Instructor Guide

Spanish for Correctional Officers

Session 18 - Rules for Inmates/ Visitors

Objective

To be able to explain basic prison rules to Inmates and Visitors

Topics

• Rules for Inmates and Visitors

Materials

• Flash cards with key vocabulary
• Pictures of a “señor”, a “señora” and a  “señorita”
• A paper bag from McDonald’s or any fast food place
• A picture of a cell
• A bottle of medicine with some pills
• A picture or a sign showing a shower
• A picture or a sign showing a public phone
• A picture or sign showing a restroom

Techniques

1. • Display your 3 adults on the board
   • Show your students a picture or a sign of a restroom
   • Have them do 3 repetitions with the complete instruction:
   • Señor/ señora /señorita
   • Puede usar el baño
   • Puede usar el teléfono público
   • Have them say the 3 repetitions in the negative:
   • Señor/ señora /señorita
   • No puede usar …..
2. • Take the bottle of medicine and shake it
   • Have them do 3 repetitions with the complete instruction:
   • Señor/ señora /señorita
   • Tiene que tomar su medicina
   • Have them use their hands, while repeating:  3 veces por dia
3. • Show them a paper bag from McDonalds - or any other well known fast food chain - with some napkins inside so it looks like “real foodl”
   • Display a picture of a cell
   • Have them repeat: comida en su celda
   • Have them do 3 repetitions with the complete instruction:
   • Señor/ señora /señorita
   • No se permite comida en su celda

• For longer phrases divide the phrase into two groups of 3 or 4 words; for example: For the phrase: Vigile a sus niños que lo visitan
• Have them do 3 repetitions with the complete instruction:
• Señor/ señora /señorita
• Vigile a sus niños
• Add 3 more words:           Que LO visitan
• Have them repeat:
• Señor, vigile a sus niños que LO visitan
• Señora (Señorita) vigile a sus niños que LA visitan
• Use the same techniques with the remaining rules.

Movies

American Me
Blood In, Blood Out
My family
La Bamba

Colloquial Expressions

Others words used for jail: el bote, el tambo (Mexico), la cana (Peru, Argentina)
Go  to the bathroom ( hacer del baño )
Urinate (hacer pipí) (hacer del uno )
Defecate (hacer popó) (hacer del dos)

Homework

Listen to Unit 19 - Rules for Inmates/ Visitors
Read the Transcript for Unit 19
Complete the exercises for Unit 19

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