their list. If seated you can have them raise their LEFT hand for one response and their RIGHT hand for the other ||


 * 8. Keep 'Em Talking: This is one of my favorite speaking activities for Ss. Here each S is challenged to speak the TL for 30 seconds without stopping. They can not use numbers sequences, the alphabet, etc. and they can say anything they want just as long as it is in the TL. Now pair up. Have a S look at the clock (or their watch) and let the other S know when 30 seconds are up. Teach: GO and STOP in the TL and have the Ss use both. Now speak the TL for one full minute. Now the ultimate, no limit. You should have a stopwatch for this one. See the track coach and borrow one or ask a S to bring one to class. I once had a 1st year student (late in the year) talk for 20 minutes without stopping. If a S hesitates for more than 5 seconds, he/she is DONE. He described everything and everyone he could think of and all in the TL, in this case French. He described everyone he ever met, everything he every saw, what he ate this AM, what foods he liked, naming each teaching in all his courses, in short, everything he could think of! Great job he did! It challenged all the other Ss to see what they could do as well. ||


 * ** 67. Add a word: Choose two teams that line up behind each other at the board. You have written the same word horizontally on the board for each team. The challenge is to add another word to the list as you would in SCRABBLE. The S ahead hands the chalk back to the S behind him/her. No helping with words. Try to have even numbers of Ss. Set a time or else see which team finishes first. Now put up a new word that is fairly long with maybe eight of ten letters. Now for tomorrow the challenge is to see how many words you can come up with with this WORD. They are to go home and make a Scrabble list of as many words as they can using the letters you provide. You will be surprised, even if they use a dictionary. You can ask them not to or say nothing. Just see what happens. There are many board games that you can play in the TL, especially at the more advanced levels. Use them. ** ||


 * ** 70. Add a word: Give the students a word such as PENCIL. They then must come up with a new word that starts with the last letter of the word (L). L = letter R = red D = Dog, etc. Set a time limit again and see who has the longest list. Have several Ss put their list on the board for all to see. This becomes very creative. Some Ss do well, other get a little frustrated, but such is life. Now to the same with the First Letter. ex. cat = car c = candy c = corn. etc. You can do this with any word, just don't use X Y or Z. ** ||


 * ** 72. Guess Who: Describe another teacher in school. The Ss guess who it is. You describe a S in your classroom The Ss guess who it is. Now have a S do the same. ** ||


 * 104. Read aloud to your Ss. Find familiar stories in the TL and read slowly. Ss may miss some words, but ask them to listen for the "gist" of the story. Familiar stores like Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Pigs, Cinderella, etc. If you can not find any of these, write your own version and read your story to the class. Do this often and on all levels. Ss need to hear the spoken language and in normal sentences and at normal speed plus they know the story already and it will be easier to follow as you read. Periodically stop. Ask a question about something you just read, then continue on. It is fun to use an original children's book in English and now you simply tell that same story in the TL. Show the pictures are you read to the class. The pictures will help tell the story and make for better oral comprehension.

Variation #1: Now have your Ss make up their own story complete with colored pictures __they have drawn themselves__ (No clipping from magazines!). They write the story in the TL then pass their stories around the classroom letting everyone read what they have written. Make little booklets with the stories and staple them together. Hang them on the bulletin board outside the classroom for everyone to see. Have a nice cover with a color illustration and their name on the cover. FUN.

Variation #2: In your more advanced classes let the Ss take your place reading a well-known story in your language and then turning the story into the TL. Be sure to a book with pictures that will help clarify meaning. FUN. ||