Unit 5. Fun

In this unit students learn to understand people in different cultures value free time differently. Students will talk and hear about what is fun to do in their free time and how connecting with friends and family is an essential part of life.

Topics cover food, especially eating out, simple directions, activities like sports, video games, leisure, indoor, outdoor, free time, etc. as well as basic transportation and basic places around their communities.

Eating Out

Eating out

Activities

Directions

Transportation

Fun Places

Vocabulary

Eating Out

Setting the table (Video)

Country: Spain

Duration: 2:46 minutes

Explanation of a dinner table and vocabulary related to eating.

Street tacos stand (Image)

Country: Mexico

Type: Photo

A street taqueria in Mexico city showcases options for traditional sides and taco choices.

Dinning reviews in Montevideo (Website)

Country: Uruguay

Type: Authentic text and photos

Reviews of restaurants in Montevideo, Uruguay. Links to maps and menus to the places reviewed in the site.

Directions

Asking and giving directions (Video)

Country: Spain

Duration: 3:41 minutes

A character explains how to ask for directions to common places in a town and brief conversations while asking and giving directions with graphics.

Directions explained while driving in the city (Video)

Country: Colombia

Duration: 16:25 minutes

A drive through the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia. She explains the commands and directions. Traffic signs and a bit of weather vocabulary.

Asking and giving directions (Worksheet)

Country: Spain

Difficulty: Basic to Advanced

Interactive worksheets and practice exercises to give and ask for directions.

Activities

Children typical dances (Image)

Country: Mexico

Activities small children do in Mexico Ballet Folklorico, Choreographies, and typical music.

Extra curricular activities (Website)

Country: Chile

Type: Authentic text and photos

Catalog of cultural, musical and sportive activities for students in Santiago, Chile

Damajagua waterfall adventure (Video)

Country: Dominican Republic

Duration: 15:30 minutes

Tour around a touristic nature area in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. Benefits to the locals. Stages and optional activities in the tour. Endemic trees and birds.

September 18th barbeque (Video)

Country: Chile

Duration: 17:15 minutes

How Chileans celebrate their national holiday preparing an "asado" to share with friends.

Transportation

Public busses scholarship for students (News)

Country: Mexico

Type: Authentic text

Students are informed how they can apply for a scholarship for public transportation in Mexico City.

8 cities with a subway system in Latin America (Video)

Country: Colombia

Duration: 4:25 minutes

Explanation of history for the use of subways as transportation. Pictures of the subway systems in Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil, and Mexico.

Transportation ways (Video)

Country: Argentina

Duration 11:45 minutes

A video describing the many means of transport, their characteristics, and common phrases to use it.

Fun Places

Places in a city (Worksheet)

Country: Peru

Difficulty: Easy

Interactive worksheet for places and directions in a city, where to go, and reviews of places and food.

Visiting a mall (Video)

Country: Venezuela

Duration: 23:17 minutes

Tour through one of the newest malls in Caracas, Venezuela. Supermarket and store descriptions. Food court visit with description of typical meals. Kids park. Prices for products described.

Bosque de Chapultepec (Website)

Country: Mexico

Content: Historical site, outdoor recreation, zoo, museums, cultural activities and restaurants.

This open space is a historical forest in the heart of Mexico city which is a focal point of Mexican culture. This website includes an infographic for historical data and the activities that locals and tourists can do in the 3 different sections of the park.