Ecology and child labor: Llamas (1) La Mina de Potosí (2)- FREE thematic units for SP Intermediate 1

Here is my challenge to you. These two free units are about subjects teachers don´t often deal with: llamas and child labor. Take the plunge!

Try one. They certainly worked well in my classroom.

Let me know in the comments section below, what happened in yours.

Laugh and cry! Content-based! Engage the students.

Unit 1. La llama

You may know that llama wool is used to make ponchos and sweaters. But did you know that the Incas sacrificed llamas in their rituals? That even today the excrement is used for fuel; that llama meat is considered a delicacy; that their fur makes warm slippers? Broaden horizons!

Unit includes:

1. Subject matter: animals

2. Vocabulary: animals

3. Grammar: por / para

4. Oral practice: working children

5. Homework: project: to better the conditions of a specific group

6. Internet: key words for further searches; broaden the search

7. Model tests

8. Teacher’s guide

9. Answer key

Unit 2. La mina de Potosí

Bolivia’s mines introduce a world of dangerous work but they are also a way of practicing those tricky reflexive verbs. Entire families work in the mines and child labor makes for an excellent discussion. Are the children that work in the mines any different from those that flip hamburgers? And if so, how are they different? The units make your students reflect, analyze and compare their world with other realities.

Unit includes:

1. Subject matter: mines

2. Vocabulary: modes of transportation

3. Grammar: reflexive verbs

4. Oral practice: working children

5. Homework: NGOs in Bolivia

6. Internet: key words for further searches; broaden the search

7. Model tests

8. Teacher’s guide

9. Answer key

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