Students will watch a report on a philanthropic work in South Africa and discuss the importance of the environment and water in a community. In addition, students will reflect on their own use of water in their routines and link the lesson to other academic subjects on the environment.
Students will learn how to interpret long, complex texts and compare literary writing styles by listening to and reading a collection of short stories from the book "Album." This resource features MP3 (.mp3) audio files, which can be played by the students by clicking on the links.
Students will interpret long complex texts by reading about Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is a famous Mexican film director who is the first Mexican to be nominated for an Academy Award for best director. Also, students will learn new vocabulary related to the reading.
Students can use this website to contrast the historical views of public and private life in the target culture and its civilizations with world views. Additionally, students will learn that Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga wrote the epic poem, La Araucana, considered one of the greatest Spanish historical poems. NOTE: The entire website is written in Spanish.
Students will understand the subtleties and stylistic features of texts on unfamiliar topics. Additionally, students will read and listen to this short poem written by Francisco Gomez de Quevedo who was a Spanish nobleman, author and politicianof the Baroque era. Students will also have access to reflections on the reading of the poem.
Students will understand the subtleties and stylistic features of texts on unfamiliar topics. Additionally, students will learn how poems are classified according to the Metric rules. Also, students will be able to analyze several examples of poems written by famous poets such as Antonio Machado, Jose Marti, and Garcia Lorca.
Students will critique the effect of events in the target culture"™s history on perspectives, practices, and products of global interest. Additionally, students will analyze the poem written by Jose Marti, a Cuban poet who was a revolutionary figure who helped Cuba to regain freedom from Spain.
In this resource, students will contrast the historical views of public and private life in the target culture and its civilizations with world views. Additionally, students will learn that the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso painted Guernica.
This website, in English, has a description of ancientt Aztec games. Users can play a softwar version of patolli, a game of chance and skill that often involved betting.
In this resource, students are provided with short French sentences that have words derived from English "anglicisme" that they have to find. It is a very good interactive activity composed of seven timed modules in ten screens and a selection of a level of difficulty.
Students will learn the Spanish names of many animals as well as vocabulary related to animal parts.
In this activity, students listen to messages left on an answering machine in the target language and take notes. This activity is created for listening comprehension but extensions are included to make this a speaking assignment, also. This activity can be utlized at many different proficiency levels and for any spoken language. Included are ‘message’ templates for English, German and Spanish.
In this activity, students will use the preterit and the imperfect tenses to describe people in the past.
Students will understand the subtleties and stylistic features of texts on unfamiliar topics. Additionally, students will learn that this poem was written by Antonio Machado, a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98.
In this activity, students will listen to and answer questions about a lengthy phone conversation.
In this activity, students will learn how to analize the poem, Balada de los dos Abuelos, by Nicolas Guillen.
In this resource, students will understand how to interpret long complex texts by reading about Asturias in Spanish and English. Additionally, students will learn that Asturias is possibly the best known of the regions often referred to as "Green Spain." Students will answer questions about the text.
Students will listen to five dialogues from native speaker students in a school cafeteria and match what they hear (drag and drop sound button) to the images provided of these students. The activity will help students develop listening skills.
In this assessment, students will read and understand a program for the Montreal Jazz Festival, have a brief conversation with a classmate about it, and then do a presentation.
This resource offers a native speaker listening comprehension activity on a conversation between a mother and her daughter as their shop at a supermarket. Students listen carefully to their conversation and select the correct answer from the "True and False" statements provided.