Learning Activity

Real Estate Group Presentation - Phase 1

Subject Area

World Languages

Grade(s)

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Overview

Students will choose a real estate property for rent or sale in a target language-speaking city to research. After choosing a property, students will record information that they can understand from the website, such as price, size, number of rooms, year of construction, date of availability, location, and special features. Students will be using the interpretive mode of communication, as well as strengthening their understanding of products and practices of the culture.

This activity was created as a result of the World Languages COS Resource Development Summit.

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

WL17.WL.L1.2

Interpret what is heard, read, or viewed on familiar topics using the present tense.

Unpacked Content

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • how to recognize the difference between a question and a statement.
  • how to identify who is speaking.
  • how to identify who is being spoken to.
  • how to recognize the topic being discussed.
  • how to rely on pictures, graphs, or charts to aid in comprehension.

Skills

Students are able to:
Novice Mid Level
  • identify the key idea presented by a speaker or published work on a familiar topic.
  • differentiate between questions and statements.
  • gather basic information from graphs, charts and pictures.
  • rely on background knowledge to aid in comprehension of difficult or new words.
  • recognize characters and punctuation marks that are unique to the target language.
Novice High Level students are able to:
  • identify the key idea presented by a speaker or published work on a familiar topic.
  • differentiate between questions and statements.
  • gather basic information from graphs, charts and pictures.
  • rely on background knowledge to aid in comprehension of difficult or new words.
  • recognize characters and punctuation marks that are unique to the target language.
  • locate places on a map.
  • identify purpose of a brochure/advertisement.

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.L1.5

Identify products of the target cultures.

Unpacked Content

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • the tangible products that are important to their life and culture.
  • the tangible products that are important to the target language life and culture.

Skills

Students are able to:
Novice Mid Level
  • list common target language cultural products such as paintings, songs, and foods.
  • watch video clips or music videos and identify cultural products.
  • describe basic craft products from target language countries.
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
  • list common target language cultural products such as paintings, songs, and foods.
  • watch video clips or music videos and identify cultural products.
  • describe basic craft products from target language countries.
  • investigate the relationship between cultural products and perspectives.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • an ability to communicate in another language fosters a better.
  • understanding of my own language and culture.
  • custom and tradition vary within a culture, as well as between cultures.
  • other understandings will vary according to 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

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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.

Phase

Before/Engage
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

*Students can read and interpret words, phrases, and simple sentences in an informational text about housing, such as online advertisements for a house or apartment.

*Students can interpret visual and auditory cues to navigate a website about housing.

*Students can locate target culture cities where properties are located.

Activity Details

Real Estate Webquest

*The students will work in a group of 3 or 4 students. They will first go the target-language real estate website and choose a furnished real estate property for rent or sale in a target language speaking city. The teacher may choose to provide a list of preselected furnished properties for students to choose from or give the students time to find one themselves.

*After choosing a property, students will then complete a graphic organizer recording information that they can understand from the website, such as price, size, number of rooms, year of construction, date of availability, location, and special features.

*Students will also view pictures of the various rooms and areas in the apartment or house and each group member will select a room to describe. Students will write out simple sentences describing the room, its size and style, and at least 4 furniture items.

Assessment Strategies

Assessment Strategies

*Informally assess if the students are able to identify the required information about their property in the target language, using context clues, inference, and prior learned vocabulary by checking for completion of the graphic organizer.  

*Informally assess if the students are able to write simple descriptive sentences about the room by checking for completion of the sentences.

Variation Tips

*Teachers without access to student devices for the webquest may choose to simply print out PDFs of a variety of properties for sale or rent for students to “shop” around.

Background and Preparation

Background / Preparation

Teachers should:

*view all 3 phases of this lesson. Phase 2, Phase 3  

*familiarize themselves with the real estate website they choose to use.

*pick out several furnished apartments, condos, or houses that the students can choose from, copy the links to each and also print the page to a PDF in case the property is sold or rented.

*choose optimal student groups.

*create the research graphic organizer for students to fill in with information about their property.

*print or post the directions and links for students to use.

Digital Tools / Resources

Immobilien Scout (German example)
https://www.immobilienscout24.de/

Approved Date

Owner (Author)

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