Near the end of the term you will need a passport to help you get past the customs officer (me). Don’t worry. Make the passport early on and you’ll have plenty of time to practice talking before the end. (Yes, you need to learn your answers, but I’m giving you the questions and I’ll go over your answers in advance provided you give me enough time.)

We MIGHT begin to make a passport in class, or it might be totally on your time. We’ll see. Here’s what you need to do:

CREATING THE PASSPORT

  1. Get 2 pieces of blank white paper and cut them in half along the width (not long and skinny).
  2. Place the 4 halves on top of each other to make a stack.
  3. Place your stack on top of construction paper or colored paper and trace and cut out a rectangle to serve as a cover.
  4. Place your cover underneath your stack of blank paper and fold both your stack and the cover in half to create a book. Press down and make a crease.
  5. Unfold your stack and flip it over so that the cover side is face up. Gently tuck a stapler around one of the sides of your book so that you can staple the book together along the crease that you’ve made. Use at least 2 staples. The staples should be spaced out and the bars of the staples should be along your colored cover on the outside and the folded over pieces of your staples should be on the inside of your crease on your center page on the inside.

FILLING THE PASSPORT

  1. Pick a Spanish-speaking Country of origin. Put the flag of your country of origin on the cover (outside) of your passport.
  2. Open your passport, skip the first page, and number each of the remaining pages along bottom, in the center.
  3. Go back to the page you skipped. The first side of the first page in a passport usually contains a phrase from the country’s founding documents. If you can find such a phrase, great.
  4. Go to the back side of the first page and turn the book lengthwise so it is no longer a rectangle standing up, but lying down.
  5. On that page you will put/draw a small picture of yourself on the left side of the page. On the right side of the page you will print your real first and last name. Everything after that, make it up. I don’t want real info.
  6. Under your name, include a fictitious birthdate.
  7. Under your birthdate, include a city from the country of origin that you put on the front cover.
  8. On the remaining pages (the ones you numbered) include the following dialogue prompts according to the numbers below. You can even write your answers in the passport too.

PAGE 1

  • Saco malas notas en la clase de… ¿Qué debo hacer?
  • I get bad grades in the class of… What should I do?
  • ¿Qué tienes que hacer en la clase de…?
  • What do you have to do in the class of…?
  • ¿Conoces a algún chico/alguna chica estudioso/a?
  • Do you know a studious boy/girl?

PAGE 2

  • ¿Qué haces en la mañana para prepararte antes de ir a la escuela? (5 cosas)
  • What do you do in the morning in order to prepare yourself before going to school? (5 things)
  • ¿Cómo te arreglas para un evento especial? ¿Y cuál evento?
  • How do you get yourself ready for a special event? And which event?

PREGUNTAS NUEVAS PARA 2022 (PAGE 1 AND 2 STILL IN EFFECT, NEW PAGES 3 AND ON…)

PAGE 3

¿Dónde trabajas? (Where do you work? Make up a job, or real life)

¿Con quién trabajas? ¿Cómo es? (With whom do you work? Describe the person)

¿Qué haces en el trabajo? (What do you do at work? At least 3 things)

PAGE 4

¿Qué piensas de Don Quijote? (What do you think of Don Q?)

¿Puedes tú ver el mundo con ojos nuevos? (Can you see the world with new eyes?)

Vas a hacer una diferencia en el mundo. ¿Quieres ser un caballero o un escudero? ¿Un líder y un visionario o una persona que apoya y es realista? (You’re going to make a difference in the world. Do you want to be a knight or a squire? A leader and a visionary or a person that supports and is realistic?)

PAGE 5

Pick a movie we’ve watched in class, and be able to talk to me about it. 

PAGE 3

  • ¿Adónde fuiste ayer? (3 lugares)
  • To where did you go yesterday? (3 places)
  • ¿Y qué hiciste? (3 cosas)
  • And what did you do? (You can’t say nothing)

PAGE 4

  • ¿Cómo eras de niño/niña?
  • What were you like as a child?
  • ¿Con quién jugabas?
  • With whom did you play?
  • ¿Qué jugaban?
  • What did you all play?

PAGE 5

  • ¿Qué hora era cuando te despertaste hoy?
  • What hour was it when you woke up today?
  • ¿Estabas dormido/dormida cuando ocurrió la explosión/el incendio/la inundación?
  • Were you sleeping when the explosion/fire/flood happened?
  • ¿Cómo escapaste? (3 pasos)
  • How did you escape? (3 steps)

PAGE 6

  • ¿Cuándo te pones emocionado/emocionada?
  • When do you (put on yourself) excited?
  • ¿Cuándo te vuelves loco/loca?
  • When (do you turn yourself) crazy?
  • ¿Cuándo te enojas?
  • When do you (get angry)?