Abstract
tion skills--speaking, writing, reading, and listening. Have you ever thought of holding a minibasketball tourney in Spanish at your school to motivate your students and publicize your Spanish program? Since the Pan-Am Games will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, in August of 1987, this event helped to interest our students at Ben Davis High School in the sportive aspect of the Spanish language. However, even without the occurrence of the Pan-Am Games, this event will certainly add a unique flavor to your Spanish program. The tournament, which last approximately four hours, is held one evening in your school gymnasium. Each of your Spanish classes adopts a Spanish-speaking country approximately three weeks prior to the tourney. The students are to dress according to the colors of their country's flag, which helps to distinguish among the different countries represented and also gives the teams a sense of unity. Each student is to make a poster dealing with an aspect of sports related to the particular country. Schedules are then drawn up and announced. The following rules of the tournament have been established. Each team must have seven players, two of whom must be girls. These two girls are to play at all times. During the game all players are to speak Spanish. A technical foul is assessed to the team speaking in English. The referee, an advanced Spanish student, awards one point to the opposing team for each word spoken in English. At the conclusion of each game, the judge, a Spanish teacher, awards five extra points to the team who spoke the most Spanish during the game. Each game lasts fifteen minutes. The clock is not stopped. Fouls result in the opposing team receiving the ball out-of-bounds. The championship games lasts thirty minutes with two separate halves. The team with the most points is declared the winner.
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