Designed for ACTFL Novice-Mid Spanish learners, this low-prep resource guides students through a meaningful cultural exploration of Costa Rica. Students discover vocabulary related to nature, geography, architecture, and art before exploring daily routines, school schedules, traditional foods, family relationships, transportation, and community life.
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
Detailed 2-Day Teacher Lesson Plan: Step-by-step teaching directions, lesson sequence, suggested timing, warm-ups, and exit tickets.
Spanish Vocabulary Activity: Students translate and categorize 20 vocabulary words related to geography, architecture, and art.
Listening Comprehension Activity: Students watch an introductory video about Costa Rica, identify familiar vocabulary, and answer eight comprehension questions.
Spanish Reading Passage: Students explore daily life in Costa Rica through a reading about food, school, family, transportation, and community traditions.
Reading Comprehension Questions: Five questions help students identify and interpret key information from the text.
Cultural Comparison Graphic Organizer: Students organize similarities and differences between Costa Rica and their own community using Spanish sentence starters.
Final Writing Activity: Students write an eight-sentence cultural comparison in Spanish.
Answer Keys: Included for the vocabulary, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension activities.
SKILLS AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Students will:
Interpret familiar words and important details in spoken and written Spanish.
Develop vocabulary related to Costa Rican culture and daily life.
Identify similarities and differences between two communities.
Use Spanish comparison expressions to organize ideas.
Write complete, comprehensible Spanish sentences about cultural similarities and differences.
PERFECT FOR:
Spanish 2 and novice-level Spanish classes
ACTFL Novice-Mid learners
Cultural comparison lessons
Spanish-speaking countries and Latin American culture units
Interpretive reading and listening practice
Presentational writing activities
Low-prep cultural lessons and structured independent work
WHY TEACHERS WILL LOVE IT
low-prep
teacher guide