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Here is the story script for Unit 23 of The Somos 1 Curriculum (which I actually taught at the beginning of my students’ second year of Spanish in Spanish 1B). The basic gist of the story is this: a kid sneaks out of the house with another person, a parent follows them, the kid keeps…
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Oh yeah, crossing another Spanish 1 unit off the list! Well..the story script anyway. I used this story in my Spanish 1 classes several times, but I needed to fix some glitches before posting it. As I was finishing it up, I couldn’t help but think how EASY life becomes when you write your curriculum based on…
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I got to teach Spanish today! It was super fun and super exhausting–and I only taught two-20 minute classes. Phew! How did I used to do this every day!? Mat-Su Community College has an annual “Kids 2 College” day where local fifth graders spend a day at the college and take classes. None of the kids had…
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This is a script to give targeted practice with -ER/-IR imperfect regular verbs. It was inspired by Crystal Barragán’s “La chica ideal” script, which I adapted to target a specific grammatical pattern. CORE VOCABULARY ADDITIONAL TARGET PATTERN VERBS *If your students have not learned the structure “se puso”, consider using this discussion-based lesson. If you follow…
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This script focuses on verbs with irregular stems and endings in the preterite tense. CORE VOCABULARY STORY SUMMARY Two characters go to the same place every day. One day, the main character arrives at the park and doesn’t see the other person. They call them and ask where they are and tell them something special…
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This is the long-awaited story script for Unit #14 of my curriculum map! I finally finished the project I was working on and had time to type up the script! Lesson plans to follow…sometime. Click here to download 7-day lesson plans to use the target structures from this story to teach your students about Los…
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Use this story script to front load your students with high frequency, compound verbs. It is also a perfect fit for a unit on household chores and responsibilities, or on friendship! CORE VOCABULARY SCRIPT The Spanish and French language story scripts are available in the Story Scripts folder of our Subscriber Library. STORY SCRIPT (IN…
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This is a modified version of one of the very first scripts that I used when I first began TPRS back in early 2010. The original version came from Ben Slavic’s blog, back when it was open access. I have modified it to work with the structures that I want to target (so that it…
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This script targets the three irregular imperfect verbs in Spanish: ser, ir, and ver. I actually taught this unit before the units that focus on regular imperfect verb conjugations because these three verbs are such high frequency. Students can pretty easily interpret the meaning of a regular imperfect verb, even if they have never learned…
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