Students will critique the influence of the target culture on global philosophy and professional discourse by reading about the prohibition of bullfights in Catalonia, Spain.
In this resource, students will understand multiple viewpoints and opinions in long, complex texts on unfamiliar academic topics. Additionally, students will learn about the origin of bullfights in Spain.
This song in Spanish supports vocabulary learning about adventures camping and hiking. The song reinforces understanding of the preterit tenses and listening comprehension.
Middle school and high school students can read about Spanish-speaking countries, their authors, literature, oral traditions, friends, news, commercials, childhoods, health, physical exercise, camping, travel, transportation, legends, etc. Numerous links permit the student to access beginning, intermediate and advanced reading material. There are interactive self-grading quizzes for grammar, parts of speech and verb conjugations. This site is designed especially for native Spanish-speakers but can also be used by Spanish-language learners.
In this resource, students will learn to use the language in a variety of situations with fluency and flexibility by watching a video. Additionally, students will learn about the impact of the use of technology on the lives of the residents of a community in Veracruz, Mexico who don't have access to electricity.
In this short story written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, students will learn how to communicate detailed, factual information in academic situations. Additionally, students will read the story and answer the included questions about the reading.
Students will understand multiple viewpoints and opinions in long, complex texts on unfamiliar academic topics. Additionally, students will read about a contemporary play based on the Spanish novel Don Juan Tenorio written by Jose Zorrilla in 1844.
In this resource, students will explain how social and political events affected the perspectives, practices, and products of the target culture. Additionally, students will read and view the work of Lluis Domenech i Montaner, a Spanish Catalan architect who was highly influential on the Catalan Art Nouveau movement.
In this activity, students develop a greater understanding of the evolution of Al-Andalus to the fall of the Moorish kingdom of Granada.
In this activity, students will build their vocabulary by using words in context from written and spoken material. Students will be able to speak Spanish correctly by listening to the pronunciation.
Students will learn how to decide when to use the Preterite and when to use the Imperfect. In adition, students will review the uses of the Imperfect and the Preterite. Students will also learn that there are some verbs that change meaning depending on the tense.
Students will learn to explain how social and political events affected the perspectives, practices, and products of the target culture by reading an article about different foods and eating habits in several regions. Additionally, students will complete the included exercises.
In this activity, students will use indicative and subjunctive verbs to review and rate a movie trailer while gaining knowledge of Spanish literature and culture.
Students will learn the different uses of the verbs ser and estar. Activites include games, worksheets, and numerous exercises for student engagement.
In this activity, students will deepen their understanding of the present indicative by playing a game called "Verdad o Mentira?"
Students will learn to use the target language to share information about concrete, social and professional topics in a variety of settings. Also, students will learn vocabulary related to bullfighting. Additionally, students will find some translations and verbs used to describe bullfighting customs and traditions.
Students will learn new vocabulary in the target language.
In this activity, students will write descriptions of guests who will be attending a wedding. The teacher hands out the descriptions to each student who asks and answers questions to find the mystery guest. Once each person has found their mystery guest, they must present them to the class explaining their likes, dislikes, residence, work, age, family, etc. The modalities include interpersonal communication as well as written and spoken presentational communication. This activity is applicable for any written world language course. Included are suggestions for adapting and extending this performance task as well as character descriptions for French, German and Spanish.
This narrated slideshow depicts several pictures of objects to teach or review colors.
This narrated slideshow uses several pictures of objects and activities to teach/ review likes and dislikes.