Gente de Zona Super 7 Verb Activity

I am currently teaching level 1 Spanish (this in October!), and we’ve just wrapped up some short activities on working on the Super 7 verbs. In order to bridge acquisition friendly techniques such as meaningful and quality repetitions with the constructivist learning aspect of teaching, I did the following to prepare students:

Modeled Super 7 verbs and asked students what they thought each verb meant. For example, I wrote “gusta” on the board and said “Me gusta la pizza” while rubbing my stomach. Chorally, students responded “like” and we added to our list.
We reviewed the list compiled, and then I had a student volunteer for story time. I asked the student questions in English (novice low) and as she responded, I described her on the board. See the picture below of a student who volunteered. I renamed her Sally.

Students helped me fill in the blanks.
I provided students with this Quizlet list to add some interactivity to the lesson (additional words were added for other purposes)
Introduced students to the Group Gente de Zona Slide Deck and well as this one by Dr. Stacey M. Johnson. You can follow her @staceymargarita and listen to her podcast at @weteachlang!
We did a little singing and dancing (with only part of the song).
Students responded to the questions on the musical preference sheet (included in link below)
They met in groups to talk about their preferences with the verb gusta (I haven’t taught it formally yet, but they have used it quite a bit so far).
They shared out as a class. I do award communication points. See rubric below (also included in resource):
- 5 puntos= I responded correctly in a complete sentence.
- “Me gusta la música rap”
- 3 puntos= I responded correctly to the question with 1-2 words.
- “música rap”
- 1 punto= I responded to the question in English
- “I like rap music”