Strategies

An appropriate strategy to follow anytime you use technology is to adhere to the six P´s.

1. Pretest Students
2. Preview Materials
3. Prepare Materials
4. Prepare Environment
5. Prepare Learners
6. Provide Experience and Interaction

¿Cuánto sabes?

1. Run off these questions to hand out in class. This is your pretest as well as your motivator. They will find the answer to these questions during the unit, but for now they are to put the answer they belive might be correct. Students are to keep this questions sheet in their noteboook or folder.

2. This can be a group activity where students share any information they might already have. Students are to add three additional questions for which they would like answers.

3. Homework is to go to the web site and read the "Overview of Topic", print out the Vocabulario útil, ¿Qué hacen los jóvenes? and ¿Qué hacen ustedes? Students should keep the Vocabulario útil in the vocab section of their notebook . Students are to try to match each of the four young people with the job they actually have. At this point they will guess. Then they are to answer the questions on the "Cuestionario" in "Qué hacen ustedes". These questions will not seem strange if they have read the "Overview". At the next class session, students will turn in the web pages they printed off and filled out for a completion grade, then we will compile these answers and compare them to the answers given by the students from Puebla.

¿Qué hacen ustedes?

1. Make a chart on butcher paper to show the results of the two surveys. Poll your class first using a show of hands for the yes/no questions. Then have one of the students fill in the results of the Puebla students as you read them (results are listed below number 3)

2. When you finish the chart: compare/contrast, advantages/disadvantages of each group. Conduct a class discussion using this information.

3. Homework: On the web page, students will listen to the "¡Entrevistas!" as often as needed to be able to record the answers in Spanish. The first interview consists of four students together outside the school. Due to limited time, the Mexican students took turns answering. Students can print off the page or record their answers on a piece of paper. Turn in for completion grade during next class session.

Results of Puebla interviews:

There were twenty-four students between 13-18, attending secundaria, prepatoria and universidad. All had TV´s, most more than one. Thirteen had cable, and ten had video recorders. Twelve had computers, 10 had internet. All who did not have computers with internet go to Internet Cafés where they pay 20 pesos (a little less than $2.00) an hour to use the internet. All 10 of the university students had internet. Twenty families had cars, but none of the students are driven or drive to school or work. All but one take public transportation – the combi (VW bus) or the mid size bus, 1 takes a taxi, and 1 walks. The buses are 3 pesos. Taxi fares range from 20-40 pesos or more depending on where you are going. Rates are higher at night. One girl´s family had no car because it had been stolen. All but one of the students have their own room. Only two of the ten college students have jobs, and only for the summer. Three had no siblings. (Compare similarities – point out that all the students interviewed were middle class or above). Students under 18 years of age are not permitted to work more than 30 hours a week, so their work hours varied from 8 to 30 hours per week, and wages varied from tips to 1,000 pesos ($100 dollars) a week. More informations will be given with the "Vamos a conocernos".

¡Entrevistas!

1. Ask students what responses they got and record them on the board/butcher paper/overhead. The answer to the question "What do these students do with their money that is different from you?" is: all four students included "give money to my mother" as part of their answer. Discuss this answer-remember that many mothers do not work outside the home.

2. The answer to question 2 is longer than the sound byte allows, but students should have gotten that the social security system is very bad. The employer is supposed to turn in social security for each employee, but many do not. Social security workers can be bribed. The medical care provided by SS is extremely poor and people avoid it whenever possible. For example, in an emergency room at a SS hospital, patients are seen in the order in which they arrive, not by how critical they are. Older people either continue to work, live with their children, or beg in the streets. Most Mexicans don’t even bother to try to get SS.

3. The college student in the 3rd interview works in a medical office. He takes care of the patients files.

4. Homework: Students are to print out pages for "Vamos a conocernos" and complete the activities.

"Vamos a conocernos"

1. Go over the answers in class, then go back to "¿Qué hacen los jóvenes? page to see how accurately they guessed. How many guessed correctly that Rosario was the Tae Kwan Do instructor? Discuss jobs, wages, and work hours here.

Answers to questions:

1. Es la escuela mas vieja de la ciudad. Es muy grande.
2. Gana 250 pesos.
3. Paga sus estudios con las propinas.
4. Si (no), porque....
5. Rosarios se divierte con Tae Kwon Do.
6. Si, le gusta su trabajo-es su pasatiempo favorito.

Further results of Puebla interviews:

1. Three students work as baggers in supermarkets at no fixed wage. They work for tips only. Other jobs were tienda de ropa ($450 with commissions), papelería ($250), fabrica de ceras ($255), ayudante de albañiliera no fixed salary), Tae Kwon Do instructor ($320) per week Only three of the university students worked. Orlando sellscell phones. He works 48 hours a week and earns $1,000 plus commissions. Carlos works 48 hours per week in the stationary department at Wal-Mart, and Pedro works as a file clerk in a doctors’ building. They spend part of their salary on text books, the rest on transportation, entertainment, and other expenses.

2. Homework: Cuentito de adivinación. For situation 1: Several questions require past tense. If the students have not had past tense yet, they can give the background paragraph in English. The rest must be in Spanish.

For situation 2: you can either give the students a list of famous people or, if
you have good amenable students, you can pick out several of them who
would like to have their future predicted. Reminder: These will be shared in
class.

"Cuentito de Adivinación"

1. Students may need a little help with grammar or vocabulary before they are ready to present to the class.

2. Homework: "Datos Útiles". Students may use the internet or a current encyclopedia to find as many facts on the chart as possible for their state or county. They may use "Yahoo" and "Arkansas Labor Statistics". Then answer the questions for class discussion tomorrow. Students will turn in answers for completion grade.

"Datos Útiles"

1. Make a chart like the one on the web site. Record student finding on it. Follow up with a class discussion on the questions. Be sure that all students participate.

2. Homework: Do "Trabajo con Música" (it’s short) and one of the two activites for "El Trabajo Último"

"Trabajo con Música"

1. The answers to the blanks are: siempre, siempre yo, tiene que, Siempre yo

2. Discuss the answers to the two questions.

"El Trabajo Último"

1. Students will present their work in pairs for Situation 1. It would be handy to have a video recorder handy to tape the students for two reasons. One, in case you need to go back and view again for grading purposes, and two, it’s nice to have to show parents during parent-teacher conferences.

2. Students will present their advertisements for video taping. Video for same reason as Situation 1.See evaluation page for rubrics for these activities.