El merengue y la perrita bailarina

These lesson plans will introduce your students to Merengue and teach them the structure "baila" by learning about a YouTube star named Carrie, "The Dancing Merengue Dog" from Chile. The plans are appropriate for Spanish 1+ and will fill 2+ class periods (90-120 minutes). They include:

• a Spanish-language reading about Merengue
• a two-level embedded reading about Carrie
• an alternate, advanced reading about Carrie to use in multi-level classes
• two reading comprehension activities
• an interview activity that provides reading and speaking repetitions of first and second person verb forms
• two songs with lyrics activities
• a writing activity
• answer keys
• detailed lesson plans