Business Spanish Lesson Plan, Week 4
by Ann Abbott Week 4 Día 1: España y Guinea Ecuatorial I asked students to raise their hands if they had ever learned about Equatorial Guinea in any of their previous Spanish classes. No one raised their hand, as I had suspected. So we spent the entire class learning about Guinea Ecuatorial together. La geografía As a starting point, we tested our knowledge of countries and geography. Half of the class tested their knowledge of European countries with this interactive map , and the other half did the same with African countries . I gave them a few minutes to work on the map quiz then put them in breakout rooms of three people. There, they talked about what they knew, didn´t know, what they learned, and what they learned from each other (those who had worked on the other map). We came back together, they shared with all of us, and it was clear that most students have a lot to learn about geography, a common weakness in our educational system. El idioma y la cultura It was important to l