¡Hola Llamigo!
A Spanish 4 Final
I am very excited to see what my level 4’s can do on their semester 1 final!
Most of these students have been with me for 3 1/2 years, which means they´ve experienced nothing but CI. Their L2 abilities amaze me! Some students have even taken the time to let me know that while they were hesitant to sign up for Spanish 4, suddenly this semester they experienced an epiphany of language development.
That’s just downright amazing!
We have been watching Go! Vive a tu Manera on Netflix and the majority of our time is spent speaking about the show. Some of our activities have included:
- Predicting the next scene or how someone will react.
- Defining and defending opinions.
- Comparing the life of one of the actors to our own.
- Generally hating the character Juanma and everything he does and says!
We have also spent a lot of time targeting the subjunctive and reading/discussing/writing what one person wants that another to do. I feel I specifically need to target the subjunctive because as a non-native speaker of Spanish (and one who didn’t use the language for 20 years and therefore had to go back and re-acquire through self-teaching), it just doesn’t come naturally to me.
So, since I am most interested in what they have acquired from our targeted subjunctive input, I decided to give the students screenshots of the movie short ¡Hola Llamigo! along with a few basic requirements and set them loose to see what they can do.
Here is a link to the screenshots if you would like a copy for yourself. They are simply cut and pasted in Google Slides, so make a copy and edit away!
Students are required to use the subjunctive when appropriate, transition words to make their writing more interesting, other verb tenses (conditional, future, etc) as necessary, and circumlocution. All of these have been the focus of semester one, so it shouldn’t be too much of a stretch. I also have 26 slides, so am allowing them to eliminate up to 5 (not mandatory, but might make it less of a mountain and more of a molehill to some). I am printing the slides out so they will write their stories on paper, thereby removing access to any online translators and forcing the use of circumlocution. I also plan to play the movie short several times during class, so they have the action fresh in their minds.
Admittedly, I am not testing reading, listening, or speaking this semester. I have taken a ton of grades on those already this semester and am confident that adding one more assessment won’t change their ability level!
So, anyway, this is my level 4 final this semester. Happy testing and…
