Somos 1 Unit 11

Looking for an engaging, proficiency-based Spanish unit that builds communication skills through authentic resources, storytelling, culture, music, reading, discussion, and writing?

This resource includes everything you need to teach a comprehensive 11-day Spanish 1 unit centered on sports, athletes, and cultural perspectives from across the Spanish-speaking world. Students acquire language naturally through comprehensible input, personalized discussion, authentic videos, music, co-created stories, literacy activities, and performance-based assessments.

This unit targets the high-frequency structures:

• juega a
• quiere jugar a
• eres

Students will...

• learn new vocabulary in context
• discuss sports, hobbies, athletes, and personal interests in Spanish
• interact with the inspiring song Wavin' Flag
• co-create a class story using TPRS® techniques
• read and process multiple versions of familiar stories
• compare soccer and football through authentic resources and class discussion
• explore sports and leisure activities in Spanish-speaking countries
• examine authentic infographics about sports in Mexico
• learn about Los niños triqui, an inspiring team of young athletes from an Indigenous community in Oaxaca, Mexico
• investigate cycling culture in Colombia
• listen to the popular song La Bicicleta by Carlos Vives and Shakira
• read about the cultural importance of baseball in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua
• build cultural knowledge through authentic texts, videos, music, and athlete biographies
• participate in personalized communicative activities that connect language to students' lives
• complete listening, reading, speaking, and writing activities
• demonstrate proficiency through interpretive and presentational assessments

This unit includes:

• Vocabulary introduction activities
• Vocabulary-in-context practice
• Personalized Questions and Answers (PQA) discussion prompts
• Authentic song activities featuring Wavin' Flag
• Authentic music integration with La Bicicleta by Carlos Vives and Shakira
• Storyasking scripts for co-created class stories
• Story retells and literacy-based story processing activities
• Shared readings about sports, athletes, and culture
• Authentic videos and video comprehension activities
• Sports-themed infographics and discussion tasks
• Glyph activities and personalized reflection tasks
• Reading comprehension activities and answer keys
• Athlete biographies and discussion activities
• Interpretive Listening Assessment with answer key and grading guide
• Presentational Writing Assessment with rubric
• Review games and whole-class review activities
• Daily warm-ups and slides
• Detailed lesson plans for eleven plus days of instruction

Also included:

• Editable slideshow presentations compatible with Google Slides™
• Detailed daily lesson plans with step-by-step teaching guidance
• Unit overview and pacing guide
• Activity instructions and implementation notes
• Can-Do Statements
• ACTFL World Readiness Standards alignment
• Common Core alignment
• Proficiency-oriented instructional guidance
• Answer keys and teacher support materials

Perfect for novice Spanish learners, CI classrooms, TPRS® teachers, acquisition-driven programs, and educators looking for engaging, low-prep lessons that promote real communication and language acquisition.

Spanish 1 Unit 11 Topics Include:

• Sports vocabulary
• Athletes and biographies
• Soccer and football
• Basketball in Mexico
• Los niños triqui de Oaxaca
• Cycling in Colombia
• Baseball in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua
• Authentic Spanish-language music
• Cultural comparisons
• Comprehensible Input (CI)
• Reading and literacy development
• Performance-based assessment
• ACTFL-aligned instruction

The product download is a PDF containing a clickable link to a Google Drive folder with all unit materials. Slideshow presentations are editable and compatible with Google Slides™

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The Somos Curriculum® is a Proficiency-oriented curriculum for Novice and Intermediate Spanish learners that is designed for middle and high school courses. Instruction in The Somos Curriculum® focuses on language acquisition or implicit language development rather than explicit teaching and practice of grammar and vocabulary. Lessons are highly communicative and conducted primarily in the target language. 

With detailed daily lesson plans, target-language scripts, tutorials for making input comprehensible, student activities, assessments, and suggestions for differentiation, The Somos Curriculum® is the most complete Spanish curriculum on the market, and it is no surprise that it is used in more than 100,000 language classrooms worldwide.

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