1. Have the beam projector ready to show the video  suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section.

2. Show a calendar or draw a big one on the board and ask students to tell you what holiday they remember, special dates, celebration, etc.

3. You can help with September 16thm Independence Day, for example, or Christmas and mark it on the calendar.

4. Ask students if they know of any other celebrations in USA, maybe “Halloween”.

5. Tell students they are going to watch a video that shows many different celebrations.

6. Ask students to pay attention to the different celebrations and start with the first part of the video.

7. Pause the video after each celebration and comment on what the cultural icons are, i.e., Easter : the bunny, eggs, etc.

8.  Invite students to tell you if some of these celebrations are similar in Mexico or how different.

9. Ask students to work in pairs and challenge each other by mentioning some cultural icons of the celebrations presented.

10. Tell students they are going to watch the second part of the video about more celebrations.

11. Draw on the board a table for students to complete with these headings,

CELEBRATION / ACTIONS.

12. Use the first celebration “Mothers’ Day”, play the video and pause it to discuss the information, then, write it on the table, give presents / flowers / candy / card, etc. Encourage students to use more vocabulary.

13. When the video is finished ask students to focus on the actions and help them work on sentence structure so they can talk about what activities we do /did for those celebrations.

1. Have the beam projector ready to show the video and activity  suggested  in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section.

2. Ask students when we celebrate Mexican Independence.

3. Discus with students what we do on that day, write on the board, eat / decorate / sing / watch / play, etc and complete the sentences with the information students gave.

4. Tell students they are going to watch a video about Mexican Independence Day  Play .

5. Make pauses and paraphrase if necessary for students to gain listening comprehension and encourage them to confirm if the information is correct or not.

6. Ask questions such as,  Who rang the bell of the church of Dolores? (Miguel Hidalgo), When did he ring the bell? (September 1810), Who was Miguel Hidalgo?, What does the President Yell in the celebration? (Viva México), How do we celebrate September 16th? (with a military parade), etc.

7. Play the video again and ask students to repeat some of the sentences for practice. Then, ask some volunteers to talk about the video, Mexican Independence by saying short sentences. Help as necessary.

8. Ask students to work in pairs and talk about this celebration saying what they do / did.

9. Continue working on the same theme, project the first page and point at the pictures for students to guess what the possible words are and/or what they suggest to them.

7. Discuss with the students those possibilities and then, show the sentences at the bottom of the same page that describe each picture.

8. Read the sentences aloud for students and ask volunteers to match the sentences to the pictures above.

9. Decide if you want to work with the next page and the 9 questions about Mexican Independence which have choices. This could be a good exercise to give students some cross-curricular work by combining vocabulary, grammar, and History in English.

1.Have the beam projector ready and download the  activities  suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” .

For the second activity, there are two dice to print so decide if you want to print half and half and work in groups of three in class.

2. Review the information students worked with in the previous lesson by asking the questions , Who rang the bell of the church of Dolores? (Miguel Hidalgo), When did he ring the bell? (September 1810), Who was Miguel Hidalgo?, What does the President Yell in the celebration? (Viva México), How do we celebrate September 16th? (with a military parade), etc.

3. Tell students they are going to work with more activities about Mexico so distribute worksheet # 1: vocabulary.

4. Draw students’ attention towards the vocabulary box, and ask them to label the pictures with the corresponding words.

5.  Ask students to exchange their worksheets and check their classmates’ answers.

6. Distribute the second worksheet , they need to write 12 sentences using those twelve words.

7. Write sentence #1 as an example using the word MEXICO. Elicit possible answers from your students and/or suggest and write, “I am from Mexico”, “My country is Mexico”.

8. Ask students to work in pairs and talk about Mexico using the sentences they wrote.

9. Tell students they are going to need scissors, and glue for the next activity.

10.  Distribute the dice and have students cut them out, fold, and glue them together.

11.Once they have the dice,  tell students they are going to play a game. They are going to roll the die (dice) ,and they   need to identify, spell and make a sentence using the vocabulary.

12. Encourage students to work on sentence structure and offer help as needed.