If I Had a Million Dollars....

After studying the conditional tense, students were given the task to write 6 original sentences in Spanish telling what each of them “would“ do if they had a million dollars. After listening to and watching the Youtube video of the song “If I Had a Million Dollars“ by the BareNakedLadies for inspiration, the students wrote sentences in Spanish such as “I would give the money to the poor“, “I would buy ten monkeys“, or “I would go see Justin Bieber in concert“. Students were very creative with their ideas on how to spend a million dollars!

The next step in the process was to choose pictures that represented each of their sentences from Google images and also select a presentation program to upload the pictures and type the text of their original sentences. The only limitation was that they could not use PowerPoint!Students needed to explore and find out what other presentation programs are on the web. Students explored and found great websites such as picmonkey, prezi, voicethread, and sliderocket.

After the visual was created the students posted their finished assignment to Edmodo so that the other students in the class could see how each of them would spend their money. The students then commented on each other’s posts to give feedback. This assignment was one of the most motivational assignments that I have done with my students in a long time! The students had a lot of fun with it and learned about how to form the conditional tense in the process.