Procedures

= **III.** **Procedures** =

**A.** Presentation
1. Teacher navigates Ricardo Arjona’s Wiki Space website. 2. As a class, discuss Ricardo Arjona’s life story. 3. Students’ will listen to the downloaded song, “El Noticiero” 4. Teacher will use question techniques to illicit the __Usted__ Commands: ¿Como le pedirás a tu mamá el almuerzo o a una persona mayor que tú? ¿Me puede dar…

**B.** Attention to Commands
1. Give students cloze activity of the song. 2. Students will listen to the song and fill in the blanks with the correct Formal Commands

**C.** Co-Construction
1. As a class, review the correct Usted Commands in the cloze activity. 2. List Usted Commands on the board (Formal and Informal). 3. Discuss [|Formal] and Informal Commands.

**D.** Extension
1. Students will converse with each other as they recap a breaking news story to an "adult" in Spanish, as a class. 2. Place students in partners. One partner will be the adult and the other will be young adult. Students will then provide the summary of the breaking news story to their partner. Then students will switch roles. 3. As a class, list examples on the board under 2 headings: Adults and Young Adults 4. Compare and discuss differences in Formal and Informal Commands. 5. Students can share personal stories when they used or did not use Formal Commands with an adult.

= **IV.** **Cultural Information** = Ricardo Arjona and his uniform use of Formal Commands Handout for cloze listening activity El Noticiero Ricardo Arjona