So today was the first day with students! I like to get the kids using Spanish on day one even if it's not an in-depth activity. This year for Spanish IV I planned on creating a short powerpoint with pictures related to my summer activities. My sister's wedding and sleep took priority over the actual powerpoint but I still created a slide with four Spanish sentences about what I did (preterit tense). I read them out loud to the students and then revealed that one of the four was a lie. Each kid then had to come up to the board and initial next to which activity they thought was false. Out of 12 kids only 2 guessed correctly that I did NOT buy a new cat this summer. (My little furball does not approve of siblings).
After this I reminded the students of the yo form preterit endings and gave them five minutes to use the dictionaries and come up with their own 3 sentences, 2 true and 1 lie. Then one by one they came to the front of the room to read their activities and define any words their classmates did not know. Then they counted uno, dos, tres slowly with their classmates raising their hands for the number of the potential lie.
Changes I might make would be to just have the students hold up the number of fingers to match which one they think is a lie or maybe write the number on an individual whiteboard and hold that up.
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