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The students completing this activity will be aged approximately 15 years old. They will be students in the 10th Grade. They will be students learning Spanish as a foreign language; however, due to the sociocultural dynamics of the US, some students may be heritage speakers of Spanish.
Target Age: 15 years old approx.
Target Language Level: B1 Spanish
Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.
Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken.
Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest.
Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
Location: Classroom
Syllabus Fit
Students will previously have learned the present simple and continuous tenses in Spanish, in addition to the present simple (preterite) tense. They will also be familiar with connectives/conjunctions, use of narrative phrases etc. In the previous lessons, students read a short story in Spanish and answered questions about what happened during the story, the main characters and locations.
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to:
Use a range of different tenses (present/past tense) in Spanish in written text
Write a short story of approximately 200 words in Spanish
Work collaboratively to write the short story
Use a range of lexical items in Spanish to express meaning
Competences
Reception (by including a pre-task analyzing a short story?)
Production (writing the story)
Interaction? (encouraging interaction in L2 through the use of collaboration between partners)
Communicative Language Competences (encouraging pragmatic competences through the use of idioms and naturalistic turns of phrase/incorporating some cultural knowledge?)
Materials
Five QR code markers placed around the room (markers will be created using Overly)
Laptop/tablet/paper to write the story
Activity
Pre-Task:
Students will practice using the app Overly. Teacher will guide students and show them how to use the Overly app for scanning markers. ,
Later, students will practice scanning markers and they will write all the words they associate with the marker that they scan. For example, if the marker they scan brings up a 3D pumpkin, all the words they associate with pumpkins.
Main Task:
This activity will be completed in one class period.
Students will scan the markers in the classroom (which the teacher will have placed at different points); using the clues from the different markers, students will then write a short story in Spanish in small groups of 2.
The clues will be markers created using Overly. There will be five AR marker-based clues. For example, one of the clues will be a Chinese cat statue. Students will scan the markers using their phone’s camera and the markers will then appear as 3D objects in the classroom. They will then have to write a short story based on the five markers which they have scanned.
After writing their short story, the small groups will be convened to create two larger groups. In these two larger groups, they will have to write a version of the story based on their own collective version of the story. After writing, groups will swap the stories and write the conclusion (approx. 100 words) for each other’s stories. They will then share their collective versions of the stories with the rest of the class.
Post-task:
Students will then have to individually reflect on three things they most liked about their story and one thing that they would change if they could after listening to the stories from the rest of the class.
by Jonathan Pye and Elif Varlik, 2022.
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