El carnaval mas largo - Scaffolded Cultural Activity: Familias y comunidades

El carnaval mas largo del mundo – Familias y comunidades – Tradiciones y valores (Uruguay)

This cultural scaffolded activity includes 3 versions so it can be completed by novice, intermediate low/mid, and intermediate-high/advanced students.

Activity description:

With this writing activity, students learn about Uruguay’s carnival, considered the longest-lasting in the world.

• Novice students read a short text in Spanish that briefly describes the carnival. They match words in Spanish from the text with the corresponding English meaning, identify adjectives and write an email describing the Carnival celebrations.
• Intermediate low-mid students read a text in Spanish that describes the carnival and work on writing a text to be included in a digital brochure.
• Intermediate high-advanced students read the text in Spanish work on a 200-word writing piece for a digital brochure that describes Uruguay’s carnival.

Theme and Sub-Theme: Families and Communities - Traditions and Values

Includes:

1 version for novice students

1 version for intermediate low/mid students

1 version for intermediate high/advanced students

Teacher's notes with pre-activity, during activity, and post-activity strategies for each proficiency level

Answer key

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Use our scaffolded activities...

• To introduce the AP Spanish themes to your students from their first year of Spanish.
• If you teach multiple levels.
• If you have mixed groups of students at different levels.
• If you have heritage speakers.
• If you want students to connect with broad cultural aspects of the Hispanic world.
• If you want your students to learn from each Spanish-speaking country.
• If you want to incorporate authentic resources and materials.

Check out our Spanish scaffolded activities covering more Spanish-speaking countries.

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