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Spanish, Música en Español, Intermediate-Mid

Spanish, Música en Español, Intermediate-Mid

Overview

In this activity, students will be exposed to a variety of music genres and artists from the Spanish-speaking world. Students will work on becoming more informed about different types of music and backgrounds of various artists. Through listening to snippets of songs and a JIGSAW activity, students will collect information about a singer and share it with each other.

Pathways Project / Lesson Information

 

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Description:

In this activity, students will be exposed to a variety of music genres and artists from the Spanish-speaking world. Students will work on becoming more informed about different types of music and backgrounds of various artists. Through listening to snippets of songs and a JIGSAW activity, students will collect information about a singer and share it with each other.

Proficiency Level:

Intermediate-Mid

Keywords:

music, spanish, Latin American, singer, country, song, notes

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.”

“Standard 2.2 Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of Hispanic cultures”

Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:

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.

COMM 3.1 Present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media in the target language.

CLTR 2.1 Analyze the significance of a product (art, music, literature, etc...) in a target culture.

CONN 2.1 Access authentic materials prepared in the target language by or for native speakers.

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

  • I can understand what is asked for on a simple music questionnaire
  • I can understand essential information from a music artist’s biography
  • I can talk about similarities and differences between musical genres and artists between my culture and the Spanish-speaking world

Materials Needed:

Worksheet

Artist Bio Cards

Quiz 

Quiz Results

Slideshow

Warm Up / Main Activity

Warm Up

1. Have students break up into partners and ask each other the questions from the slideshow

  • “¿Cuál es tu género de música favorita? ¿Y, el que menos te gusta?”
  • “¿Has escuchado música en Español?”
    • “¿Dónde lo has escuchado? ¿La radio? ¿Quizás en Spotify o en la televisión?
    • “¿Puedes describirla? ¿Tenía un ritmo alegre? ¿Era una banda?
  • “¿Conoces a algún artista o canción del mundo hispanohablante?” 

2.  Then with the same partners, students will take a quiz called “What Type of Music Are You?”

3. Students will ask their partners the questions, marking their partner’s answers. The facilitator can demonstrate an example, gesturing that they are asking a person a question and writing that person’s answer on their own sheet.

4. At the end, students will count how many of the same letters they answered. There is an answer sheet (see resource) that has different genres of music students will be based off of whether they answered mostly A’s, B’s, C’s, or D’s. Students will then tell their partner what music genre they are based on how many letters they picked.

Main Activity

Part One

1. For the main task, students will be introduced to various Latin American artists and different genres of music. Pull up the music videos from the Google presentation and play a snippet of each song. Students for the most part will be unaware of who the artist is or where the song comes from.

2. Have students split off into groups of 3-5, depending on class size. After listening to the song clip, they will have to talk amongst their group and guess the genre of music.

3. Instructor will play the song clip one more time and students will finalize their answers.

4. The instructor will reveal who the artist is and what country the artist is from. After revealing the answer to students, the instructor will pass out a short bio of the artist to one group. The bio will have an image of the artist they just talked about, have the one group hold onto the bio card for a later activity.

5. Play another song clip and have students guess the country it originates from and the genre if they would like. After groups submit their guesses, reveal the correct answer. Give a bio card on this artist to a different group and have them hold onto it for a later activity.

6. Repeat step 5 until all your groups have a different bio card.

  • For example: If you have 5 groups of 3-5 people, each group should have a bio card for one of the artists you talked about.
  • No one group should have the same artist.

Part Two

1. For this part of the activity the groups of students are going to be using the bio card on the artist they were given. Each student is going to have a worksheet (see resource) that will have a table with artist names and facts on the artist.

2. Students will form new groups and each student in the new group should have a different artist. Each student will present their artist and information on their artist to everyone in the group. Everyone is required to take notes and finish filling out their worksheet with information on the artists. 

 

Wrap Up

For the wrap-up the students will be using the same concept from the main activity

The instructor will play new song clips and have students guess what genre the music is. This is a comprehension check and will measure how much they learned in the main activity

Wrap Up Questions:

  • “¿Cuál es el género que te gustó más? ¿Y, el que te gustó menos?”
  • “Si hiciéramos esta actividad otra vez, ¿hay otros tipos de música que te gustaría escuchar?”
  • “¿Qué hechos de los artistas se te hicieron más interesantes?”

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

  • I can understand what is asked for on a simple music questionnaire
  • I can understand essential information from a music artist’s biography
  • I can talk about similarities and differences between musical genres and artists between my culture and the Spanish-speaking world