Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

La Subasta - The Auction

Subject Area

World Languages

Grade(s)

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Overview

This novice mid to novice high activity allows students to practice their Spanish numbers as well as adjectives while participating in a simulated auction. Students will use descriptive adjectives to persuade others to buy a product and make deals with others when purchasing their own items. Students will use numbers to bid on items and purchase them through an auction using provided fake money. There is a provided slide show that walks students through a pre-activity and post-activity as well as helping students connect this activity with "can do" statements.

 

    World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - World Languages

    WL17.WL.L1.1

    Communicate and share on familiar topics with a variety of words, phrases, and simple sentences in the present time frame.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:WL17.WL.L1.1

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • culturally appropriate ways to greet and leave others.
    • how to introduce themselves and provide basic information.
    • question words and how to recognize them in conversation.
    • how to describe themselves in first person.
    • how to describe others in third person.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    Novice Mid Level
    • use basic greetings.
    • introduce themselves.
    • respond to yes/no questions.
    • respond to either or questions.
    • answer who, what, when where.

    Novice High Level students are able to:
  • use basic greetings.
  • introduce themselves.
  • respond to yes/no questions.
  • respond to either or questions.
  • answer who, what, when where.
  • say age.
  • say what one likes/dislikes.
  • talk about places.
  • talk about times and dates.
  • Understanding

    Students understand that:
    Novice Mid Level
    • effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
    • the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
    • other understandings will depend on the theme being taught.
    Students understand that:
    Novice High Level
    • effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
    • the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
    • other understandings will depend on the theme being taught.
    World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - World Languages

    WL17.WL.L1.6

    Connect with other disciplines while using the target language.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:WL17.WL.L1.6

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • the importance the metric system plays in measurements throughout the world.
    • that weather patterns are dependant on geographical locations.
    • currency changes from country to country and exchange rates are variable
    • where the target language is spoken.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    Novice Mid Level
    • use map skills to identify countries and geographical features around the world.
    • identify resources needed to calculate exchange rates and measurments.
    Novice High Level
    Students are able to:
    • use map skills to identify countries and geographical features around the world.
    • identify resources needed to calculate exchange rates and measurments.
    • investigate other disciplines using the target language language.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • proficiency in a foreign language is a vehicle to gaining knowledge that can only be acquired through that language and its culture.
    • world language learning offers opportunities to uncover big ideas in and about other disciplines.
    • strategies used to acquire a language are transferable to other areas of learning throughout life.
    • a second language facilitates the acquisition of information about the world outside our experiences.
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    Learning Activity

    Resource Provider

    Other

    Resource Provider other

    OER Commons
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