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"Sugar" is a great movie to show spanish 1 or 2 classes. It is about Miguel Santos who comes to the US to play baseball and send money back to help his family. He struggles with language barrier, and different social cues. Eventually he finds his dream of being a major league baseball player to much and goes to NY to find work. There he finds work and a group of rejected spanish baseball players who have created a team of their own. This is great to show while giving oral assessments. Download

This 6 page packet includes a plethora of up to date statistics and information regarding Spanish speakers in the USA. Much of it is from the 2010 census. There are places for the kids to answer questions, make predictions, and write their thoughts in regards to learning Spanish. Why is it important? How could it benefit you now, in 25 years, etc. It also briefly discusses globalization and why knowing Spanish is beneficial. This version has some slight changes. After giving this to my students

The famous video "One Semester of Spanish Love Song" is a fabulous way for students to learn or review basic spanish phrases. Here are three different activities to do with your students based on this video. Included are the lyrics, a cloze activity, and a vocab. activity. Hope you enjoy! Ameduria

Movie talk is such an awesome and impactful method to teaching world languages. Many language teachers have been integrating the animation "alma" into their movie talks. I have created several worksheets and follow up activities based on the movie talk "alma." These are a great way to reinforce the structures that are being acquired via the movie talk. Included you will find: -fill in the blank story (students fill in while circling the story) -answer key to the fill in blank story

Creating narratives to short movie clips is a great way to have engaging Spanish lessons. This movie talk unit is in the past tense. A great way for students to practice identifying when/how to use the imperfect vs. preterite. This unit is based off of the movie Jack Jack Ataca. In this unit you will find: -4 Days of lessons, plus extra ideas and activities -flash cards to pre-teach some vocabulary -Cloze narrative (and answer key) -Snap shots where they translate sentences to Spanish and put t

Listening to Spanish songs are a fantastic way to improve listening skills. Here are 3 lessons/activities based on the song 'El mismo sol' which is written and sung by Alvaro Soler. Included are: 1. Word cloud (select which words you hear) 2. Narrative of the music video. (chose the correct word to complete the sentence to describe the video). 3. Translation 4. Cloze activity 5. Bingo! 6. Answer keys I hope you and your students enjoy these!

Use this Spanish map to learn "places / lugares" such as catedral, iglesia, biblioteca, escuela, hotel, hospital, museo, tienda, universidad etc. This is also a great way to learn and practice "directions / dirreciones". Enjoy! ameduria

Selena was such an iconic individual in the development of Spanish music. This movie packet includes two pages of questions, T/F. short answers, etc based on the movie Selena. Answer key also included.

This 6 page packet includes a plethora of up to date statistics and information regarding Spanish speakers in the USA. Much of it is from the 2010 census. There are places for the kids to answer questions, make predictions, and write their thoughts in regards to learning Spanish. Why is it important? How could it benefit you now, in 25 years, etc. It also briefly discusses globalization and why knowing Spanish is beneficial.

My students were begging me to teach them some Christmas songs in Spanish. So this year, We learned Rodolfo el Reno (Rudolph the red nose reindeer) and 'Doce días de la Navidad' (12 days of Christmas). I really enjoyed teaching the 12 days of Christmas because it has ordinal numbers, regular numbers, and many objects! Enjoy!

Here are 35 signs to use when incorporating "classroom object" vocabulary into your Spanish classroom. These can be great if you're doing a specific unit. These are also great for CI/TPRS to have in the room to refer to. Finally what a great way to help students use Spanish when asking for a "pen" or whatever they need. Included are 35 classroom object signs (pictures and Spanish translation) Examples: computer, desks, tape, glue, book bag, folder, paper, pens, colored pencils, etc. Enjoy!

Here are 33 English/Spanish flashcards dealing with 'parts of the body' and a few to talk about dolor (pain). These colorful flashcards can be printed out, glued on paper, and used for classroom signs/word wall, as well as flashcards. Enjoy!

This fun and creative unit focuses on 'The Letter M' Included are 10 activities geared towards 2-5 year olds. I tried to incorporate activities which focus on: writing, reading, science, math, music, culture/history, art as well as Spanish! Children will practice writing the letter, differentiating between 'Big M' and 'Little m', practice counting 'M' things, learn about the Moon, make some macaroni art, Learn some 'M' words in Spanish, make maracas and dance to music, practice 'M' sight words