For the last few years, I’ve been creating units to use with the students in my classroom. I wanted them to learn Spanish, but as they reached level 3+, I wanted them to learn in through the …
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Soccer / fútbol in Spain / España: meet Cristiano Ronaldo: the best soccer player in the world! This document includes 3 leveled readings in Spanish about Cristiano Ronaldo. The most basic reading is comprehensible for Novice readers, and each subsequent reading includes more detail about the famous soccer player. In this document you will find the 3 readings in 3 different folders. Each of the 3 folders includes: - A pdf file with the reading and the comprehension activities. - Comprehension questions in English and Spanish. - A CLOZE transcript for an authentic listening activity. - Answer Keys. - An editable version of the reading and the exercises :) - Three mp3 files with the audios. - A Power Point presentation with embedded audios recorded by a native Spanish teacher. Teachers may choose to use these readings in class; to print, laminate, and add to the class library for free reading; or to incorporate in a Fast Finisher system. You can also follow my Suggested Lesson Plan. Suggested Lesson Plan I include 3 Power Point presentations. The teacher will choose the level of difficulty: basic, expanded, or advanced. Each of the Power Point presentations is divided in 3 parts: 1- Pre-reading: I include a picture with some of the soccer vocabulary that the students will later find in the text about Ronaldo. The teacher will play the embedded audio, and the students will: A. Listen and repeat each of the new words. B. Listen and say the number that matches each word. 2- Reading: The teacher will play the audio so the students can listen and read the text at the same time. 3- Post-reading: After reading the text, students may have questions about the vocabulary, or they may want to talk about Ronaldo´s life. After this, I include a printable sheet with comprehension questions in English and Spanish. I also include a cloze test. The answer keys are included, so you can print them, check them on the computer, correct the exercises with your students on the interactive whiteboard,…
Spanish high frequency words are the cornerstone of good teaching in any Spanish class. They are the heart of your curriculum, but which ...
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Hoy vengo con ganas de enseñaros la primera entrada relacionada con mi trabajo como Teacher Assistant en Inglaterra. Empecé hace un año como Auxiliar de Conversación con la beca del MEC y ahora me han renovado como TA (Level 3) y sigo haciendo cositas con los grupos de Español. En Inglaterra en el curso equivalente …
Spanish high frequency words are the cornerstone of good teaching in any Spanish class. They are the heart of your curriculum, but which ...
I like playing board games as language activities because they allow for lots of input and are easy to adapt to different levels. For example, these printable Spanish board games use question cards, so you can use different cards to make the game easier or more challenging. You will
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I like to include listening activities in my Spanish classes as much as I can. It can be seriously challenging to find good listening activities for lower-level students, though. Textbooks only have so many (good) listening comprehension activities, and it can be tricky to find recordings of Spanish speakers who speak SLOWLY and CLEARLY. Here are five great websites that I've found and used in my Spanish 1 and 2 classes: 1. Quia There are listening activities for Level 1 HERE and for Level 2 HERE. Click "Start now>>" and you will see 10 multiple-choice listening activities. Each time you reload the page, it will give you new activities. (Good news if you want more options, bad news if you want to bookmark the page and go back in the future for particular recordings.) There are probably 30 listening activities that Quia randomly picks and loads on the webpage. Quia provides multiple-choice questions for each listening activity, so you can use those or make your own! I like to go through and listen to all the activities and record the ones I want to use in class. I used Audacity to record them, which is a free program you can download on your Mac or PC. It's super easy to use, and then you can save the recordings to your computer and use them year after year. 2. 123TeachMe There are listening activities for Novice Low HERE. There are 39 "groups", and each has two audio recordings. I just go through and listen to a bunch of them and record the ones I want to use in class. These recordings show up in the same order every time you load the page, so you can pull up the website in class and play the recording(s) you want. The website includes a question for each recording, so you can use that one or create your own! 3. University of Texas A reader sent me this link, so many thanks to Amanda B! The University of Texas at Austin has Spanish proficiency exercises, organized by Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced, and Superior. You can choose various topics for each level, and then there are several speakers from different Spanish-speaking countries, so your students can hear a variety of accents. You could easily pull this website up in class and play the recording you want, or record in advance whatever you want students to listen to. 4. Easy-Spanish.org A reader sent me the next 2 links, so many thanks to Robin P! This website has videos that will redirect you to youtube (so you could also just search "Super Easy Spanish" on youtube). There are 3 categories of free videos - Street Interviews, Grammar & Vocab Videos, and Videos for Absolute Beginners, and there are close to 300 videos total. I suggest you click the links (or just search "easy spanish" on youtube) and check out all the video options. Topics range from how to tell time in Spanish, to what people in Barcelona are reading, to imperfect subjunctive verbs. I have personally only worked in schools that block youtube, so if you also work in a school like that, then this won't be a good option for you unfortunately. 5. SpanishListening.org Thanks again to Robin P for letting me know about this website! This website has over 400 videos with native speakers from every Spanish-speaking country, so you can really let students hear a variety of different accents. The videos tell you if they are designed for Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced, so you can make sure you aren't previewing videos that your Spanish 1 or 2 students don't have any hope of understanding. Unfortunately, you do have to click on the videos to see what the person is talking about, so you might have to click around for a while before you find something you can use this week and not some time next year. I hope these ideas have helped you include more listening activities with native speakers in your lower-level classes! Where else do you get good listening activities? I'd love to hear other suggestions!
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