Search for idiomatiques expressions based on 11 themes including anatomy, clothing, colors, and so on. Search results include the expression in context with an audio recording in the target language and English translation if accessed by the user.

To discover, understand, and compare/contrast cultural conventions in the target culture with students’ culture.

This collection of classic French songs represents Francophone music across decades and countries. Some entries include videos of live performances. Each entry includes complete lyrics, song notes, and exercises made available via a downloadable pdf file.

This is an animated short film about a little girl who visits the land of the dead, where she learns the true meaning of the Mexican holiday, Dia de los Muertos. The film was created by students at the Ringling College of Art and Design and won a 2013 Student Academy Award.

In addition to a wealth of material about culinary customs and techniques in ancient Rome, Patrick Faas translated more than 150 Roman recipes and reconstructed them for the modern cook. Here are eight recipes from from the book?from salad to dessert. Both the Latin and English versions of the recipes are given.

This module focuses on how to interact in Spanish, both linguisitically and culturally, when one person (e.g., a vendor, office clerk, travel agent) asks and answers questions to provide a service or good (e.g., a product, an appointment, airline tickets) to another person. Dialectal differences are addressed. 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.

In this lesson plan for novice high second language students, students will negotiate, in pairs, a time to meet. They will communicate about their daily schedule, appointments and events. The language structures include present tense verbs and expressions for telling time. Culturally, students will compare their daily life and school schedules in the US with schedules in the target culture. The modalities include interpersonal communication, writing and reading. This four-page lesson plan is applicable for any world language course. Included are suggestions for adapting and extending this performance task.