¡Buen viaje!: Level 1

Chapter 8: La salud y el médico

WebQuest

Costumbres saludables

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Objectives

To describe good and bad habits

To describe characteristics and conditions of health

To discuss health issues in both the United States and the Hispanic world

Notes

Use this activity after students have completed the Lecturas culturales section on pages 260-261 of the textbook.

Remind students to apply their knowledge of healthy and unhealthy behaviors along with their understanding of cognates to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words they may encounter as they work through this activity.

You may wish to give students the meanings of the following words so that they can decipher the title of each Web page more easily:

	mayor	older
	serás	you will be
	sigue	follow
	camino	path or road
	vejez	old age

The tú form of the future tense appears frequently throughout the Web pages the students will be viewing. Point out to them that when they see infinitive + ás = you (familiar) will do something.

Expansion

Combine the final copies of the Web pages that students are asked to create in the Después de navegar section of this activity and post them on your school’s Web site. If you do not have access to the Internet, allow the students to "publish" their pages by creating posters of them that can be displayed in the classroom and/or shared with the school’s health class.

Have students draw and label their own versions of Sigue el camino para una mala vejez or of Sigue el camino para una buena vejez.

In Actividad 17, Virtudes y defectos, page 253 of the textbook, students create a description of a fictitious person with many virtues and a fictitious person with many defects or faults. Have them incorporate good and bad health habits that they find listed on the Web site.