Aula en acción 2 - Scope & Sequence

en acción

Lugares y cultura p. 02

LEARNING OUTCOMES

You will be able to…

• evaluate past experiences

• talk about cultural products

PRIMER CONTACTO

• Leisure and cultural activities

COMPRENDEMOS

• Cultural products: music, films, books from Perú

• Advice and recommendations for visiting a place

• Experiences on trips

• Text and voice messages

EXPLORAMOS LA LENGUA

• The preterite

• The imperfect

• Contrast between preterite and imperfect

• Adverbs of time (luego, después…) and connectors (en primer lugar, además, por último…)

• Parecer and pasarlo/la bien/mal

COMUNICAMOS

• Talking about actions and personal situations in the past

• Talking about feelings when visiting a place for the first time

• Explaining a day in the life of a person and recording a video

CONECTAMOS NUESTRAS CULTURAS

• Get to know Argentina and Colombia

• Video: Estados unidos, en América (documentary)

PRONUNCIAMOS

• Review of intonation (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory), and sounds

TAREA FINAL: AHORA PODEMOS…

• Make a poster that features interesting things to do or see where you live.

IPA: TEXTOS AUDIOVISUALES

• Watch a video about Plaza de Armas in Lima, Perú

• Write a post for a travel blog

Lección 2

Volver a empezar p. 26

LEARNING OUTCOMES

You will be able to…

• talk about personal, academic, and professional experiences

• share past experiences

• talk about the beginning and the duration of an action

• situate an action in time

PRIMER CONTACTO

• Quotes by famous people

COMPRENDEMOS

• Events and times of change in a person’s life

• Professional and academic life

EXPLORAMOS LA LENGUA

• Present perfect, present progressive and past progressive

• Constructions to talk about starting, stopping, repetition and duration: empezar a + infinitive, llevar / seguir + present participle, etc.

• Expressions of time: alguna vez, siempre, desde…, desde que…, hasta, de a, durante

• Ya / Todavía no

• Job offers and cover letters

• Skills

COMUNICAMOS

• Talking about memorable experiences, comparing them and recording a video

• Developing a questionnaire to learn about other people's experiences

• Talking about important events and creating an infographic

CONECTAMOS NUESTRAS CULTURAS

• My Broken Language, by Quiara Alegría (Puerto Rico)

• Video: Timecode (short film)

PRONUNCIAMOS

• Intonation of subordinate sentences when telling a story

TAREA FINAL: AHORA PODEMOS…

• Write a cover letter for a job

IPA: TEXTOS ESCRITOS

• Read an interview with a Bolivian Aymara activist

• Write a nomination letter

Estamos muy bien p.

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LEARNING OUTCOMES

You will be able to…

• describe pain, discomfort, and symptoms

• talk about moods

• give advice

PRIMER CONTACTO

• Activities and workshops in a cultural center

COMPRENDEMOS

• Parts of the body

• Health and fitness: health advice to care for your body

• Constructing an image via social media

EXPLORAMOS LA LENGUA

• The verb doler

• Uses of the verbs ser and estar

• Form and some uses of the affirmative command and combination with pronouns

• Participles that function as adjectives (agreement)

• Health issues: illness, pain, symptoms, and remedies

COMUNICAMOS

• Talking about emotions and moods with gestures

• Asking for and giving advice about health, work, personal relationships, etc.

CONECTAMOS NUESTRAS CULTURAS

• Sports and wellness

• Video: Nutrición y bienestar (interview)

PRONUNCIAMOS

Lección

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Busque y compare p.

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LEARNING OUTCOMES

You will be able to…

• recommend and advise

• give instructions

• describe an ad

PRIMER CONTACTO

• Institutional advertising and slogans

COMPRENDEMOS

• Advertising today

• Advertising: objectives, people, businesses and values

• An advertising mind map

EXPLORAMOS LA LENGUA

• Forms and some uses of the affirmative and negative commands

• The placement of reflexive, indirect, and direct pronouns

COMUNICAMOS

• Searching for, analyzing, and presenting an advertisement

• Describing an advertisement

CONECTAMOS NUESTRAS CULTURAS

• An ethical shopping list

• Video: Branding, la creación de una marca (interview)

PRONUNCIAMOS

• Intonation: orders and instructions

TAREA FINAL: AHORA PODEMOS…

Design and present an advertising campaign

IPA: TEXTOS ESCRITOS

Read a blog written by Natalia Matrelle where she provides tips on effective brand creation

Give a presentation where you explain how a popular brand applies the principles as laid out by Matrelle

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Mañana

p. 102

LEARNING OUTCOMES

You will be able to…

• talk about actions and situations in the future

• express conditions in order for something to happen

• formulate hypotheses about the future

PRIMER CONTACTO

• Predictions about the future (science, technology, nature and the environment, society…)

COMPRENDEMOS

• Future challenges

• Challenges of the 21st century

EXPLORAMOS LA LENGUA

• The future

• Si +present, futuro

• Seguramente / seguro que / probablemente + future

• Placing an action in the future (el año que viene, en 2050…)

• Expressing gradual increase or decrease: cada vez más / menos

COMUNICAMOS

• Giving opinions on future predictions

• Forecasting the future

• Making our own plans for the future

CONECTAMOS NUESTRAS CULTURAS

• Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro, by Liliana Colanzi (Bolivia)

• Video: El futuro del trabajo para las mujeres. (documentary)

PRONUNCIAMOS

• Intonation: conditional sentences

TAREA FINAL: AHORA PODEMOS…

• Imagine a utopian future and reflect on the decisions necessary to achieve it

IPA: TEXTOS AUDIOVISUALES

• Watch a videoblog about jobs of the future.

• Write a script for a video similar to the one you have seen.

Lección

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¡Basta ya! p. 126

LEARNING OUTCOMES

You will be able to…

• express wishes, demands, and needs

• propose solutions

• give advice

• write an open letter exposing an issue

PRIMER CONTACTO

• Global problems

COMPRENDEMOS

• Open letter of protest

• Protests and demands

EXPLORAMOS LA LENGUA

• The present subjunctive

• querer / pedir / / necesitar que + subjunctive

• •se debería/n / habría que… •recomendar / aconsejar / sugerir que + subjunctive

• cuando + subjunctive

COMUNICAMOS

• Making demands and asserting complaints

• Expressing desires and needs

• Talking about future actions and events

CONECTAMOS NUESTRAS CULTURAS

• En directo, by José Sanchis Sinisterra (España)

• Video: ¡Presente! (Institutional advertising)

PRONUNCIAMOS

• The letter ñ

• Unstressed vowels and unstressed aa, ee, oo

TAREA FINAL: AHORA PODEMOS…

• Write an open letter to expose an issue

IPA: TEXTOS ESCRITOS

• Read two readers’ letters from an Argentine newspaper.

• Write a response to the two letters expressing empathy, agreement or disagreement

Tenemos que hablar p.

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LEARNING

OUTCOMES

You will be able to…

• express interests, feelings, and sensations

• talk about relationships

• show disagreement and soften disagreement with different levels of formality

• counter-argue

• Describe character traits

PRIMER CONTACTO

• Reunions and family relationships

COMPRENDEMOS

• Managing arguments

• Emotions and moods

EXPLORAMOS LA LENGUA

• me fascina / me encanta / no aguanto… que + subjunctive

• me fascina/n / me encanta/n / no aguanto… + noun / infinitive

• Intensifying with qué + adjective, adverb or noun

• Resources to show disagreement and soften disagreement with different levels of formality

• Resources to present counterarguments

• Llevarse bien / mal

COMUNICAMOS

• Talking about character

• Expressing interests, feelings and sensations

• Talking about positive and negative practices and making an infographic based on them

CONECTAMOS NUESTRAS CULTURAS

• “Navidad en Suecia”, by Constanza Gutiérrez (Chile)

• Video: Cocodrilo (short film)

PRONUNCIAMOS

• Expressing doubt through intonation and other resources

• Alternative questions

TAREA FINAL: AHORA PODEMOS…

• Role-play an argument and find a solution

IPA: TEXTOS AUDIOVISUALES

• Watch a video about a couple's argument

• Post an opinion on a social media site.

Lección

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Diseño para la vida p. 174

LEARNING OUTCOMES

You will be able to…

• name and describe the features and uses of objects

• give your opinions about objects

PRIMER CONTACTO

• Innovative design

COMPRENDEMOS

• Objects: description (shapes, materials...) and use

• Positive and negative evaluations

• Bars and restaurants

EXPLORAMOS LA LENGUA

• Superlatives ísimo/-a/-os/-as

• Some adjective modifiers: excesivamente, demasiado…

• Exclamations: :¡qué… tan / más…!, etc.

• Indicative and subjunctive in relative clauses

• Relative clauses with preposition

COMUNICAMOS

• Describing objects and talking about their use

• Talking about clothes

• Evaluating something positively and negatively

CONECTAMOS NUESTRAS CULTURAS

• Designers from the Spanish-speaking world

• Video: Planblu Ethic Wear (ad)

PRONUNCIAMOS

• Exclamatory entonation

TAREA FINAL: AHORA PODEMOS…

• Create a poster that features objects that we need

IPA: TEXTOS ESCRITOS

• Read a text about traditional footwear

• Create an infographic about shoes made with discarded tires

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Un mundo mejor p.

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LEARNING OUTCOMES

You will be able to…

• evaluate situations and facts

• comment on actions and behaviors

• express purpose

• evoke hypothetical situations

• advise and suggest

PRIMER CONTACTO

• Solidarity: initiatives for a better world (living in a more sustainable and participatory way).

COMPRENDEMOS

• Green cities

• The environment

• Slow food and Km 0

EXPLORAMOS LA LENGUA

• me parece bien / mal / injusto / ilógico… que + subjunctive

• está bien / mal que… + subjunctive

• es injusto / ilógico / fantástico… que + subjunctive

• The conditional

• para + infinitive / para que + subjunctive

• esto / eso / lo de (que)+  noun / verb

COMUNICAMOS

• Commenting on news headlines

• Talking about apps that make our world a better place

• Discussing objects and their effects on the environment

CONECTAMOS NUESTRAS CULTURAS

• Two sustainable Peruvian companies

• Video: Agua sagrada (documentary)

PRONUNCIAMOS

• Consonant + l, consonant + r

• The ch group

TAREA FINAL: AHORA PODEMOS…

• Present some problems and propose solutions

IPA: TEXTOS AUDIOVISUALES

• Watch a documentary about an environmental project

• Write a blog post about the environmental project

Lección 10 Buenas noticias p. 126

LEARNING OUTCOMES

You will be able to…

• provide an opinion and react to opinions or facts

• tell a personal anecdote

• refer to a news story and comment on it

• write a news story

PRIMER CONTACTO

• The media in Spain: an informational graph

COMPRENDEMOS

• Headlines and news

• Personality profiles that capture the way people consume the news

EXPLORAMOS LA LENGUA

• The past perfect

• Narrating past events

• Expressing and negating certainty:

• (no) creo / pienso que + indicative / subjunctive, (no) es verdad que + indicative / subjunctive

• a mí (no) me parece que + indicative / subjunctive

COMUNICAMOS

• Providing opinions and reacting to opinions or facts

• Talking about memorable events experienced firsthand.

• Showing and recognizing points of view

CONECTAMOS NUESTRAS CULTURAS

• “El reto de ser buen periodista”, by Lady Reyes (República Dominicana) .

• Video: Deep Soria (mockumentary)

PRONUNCIAMOS

• Parenthetical intonation

• Intonation to express obviousness and doubt

TAREA FINAL: AHORA PODEMOS…

• Create a class news program

IPA: TEXTOS ESCRITOS

• Read an interview with a streamer

• Create a video where you introduce this influencer to nominate him as an invited speaker for a graduation ceremony

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Mensajes y comunicación p.

148

LEARNING

OUTCOMES

You will be able to…

• convey other people's words in present and past tenses

• communicate messages: questions, orders, requests, advice and intentions

PRIMER CONTACTO

• Messages on social media and websites

COMPRENDEMOS

• Types of formal and informal messages: notes, emails, congratulatory messages, invitations, text messages

• User experiences with social media

EXPLORAMOS LA LENGUA

• Reported speech: me ha dicho / me dijo que… / me ha pedido / me pidió que… / me ha preguntado / me preguntó si… / cuándo / dónde / por qué

• The imperfect subjunctive

• The verbs ir, venir, traer y llevar COMUNICAMOS

• Writing a note (explaining/ proposing/ thanking/ asking or requesting something).

• Conveying other people's words in the present and past tenses

CONECTAMOS NUESTRAS CULTURAS

• The podcasting phenomenon in Latin America

• Video: Si me entero que algún día sufres, regresaré por ti (short film)

PRONUNCIAMOS

• b, d and g

TAREA FINAL: AHORA PODEMOS…

• Write an email in response to a misunderstanding

IPA: TEXTOS AUDIOVISUALES

• Watch a video about body language in Latin America.

• Create a video about a gesture or body language from the student’s culture

Lección

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Letras y vida p. 174

LEARNING OUTCOMES

You will be able to…

• talk about past experiences

• talk about things that could have happened

• talk about things that might happen

• recognize some literary genres and devices

PRIMER CONTACTO

• Testimonials fromcelebrated artists

COMPRENDEMOS

• literary journalism: La vida de los otros, de Leila Guerriero (Argentina)

EXPLORAMOS LA LENGUA

• Conditional clauses: si + imperfect subjunctive, conditional

• Past perfect subjunctive

• Conditional perfect

• Past conditionals (de haber + participio pasado, condicional / podría haber + participio pasado / …)

• Connectors of cause and consequence: como, porque, así que, de modo que, etc

COMUNICAMOS

• Talking about important decisions we make in our lives

• Preparing questions to learn about the hypothetical lives of others and recording a video with the answers

• Imagining alternative historical events and their consequences

CONECTAMOS NUESTRAS CULTURAS

• "Un poeta que trabaja…" by Rubén Medina (poem, México)

• Video: El Quijote de Almagro (documentary)

GÉNEROS Y RECURSOS LITERARIOS

• Literary genres and devices

TAREA FINAL: AHORA PODEMOS…

• Write a personal reflection about the last two years

IPA: TEXTOS ESCRITOS

• Read an interview with Enrique Jaramillo Levi (interview, Panamá)

• Co-create the end of a short story