Are you looking for a community building speaking activity to discuss future Thanksgiving plans? This is a great interactive activity for students of Spanish 1 or higher to discuss what they are going to do over break. This activity promotes positive communication among the students in the class. It could also be used as a review of future plans for upper level classes who need to know how use the present, past and future tenses for the Seal of Biliteracy test.

ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages

• Interpersonal Communication: Learners interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.
• Interpretive Communication: Learners understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
• Presentational Communication: Learners present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers.

This six page PDF-only resource includes two versions, one with extra support. You can decide how much support your students may need.

• Page 1 - Instructions on how to do the activity and several ideas for variation
• Page 2 - Questions in the tú form to practice interpersonal speaking (some are in the Uds. form - more than one person can sign)
• Page 3 - Questions in the tú form to practice interpersonal speaking
• Page 4 - Questions in the tú form with prompts in the yo form to practice interpersonal speaking
• Page 5 - Sheet to write sentences about their classmates for interpersonal writing
• Page 6 - Thank you and other resources
• Page 7 - Credits, terms of use and contact information