Author:
Ashley Johnson, Amber Hoye
Subject:
Languages
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Level:
Middle School, High School, Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division
Tags:
  • Accepting and Rejecting Invitations
  • Free Time
  • Hobbies
  • Invitations
  • Spanish
  • License:
    Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
    Language:
    Spanish

    Spanish Level 1, Activity 10: Estás Invitado / You are Invited (Online)

    Spanish Level 1, Activity 10: Estás Invitado / You are Invited (Online)

    Overview

    In this activity, students will practice rejecting or accepting formal invitations to an afternoon or evening get-together. Also, as a group, they will have to select one of the invitation templates. Students will have to exchange ideas and organize them in order to successfully complete this activity.

    About the Pathways Project

    Please Note: Many of the activities on the Pathways Project OER Repository were created by upper-division students at Boise State University and serve as a foundation that our community of practice can build upon and refine. While they are polished, we welcome and encourage collaboration from language instructors to help modify grammar, syntax, and content where needed. Kindly contact amberhoye@boisestate.edu with any suggestions and we will update the content in a timely manner.  — The Pathways Project

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    The activities provided by the Boise State World Languages Resource Center (WLRC) serve as foundational activities which can be adapted by any language and scaled up or down on the proficiency scale. Many of these activities offer an English Version that is “language-agnostic” to provide language instructors from around the country a platform to remix these instructional materials, infusing them with their target language and culture! The activities within the Pathways Project OER Repository seek to help students solidify their interpersonal speaking and interpretive skills through task-based situations or communicative activities. These activities should be facilitated in the target language for approximately 90% (or more), per the recommendation of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

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    1. Use the Activity as is:

    Before you begin:

    • Most activities are 30 minutes in duration, unless otherwise specified.
    • Be sure to read through the activity description, and review the list of required materials. You will notice that the activity materials are also highlighted in yellow throughout the activity instructions.

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    2. Remix for Your Language Classroom:

    When you are ready to begin remixing the activity, in order to adapt it for the needs of your language classroom, simply click the blue “Remix This Resource” button at the top of your screen. This will then take you to a screen with a NEW, editable version of this activity. The text provided in purple is a suggestion of what you might say to your students in the target language, and may be altered for different levels and age groups. All activities have “NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do” statements, a warm-up, a main activity, and a wrap-up.

    Many of the activities include printable cards and other instructional materials such as Google Slideshows. If you would like to make changes to these materials in Spanish, follow the instructions below:

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    3. Adapt for Another Language:

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    Activity Instructions

    Activity Title (in your target language)

    Estás Invitado / You're Invited

    Description:

    In this activity, students will practice rejecting or accepting formal invitations to an afternoon or evening get-together. Also, as a group, they will have to select one of the invitation templates. Students will have to exchange ideas and organize them in order to successfully complete this activity.

    Proficiency Level:

    Novice-High

    Keywords:

    Invitations, free time, hobbies, accepting and rejecting invitations

    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 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.
    • COMP 1.1 - Observe formal and informal forms of language.
    • COMP 1.3 - Compare and analyze idiomatic expressions in the target language.

    NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

    • I can accept or reject an invitation
    • I can invite and make plans with someone
    • I can exchange information about when to meet and where to go, such as the store, the movie theatre, a concert, a restaurant, the lab

    Materials Needed:

    Warm-up

    • 1. Play the linked Kahoot! game to practice/learn ways to accept/reject invitations
      • “Vamos a jugar Kahoot para practicar y aprender frases para aceptar y rechazar invitaciones.” 
    • 2. Assign the invitations to the students and tell them that they are going to invite each other to a party.   
      • “Tengo unas invitaciones para unos eventos para ustedes.”
    • 3. Using one invitation, invite the students to model what they will do. 
      • “Ahora voy a mostrarles cómo invitar a un amigo o una amiga a un evento. Después de escuchar a mi invitación, tienen que hablar con un compañero o una compañera y decidir si ustedes quieren aceptar o rechazar mi invitación.”
    • 4. Now, ask the students who wants to accept the invitation and who wants to reject the invitation. (Note: You can ask them to state why or why not they want to accept the invitation)
      • “¿Quién quiere aceptar mi invitación? ¿Porque sí o porque no? 

    Main Activity

    • 1. Each student is going to make an invitation that they like and plan to propose the activity to their friends.
      • Cada estudiante va a hacer una invitación que les guste y un plan para invitar a sus amigos.
    • 2. Tell the students the following:
      • You will have five minutes to create a proposition for a fun activity. You are going to use the template invitations to fill out all the information.                     
      • Van a tener cinco minutos para crear una invitación para una actividad divertida. Necesitan completar cada espacio con la información de tu evento.   
    • 3. After 3 minutes- Students will one by one invite the rest of the group to their event. Every other student will respond by saying if they would like to attend the event or not.
      • Después de tres minutos, los estudiantes van a invitar al resto del grupo a su evento uno por uno. Cada otro estudiante va a responder con una respuesta apropiada (sí/no y por qué). 
         

    Wrap-up

    • ¿Qué vas a hacer este fin de semana?
    • ¿Cuál es tu pasatiempo favorito?
    • ¿Te gusta ir a los eventos culturales como un concierto u obra de teatro?
    • ¿Te gusta ir a eventos deportivos? 

    End of lab:

    • Read can-do statements and have students evaluate their confidence with cards 
    • Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation
    • Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs!

    NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

    • I can accept or reject an invitation
    • I can invite and make plans with someone
    • I can exchange information about when to meet and where to go, such as the store, the movie theatre, a concert, a restaurant, the lab