Español IV 12 de octubre de 2009

Español IV
12 de octubre de 2009 -Feliz día de la raza

1. Warm-up: Students wrote out answers to the top ten most commonly asked questions in job interviews, and then we debriefed them.

2. Students brainstormed questions one would ask to elicit the information contained in their resumes they wrote as homework.

3. HANDOUT: Los elementos de la conversacion. I explained, and gave examples about the different categories on the conversation tracking sheet:
Thematic vocabulary versus Idiomatic language use
4 different types of questions (Yes/no, Clarification, Verification, Open-ended

4. Round-Robin Oral Situation Practice: Working in teams of 4 Everyone took a turn performing each of the 4 roles: Partner A, Partner B, Vocabulary recorder, Question recorder.

5. TAREA: Write your own 2 Person WORK-RELATED SITUATION like the one we used today in class. Be sure to include:
(1) Who the two people are.
(2) Where they are
(3) Why they are there
(4) Any other information you want to be sure they find out from one another