Learning Activity

Real Estate Group Presentation - Phase 2

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 city to research and then present to the class as a group. The students will prepare a group presentation about their property, in which they will speak freely to the class in the target language giving the basic information about the overall property and descriptions of each furnished room. Students will be using the interpretive and presentational modes 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.L1.3

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

Unpacked Content

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • how to appropriately describe themselves using correct noun/adjective agreements.
  • how to organize thoughts into simple sentences.
  • how to differentiate between describing themselve and others.
    • (first person and third person).
  • how to gather information using various traditional and electronic research tools.

Skills

Students are able to:
Novice Mid Level
  • recall vocabulary from themes taught.
  • correctly pronounce vowels and key phonetic sounds when presenting orally.
  • correctly write sentences using correct punctuation and diacrytical markings.
  • correctly type special characters, accent marks, or other markings necessary to the target language.
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
  • recall vocabulary from themes taught.
  • correctly pronounce vowels and key phonetic sounds when presenting orally.
  • correctly write sentences using correct punctuation and diacrytical markings.
  • correctly type special characters, accent marks, or other markings necessary to the target language.
  • 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.
  • sing songs in the target language.

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

During/Explore/Explain
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

*Students can identify basic features of a property.

*Students can present basic information about a house or apartment, its rooms and furniture using complete, original sentences. 

*Students can express their opinions on a room and furniture items.

Activity Details

Real Estate Group Presentation

*The students will work in a group of 3 or 4 students. They will first go to the target-language real estate website and choose a furnished real estate property for rent or sale in a target language city.

*The students will prepare a group presentation about their property, in which they will speak freely to the class in the target language giving the basic information about the overall property and descriptions of each furnished room.

*In the introduction, students should show the webpage for their property and tell the price, size, number of rooms, overall style, and special features of the property. Then each student should click on and show the picture of their chosen furnished room as they express their opinion on the overall look and size of the room, list what furniture items are in the room, describe each furniture item, and identify any special features.

*While presenting, students may only hold the notecard with the required types of information listed (property price, property size, number of rooms, property style, property features, room style and size, furniture description, room features). Students should talk freely in the target language, pointing at things on the screen but not memorize their presentations or read full phrases or sentences off of a notecard or slide.

*During each group presentation, the rest of the class will fill in a graphic organizer with pros and cons for each property presented.

Assessment Strategies

Assessment Strategies

*Formally assess if the students are able to speak in complete sentences with simple details providing the required information about their properties, utilizing a rubric that measures whether a student is speaking at the Novice Mid, Novice High, or Intermediate Low proficiency level.

*Formally assess if the students are able to speak in a fluid and comprehensible manner, or if any pronunciation and grammar errors impede comprehension, utilizing a rubric that measures whether a student's fluency and grammar structure is at the Novice Mid, Novice High, or Intermediate Low proficiency level.

Variation Tips

*Teachers wanting to assess interpersonal speaking instead of presentational might choose to have the students do improvised conversations as a real estate agent and a shopper, taking turns giving their classmates imaginary tours of their properties.

Background and Preparation

Background / Preparation

Teachers should:

*view all 3 phases of this lesson. Phase 1, Phase 3 

*locate a real estate website in the target language and 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 as well as a graphic organizer for students to record pros and cons of the presented properties

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

Digital Tools / Resources

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

Approved Date

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