Talk About Yourself

Interpretive Listening

The external resource for this activity can be found here: Spanish Proficiency Exercises: Talk About Yourself

This resource would be best used in a Spanish level 1 or 2 class where students are learning how to talk about themselves. In the linked resource above, native Spanish speakers are individually talking about themselves in terms of age, nationality, job, etc. Follow the instructions below to turn them into an activity.

• Make sure basic vocabulary has been introduced: numbers/tengo __ años, nationalities/soy__, jobs/soy__, and other basic phrases such as likes and dislikes.
• Use a graphic organizer such as the one below to guide students through the video clips:

• Guide learners through a practice one first by providing a personal example as the teacher, for example, and fill out the first line together. 
• Play each clip 2-3 times and encourage students to just listen the first time, jot down key words the second time, and confirm answers to questions the third time. Students could compare answers in between and/or it could be reviewed as a class at the end.

Optional Extension: students could compile information in a paragraph and/or make comparisons with the people in the clips to their own lives through a turn & talk or guided discussion (Who likes/doesn't like...?/Who knows someone who is...?/etc.).