Capítulo 6

In today's lesson, we will focus on learning about life expectancy in Latin America and the Caribbean and expressing our symptoms in the event of a visit to the doctor's office. Also, we will learn about medication and natural remedies.

Student's Learning Outcomes (SLOs) as stated in our syllabus:

Students will be able to:

1.2 Exchange information on a variety of topics concerning daily life including personal relationships, entertainment, shopping, travel, and health.

2.1 Identify the main idea of short, simple conversations and narratives (live or recorded material) in the target language, within highly predictable and familiar contexts.

What to do?
1. Read el vocabulario in Sección 1: La salud y el cuerpo humano,  in the textbook. 

2. Complete the following activities:

* Actividad 1. Expectativa de vida en Latinoamérica is also available in your textbook, Sección ¡A descubrir! with small format changes.

* Activity 3. Los síntomas is also available in your textbook, Sección 1: La salud y el cuerpo humano

* Actividad 4. ¿Qué medicinas vas a tomar/tomas? is also available in your textbook, Sección 1: La salud y el cuerpo humano

* Actividad 5. Los remedios caseros is also available in your textbook, Sección 1: La salud y el cuerpo humano with a small modification.

* Actividad 7. Asociaciones is also available in your textbook, Sección 1: La salud y el cuerpo humano, with small modifications

3. For more practice, complete activities in Pressbooks:
Actividad 6. Preguntas personales

4. Practice Questions: Now you practice by answering the following questions in writing and orally.

Listen to this example and after practice expressing symptoms and related information with the practice questions bellow: