Students will use language with fluency and flexibility to provide, compare, and support multiple viewpoints and opinions by reading and discussing an article about Laura Esquivel. She is a Mexican author who is best known for her enormously popular 1989 novel, Like Water for Chocolate.
In this activity, students will practice the different past tenses used in the narration of Little Red Riding Hood.
Students will compare technical writing styles relevant to academic professional topics. Additionally, students will learn the difference between novels and short stories.
Students will critique the influence of the target culture on global philosophy and professional discourse by reading and discussing an article describing the official languages of Peru.
In this resource, students will learn to critique the effect of events in the target culture's history on perspectives, practices, and products of global interest by reading and discussing a Spanish short story about the Industrial Revolution in Spain, written by Leopoldo Alas (also known as Clarin).
In this activity, Spanish language students will write to tourism bureaus in Costa Rica for information about Costa Rica. First, they must research online for locations, destinations and contact information. Then, students compare and contrast business letters in Spanish and English. The writing process includes pre-writing, drafts, peer review and publication. Language structures utilized are questions, present tense and the conditional tense. Included are cultural extensions and peer review templates.
In this resource, students will learn to understand the subtleties and stylistic features of texts on unfamiliar topics by reading and discussing two poems and completing the included exercises.
Students will learn to carry out extended complex interactions in almost any situation or communities of learners of the same target language. Additionally, the students will learn to use idioms in the target language.
In this activity, students will learn to form adverbs out of adjectives.
In this resource, students will learn how social and political events affected the perspectives, and practices of the target culture. Additionally, students will read about Phillip the III of Spain, a member of the House of Habsburg.
In this resource, students will contrast the views of public and private life in the target culture and its civilizations with worldviews. Additionally, students will read about the Aztecs and their king, Moctezuma, who appeared in the valley of Mexico in mid-thirteenth century AD.
In this resource, students will learn how to engage in extended complex conversations about concrete, social and professional topics with fluency and flexibility. Additionally, students will learn that Charles IV of Spain was King of Spain from 14 December 1788, until his abdication on 19 March 1808.
This simple powerpoint presents the colors in Spanish with optional audio. It is a good way to introduce colors for the first time.
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 Third of May 1808 is a painting by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon's armies during the occupation of 1808.
This presentation, an excellent way to introduce the months, includes a practice activity at the end.
These worksheets are possible assessments of the holidays taught in Spanish. With the addition of discussion questions that open the door to culturally relevant teaching.
In this activity, students will practice using the imperfect tense to describe routines of the past.
Students will analyze the uses and purposes of the Incan city of Machu Picchu. They will form an opinion on the usage of the city and defend that opinion with supportive evidence from the video and class discussion.
In this resource, students will rearrange and classify memorized words about countries and regions of the Hispanic world by playing cultural geography games. Additionally, students will understand how geography and history impact the development of the target culture and its civilization.
In this resource, students will understand how to interpret long complex texts. Additionally, students will learn that during his travels as consul, Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and writer, met Maria Antonieta Hagenaar, whom he married in 1930.