Adjective Agreement
Grade Level(s): 9,10,11,12
Subject: Spanish I
Lesson Title: Adjective Agreement
Topic(s): Adjective agreement in gender & number with noun
Skills Targeted: Listening, Speaking, Writing, Reading
Duration: 50 minutes
Description: The teacher will present a descriptive paragraph of a person in a picture. Students will analyze the descriptive to understand the grammar rules that are applied when making adjectives agree with the noun they describe.
Materials:
1. Picture of a group of people
2. A written description about someone in the picture
3. Enough notecards for all the students.
FLL StandardsStandard 1.1 Interpersonal Communication
Standard 1.2 Interpretive Communication
Standard 1.3 Presentational Communication
Standard 2.1 Cultural Practices & Perspectives
Standard 2.2 Cultural Products & Perspectives
Standard 4.1 Language Comparison
Standard 4.2 Culture Comparison
Illinois Learning Standards
28.A.1.a – recognize basic language patterns28.B.1.a – respond to and ask simple questions with prompts28.B.1.b – imitate pronunciation28.D.1.a – copy/write words, sentences, and phrases
28.C.3b – Compare word use, phrasing and sentence structures of the target language with those used in one or more other languages.
28.D.1a – copy / write words, sentences and phrases
28. D. 1b – Describe people29.A.1 - use common forms of courtesy, greetings and leave-takings appropriate to the time of day and relationship
Objectives:
After reviewing necessary vocabulary for writing descriptions, the high school Spanish I students will describe themselves (physical features, personality, and clothes they are wearing) and correctly use adjective agreement with an accuracy of 90%.
Procedure:
Introduction
Begin the class greeting the students and describing the day’s lesson in the target language. Review necessary vocabulary for the day – colors, clothes, personality traits, physical descriptions, etc. (8 minutes)
Main Activity
1.) On the board will be a picture of a group of people. The teacher will pass out a description written in the target language. Based on this description, students should figure out which person in the picture is being described. (5 minutes)
2.) After students have identified the person, have students reread the description and underline the adjectives and circle the nouns. (5 minutes)
3.) The teacher will ask students what they notice happening to adjectives that described something feminine or something plural. The teacher will have students write down notes about the rules for adjective agreement. As a class, students will be given some nouns and some default adjectives and be asked to change them if needed. (10 minutes)
4.) To practice their understanding, students will pretend to be going on a study abroad trip to Mexico, and their sponsor family will pick them up at the airport. They will have to write a description of themselves so that their sponsor family can find them. They have to be as descriptive as possible. Students will write their descriptions on a notecard provided by the teacher. (5 minutes)
5.) Students will pass their notecard to a partner for peer editing and make the appropriate corrections. (2 minutes)
6.) Students will turn in their notecards with only their initials on the back of it. The teacher will randomly pass out the notecard to the students. Students will come up to the front of the room, one-by-one, and read the description. Then they will have to figure out who is the person being described. (13 minutes)
Closure (2 minutes)
They teacher will review the lesson and collect the notecards after students have written their names on them.
Follow Up Lessons / Activities (2 minutes)
The teacher will discuss the topic of the next lesson.
Assessment
For Learning: The teacher will walk around the room while students are writing their self-descriptions checking for grammar and spelling. Scaffolding and positive feedback will be given if necessary.
Of Learning: The notecards will be collected at the end of class to check for grammar, spelling, and accuracy of adjective agreement. This will be a participation grade.
