Learning New Things

In the 3rd six weeks of Spanish II, we learned new vocabulary and grammar concepts that help us to tell about our daily routine. We learned what reflexive verbs are and how to use them correctly when speaking or writing. By combining all of the things we learned, we were able to write sentences about our daily routine.

Testing Our Knowledge

After we got these concepts down, we had to show what we learned by creating an avatar on voki.com that would tell the listener about our daily routine for getting ready to go to school. To do this, we had to:

• Write a script of what we do each morning

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  Present a rough draft to our teacher

• Allow her to point out areas where errors occurred

• Realize what we did wrong and correct it

After correcting the script, we practiced pronunciation of the words and used our phones to call in and record our scripts. Once we saved the recording we emailed the avatar to our teacher and embedded the avatar at the end of this post.

Looking Back

This project was a unique one to me because I have never done anything like this for an assignment. I liked using the avatar because it is a different way of applying what we know. Instead of paper and pencil, we got to show what we have learned in a fun way. I like using the avatar for speaking tests because it eliminates nervousness. You don’t have to get up in front of everyone and present; you get to simply talk on the phone. This project was valuable to me as a language learner because I had to put many different components together to create a fluent paragraph that made sense.

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