Grade Level: 8 Topic: Imperative

Subject: Middle School Spanish

Objective: The students will be able to give commands by using the imperative mode. Standards: NJCCCS for World Languages (NJCCCS, 2009) 7.1.NM.B.4. Ask and respond to simple questions, make requests, and express preferences using memorized words and phrases. 7.1.NM.A.2. Demonstrate comprehension of simple, oral and written directions, commands, and requests through appropriate physical response. Materials: pencils, PowerPoint slides, projector and screen, templates, photocopies of the activities, apron, cooking hat and a tortilla de patatas (Spanish potatoes omelet). Prerequisite Skills and Knowledge: The students have recently finished a lesson on the present tense and another one on food vocabulary. Anticipatory Set: Walk into class with a cooking hat, an apron and a tortilla de patatas. Hoy vamos a cocinar! (Today, we are going to cook!) Input and Modeling: The teacher will provide a template that will show how the imperative mode is formed (just for the second person singular) and an example of a real recipe where the steps are explained by using this tense. During the explanation, those documents will be projected on the screen for the students to observe. Student Practice and Checking for Understanding: 1. The students will be given a photocopy with two recipes where the verbs are in the infinitive form and they will have to write the imperative one. The teacher will visit each student to assess and provide feedback. 2. The next activity will help the students to use that knowledge in another field. They will have to write the appropriate command to different images showing daily actions such as open your textbook, buy apples, turn off the television, eat your soup and so on. In the meantime, the teacher will continue to monitor progress and offer less support.

Closure: 1. To finish the class, the students will have the opportunity to eat a real tortilla de patatas. To do so, I will project an image of each step of the Spanish omelet recipe (chop the potatoes, add the onions, fry it) and they will have to give oral commands. If they cook it successfully, they will get the tortilla. 2. At the end of the unit of study, the students will create a cookbook. Each student will write a recipe that will be graded with a rubric that evaluates grammar, vocabulary, spelling and organization. Once I check all of them, I will staple them to create our classroom cookbook, which will be available to use at any time of the year. References Education, The New Jersey Department of. (2009) 2009 Core curriculum content standards revision project. Retrieved from World Languages standards report http://www.state.nj.us/education/cccs/standards/7/7.pdf.