1. Collaborative Assignment Information for Spanish 1, Segment 2
You are required to complete at least one collaboration option in each Segment of the course.
Your Segment Two collaboration options are found in lessons 05.01, 06.01, 06.02, 07.04, and 08.04.
Choose 1 option and submit your work in assignment 08.06 Segment Two Collaboration:
Collaborative Assignment Option 5.01
1. Write 10 statements about things you like or dislike. Write questions in Spanish asking your partner if they
like or dislike what you have mentioned in your statements. Be sure to use:
a. Vocabulary from this lesson.
b. The correct forms of the verb gustar.
c. The expressions mucho, muchísimo, poco and/or nada.
Example: Sample Question (formed by student #1):
Me gustan mucho las revistas en la librería. ¿Qué te gusta en la librería?
Sample Response (formed by student #2):
No me gusta nada en la librería.
 Exchange questions with your partner.
 Answer your partner’s questions in Spanish via telephone, email or instant message.
 You are required to submit the following items in assignment 08.06 Segment Two Collaboration:
The questions you asked your collaboration partner.
Your responses to the questions your collaboration partner asked.
The Collaboration Assessment Guide (at the end of this document)
Collaborative Assignment Option 6.01
 Select and prepare a recipe from Colombia, Cuba, Spain or Argentina.
 Contact your course partner in English via phone, email, IM, etc and tell your partner the following about
your recipe:
What is the name of the recipe you selected.
Where your recipe is from.
What are the ingredients.

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If it was difficult or easy to prepare.
If you and your family liked the recipe and would prepare it again.
 You are required to submit the following items in assignment 08.06 Segment Two Collaboration.
1. The information you sent your course partner about your recipe.
2. Either Submit a photograph of your family enjoying your recipe under 08.06 Collaboration. OR Have a
parent or guardian complete a voice activity: My child ___ (child’s name) prepared _____(name of
dish) on ______(date).
3. A paragraph in English explaining how your recipe experience was similar to and different than the
experience of your course partner.
4. The Collaboration Assessment Guide. (at the end of this document)
Collaborative Assignment Option 6.02
 Create a menu in Spanish. Your menu should include: Appetizers, Drinks, Main Dish, Salad, Dessert, &
Prices
 Send your menu to your course partner.
 From the menu that your course partner created for you, select what you would like to order. Write what
you prefer from the menu in complete Spanish sentences and send your sentences to your course
partner.
 You are required to submit the following items in assignment 08.06 Segment Two Collaboration.
Your menu, The list (in complete Spanish sentences) of what you want to order from your course
partner’s menu, and The Collaboration Assessment Guide (at the end of this document)
Collaborative Assignment Option 7.04
 Create five questions using present tense verbs from the vocabulary words and weather conditions to
interview your course partner. Select conjugating verbs to see a table with all the vocabulary words
conjugated. Example: ¿Qué haces cuando está lloviendo?
 Contact your course partner via phone, email, IM, and exchange interviews.
 Answer your partner’s questions in Spanish. Example: Cuando está lloviendo yo leo.
 Compare your answers to your partner’s answers. Use a web 2.0 tool to create a document in Spanish
explaining how you and your partner have different or similar preferences. There are many 21st century
tools available for effective collaboration and communication in the online environment. For more
information on tools your school uses, please contact your instructor or visit the web 2.0 tools area.

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 You are required to submit the following items in assignment 08.06 Segment Two Collaboration: The
interview questions you sent to your course partner, Your responses to your course partner’s interview
questions, Your document which explains how you and your course partner have different or similar
preferences and The Collaboration Assessment Guide (at the end of this document)
Collaborative Assignment Option 8.04
 Use your itinerary from assignment 8.04 and trade itineraries with your course partner.
 Read your partner’s itinerary and write a reaction in Spanish to it using the verb gustar and
another verb.
 For example: You might read on someone’s itinerary: Vamos a la playa. If you really don’t like
the beach, you might respond like this: No me gusta ir a la playa. Prefiero ir a la piscina.
 Write at least five reactions in Spanish to your partner’s itinerary along with five activities you would
prefer to do. Try to incorporate the stem-changing verbs and other vocabulary you have learned into your
responses.
 Return your reaction to your partner and read what their reaction was to yours. Compare your
preferences in English. Were you surprised by what you had in common? Or did you have a lot of
differences?
 You are required to submit the following items in assignment 08.06 Segment Two Collaboration: Your
reactions to your partner’s itinerary, A written summary of the similarities and differences between the
two itineraries, The Collaboration Assessment Guide (At the end of this document).
Finding a Collaboration Partner
 There are many 21st century tools available for effective collaboration and communication in the online
environment. For more information on tools your school uses, please contact your instructor or visit the
resource tools area.
 Follow the steps below to find a partner to complete your collaboration requirement:
 Go the Discussion area of the course. Locate the discussion for the collaboration option that you would
like to collaborate on. Read through the postings to see if there are any students currently looking for a
partner. If you can not locate any students currently in need of a partner, add a posting to the discussion
asking for a partner. Your subject line should indicate the date and that you are looking for a partner to
complete a project collaboration option.
 For example, “Subject: March 3, 2009. I am looking for a partner to complete this collaboration option.
Please respond to this posting or email me if you need a partner."
 Once you have received a response from your discussion posting, go back to the Discussion area and
modify or remove your posting so other students will know that you are no longer in need of a partner.
 For example, “Subject: I am looking for a partner to complete the collaboration option - I have found my
partner!

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