Immigration+project

Back to Grade 7

1. Listening: Manu Chao's song - Clandestino
media type="youtube" key="rSEUH4KRfN8" height="360" width="480" Students complete all the activities related to the song.

2. Creative writing - Diary


Each lesson or sometimes each week (depending on how much and what students have to write) is about a new page in their immigrant's diary: >
 * 1) Describing the immigrant . Students have to decide on a name, family background, where he/she came from, physical description and reasons why he/she wants to move to Europe.
 * 2) Getting ready for the trip and saying goodbye to family and friends. Students have to use vocabulary related to clothes, food, equipment the immigrant would take on a trip to a new life. At this stage, students also have to learn how to form the present perfect in Spanish.
 * 3) The start of the journey . The immigrant is meeting his "dealer" and other immigrants taking part. He/she is scared and has to pay the "dealer" to make him/her cross the Mediterranean sea. Students have to convey feelings and emotions.
 * 4) Reaching the Mediterranean sea .Students describe the journey by car crossing the desert to get to the Mediterranean sea. They have to use lots of different verbs in the present perfect and to describe the feelings of the immigrant.
 * 5) Crossing the sea . Students describe the trip on the sea and if the boat is caught or not by the Spanish "guardia civil".
 * 6) Future life . Students brainstorm on the future of these immigrants. They make two columns, one for an happy ending (they are not caught by the police, they find a job, they can get official papers/documents and stay in Europe...), one for a sad ending (they have to return to their country, they can't find a job and live in the streets, they die...).

3. Oral presentation
Students present their diary to the class or to a group of 3-4 students. They have to think of:
 * **format**: PowerPoint, pictures, music, map...
 * **teaching Spanish words about immigration**: game, oral repetition, flashcards....
 * **assessing the other students at the end of presentation**: quiz, game, competition...

More details about the project here.