Unit Title: 4

UNIT INFORMATION

Grade/Subject
Spanish I
:
Unit Name: La Comida

Length of
4 Weeks
Unit:
UNIT LEARNING GOALS
**Cut and paste this information from the applicable unit within your Long Term
Plan**

Day 1 – decorate theme page

4A1 SWBAT identify food vocabulary in order to
exchange information about food preferences
4A5 SWBAT use the food pyramid to correctly categorize food
Day 2
4A2 SWBAT conjugate –er, and –ir verbs in the context of
“comer” and “beber” to discuss food preferences and
times of eating
Day 3 – BINDER – stamp charts
4A4 SWBAT use “gustar” correctly in sing and pl.
contexts
4A6 SWBAT use adjective agreement to describe eating customs
Day 4
4A3 SWBAT recognize “querer” and “preferir” as stem-
changing verbs to use in context of food preferences
Day 5
4B1 Identify and describe eating customs of
Spanish-speaking countries
4B2 SWBAT order as if in a restaurant using a menu from
a different Day 6
Review stem-changers and CONJUGATING especially
Day 7 – study habits! BINDER!
Review
4C1 SWBAT order from McDonald’s in Spanish
Day 8 TEST
Day 9 & 10
4B3 SWBAT create a menu of their favorite restaurant translated
into Spanish
 Essential Structures
-er and –ir verbs
Essential
Gusta(n)
Structures
Stress pronouns (a mí, a ti…)
Querer, preferir as stem- changing verbs

• Subjects and pronouns

• Present tense conjugation

Review:
Spiraling
• Noun/verb agreement and adj. agreement
• Articles
• Me gusta

Remedial (R)
Enrichment
(E)
(to be completed
after receiving
diagnostic
assessment
results)
UNIT GOAL
What will my students know and be able to do after this unit that they could not
do before?
Why does this matter to my students?

Students will be able to identify foods that are eaten in Spanish-

speaking countries and the differences between eating habits in
the US and Spanish-speaking countries. Students will review
telling time in Spanish in order to study when meals are eaten
in Spanish speaking countries. Students will use their
conjugation knowledge and apply it to conjugating –ER and –IR
verbs in the context of food. Students will review the verb
“gustar” and learn how to use it in plural contexts. While the
grammatical and linguistic concepts form the majority of the
unit, students will be invested because of the focus on learning
about new foods and traditions and practicing using the
grammar concepts in a restaurant setting. Students will then
learn specifically how to order foods served at McDonalds in
order to practice their Spanish when they order across the
street where there are many Hispanic workers. I will speak with
the manager and let him/her know that my students are
attempting to improve their Spanish so it would be wonderful if
workers who encounter students trying to order in Spanish
helped them out.
 CALENDAR OF DAILY OBJECTIVES
February. 2009
Monday Tuesday Wednes Thursday Friday
day
2/1 2/2 2/3 2/4 2/5
4A1 SWBAT 4A1 SWBAT 4A2 4A2 SWBAT 4A3 SWBAT recognize
exchange exchan SWBAT conjugate – “querer” and “preferir”
information ge conjugate er, and –ir as stem-changing verbs
about food informa –er, and – verbs in the to use in context of food
preferences tion ir verbs in context of preferences
about the “comer” and
food context of “beber” to
prefere “comer” discuss food 4A4 SWBAT use “gustar”
nces and preferences correctly in sing and pl.
“beber” to and times of contexts
discuss eating
food
preferenc
es and
times of
eating
2/8 4A2 2/9 4A2 2/10 4A3 2/11 4A3 2/12
4A4 SWBAT 4A4 4B1 Identify PROF DEV
4A3 SWBAT
use “gustar” SWBAT and describe
recognize
correctly in use eating
“querer” and
sing and pl. “gustar” customs of
“preferir” as
contexts correctly Spanish-
stem-changing
p.136-quiz in sing speaking
verbs to use in
AND and pl. countries
context of food
“encantar” contexts 4B2 SWBAT
preferences
order as if in
4A6 SWBAT 4A6 a restaurant
4A4 SWBAT use
use adjective SWBAT use using a menu
“gustar”
agreement to adjective from a
correctly in sing
describe eating agreement to different
and pl. contexts
customs describe country
eating
customs

2/15 2/16 4A4 2/17 4A4 2/18 4B 2/19

4B3 SWBAT 4B3 SWBAT 4B SWBAT finish their
NO SCHOOL
4B1 Identify create a create a menu menus & review eating
and describe menu of their of their customs& food vocab
eating customs favorite favorite
of restaurant restaurant
Spanish- translated translated into
speaking into Spanish Spanish
countries 4C1 SWBAT 4C1 SWBAT
4B2 SWBAT order from order from
order as if in a McDonald’s McDonald’s
restaurant in Spanish in Spanish
using a menu
from a
different