Introduction

This lesson uses the Middle School Advantage software. This lesson is intended for first year Spanish students in the 7^th grade. The lesson is part of a unit on Adding Description to Your Writing and Speaking Skills. Students have already been introduced to the verbs SER (to be) and Estar (To be) and are now working on adding adjectives to their vocabulary. The following lesson deals primarily with colors. Students already know that nouns have gender. They are beginning to form sentences using adjectives. This lesson introduces the concept that adjectives must agree with the noun it modifies in gender and number. Students already know their subject pronouns as well.

Objectives

Students will practice their Spanish through speaking, writing and listening.

Students will be to use their knowledge of nouns and gender to help them with adjectives.

Students will identify nouns, articles, verbs and adjectives in a sentence.

Materials

Software: Middle School Advantage, by Encore

Computer Lab and overhead screen

Paper, pens, pencils.

Whiteboard

Lesson Sequence

Initiation (5)Talk about nouns and have them tell you about how nouns have gender and have them give you examples of feminine nouns and what article to use with it. Do the same for masculine nouns. Tell them that adjectives depend on the nouns gender. Explain to them that colors are adjectives because they are used to describe things. Give them a list of different colors.

Body (30)

Write on the board:

Adjectives have four different forms. They end in –O if the noun is masculine, A if the noun is feminine, -OS if the noun is masculine plural and –AS if the noun is feminine plural. There are some acceptions, azul, gris, marron and verde do not change, they are both masculine and feminine. Use the word malo (bad) to demonstrate by putting examples on the board. Tell them that we are going to practice using these colors using the software.

Have them long on.
Use your projection to help them navigate.
Tell them to go to lesson 1-03 Adjetivos descriptivos.
Have them select Preview.
Show them how to do a few and have them continue on their own until they finish. Give them 3 minutes. Tell them to use the button on the top left to cheat if they need to. Tell them to pay particular attention to the colors and how they change each time the gender of the noun changes.
Now tell them to shut their screens off.
Go to Exercise 2.
Have students write down the correct sentence and have them underline the noun, circle the verb, and box off the adjective.
Call on volunteers to tell you if the adjective is masculine or feminine and how they know.
Do this for 5 minutes.
Then have them go to the writing skills and complete exercises 1 and 2.

Closure (5 min)

Review lesson objectives. Explain how adjectives work again.

Homework/Assessment

Explanation (5)

Tell them to write five sentences using the colors below. Give them handout.

They must underline the noun, circle verb, and box off adjective. They must explain why they made the adjective (color) masculine or feminine or why it did not change. Tell them to use class note.

Follow Up Lesson

This lesson will review the homework. Everyone will write one of their sentences on the board and we will correct them as a class. Lesson will also be used to introduce adjectives that describe people. They will have to write a paragraph about the people in their family.

Handout

CASA

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