Somos 2 Unit 1
The Somos Curriculum for Intermediate learners
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate (Levels 2-4)
- Formats
- Pages
- 15 Pages
This unit is about laying a solid foundation in the past tenses for a year of rich, student-centered, comprehension-based instruction. While originally designed to start the year in a Level 2 Spanish course, the four lessons included in this unit can be scattered throughout a Level 1 or 2 course in order to expose students to contextualized input in the past tense.
The four lessons included each span several days:
- WENT card talk
- The Lion and the Zebra fable
- Rumor Has It discussion activity
- Caesar Sentences Card Talk
If you are following the SOMOS Spanish 2 curriculum, the next unit that you teach will be Unit 2: La muchacha y la ardilla to target regular preterite -ar verbs
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This was a great way to introduce narration in the past and saved so much time. My students love to engage with authentic resources.
MessyMaestra -
Purchased to introduce past tense with the card talk that is included. Worked great!
Melissa B. -
Fantastic! Gives me so many ideas on how to break up & provide flexibility in my "preterite" unit. Thanks!!
SraFranSwan -
Best story is Cebra y Leon! They really enjoyed reading that and us acting it out in class was very effective.
Kate M. -
This really helped my class get into the past tense! I was preparing for us to do our first novel study and accompanied it with teaching "habia" and "era" and it made a HUGE difference!
Abbey Allison
