This unit focuses on how to make requests in Spanish, both linguisitically and culturally. Included are exemplary videoclips in Spanish, transcripts and a step-by-step, interactive study guide through: Encountering the Communicative Act, Learning and Performance Strategies, Identifiying Important Social Factors, Perceiving Dialectal Variances and a Summary of Key Points. The language samples are in Spanish, but the study of this pragmatic act is in English.

In this videoclip in Spanish, a graduate student, Alejandro, tells his plans for what he hopes to be doing in ten years. This is recorded for the University of Texas’ Spanish Proficiency Exercises. Students of Spanish can read the transcript in Spanish, read a translation in English or listen without a transcript to reference. There are also links to relevant vocabulary, grammar and podcasts. In addition to providing listening comprehension practice, one objective of the exercises is to provide students of Spanish with the necessary tools to be able to talk about the same topics in Spanish.

In this activity, students will acheive greater fluency in speech while learning about the history of chocolate.

In this lesson, student will be exposed to different folktales corresponding to the Colombian folklore with the objective of getting the student familiarized with these traditions, as well as identifying the difference between a myth and a legend. This lesson was developed by Carolina Vargas-Escobar as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

In this lesson students will have the opportunity to write their own myths or legends and share them with their parents in their own class. This lesson was developed by Carolina Vargas-Escobar as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Students will listen to a Quebecois song about World War II and complete various interactive online activities to show comprehension, practice grammar and vocabulary, and read and interpret short related texts. The themes of love, friendship, and family are addressed in the song.

This module focuses on the ins and outs of apologizing in Spanish, both linguisitically and culturally. Included are exemplary videoclips in Spanish, transcripts and a step-by-step, interactive study guide: Encountering the Communicative Act, Learning and Performance Strategies, Identifiying Important Social Factors, Perceiving Dialectal Variances and a Summary of Key Points. The language samples are in Spanish but the study of this pragmatic act is in English.