Miraflores Cultural Resources

Engage with more complex subject matter with a limited vocabulary. Three units. Present food, time and the house in context.Reading is a cross-curricular skill. Printable. Use the pages you need. Unit 1. Le chocolat belgeSubject matter: Food / the first pages are about chocolates / then other foods Vocabulary: Food / meals / meal times Grammar: de la / du / des Information about Belgium Oral practice: Ordering food in a restaurant Homework: What do you eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner? Inte

3 complete units. One hour each unit. They are NOT in any particular order. Choose the topic you like best first.Unit 1. Copán; una ciudad maya 1. Reading is super short and easy: Maya culture, lots of cognates 2. Vocabulary: numbers (We always need to review numbers!) 3. Grammar: adverbs of place 4. Oral practice: other calendars; extraterrestrials 5. Homework: other calendars 6. Internet: key words for Net search 7. Model tests 8. Teacher's guide 9.

Llama reading – Fun facts about llamas.Llama audio - Listen to the text. (Do it twice! Once following with the written text, a second time without the written text.)Read about an animal everyone knows. Plus more fascinating information.Add Bolivia, a country very few teachers cover.Easy to understand. Comprehensible input!Thoughtful questions about our relationship with animals. 1. Reading: Llama wool is used to make ponchos and sweaters. And what else? Find out! Excrement for fuel, meat, slip

My students love Botero. Two no-prep units about Colombia, contextualized. Content-based. If you like this unit, please browse my units. Maybe something about Córdoba 1,000 years ago? Or the rana coquí, symbol of Puerto Rico? There are several hundred now. My latest is on the Encounter (not the Discovery of the Americas). Unit 1. Fernando Botero 1. Reading: Who was Botero? + one very special painting . 2. Vocabulary exercises about Botero integrating the vocabulary of art and painti

Two units about Ecuador for SP Intermediate students. Audio recording of ONE text. El mercado de Otavalo. Please preview to see if it is appropriate for your own students. We all know how groups and their levels can be different, even with the same teacher and in the same school. All Miraflores units include: pre-reading, reading, comprehension, integrated vocabulary and grammar all on topic, oral and written exercises, web keywords, and the answer key to make the teacher´s life easier. We ha

Two units. Contextualized and rich in cultural information. Please preview.Unit 1. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y la cocina en los conventos de Nueva España Subject matter: colonial daily life; convent life Reading: She is our first female poet, our first great feminist. She chose the convent rather than marriage. What was convent life like? Sor Juana read and wrote, she corresponded with learned men all over the world.And she cooked. Vocabulary: cooking (verbs and nouns); convent

Spain is beautiful! Share your enthusiasm! Keywords are the basic tools for oral presentations. They direct students to new places and fascinating people. Suddenly students can research and prepare an oral presentation about a little-known subject. This download has 8 broad topics. Every topic has  13 subtopics: 3 for Novices, 4 for intermediate level, and 5-6 for advanced. Provide variety and appeal to different interests. Topic: Spain1. Visita Madrid - Broad topic: tourism + 13 subtopics

CULTURE! CULTURE! CULTURE! The French speaking world. 15 culture units. Includes a set of maps. Contextualize!Teach or review: The FAMILY with Napoléon´s family and family tree. The HOUSE with the rooms in the Grimaldi Palace. FOOD with Belgian chocolates and other food. TIME (and review NUMBERS) with Swiss watches. SPORTS with a famous Québec skater. CLOTHES with a visit to Martinique. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Four mini-culture units. Entirely in the target language.Information about the Spanish speaking world.Short units (6-7 pages) to point out the similarities and differences between the more than 20 countries where Spanish is spoken. They eat different foods; they have different money. Review geography, nationalities and the family! To use in Google Slides: Simply upload the PowerPoint to your Google Drive. Choose "open with" and choose "Google Slides." Once in Google Slides, go to "save as" and

My aim is to integrate language and culture seamlessly. Updated 2021. Unit 1. Las culturas indígenas 1. Reading: the fascinating Maya hieroglyphics 2. Vocabulary exercises that combine specific nouns and verbs related to the indigenous cultures of the Americas with language learning 3. Grammar exercises about the Maya script that include the gender of words 4. Oral practice: student plays role of archaeologist 5. Homework: research indigenous culture 6.

Have fun! Use Mexican popular art to combine: CultureLanguage Use the images: A. Language acquisition 1. Learn the parts of the body 2. Learn colors 3. Practice genders 4. Practice plurals B. Talk about art1. What art means to different people. 2. What students like / dislike. 3. What is their favorite image. C. Make up stories 1. Dialogues. Different masks speak to each other. 2. Stories about individual images. The images are from three sources. Museo La Esquina – Museo del Juguete M

The Argentine immigration experience is unique. At the end of the 19th century European immigrants, especially Italians and Spaniards, came to Argentina by the millions. They built the country, shaped Argentina and their influence continues to be great. Yet because the Argentine political and economic situation is precarious, the great grandchildren of those early migrants are crossing the Atlantic in the opposite direction, seeking better lives in Europe.Unit: 2 – 4 Lectura4 Una española entr

Three art units for NOVICES. (2 class periods for every unit.) Reviews basic topics: the family, giving directions, instruments Unit 1 Goya 1. Short, easy reading: Who is in this painting? 2. Vocabulary exercises about the family based on the picture 3. Grammar: agreement 4. Oral practice: student presentations of other paintings 5. Homework: a painting; family tree of Carlos IV 6. Internet: key words for web searches 7. Model tests 8. Teacher's guide 9

Deal with the fate of our planet. Content-based and interdisciplinary. Unit 1. La contaminación en la Ciudad de México 1. Reading: How Mexico City has reduced pollution. When and where you can drive based on your license plate number. 2. Vocabulary exercises dealing with a city that has more than 20 million inhabitants 3. Grammar exercises with poder plus infinitive based on what you can and cannot change in the Mexico City 4. Oral practice: urban transportation where you

Engage with more complex subject matter with a limited vocabulary. Yes, real culture with novices.Reading is a cross-curricular skill. Unit 1. Un voyage en MartiniqueSubject matter: Travel. Dialogue between two girls. One is packing her suitcase for her trip to Martinique. Includes cognates. Has very short sentences. Vocabulary: clothing Grammar: aller / faire + près / loin / en face / devant + toujours / aujourd’hui / jour / journée Information about Martinique. Map included. Oral practice:

Spanish 1 and 2. My own photographs from the Spanish speaking world! Combine culture and language!. Vocabulary: Teach and/or review basic vocabulary, add new words, stretch those flexible brains and make the neurons jump. Culture in context: Combine the vocabulary with pictures. The pictures reinforce the vocabulary and make learning active. Three levels of difficulty. ALL the pictures are used THREE TIMES.Level 1 Pictures 1-10. Choices in ENGLISH. Identify the product sold at this store. The no

I saw this painted on a wall in Morelos in February, 2018 and found it irresistible. You can use the questions I wrote, just a few, all for beginners or you can: Beginners: 1. Practice numbers. 2. Practice days of the week. 3. Practice time schedule based on 24 hours. More advanced levels: 1. Compare this street sign with a street sign in your own town. 2. Compare how dentists are viewed. Would a dentist in your home town use a crocodile? 3. Is the advertisement effective? Would you go to this d

A CI activity. 12 Powerpoint slides. You can edit! Short and sweet. Every picture has a question or a space to fill or a comment to make. Engage your students in cultural resources! Learn about how holidays are celebrated in other countries. Both inside homes and in public places, nacimientos are a tradition in the Spanish speaking world. They can be large or small, made out of many different materials and can be sophisticated or very simple. In some countries, the baby Jesus is only placed in t

Let's do GUSTAR with the Mexican hairless dog. More than 20 pictures.Reading, comprehension and exercises.Students will master GUSTARStudents will remember the dog. Culture!Entirely in Spanish.LISTEN TO THE TEXT! Have the students follow first with the text in hand, then only with the audio. Includes: Páginas 2 - 4 Lectura. Cada párrafo con una foto. 5 Comprensión del texto 6 - 7 Gramática: gusta / gustan / ¿Qué le gusta a Luna? (Muchas cosas) 8 Perros / Sop

Two contrasting units, high culture and low culture. Please preview. Unit 1. La telenovela Reading: I've never met a student who didn't want to read about love. Love, love, love! The whole world is interested. The text describes Latin American soap operas, sold to over 100 countries, and watched by millions. What makes them so popular? Vocabulary on topic: television and media Grammar furthers the information about soap operas using past tenses: perfect, preterit, imperfect Oral pr