Class theme/topics discussed: What would you do if…
Goals of the class Practice conditional and past subjunctive in funny situations
How did you structure the class?
- 10 min: Warm up exercise where we talked a bit about our weekend.
- 25 min: Review of the conditional and subjunctive. To do this review I showed them a famous video form a Spanish influencer that recorded herself explaining the things that she would do if she was rich.
- 25 min: I prepared some cards with funny situations and I asked them to do a list of advices for these situations using the structure: Si yo fuera tú… They had to work in groups to make a list of advices and then, as a class, they had to decide the best advice for each situation.
What technology, media or props did you use? (Internet resources, handouts, etc.)
Youtube for the video and my cards for the game.
What worked well in this class? What did not work?
The class worked well. They really liked the situations that I had come up with because they were all related to the 5Cs or to the US. What didn’t work as well was watching the video. I thought it would be easier for them to understand it since the grammar structure that the woman was using was always the same, but it is true that she was speaking really fast and sometimes it was hard to follow (specially for some people).
How could this class be improved/ modified?
I think that next time I should choose another video, show a shorter fragment of the video or give them the transcription.
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