Spanish Level 1, Activity 08: La Subasta / The Auction (Face-to-Face)

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La Subasta / The Auction

Description:

This activity will expose students to different types of currency from Spanish speaking countries. Students will purchase items through an “auction”. Students will practice numbers in Spanish and will also use adjectives to describe items that they can sell and buy. Students will persuade others to buy a product and make deals when purchasing the product.

Semantic Topics:

Auction, money, bidding, paddles, win, buy, sell, subasta, dinero, ganar, vender, comprar

Grammatical Structures:

Adjectives, numbers, adjetivos, números 

Products:

Pesos, physical money from Spanish-speaking countries (see Cultural Notes)

Practices:

Going to an auction, bidding on items, making deals and bargains with others

World-Readiness Standards:

• Standard 1.1 Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
  
• Standard 1.2 Students understand and interpret spoken and written Spanish on a variety of topics.
  
• Standard 1.3 Students present information, concepts, and ideas in Spanish to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
  

Idaho State World Language Standards:

• COMM 1.1 - Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions
  
• COMM 2.1 - Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
  
• COMP 2.3 - Compare and contrast authentic materials from the target culture with the learner’s culture.
  

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

• I can ask and understand how much something costs
• I can talk about and describe a variety of objects
• I can purchase and sell an object
• I can identify, buy, and sell products from my own country and Spanish speaking countries

Materials Needed:

Funny Money

Auction Paddles

Auction Cards

Instructions

Google Slideshow (Linked)

Would you like to make changes to the materials? Access the template(s) below:

- Funny Money (Canva Template, free account required)

- Auction Paddles (Canva Template, free account required)

- Auction Cards (Canva Template, free account required)

Warm-up

1. Begin by opening the Google Slideshow and introducing the Can-Do’s.
   Hola, ¿cómo están? Estoy ____. Vamos a empezar el lab de hoy con los can-do statements.
2. Explain to students what a “subasta” is in English. The slide provides three clues. Go over these with students so that they can familiarize themselves with the descriptions and guess the meaning.
   Nuestra actividad de hoy es una subasta. ¿Alguien sabe qué es una subasta? Voy a dar tres pistas. Las pistas ayudan a describir la “subasta,”¿Qué es una pista en inglés? (“Pista” is clue”). 
3. Tell the students: “We are going to have an auction! Every student is going to have money to buy and sell interesting things today.”
   Hoy vamos a tener una subasta! (auction), cada estudiante va a tener dinero para comprar y vender (gesture giving and receiving money) cosas muy interesantes!
4. Give the instruction cards and have them read over for two minutes.
   Aquí están las instrucciones para la subasta. Tienen dos minutos para leerlas (gesture reading the card) y después vamos a hacer la subasta.
5. Go over what “vender” is before telling them the meaning in English. Try to describe it as best you can so that they can guess it on their own. This is just helpful for knowing that “vender” means to buy in Spanish. 
   Antes de comenzar, vamos a repasar el verbo “vender.” ¿Qué significa “vender?” Vender es cuando recibes dinero por algún servicio o producto.