Overview

The AVENTURAS 5/e Activity Pack

AVENTURAS 5/e includes an instructor ancillary, the Activity Pack, which
is a collection of supplementary activities for each lesson. With nearly 300
activities set over more than 500 pages, and a board game with cards, there is
something here for every Spanish class!

Some of the activities in the ancillary, such as word searches, crossword

puzzles, and multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank activities, are designed to
provide students with additional structured language practice. Others,
such as the classroom surveys, Information Gap Activities, scavenger hunts,
and interviews, are communicative and give students the opportunity to use
active vocabulary and grammar in more open-ended situations. About half of
the activities in this instructor resource offer directed practice with a written
component, and the other half offer communicative, open-ended practice that
focuses on speaking and listening skills.

The Activity Pack provides the following sections for each of the 16 lessons
in AVENTURAS:
• Vocabulario activities focus on vocabulary. They encourage students to practice
the lesson’s vocabulary in both spoken and written form. Activity types include
crossword puzzles, word searches, short dialogues, scavenger hunts, and word or
picture identification activities.
• Gramática activities focus on grammar. There are two pages of discrete practice
for each grammar point (six to eight pages per lesson). Section A is typically a
multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank exercise, followed by Section B, an open-ended
writing activity. Some activities are designed to support oral and aural practice by
having students work with a partner after they have written questions, for example.
Task-based activities also form some of the activities in the Gramática sections.
• Comunicación activities focus on spoken communication. Information Gap
Activities, interviews, role-plays, and classroom surveys support the use of natural
language. These activities provide prompts and situations that encourage students to
use all the grammar and vocabulary they know in order to communicate in Spanish.
• Task-based activities, NEW to this edition, focus on spoken and written
communication. Each task-based activity has a context, an interpretive task, an
interpersonal task, and a presentational task. These activities can be used as in-class
practice or for assessment. Each activity comes with a rubric so that students will
know what is expected of them. Keep your expectations simple and concrete, since
students have limited linguistic abilities at this early stage. These criteria will become
more complex as students’ abilities develop.
• Recapitulación activities cover all of the lesson’s vocabulary and each grammar
point. Two pages long, the closed-ended questions provide a quick way to review material,
gauge retention, and can be used for test preparation. The last activity asks small groups to
collaborate on a skit, an interview, or a project that can then be shared with the class.

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 • ¡Atrévete! is a board game that provides a content review after lessons 4, 8,
12, and 16. However, it can be used throughout the class as appropriate, since it can
be customized to suit any lesson. Each review has its own set of cards that contains
images, grammar structures, vocabulary, verbs, and los retos (challenges) that dare
the players to complete an activity in a given time.

With this plethora of individual, pair, and group practice that focuses on
writing, reading, listening, and speaking skills, we hope that your students
develop their communication skills and you find material that is suitable for
your AVENTURAS class.

The AVENTURAS 5/e Authors and the Vista Higher Learning Editorial Staff

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