Casi Casi

A complete Spanish lesson plan for Casi Casi — ready to open and teach.

A Puerto Rican high schooler will do almost anything to fit in with the cool kids — almost. Casi Casi is a comedy that earns its affection by remembering how serious it felt to be seventeen.

Good films have natural moments — a powerful scene, a cultural encounter, a shift in the story — where the language and meaning come together. This plan identifies those moments in Casi Casi and builds a lesson around each one. For every scene, you get vocabulary and cultural notes, comprehension activities, and communicative tasks your students can work through in class or independently. A pre-film warm-up gets them ready before the first screening.

Everything is included: the teacher's guide, student worksheets in Spanish, and an answer key.

Each scene also includes an idioms and expressions section — 10 phrases pulled directly from the film, with their literal meaning, real-world usage, and a teaching note. These are the lines students want to understand but textbooks never cover.

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📅 Teach it when it counts

• Back to school / identity units — Fitting in, selling out, and figuring out who you are — universal themes with a Puerto Rican cultural context.
• Hispanic Heritage Month — Puerto Rican Spanish, youth culture, and the comedy of social anxiety.

Language: Spanish | Director: Jaime Vallés, Tony Vallés | Year: 2006
Level: Intermediate | Format: Downloadable PDF — instant delivery

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