LPRaftery

Lesson Plan: Learning about the Spanish culture while practicing the conditional (irrealis)

“If I lived in Spain..” Rosanne Korr __[]__
 * Materials:**

You tube warm up video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciwRyKawBDs&featfure=related

**R.NT.00.05** respond to individual and multiple texts by ﬁnding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or writing to reﬂect, make meaning, and make connections.  **R.IT.00.04** respond to individual and multiple texts by ﬁnding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or writing to reﬂect, make meaning, and make connections.  **R.CM.00.01** begin to make text-to-self and text-to-text connections and comparisons by activating prior knowledge and connecting personal knowledge and experience to ideas in text through oral and written responses.  **R.CM.00.02** retell up to three events from familiar text using their own words or phrasing.  **R.MT.00.02** construct and convey meaning using strategies including story grammar to identify the author’s perspective (e.g., ﬁrst, second, and third person) and sorting and ordering information
 * English Language Arts Standards:**


 * EL proficiency standards:**

R.4 Understand and use grammatical structures of English to improve reading comprehension R.4.2 Recognize basic English syntax (sentence structure) and grammar to derive meaning R.4.3 Use knowlege of complex syntax (sentence structure) and grammatical features to derive meaning from text


 * Objectives:**

To help students identify and use the conditional in text and spoken aloud.

Introduction/ Motivation: The purpose of this lesson is to work on the conditional and write your own “If I lived in Spain”, deciding what they would like most if they lived in spain after reading about Spain. The students will first have to listen to the story, then share their favorite parts about Spain based on the story with the class. Next, after a review of the conditional, I will divide the class into groups of four students and write on the board “If I went to Spain, I would ___” and use my own example. Each student will get a piece of paper, and write their own sentence, along with a picture that they can draw. They will then share it with their group and explain why they would do this. After going around the room, I will make sure that everyone seems to have a good grasp on the conditional. Finally, I will have the groups go through the book and highlight conditional phrases.

The books that I will be using will help the students use the conditinional (if I live in spain, I would...) and modal words.