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Students will be able to greet someone in Spanish and understand the context in which to use 'Hola'.

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Start the class by discussing the importance of greetings in different cultures. Show a short video on greetings in Spanish-speaking countries.

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Spring Spanish - Learn Spanish with Chunks

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Greetings in Spanish: 5 Must-Know Ways to Greet People in Spanish! 👋🏽 [SPANISH LESSON 1]

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In pairs, students practice greeting each other in Spanish. Rotate partners to enhance speaking skills.

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Use a digital platform to create a matching game with different Spanish greetings. This can also be an excellent opportunity to use Padlet for collaboration.

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Students perform short skits using 'Hola' and other greetings learned.

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For students ready for more challenge, introduce formal vs. informal greetings in Spanish.

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Monitor student interactions and use of 'Hola' in role plays and games.

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A short quiz to assess understanding of when and how to use 'Hola' appropriately.

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A quiz where you have to give the definition of the spanish word

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Discuss as a class what was learned about greetings in Spanish-speaking countries. Encourage students to share their thoughts.

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Complete a worksheet on Spanish greetings to reinforce today's lesson.

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Read an article about the cultural significance of greetings in different countries.

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For us to obtain an understanding of other countries, we must first increase our awareness and understanding of our own culture. As you read the following, think about your own cultural norms and how it may be perceived by others.
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind" William James
Every culture has its rules and conventions about how people greet one another. In some cultures, it is done by bowing in some by nodding, in some by hugging and kissing, and in some by shaking hands. In some cultures, it is appropriate to look the person you are greeting right in the eye. In others, one never looks an authority figure in the eye - it would be an act of arrogance. For each of the dominant ways of greeting, there are, of course, many variations and rules that apply in different situations - whom you kiss, how you kiss him or her, when, and so on. Each of us has learned the "appropriate" ways to greet different people - aunts, grandmothers, friends, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, people we know and people we don't, strangers who are men and strangers that are women. We've got lots of small pieces of information (based on our own culture's way of doing things) about how we "should" connect with people when we meet them again after a period of time.

In the global business world, which is basically governed by white-male Western European culture ways, the most commonly used greeting is that of looking a person in the eye and firmly shake hands. Most men and women in the United States were raised to shake hands firmly while looking the other person "squarely in the eye". People who shake hands differently had a "cold fish" or a "dead fish" handshake. "You shake hands like a woman": Nothing could be worse. There were also lots of negative messages about people who didn't look you in the eye as they spoke to you: They are "shifty" or lying or sick or didn't have any manners. Remembering that we take all of who we are and what we've learned with us everywhere we go, we enter the world of work. People who were raised to greet people in ways other than looking them in the eye are at a disadvantage. What their culture norms call "rude" is considered essential in European-American cultures. How many Asian-Americans, Native-Americans, or African-Americans have not been hired because their downcast eyes were read as dishonest, shifty, or uninterested? How have many white American women been judged as too aggressive because their handshake was particularly firm? Very often what we deem the "right" way to do something is so much part of our being that we are not conscious of the power of our judgments. We don't hire the person who might have brought a new perspective to a job because our cultural biases get in the way.

We have dealt with the challenges of cultural differences for centuries, but we still don't seem proficient. How many books do you still see on the shelves, for example, that talk about men and women communicating? And now we have new challenges. We are coming in contact with lots and lots of people who are very different from us - people who grew up in different parts of the world and who are coming to America to make their homes. We are faced with incredible complexities of clashing cultures, that is, ways of doing things, and our job is to figure out how to live and work successfully with one another. Often we believe that if we just follow the Golden Rule (do unto others as you would have them do unto you) and everything will be fine. The problem with that solution is that each culture has it's own Golden Rule, and how someone of another culture wants to be treated.
We can't rely on old patterns or our old intuitions to keep us on the right track when we are talking to someone who is different from us because our intuitions are culture based.

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Cultural Differences: How is your greeting perceived?

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For us to obtain an understanding of other countries, we must first increase our awareness and understanding of our own culture. As you read the following, think about your own cultural norms and how it may be perceived by others.

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