Messi (1), Shakira (2), Sports(3), Music (4) - short and easy thematic units for SP Beginners 1

Four mini-culture units. Each one is only four or five pages long.

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Unit 1. Deportes

Sports and music! Two subjects that both students and teachers like. Introduce your students to the World Cup. Have them do a logic exercise to determine who will win the Cup. Inductive and deductive skills are part of the learning process and the Spanish classroom is one more place to learn.

Unit includes:

1. Subject matter: sports

2. Vocabulary: names of sports

3. Grammar: ser / hay

4. Oral practice: sports

, 5. Homework: sports figures

1. Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search

2. Answer key

Unit 2. El fútbol - Messi

Unit includes:

1. Subject matter: sports

2. Vocabulary: names of sports

3. Grammar: jugar

4. Oral practice: cartoon about sports

5. Homework: sports figures

6. Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search

7. Answer key

Unit 3. Música

The music of Spain and the Americas is rich and varied. Introduce your students to the merengue, the chachachá and the tango; learn the names of the instruments and extend the vocabulary. Simple verbs like cantar, presentar and bailar have corresponding nouns. Content based means that the information comes from the text and the students make the connections!

Unit includes:

1. Subject matter: music

2. Vocabulary: names of instruments

3. Grammar: interrogative pronouns

4. Oral practice: music

5. Homework: music

6. Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search

7. Answer key

Unit 4. Las estrellas de la música popular - Shakira and others

Unit includes:

1. Subject matter: music

2. Vocabulary: verbs related to music

3. Grammar: prepositions en and de

4. Oral practice: music

5. Homework: song and dance

6. Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search

7. Answer key

Entirely in Spanish.