Hobbies and Sports - Authentic Resources for Spanish Class & How to Use Them

A staple of every Spanish I class is hobbies and sports and we just started this unit with eighth grade.

This is actually a mini-unit that is a review of last year's content but the challenge is to expand on what we learned last year for students who had me in 7th grade but keep it accessible enough for students who are new to the school and/or didn't have me last year. The solution? Lots of comprehensible input using authentic resources!

First, students filled in a picture dictionary of different after school activities.

I love to have students make picture dictionaries to put in their Spanish notebooks. This helps us to avoid translation and I think it helps them to remember if they have to write it down rather than me just giving them a vocabulary list. 

School Schedules for Spanish class

 I love an authentic resource - it lets students see the language out in the real world and the right one can stimulate good conversations (in the target language of course!) My 7th graders are in the middle of their school unit and we are comparing and contrasting school schedules and talking about our own classes. Here are some of the schedules we're looking at.

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