Letter to pen friend
Summary of task
Students learnt how to write about themselves and about their daily routine in Spanish, and answer questions relating to their personal world. Students completed various activities including games, oral dialogues, and reading and listening tasks related to what students of their age typically do in Spanish-speaking countries. Prior to completing the final task, students had practised and discussed the text-type conventions of a letter.
This was a timed, in-class task and students had access to a bilingual Spanish-English dictionary. Students were given a letter to read from Rosa, a young girl from El Salvador, and were asked to write a response to any questions asked, and structure the letter using text-type conventions.
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Uses Spanish date format -
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Commences with greeting appropriate to text type and explains reason for writing -
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Uses language modelled in stimulus text to share personal information -
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Uses cohesive device to relate to information in stimulus text -
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Shares information about friends and activities -
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Responds to questions asked about living arrangements -
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Uses adverbs to describe frequency of activities -
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Applies gender agreement to phrase
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Conjugates verb gustar using Spanish word order -
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Concludes letter appropriately for text type
