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

2. Ask students what a compliment is and how common that practice is in Mexico, in Spanish. Ask for some examples from students.

3. Tell students they are going to watch a video about expressing compliments.

4. Play the video and talk about the examples given at the beginning.

5. Continue with why people express compliments and ask students to take notes.

6. Ask students if it is ok to answer to a compliment in Spanish and what they usually say.

7. Play the video and practice the sentences with the class by putting the right emphasis and intonation.

8. Ask students to think of three situations to express compliments. Suggest they can think of a friend, a relative, a classmate.

9. Have students share their expressions with the class, as well as the situation they thought of.

10. Tell students they are going to practice giving compliments using three simple forms.

11. Play the video and ask students questions such as, why did the girl invite her friends to her apartment? What did they say about the painting? The view? The flowers? Why do they say those things?

12. Ask students to practice aloud the compliments on the girl’s apartment and help with intonation as needed.

5. Invite students to think of other possible compliments to say about the apartment.

13. Ask students to draw a visual organizer in their notebooks to write 1,2,3 different ways to give compliments as presented in the video.

14. Play the video and make pauses for students to write down the information they need.

15. Invite students to work in pairs and give a couple of compliments to each other. Monitor and make sure students are participating.

1. Download the files in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section and make photocopies for students.

2. Tell students they are going to practice giving compliments so review the three ways they learned in previous videos.

3. Elicit some examples from students.

4. Distribute the worksheet, and ask students to think of a good friend to give compliments.

5. Guide students through the worksheet and make sure they understand what they need to do.

6. Have students work in pairs and talk about the friend they thought of and the compliments they gave him/her.

7. Distribute the second page and ask students they are going to write a compliment they could say back in the given situations.

8. Have some volunteers share their sentences with the class and discuss them.

9. Tell students they are going to continue working with giving compliments in a fun activity about ‘telling lies.’

10. Ask students to think of a situation in which you have no choice but to give a compliment and why you would do that.

11. Distribute the worksheets and ask students to read the situations so they can write the compliment.

12. Monitor and offer help as needed.

13. Invite students to share with the class their compliments and how original they are.

14. Continue with the next worksheet for students to write a compliment they could say back to dad and two friends.

15. Invite students to exchange their worksheets with other students and comment on their answers.

1. . Use a beam projector to show the video clip and download the files in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section.

2. Write on the board these sentences, ‘I had pizza and ice cream.’ , ‘I don’t know what to eat pizza or ice cream.’ And drive students to notice that there are some words (and/or) that connect ‘words’.

3. Play the video and let the students sing and have fun.

4. Ask students what a conjunction is . If necessary play the first part of the video and pause it for them to get their answers.

5. Ask students what an acronym is and invite them to remember the conjunctions in the first part of the video.

6. Tell students this first group of conjunctions is coordinating conjunctions and there’s another one coming so play the video and ask students to write them down.

7. Invite students to join in and sing. Then, ask them what correlative conjunctions are.

8. Rewind the video and ask students to read the sentences using conjunctions.

9. Write on the board the different conjunctions presented in the video and ask students to form the acronym.

10.  Review what conjunctions are and how many types there are with some examples.

11. Tell students they are going to practice ‘because’ and ‘so’ and focus on what they express.

12. Distribute the worksheet and read the examples.

13. Ask students to complete the sentences and set a time limit.

14. When time is up, ask students to get in groups of three and check their answers.

15. Give the answers so students can reconfirm and clear any doubts they may have.