Elementary School World Languages

Elementary World Language
First Grade Unit: Las Profesiones
Spanish Language
Overview. In this unit, students learn about the country of Venezuela. They also learn about
types of professions, about equipment and tools used by professionals, and about places where
professionals work.
Essential Questions:
● What are some professions? (Week 1)
● What do people do at their jobs? (Week 2)
● What tools do people use at their jobs? (Week 3)
● Where do people work? (Week 4)
Enduring Understandings:
● People have a choice about their profession.
● Professionals play an important in the community.
● Different professions require different tools. ● Different professions require different actions. CURRICULUM STANDARDS / STUDENT OUTCOMES
Communication
1.1 Interpersonal - Students will:
● Ask and answer questions about professions and occupations in Caracas, Venezuela.
● Ask and answer questions about where professionals work.
1.2 Interpretive Reading and Listening - Students will:
● Read and listen to a story and read a picture-based story.
● Identify the sounds of the letters c and q.
● Identify tools used by different professionals. ● Identify places based on professions. 1.3 Presentational Speaking and Writing - Students will:
● Express what profession they would like to have in the future.
● Describe actions performed by people at their jobs.
● Tell which tools are needed for a specific job.
● Explain how some tools are used.
● Use the definite articles el and la appropriately.
● Use and apply the present-­‐tense forms of the verb trabajar. Culture
2.1 Practices and Perspectives - Students will:
● Identify how different professionals help the communities of Venezuela.
2.2 Products and Perspectives - Students will:
● Describe the tools needed for jobs in Venezuela.
Connections
Elementary World Language
First Grade Unit: Las Profesiones
Spanish Language
3.1 Cross-curricular - Students will:
● Examine the way people help a community.
● Explore how tools help people in their professions.
3.2 Target Culture - Students will:
● Observe how people in Venezuela help their community. ● Explore how people in Venezuela use tools to help with their professions. Comparisons
4.1 Language - Students will:
● Compare el and la to the article the.
● Distinguish between the sounds of the letters c and q.
● Compare the present tense verb conjugation of trabajar with the English verb work.
4.2 Culture - Students will:
● Compare occupations in Venezuela with jobs they see in their community.
● Compare and contrast the tools needed for occupations in Venezuela and tools required
for occupations in the United States.
Communities
5.1 Beyond the School - Students will:
● Participate in simulations that replicate authentic conversations about the professions of
Venezuela.
5.2 Lifelong Learner - Students will:
● Use authentic media resources to examine the communities of Venezuela. FUNCTIONS • VOCABULARY • STRUCTURES
LANGUAGE
FUNCTION
Identify occupations.
CONTENT VOCABULARY
Profesiones:
● cocinero/cocinera
● doctor/doctora
● músico/música
● pintor/pintora
● policía
● fotógrafo
● fotógrafa
● ingeniero
● ingeniera
La Familia de Katrina:
● papá
LANGUAGE
STRUCTURE
● ¿Qué vas a ser?
● (Profesión).
● Yo voy a ser
(profesión).
● ¿Quién es?
● él/ella es (profesión).
● ¿Quién es (profesión)?
● (Persona) es
(profesión).
● El papá es (profesión).
● ¿Qué va a ser tu
Elementary World Language
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●
●
●
Explain what actions
people do at their
profession.
mamá
abuelo
abuela
hermano
Acciones:
● ayudo/ayuda
● cocino/cocina
● cuido/cuida
● enseño/enseña
● pinto/pinta
● toco/toca
Cosas:
●
●
●
●
●
Differentiate the
sounds of the letters c
and q.
First Grade Unit: Las Profesiones
Spanish Language
cuadro
enfermos
instrumento
sopa
veterinario
amigo(a)?
● Él/ella va a ser
(profesión).
●
●
●
●
●
●
¿Qué hace (persona)?
Yo (acción).
Él/ella (acción).
¿Quién (acción)?
(Persona).
(Persona) (acción)
(cosa).
● ¿Qué hace el abuelo de
Katrina?
● El abuelo de Katrina
cocina una sopa.
C:
● camisa
● cuchillo
Ce:
● cereal
Ci:
● cocinera
Que:
● queso
Qui:
● mantequilla
Identify tools used by
different professions.
Explain how some
tools work.
Herramientas:
● cámara
● computadora
● cuchillo
● fotógrafía
● guitarra
● pincel (brush)
● silbato (whitle)
● pegamento
● regla (ruler)
Verbos:
● ¿Con qué trabaja?
● ¿Con qué herramientas
trabaja (profesión)?
● (Profession) trabaja con
(herramienta).
● Yo trabajo con
(herramienta).
● ¿Qué usa (profesión)?
● (Profesión) usa
(herramienta).
● Yo uso (herramienta).
Elementary World Language
First Grade Unit: Las Profesiones
Spanish Language
● trabajar
● usar
Identify where people Lugares:
work.
● estación de policía
● estudio de arte
● hospital
● oficina
● restaurante
● teatro
● ¿Dónde trabaja?
● Él/ella trabaja en
(lugar).
● ¿Quién trabaja en
(lugar)?
● (Profesión) trabaja en
(lugar).