spanish assignment

For our first project you’ll have to write, you guessed it, all about yourself. It’ll be divided in 5 parts and it must be written COMPLETELY in Spanish. I don’t need complicated super long sentences, your phrases can be short and simple, but they must be in Spanish. You’ll upload a Word document or a PowerPoint presentation. If you decide to include videos (strongly encouraged) you can upload the files separately or embed the links on the document or presentation. Have fun!

Parte 1. Presentación

In this part you’ll introduce yourself. You’ll write your name, your age, where you’re from, what you do, your favorite color and something funny or interesting about yourself. You can include pictures, drawings, videos or anything else you like.

Parte 2. Collage

You’ll make a collage with at least 15 pictures of things that you like or that you think describe you. You can do this electronically, by downloading some pictures online and pasting them together, or old school style, cutting up some magazines and gluing the images to cardboard or paper and then taking a picture of it. Be as creative as you want.

Part 3. Frases

Select 10 images that you used for the collage and write one full sentence about each of them using AR verbs. You can use any subject pronoun that you want.

Choose another 5 images from your collage and write one full sentence about each of them using the verb GUSTAR.

Parte 4. Tu familia

For this part you’ll choose 5 members of your family, write a sentence about each one and then write a short paragraph about things you like to do together. You can include pictures, drawings, videos or anything else you like.

Parte 5. Anuncio

Choose one activity, product or artist that you like and find an ad for it in Spanish. It can be a magazine or online ad, a commercial, a video, or any other type of ad. Share it and write a short paragraph describing it, or reenact it. If you choose to reenact it you can take a similar picture to the one in the ad or make a short video, it doesn't have to be professional.

You can be as creative and use as many different elements as you want. It's a great opportunity to show your personality!

Do not use Google Translate or any other translation website. It’s totally valid, and even encouraged, to look up certain words if you don’t know them, but just words, not full phrases. Like we talked about on the first module, if you just translate your work using a translation website (it’s obvious when you do), you’ll get a 0 on the assignment.

You’ll have two weeks to turn in your first Project. This is a very important assignment because it’s worth 10 points. You have to be very careful with grammar on this one. I usually don’t care that much about proper grammar in beginners’ classes cause I want you all to feel comfortable with the language first, but since this is a big part of your grade and you’ll have two weeks to complete it, I’ll be grading grammar too. I expect you to use everything we've learned so far, like pronouns, articles, numbers and nouns correctly too. Next week we'll dive into the verb gustar, so you might want to start your project this week and finish it next week after we have gone over that.

Please contact me with any questions. I'm here to help!