Spanish & Illinois

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

by Ann Abbott SPANISH FOR BUSINESS: WEEK 3 Day 1: Lectura comercial Today we begin Chapter two of Éxito comercial: La empresa. Specifically we will tackle the Lectura comercial and do some related activities. Before coming to class, students were to read that section of the ebook and take the quiz on MindTap. In class, we did the following:  Conversación I try to always give my students time to ¨warm up¨ at the beginning of class by talking to each other in Spanish. I put them in pairs in Zoom breakout rooms and told them they could talk about anything, in Spanish. Sociedad anónima, S.A. Reading about all the different forms of businesses can be very confusing, both in English and Spanish. I really only want students to walk away with a couple of concepts from this chapter. One is that S.A. at the end of a business´ name is the same as Inc. I showed them my husband´s company and explained that its official name is ISS, Inc. I also told them about my dad's business, Abbott Tank Com