Spanish Scripts

The porpoise will be remembered for her purpose and the poodle for his lost marbles. Behind some silliness is a serious memory tool. The mnemonic devices in Recursos 2.0 come with rhyme, alliteration, English references and spelling clues. Recursos 2.0 contains four sections of fifty short paragraphs. An English translation follows each paragraph. Recursos has four vocabulary tests (100 words each) with answer keys and a word index for quick reference.

La Lista De Listas is a collection 222 lists in Spanish that may be used as a game show in Spanish class, for Spanish club activities or for individual study. La Lista comes with instructions (in Spanish) on how to use it as a game. The concept is to simply list as many flowers, birds, musical instruments, etc., as possible. Segmentos del Programa La Lista contains a reference guide to video excerpts from the game show La Lista so that students may watch examples of how the game is played.

Guiones de Cuentos de Hadas are scripts of seven classic fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. The corresponding videos may be found by searching Simsala Grimm with the Spanish title. Each video is approximately 24 minutes.

Cortos are short scripts in Spanish of videos primarily from episodes of the show How It's Made. The corresponding videos may be found by searching the Spanish title of the video. Some are at dailymotion.com. If you have problems finding these videos or would like to have them all on a thumb drive, please feel free to contact me. The time duration in the TOC (for the How It's Made videos) is from an entire episode. The videos are generally 5 minutes.

Recursos Nemotecnicos: El Palacio De La Memoria contains 40 pages of mnemonic devices to help with difficult Spanish vocabulary words.

Spanish Cognates organizes cognates by their endings. Besides the benefits of the vocabulary, cognates that follow a pattern are a good place to practice speech.

Here are three scripts in Spanish from Sherlock Holmes videos starring Jeremy Brett. The three scripts are: The Red-Headed League, The Blue Carbuncle and The Norwood Builder. The videos may be found using the Spanish titles. The videos are approximately 52 minutes.

Spanish song

The old Crazy Eights is a classic card game that can be used in Spanish to practice basic and repetitive speech. A short instructional video is a nice touch. There are an endless number of ways to play Crazy Eights. The rules provided here are meant to keep the game simple. Ese Ocho Loco comes with rules, useful phrases, scoring, and a score sheet. Ese Ocho Loco is in Spanish so a vocabulary review may be a good homework assignment.

These are twenty-two quick ways to practice speech.

Cute little bedtime story for children and adults.

This is a variation of the comedy routine performed by Abbott and Costello done in Spanish.

A play on Old MacDonald.

Segmentos del Programa La Lista is a reference guide to excerpts from videos from the game show La Lista. The excerpts show examples of how to play the game La Lista De Listas.

This is how I imagine that Forrest Gump would talk about winter if he lived near a snow belt.