David Alfaro Siqueiros Objectives

The objective will written on the board, for students to have a better understanding about what they will learn from the lesson.

The homework for the day before will be review by the teacher, writing the correct answers on the board for the students to make their own corrections. The teacher will clarify any misconception.

A two minutes Power Point Presentation about the artist David Alfaro Siqueiros will be presented by the teacher.

A reading “David Alfaro Siqueiros” will be placed on the board through the overhead projector and read aloud by the teacher. Students will follow along in their own text. Stress, intonation, and brief pausing will be used to explain the new words meaning and for students to make connections between the printed

word and the pictures.

In groups of eight, students will work in an activity describing a scene in the park. Each group will have a picture and each one of the students will answer a question provided by the teacher and according to the picture, until complete the eight questions. The teacher will walk around while students complete the activity, providing feedback when it’s needed.

Then the leader of the group will share the story with the class, to demonstrate comprehension of the graphic and the correct use of the preterite and imperfect tenses.

The teacher will walk around while the students complete the activity, providing feedback, assessing, and checking for understanding.
To continue practice the imperfect tense, in groups of five, the students will play dice - “Dados”. The teacher will provide one column of five possessive pronouns and other column with five verbs, through the overhead projector. The students will throw two dices at the same time. They will use a possessive pronoun from the first column and a verb from the second one, according to the numbers on the dice. Then, they will write a complete sentence using the imperfect tense.
The group with more correct sentences will have a small prize.