Escucha y Lee: Viajes y Camping

Listening Activities

• Students should practice listening activities by filling in the blanks for the video.
• The activities focus on travel, trips, and camping.

Selection A: Travel, Trips, & Camping

• Question 1: The first question asks about preference: vacationing at the beach or in the mountains.
• Example Conversation: A conversation between Laura (from Spain) and another person discussing their vacation preferences, specifically, if they prefer vacationing at the beach or in the mountains.
• Vocabulary: Words like playa (beach), montaña (mountain), vacaciones (vacation) are used.
• Question 2: The following question asks about previous family trips.
• Example Conversation: A conversation between Sorie and another person, asking about the person's most recent family trip.

Reading Activities

• The reading section involves reviewing infographics and answering questions related to the information presented.
• Selection A: Infografía Frida: This focuses on Frida Kahlo's life and influences reflected in her artwork. Questions include: animals that influenced her work, personal events impacting her art, historical events affecting her and her art, and her representation of feminism in her work.
• Selection B: Turismo de Naturaleza: This section discusses various types of nature tourism (ecotourism, rural tourism, adventure tourism) and their associated characteristics and activities. It includes characteristics and interests of tourists participating in those types of tourism, such as eco-tourists.

Grammar Practice

• Present Tense: Includes tables for conjugating AR, ER, and IR verbs.
• Imperfect Tense: Tables covering imperfect tense endings for AR, ER, and IR verbs. Included are irregular verbs (ser, ir, ver) in the imperfect tense.
• Preterite Tense: Tables showing preterite endings for AR, ER, and IR verbs.
• Irregular Verbs: Listing irregular verbs such as tener, poner, estar, poder, querer, saber, hacer, hic, sup

Additional Practice

• Students should use various methods to practice vocabulary, including creating thinking maps, vocabulary cards (including synonyms, pictures, and sentences) and creating flashcards and memory games.
• This section also recommends using online resources like Quizlet to create virtual flashcards.
• Additional practice involves writing logical and illogical sentences, correcting the illogical ones, and using online resources such as flippity.net to create memory games.
• Using the Spanish grammar database is also suggested as an additional practice opportunity.