"El tiempo es tirano": Las rutinas

diarias y los planes para el fin de

semana en el Caribe
Hispanoparlante
¿Qué es el tiempo (time)?

Refrán:
“El tiempo es tirano”

(Time is a dictator)

¿Por qué el tiempo es tirano?

 ¿Qué es el tiempo?

Refrán:
“El tiempo es dinero”

(Time is money)

¿Por qué el tiempo es dinero?

 Activities from
the Sample Lesson
¿Qué hora es?
Una a once de la mañana = 1
AM to 11 AM
Las doce = 12 PM
Una a siete de la tarde = 1 PM to
7 PM
Ocho a once de la noche = 8 PM
to 11:59 PM
Las doce de la noche = 12 AM
10:00: Son las ____________.
22:30: Son las ____________.
18:45: Son las ____________.
12:10: Son las ____________.
¿Qué es el tiempo (time)?

Refrán:
“El tiempo es tirano”

(Time is a dictator)

¿Por qué el tiempo es tirano?

 Unit Goals
Students will be able to narrate plans in the near future
using the futuro próximo and by enhancing their
vocabulary. We will focus specifically on vocabulary
regarding time, dates, and interrogative words that will
be used to require information about future plans.
(time, dates, interrogative words).
 Students will be able to describe some of the daily
habits of people living in Spanish speaking Caribbean
(Cuba, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana) and how
they relate to their own.

Students will be able to critically analyze their own

values relating to work and leisure by looking at their
own daily routines through the lens of Spanish
Caribbean's people routines. Also, they will enrichen
their own perspectives in time management by
engaging with the testimony of young students in
Caribbean Universities.
Students will be able to describe their usual routine and
to imagine and describe future plans like weekends and
approaching holidays.

They will gain a broader scope on how time

management can shape their desires and its fulfillment.
They will also reflect on how, regardless of study or
work-related obligations, they are the ones who are in
control of this aspect of their life and not the contexts
that they are in.