1. By Alma Pettenger Glendale High School Springfield, Missouri apettenger@spsmail.org

3. HOW DO YOU DO IT? How do you teach culture? How do you interconnect culture and language?

4. WHAT WILL I LEARN IN THIS SESSION? What is CBI? Why and how it works? Some practical ideas for projects that interconnect language and culture

5. What is CBI? Content Based Instruction is a method to teach significant and relevant content in the second language.

6. Relevant Content From a serious science topic such the formation of stars To a fun topic such as pop stars

7. Why does CBI work? CBI offers several advantages It makes learning a language more motivating by using language to fulfill a real purpose: relevant content

8. SAMPLE LESSON #1 My Study Abroad Program Student Sample Student Sample #1

9. My Study Abroad Program Step 1 (select a topic of interest) Why this topic? Knowledge of student

10. Introduce Your Topic in the most creative way you can! For this particular project, I brought a formal student of mine as a guest speaker, to present to my students on her study abroad experience. BE CREATIVE!

11. Clear Goals and Instructions Students should be able to visualize the expectation Provide an End- Product sample such as pictures, video, or an actual product Scrapbook Sample

12. Interpersonal Communication

13. Assign a Research Topic For this project, I allowed my students to pick one of five countries that have popular exchange programs in local universities and colleges: Argentina Costa Rica Ecuador Peru Spain

14. Collaboration Once students have picked their country, I allowed them to group with other students who had also picked the same country. Collaboration is a 21 st century skills that we must promote in our language classes

15. THE PRESENTATION For this, I used an interpersonal mode of communication For this particular projects, students shared their projects with one partner at a time

16. Interpersonal Mode

17. Language Structures I focused on: Preterite and Imperfect Comparisons Gusta phrases

18. What Challenges Does CBI Present? It is much more challenging in the lower levels Students may feel confused and overwhelmed; Deal with this by offering language and vocabulary instruction

19. Authentic Sources It can be difficult to find resources in the target language at the proper level Deal with this by allowing students to do their research in English and adapt it to the target language for their presentation What Challenges Does CBI Present?

20. It is hard to teach with CBI, if you are tied to the book or to a specific set curriculum set by your district or your school

21. Sample Lesson 2 De Vacaciones en Costa Rica

22. Interpersonal Mode: Un restaurante

23. Interpersonal Mode

24. Sample Lesson 3: Holidays and Tradition in the Spanish Speaking World

25. Presentational Mode

26. Sample Lesson 4: La tragica vida de Frida Kahlo

27. Sample Lesson 5 Famous Argentines

28. Meet Eva Peron

29. Sample Lesson 5: Leyendas y Mitos

30. Presentational Communication