Students will evaluate practices, products and perspectives related to social and professional topics by reading about this portrait painted by the Spanish painter, Francisco de Goya. Additionally, students will learn that the Duchess of Alba was a Spanish aristocrat and a popular subject of this painter.

Students will try to interpret a comic with the help of visual context and then discuss the cultural perspectives revealed in the image.

In this resource, students will critique the effect of events in the target culture’s history on perspectives, practices and products of global interest. Additionally, students will watch a video to learn about the history of Carlos I of Spain and Carlos V of Germany.

In this resource, students will understand the subtleties and stylistic features of texts on unfamiliar topics. Additionally, students will learn how to analyze the most common types of verses in Spanish literature.

Students will understand the subtleties and stylistic features of texts on unfamiliar topics. Additionally, students will learn the metric rules necessary to analyze a poem. Also, students will do practical exercises and will be able to analyze a poem written by Antonio Machado, a Spanish poet. Finally, students will see the solutions to the poem they analyze.

In this resource, students will understand how to interpret long complex texts by reading this novel written by Benito Perez Galdos. Additionally, students will learn that Miau is a realistic novel, released in 1888. It tells a story about a middle-low class family of Madrid in the 19th century.

Students will interpret long, complex texts while reading about Miguel de Cervantes is one of the most recognized Spanish authors largely due to the success of his novel Don Quijote de la Mancha, published in 1580. Also, students will learn vocabulary and verbs related to the reading.

In this resource, students will understand how to interpret long, complex texts. Additionally, students will learn about Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo, a Spanish author and philosopher. Also, students will learn about his life and literary contributions.

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 learn that Moctezuma II was the emperor of the Aztecs in 1519 when, Hernan Cortes, the Spanish conqueror landed in Mexico.

In this resource, students will learn to use the target language in a variety of situations with fluency and flexibility. Additionally, students will view and listen to the news about the American actor Robin Williams who died at age 63 and was the winner of an Oscar for the film Good Will Hunting.

Students will learn the vocabulary associated with nature including the most common Spanish words to describe land, atmosphere, seas and plants. Note that many of the words can vary with region, and some of the words can have other meanings in other contexts. This resource will enable students to participate in discussions on topics related to nature in the target language.

In this lesson, students view, investigate, write, rehearse, perform and present the news. The format of the news in the US is compared to the format in the target country. The modalities include listening, reading, speaking and writing. The lesson could be utlized for any language that has news reports. Included are rubrics for evaluating the student newscasts as well as options for adapting the lesson to other language levels. Language structures for this performance task include present tense, past tense, future tense, embedded clauses and question formation.

Students will learn to use spanish in a variety of situations with fluency and flexibility. Additionally, students will learn that Nicaragua is a renewable energy paradise. Also, students will view several videos discussing the use of renewable energy in Spain.

Students will learn how to interpret long complex text by listening to the poem read by Nicolas Guillen. Additionally, students will evaluate practices, products and perspectives related to social and professional topics.

In this resource, students will understand how to interpret long, complex texts by reading Nicolas Guillen’s biography. Additionally, students will learn that Nicolas Guillen was a Cuban poet of social protest and a leader of the Afro-Cuban movement in the late 1920s and ’30s. His commitment to social justice and membership in the Communist Party made him the national poet of revolutionary Cuba.

In this activity, students will ask and answer questions in the target language to get to know their peers.

In this activity, students will work together to create individual viral video resumes.

In this activity, students predict what they will read in obituaries from the target culture. They compare US obituaries to those from the target culture. The language structures include the present and the future tenses. There are samples in German and Spanish but this activity can be done with any written language course. Included are adaptiations for language and extensions for culture as well as a multi-trait rubric.

Students will interpret long complex texts by reading about Octavio Paz. Additionally, students will learn that he was born in 1914 in Mexico City, and that he published over 40 books during his career. Also, students will learn the vocabulary and the verbs related to the reading.