1. Have the beam projector ready to show students the video and download and print the worksheet for students suggested in the “Materiales  Educativos Digitales”

2. Ask students what a ‘clause’ is and wait for reactions. They probably don’t know or don’t remember so tell them it is a ‘technical’ name for some sort of sentence.

3. Write a sentence and divide it so they can see what the main clause is and what the subordinate clause, When we go to the mall, we always get chocolate ice cream.

4. Invite students to draw a visual organizer to record the information from the video, clauses, types, examples.

5. Play the video and make several pauses for students to record the information.

6. Invite students to exchange their organizers with other students and compare the information they got, is it the same or different?

7. Ask students to think of 2 original sentences of each kind of clauses to include in their organizers.

8. Invite students to work in pairs and answer the exercise.

9. Distribute the worksheet and tell students one of them is going to change his/her name into ‘independent’ and the other into ‘subordinate’ and their last name will be ‘clauses’.

10. Monitor and offer help as needed.

11. Invite students to check their answers with another pair of students, ‘independent’ students will give their answers to that type while the ‘subordinate’ students will give only those answers.

12. Finally, ask ‘independent’ students to read those clauses aloud and do the same with the ‘subordinate’ or dependent clauses.

1. Have the beam projector ready to show students the posters suggested on the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” and download the file of the worksheet and make copies for students.

2. Ask students what kind of word is ‘and’ and ‘but’ in the sentence, “ I love steak and French fries but I don’t like salad.”

3. Circle the two conjunctions and elicit from students they connect.

4. Play the video and ask students to make a list of the connectors mentioned and their category.

5.Pause the video and help students organize the information.

6. Ask students to write down some original sentences using different connectors and check them in pairs.

7. Invite students to dictate you some of those sentences and make sure the class knows now what connectors do.

8. Ask students how many different types of conjunctions there are and what their main function is.

11. Distribute the quiz and ask students to work individually.

12. Set the time limit and monitor the activity and when the time is up, invite students to check their quizzes with the student who is to their right.

13. Check answers with the class and make the necessary corrections.

14. Review the types of conjunctions and ask students to write an original sentence for each answer they got wrong.

1. Have the beam projector ready to show the experiment and download the file suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales”.

2. Ask students how many different types of conjunctions there are and what their main function is.

3. Ask students to dictate two different sentences using different conjunctions.

4. Distribute the quiz and ask students to work individually.

5. When the time is up, invite students to check their quizzes with the student who is to their right.

6. Check answers with the class and make the necessary corrections. Review the types of conjunctions and ask students to write an original sentence for each answer they got wrong.

7. Ask students to give you 5 different punctuation marks. If they don’t know the name in English, take them in Spanish but then give the English name immediately.

8. Write an example on the board with no punctuation showing  objects, animals etc. enumerated and tell students to place the necessary commas.

9. Clarify what commas do in sentences or clauses.

10. Distribute the worksheet and ask students to put the necessary commas in the sentences.

11. When students finish ask them to exchange their worksheets with another students and grade the paper.

12. Finally, ask students to write a similar sentence in their notebooks for each sentence they got wrong.