This video set created for UT Austin features native speakers describing other peoples' physical appearances. English and Spanish transcripts are available.

This lesson plan, designed for beginning Spanish, provides students the opportunity to learn vocabulary to express things that they are thankful for. The lesson also includes additional activity ideas that go with the mini-book including sample dialogue and a song. The PDF included provides instructions and a template for creating the mini-book.

In this lesson plan, students will incorporate information from Internet research in creating original travel brochures for Spanish speaking countries using word processing or publishing software. Students will analyze and integrate research results in designing a concise and interesting brochure. Students will learn to identify other subject-area topics that relate to topics discussed in the target language class.

The podcas compares and contrasts the educational system in England and Spain. In their cultural comparison, they compare school visits to the local fire station. Through examples of how children are asked to behave in line and what they are taught about safety, they conclude that education impacts national character.

Students will learn that spelling changes in the preterite occur because the preterite vowel endings affect the way some consonants sound.

Students will learn how to form the preterite past tense. The objective of this activity is to demosntrate the most important aspects to consider when forming the preterite past tense of the stem changing verbs.

This activity focuses on the ability to invite, accept invitations, refuse invitations, politeness, persuasion and birthday celebrations. During the three stages, there is small group rehearsal and planning session, a role-played performance in front of the class, and whole class debriefing. The modalities include speaking and listening. This activity is applicable for any world language course. Included are suggestions for adapting and extending this performance task. Rubrics for scoring are provided as are additional role plays.

In this activity, students will learn that the subjunctive mood is used whenever the speaker feels any uncertainty about the action of the sentence, or when the speaker is expressing a subjective opinion. The activity explains that while the subjunctive mood is rarely used in English, it is widely used in Spanish.

In this lesson, students will learn how to conjugate regular and stem-changing verbs in the present subjunctive. Students will learn the three steps to form the present subjunctive for most regular verbs as well as the formulas for conjugating stem-changing verbs.

In this activity, students will learn how to conjugate verbs in the present subjunctive that change orthographically. The activity explains that orthographic changes are made to ensure that the spelling properly reflects the way these verbs are actually pronounced.

This five-minute audio file in English explains the distinction between when to use the subjunctive mood in adjective clauses in Spanish. Grammatical terms are used to explain when the subjunctive is needed.

This eight-minute audio file in English explains the distinction between when to use the subjunctive mood in adverbial clauses in Spanish. Grammatical terms are used to explain when the subjunctive is needed. The explanations include various adverbial conjunctions that trigger the need for the subjunctive.

In this resource, students will learn about the tango festival in Argentina, organized by the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires. Thousands of dancers and audiences around the world flock to the city to participate and enjoy the various activities offered by the festival. Additionally, students will evaluate practices, products and perspectives related to social and professional topics.

In this activity, students will practice using the future tense by telling each other’s fortune using printable tarot cards.

It provides information about France, Spain and Italy. The web pages contain facts, language exercises, music, quizzes, recipes and related worksheets. The material is designed ideally for desktop viewing in the classroom. It is updated continually.

Students complete this self-grading, multiple choice online test in Spanish about camping and nature focusing on the correct usage of preterit and imperfect verbs.

In this activity, students will become familiar with idiomatic expressions with the word MANO while learning about the characters in the novel "El tiempo entre costuras."

In this activity, students will respond to and discuss a series of questions using verbs in the conditional tense.

Students will learn how to express several ideas such as: to be able to, to have to do something, and must. Additionaly, students will learn another form of the verb to want that is quite useful to know for making requests and being polite.

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 information about geography, currency, and the history of landmarks throughout Europe in the target language.