Unit: We Built a Zoo Lesson Plan Week 1 Thursday: Food; A Culture: Introduction to Cultural Element of the Unit Learning

Target: 1.2.N.R.b: Understand main idea of simple accessible written material in the target language such as textbook passages, age appropriate magazine and newspaper article/ advertisements, websites/ internets resources, and stories and poetry. 1.2.N.L.a: Demonstrate understanding of oral classroom language in the target language including directions, commands and requests. Teacher explains to students that at the end of the unit, as a contribution to building the zoo, they will be designing a traditional menu from a Latin American country of their choice, but before they start writing it, they need to understand the role of food in Latin American culture. Students fill out a probable passage based on the reading La comida . . . es una cultura. Students read La comida . . . es una cultura. Discussion to follow Students also fill out activity 1-4 on pages 428/429 of Vistas, which serves as a practice for affirmative commands.