Teaching with Imagina Orienting Students to the Textbook You may want to spend some time orienting students to the Imagina textbook on the first day. Have students flip through Lección 1. Explain that all lessons are organized in the same manner so that students will always know “where they are” in the textbook. Emphasize that all sections are self-contained, occupying either a full page or spreads of two facing pages. Call students’ attention to the use of color and/or boxes to highlight important information in charts, diagrams, word lists, and activities. Provide a brief overview of the main sections of each lesson: Para empezar, Cortometraje, Imagina, Estructuras, Cultura, Literatura, and Vocabulario. Then point out the Atención, Taller de consulta, and Nota cultural sidebars and explain that these boxes provide useful lexical, grammatical, and cultural information related to the material students are studying. Point out that the Manual de gramática in the back of the book offers additional grammar topics with practice for review or expansion. Flexible Lesson Organization To meet the needs of diverse teaching styles, institutions, and instructional objectives, Imagina has a very flexible lesson organization. You can begin with the lesson opener spread and progress sequentially through the lesson, or you may rearrange the order of the material in each lesson to suit your teaching preferences and students’ needs. If you do not want to devote class time to teaching grammar, you can assign the Estructuras explanations for outside study, freeing up class time for working with the activities. The Manual de gramática at the end of the book provides additional flexibility in grammar instruction. Related grammar points for each lesson can be incorporated into classroom instruction, assigned for individual study, or used as needed for review and enrichment. Identifying Active Vocabulary The thematic vocabulary lists in Para empezar are active vocabulary, as are all words and expressions in the Vocabulario boxes of the Cortometraje, Cultura, and Literatura sections. Words in the charts, lists, and sample sentences of Estructuras are also part of the active vocabulary load. At the end of each lesson, the Vocabulario section provides a convenient onepage summary of the items students should know and that may appear on quizzes and exams. Note that regional variations presented in the Imagina section as well as the marginal glosses from the readings and film captions are presented for recognition only. They are not included in testing materials, although you may wish to make them active vocabulary for your course, if you so choose. The additional terms and lexical variations provided in the annotations of the Instructor’s Annotated Edition are also considered optional. IAE-36 TEACHING WITH IMAGINA S34
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