1. Download the file suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section, make copies for students and have the beam projector ready to work on an interactive activity.

2. Review with students how many different types of dictionaries they remember.

3. Review the parts of a dictionary as well.

4. Hand out the worksheet and ask students to match the types of dictionaries to their images.

5. Offer help as needed.

6. Check answers with the class and necessary corrections.

7. Ask students to work in groups of three, choose a type of dictionary and tell the group the general characteristics of it.

8. Use a beam projector to show the worksheet to review imperatives.

9. Ask for ten volunteers to come to the front and take turns to answer the items.

10. Ask the rest of the class to correct students in case the volunteers make mistakes.

11. Finally, ask students to work on ten sentences using imperatives in negative.

1. Have the beam projector ready to show students the slide show suggested on the “Materiales Educativos Digitales”

2. Download the file suggested too and make copies for students.

3. Ask students to give you 3 instructions for using a bilingual dictionary.

4. Show the presentation and make pauses after each slide for comments.

5. Discuss the listed reasons for using a bilingual dictionary.

6. Ask students to draw in their notebooks 4 rectangles like if they were slides of a power point presentation and draw pictures and write useful  information about using a bilingual dictionary.

7. Hand out the copies of the worksheet and tell students they are going to make a plan based on writing instructions on how to use a bilingual dictionary.

8. Tell students to think of a foreign friend who is learning Spanish and needs to buy a dictionary.

9. Monitor and help with grammar as needed.

10. Ask students to exchange their set of instructions with another classmate and see how similar or different it is from theirs.

11. Finally, choose students at random to give you a step each on how to use a bilingual dictionary.

1. Have the beam projector ready to show an article and download the file suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section as well.

2. Make copies for students.

3. Tell students they have the opportunity to write their personal bilingual dictionary, Spanish-English, so ask them what kind of words they would include and why.

4. Show section 3 of the article and discuss with students the information and recommendations given.

5. If they have their dictionaries in class, try one of the games in the heading “ 3 Have fun”.

6. Each player chooses a word which should be familiar to the other players, then reads out the dictionary definition. The other players compete to guess the word as quickly as possible - perhaps even shouting out while the definition is still being read.

7. Ask students if they know what a “frindle” is and wait for reactions. You can even make up a sentence such as, “I need my ‘frindle’ to sign this document, or ‘what do you prefer to use ‘a frindle’ or a pencil?

8. Tell them that it is the new words for “pen” and explain it is a joke.

9. Hand out the worksheet and encourage students to use their imagination and make up a new word for a simple object.

10. Invite them to complete the entry and offer help as needed.

11. Finally, invite students to share their new words with the class and make a list of them. (If they cannot finish the activity because of time, you may assign it for homework but try at least  that they work on the first part of the worksheet in class)