Learning Experience Plan

Grade level: 6th, 7th or 8th

Subject: Spanish
Unit: Regular Present Tense Verbs
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Length of LEP (days/periods/minutes):

Topic: -AR Verbs

Content Standards:

(include only standards addressed in this LEP)

Standard 1: Students will be able to use a language other than English for communication.
Key Idea: READING & WRITING are used in languages other than English for the purposes of socializing, providing
and acquiring information, expressing personal feelings and opinions, and getting others to adopt a course of
action.
Checkpoint A

understand the main idea and some details of simple informative materials written for native speakers

compose short, informal notes and messages to exchange information with members of the target culture

Key Idea: LISTENING & SPEAKING are primary communicative goals in modern language learning. These skills are
used for the purposes of socializing, providing and acquiring information, expressing personal feelings and opinions,
and getting others to adopt a course of action.
Checkpoint A

Comprehend language consisting of simple vocabulary and structures in face-to-face conversation with
peers and familiar adults.
call upon repetition, rephrasing, and nonverbal cues to derive or convey meaning from a language other
than English

Standard 2: Students will develop cross-cultural skills and understandings.

Key Idea: EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION involves meanings that go beyond words and require an understanding of
perceptions, gestures, folklore, and family and community dynamics. All of these elements can affect whether and
how well a message is received.
Checkpoint A

use some key cultural traits of the societies in which the target language is spoken

Literacy Standards:

(include only standards addressed in this LEP)

Learning Experience Outcomes

Learning Experience Assessments

(knowledge/skills)

Students will:

Students will know the three different

types of verbs in order to conjugate
correctly
Students will know the verb endings in
order to correctly conjugate a verb based

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Reciting- Students will participate in a

culture song.
Repeating Students will repeat
vocabulary
Repeating Students will repeat verb

on the subject
Students will know the subject pronouns
in order to use them correctly with a
conjugated verb
Students will say vocabulary in order to
pronounce words correctly.
Students will write vocabulary in order to
spell correctly

Differentiation
Approaching

endings
Students will
organizer for
Students will
vocabulary
Students will

create an graphic
the steps to conjugation
create a picture based on
complete a worksheet

(What will you do to meet the needs of students at these different levels?)

Curriculum Integration
Material
s

On-level

Beyond

(Does this lesson correlate with any other content area? Describe.)

Procedures/Strategies
Day 1
Sponge Activity Student will participate in En la foto hay and use their
knowledge of the numbers to answers how many of an object is in the
picture.
Anticipatory Set - Ask students what is verb.
Activating Prior Knowledge Together as a class students will conjugate
and verb in English to show the steps involved to correctly conjugate a
verb.
Direct Instruction
1. Teach students what verb
2. In Spanish there are three types of verbs (-AR, -ER, -IR)
3. Infinitives are the basic form of a verb that is not bound by time,
finite forms are the verbs that are conjugated to fit in a certain time
(present past or future). A verb has two parts the stem and the
ending. A conjugated verb have an ending attached to the stem or
root of the verb.
4. Conjugated verbs have a subject
5. Subject Pronouns yo, t, l, ella, usted, nosotros-as, vosotros-as,
ellos, ellas, ustedes.
6. Explain the present tense
7. The corresponding ending in present tense o, -as, -a, amos, is,
-an
8. The steps to conjugating an AR verb
1. Locate subject or decide the subject
2. Take the infinitve and remove the ar from the stem
3. Add the correct ending based on the subject of the verb.
9. Show the students an example with the verb hablar.
yo hablo
nosotros hablamos

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t hablas
vosotros hablis
l, ella usted habla
ellos, ellas, ustedes hablan
10.Translate the conjugate hablar for the students so they can see what
it means in English.
11.Have students stand up to act out vocabulary that will be in the bag.
Guided Practice
1. Have students repeat the subject after teacher
2. Have students repeat the verb endings for pronunciation
3. Have students create a graph organizer with the steps to
conjugation.
4. Have students draw a picture for vocabulary
5. Individually students will select a verb and subject from two
separate bags and will conjugate them in front of a class.
Example Nonlinguistic Representation

Independent Practice
1. Students will complete the following worksheet individual.
2. We will correct it as a class.
Closure (action/statement by teacher designed to bring lesson presentation to an appropriate
close)
1. Explain to students that the steps to conjugate a verb is the same
for the next set of verbs which are -ER, -IR and for different tenses.

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