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    Who Is My Neighbor? Teacher Manual: Learning Spanish as Church Hospitality
    Who Is My Neighbor? Teacher Manual: Learning Spanish as Church Hospitality
    Who Is My Neighbor? Teacher Manual: Learning Spanish as Church Hospitality
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    Who Is My Neighbor? Teacher Manual: Learning Spanish as Church Hospitality

    By Ruth Cassel Hoffman PH.D., M.T.S. Joyce Carrasco and Ngoc-Diep Nguyen PH.D.

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    Who Is My Neighbor? is a field-tested resource through which
    English speakers of any church and congregation can learn basic
    Spanish-speaking skills to be able to communicate and provide a
    welcoming atmosphere to the Hispanic communities surrounding them.

    The
    six-session resource developed by the Northern Illinois Conference
    covers basic conversational Spanish, and simple and easy to follow
    Spanish-language worship material. The program encourages openness
    toward Spanish-speaking neighbors, understanding of different cultures,
    and compassion for those who struggle to learn English.


    This resource is easily implemented by congregations of any size,
    and it results in a program of hospitality that will help include
    Hispanic communities in your church congregation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateApr 21, 2015
    ISBN9781501803680
    Who Is My Neighbor? Teacher Manual: Learning Spanish as Church Hospitality
    Author

    Ruth Cassel Hoffman PH.D.

    Ruth Cassel Hoffman, PhD, has been a lover of languages since childhood. She first experienced the power of speaking another s language as hospitality on a UMC youth mission trip to Vieques, PR. She earned her doctorate in Romance Languages from the University of Chicago and taught French at St. Mary s College in Notre Dame, IN. Ruth founded Language Resources Ltd. in 1983, providing corporate foreign language training, translation, and interpretation, and has developed active curricula in French and Spanish for students from preschoolers to adults. She is an active member and a former Lay Leader of Kingswood United Methodist Church in Buffalo Grove, IL. She lives in Lake Zurich, Illinois with her husband Miles and their dog Isabella.

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      Who Is My Neighbor? Teacher Manual - Ruth Cassel Hoffman PH.D.

      ¿Quién es mi vecino?

      Who Is My Neighbor?

      Learning Spanish as Church Hospitality:

      A Worship-Centered Curriculum

      Teacher’s Manual

      Joyce Carrasco, MTS

      Ruth Cassel Hoffman, PhD

      Ngoc-Diep Nguyen, PhD

      ¿QUIÉN ES MI VECINO?

      WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?

      TEACHER’S MANUAL

      Copyright © 2015 by Abingdon Press

      All rights reserved

      No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission can be addressed to Permissions, The United Methodist Publishing House, 2222 Rosa L. Parks Blvd. P.O. Box 280988, Nashville, Tennessee 37228-0988, or e-mailed to permissions@umpublishing.org.

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      All scripture quotations are taken from the Dios habla hoy, la Biblia versión popular, 1966, 1970, 1979, 1983 copyright © Sociedades Bíblicas Unidas. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Maps copyright © 2015 Thinkstock.com

      ISBN 978-1-5018-0367-3

      15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24–10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      Content

      Foreword

      Starting Your Program: Directions and Forms for the Hosting Church

      •   Host Site Commitment

      •   Job Description: Spanish Teacher

      •   Memorandum of Understanding

      •   Teacher Toolkit

      •   Host Site: Local Church Ambassador Checklist

      Teacher’s Manual

      How Do People Learn a Language?

      Lesson 1

      •   Theme: La familia (Family)

      •   Song: Yo tengo gozo, gozo . . . (I Have a Joy, Joy . . .)

      •   Content: Naming Family Members in Spanish

      •   Culture: Self-Identity

      Lesson 2

      •   Theme: Mi vecino es . . . (My Neighbor Is . . .)

      •   Song: Cristo me ama (Jesus Loves Me)

      •   Content: Describing People in Spanish

      •   Culture: Names

      Lesson 3

      •   Theme: Me gusta, no me gusta, ¡qué pena! (I Like, I Don’t Like, What a Shame!)

      •   Song: De colores

      •   Content: Colors, Expressing Likes, Dislikes, and Empathy

      •   Culture: Personal Space and Touch

      Lesson 4

      •   Theme: El buen samaritano (The Good Samaritan) y el gran mandamiento (The Great Commandment)

      •   Content/Focus Story: Understanding the Good Samaritan Story and the Great Commandment in Spanish

      •   Culture: The Sense of Time

      Lesson 5

      •   Theme: El Padrenuestro (The Lord’s Prayer)

      •   Content/Focus Story: Understanding and Learning to Say (Read) the Lord’s Prayer in Spanish

      •   Culture: Fiestas patrias (Independence Days)

      Lesson 6

      •   Theme: Esto es mi cuerpo (This Is My Body)

      •   Content/Focus Story: Participating in the Lord’s Supper in Spanish

      •   Culture: Where in the World Is VIM?

      •   Worship: Holy Communion in Spanish, With Clergy Person Participating

      •   Fellowship: Second Hour Devoted to Potluck

      Cultural Insights: Guide for Teachers

      Cultural Tidbits and Maps

      Cultural Insights

      FAQ: Spanish as a Second Language Classes

      Foreword

      What are you doing this evening? the woman who cuts my hair asked me.

      I’m going to a Spanish-as-Second-Language class.

      What’s that? she asked.

      I explained to her that I wanted the people in the churches that I serve to learn to speak Spanish so that they can be more hospitable toward their neighbors. Not only in Illinois but throughout the United States, there is a large and/or growing population of Spanish-speaking people. While most of these new immigrants are eager to learn English and attend English classes, it’s hospitable to at least attempt Spanish when we connect with them in our communities and in our churches.

      Wow! I never heard of anything like that! That’s cool! she said. Then she added, I’d like to do that. I assured her that it wasn’t exclusively for United Methodists but anyone who was interested.

      This represents a typical conversation when talking about the Spanish-as-Second-Language classes being held in the Northern Illinois Annual Conference. After coming to Northern Illinois, I called together a small group of United Methodist linguists with my vision of a curriculum. I imagined it to be an adult learning experience that would enable us to speak if only minimally, sing with greater confidence, and pray together in our culturally diverse communities, churches and annual conference. These dedicated United Methodist linguists developed this curriculum that can assist us in being buenos vecinos (good neighbors).

      The orientation for teachers and host church representatives is very important so that those who teach understand the spirit of the curriculum. It’s also important that the host churches provide hospitality to those who come; many times people would come from other churches and from the community at large.

      I went to the first orientation for the teachers and host church representatives after I signed up for my own six-week course but I was anxious about being able to learn any Spanish. I have a foreign language anxiety. I learned at the orientation for the teachers and hosts that we would learn Spanish the way a child learns a language; not by conjugating verbs or memorizing long lists of words. We learned

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