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This Día de los Muertos PowerPoint comes jam-packed with information, photos, and video to help even your beginning students understand, in Spanish, the basic information about this important cultural holiday and how to talk about it in Spanish. Objectives include: Explain what Día de los Muertos celebrates. Describe some traditions relating to Día de los Muertos. Talk about how Día de los Muertos is celebrated in Mexico. Write about how Día de los Muertos is celebrated in Mexico.

This upper novice/low intermediate-level lesson stays in the present tense but deepens students' vocabulary knowledge about technology in French, while also introducing expressions of frequency. Includes speaking and writing activities. Objectives include: •Get familiarized with the names of technologies in French •Talk about different types of technology and their use in your life •Use expressions of frequency to express how often you use different types of technology •Talk about technological

A beginning lesson on the present progressive in Spanish that has students reviewing over two dozen verbs to use in the progressive with estar. Cultural photos are included along with photos of daily life to create contexts for ¿Qué está(n) haciendo? and ¿Qué está pasando? Slides include sample sentences and listening and writing activities. Objectives include: • Talk about what you and other people are doing right now • Use the present progressive ( estar + ____ndo) to talk about what’s happeni

This novice/low intermediate-level lesson stays in the present tense and includes speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. Rooms of the house and furniture, comparatives, and some demonstratives (este, esta, estos) are included, as well as a review of adjectives. Lesson objectives include: •Describir los cuartos de una casa •Hacer y contestar preguntas sobre casas, cuartos y muebles •Comparar y contrastar diferentes tipos de casas y cuartos •Empezar a usar los demostrativos para signifi

A beginning lesson on las compras y la ropa that introduces clothing items with listening and speaking activities. Cultural components include information on bargaining (el regateo), an authentic video with a Spanish speaker talking about her clothing and shopping preferences, and an activity with phrases for asking about and purchasing clothing in a store. Objectives include: • Hablar de ropa, compras y preferencias y entender la misma información en un video • Usar frases comunes para hacer co

This intermediate-level lesson about environmental impacts and solutions includes speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. It introduces the present subjunctive in phrases like "Es importante que...". Lesson objectives include: • Hablar de la importancia del medio ambiente • Describir acciones importantes de hacer para proteger el medio ambiente • Presentar y defender recomendaciones para reducir nuestro impacto sobre el medio ambiente

Looking for a fun pronunciation lesson with tongue twisters that also builds listening skills? Here it is! Objectives: To be able to recognize and produce the sounds of the letters “j” and “x” (that they make most of the time in Spanish words)To pronounce “México” in SpanishTo get acquainted with some of the process by which official decisions are made about the Spanish languageTo be able to pick out main information and some details from a text (written or aural)

This lesson about numbers past 10 in Spanish will get your students saying them, counting them, spelling them, singing them, and using them to describe age, years, and more. Objectives include: • Recognize and use numbers from 10-20 • Recognize and use numbers by tens from 10-100 • Recognize and use numbers by hundreds from 100-1000 • Discuss age, years, and money If you have ANY trouble with the file, the links, or the audio, please email me at info (at) teachingsolved (dot) com to resolve it.

A beginning lesson on la moda/la ropa that introduces clothing items with listening, speaking, and writing activities. Also reviews colors. Cultural components include learning authentic phrases for asking about and purchasing clothing in a store. Objectives include: •Talk about clothing, colors of clothing, and fashion preferences •Describe clothing in speaking and writing •Recognize and use phrases typically heard in a store to describe and purchase clothing

A beginning lesson on las palabras interrogativas that introduces Dónde, Quién(es), Qué, Cómo, Cuándo, Por qué, Cuánto/a, and Cuántos/as. Cultural photos are included along with photos of student life and shopping to create contexts for the interrogative words. Slides include sample sentences and speaking activities. Objectives include: • Ask different types of questions • Ask and answer questions about who and where people are and what they are doing • Ask and answer questions about when, why,

This lesson about the months of the year uses an original recording of a traditional song as well as cultural references to get your students learning and using the months. Includes speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Objectives include: * List the months of the year in Spanish * Get familiar with some cultural events that happen in each month in the Spanish-speaking world * Talk about your preferences for months of the year and when birthdays are If you have any trouble with the file, th

This novice/low intermediate-level lesson stays in the present tense and introduces travel vocabulary, while also working on students' speaking, reading, and writing skills. Objectives include: Get familiar with a few traditional sayings in Spanish Describe what you like to do on vacation Talk and write about what you plan to do on vacation Use cognates to help understand a text Decide on sites to see and transportation methods based on a text Get familiar with some famous places in Mexico City

This novice-level lesson engages students by associating colors with personality traits--using an authentic pop psychology reading--as they learn vocabulary in Portuguese. Objectives include: •Talk about personality •Talk about colors and their emotional energies •Use cognates as a strategy to understand more words in Portuguese •Express agreement and disagreement

This novice-level lesson engages students by associating colors with personality traits--using an authentic pop psychology reading--as they learn vocabulary in French. Objectives include: •Talk about personality •Talk about colors and their connections to personal image •Use cognates as a strategy to understand more words in French •Express agreement and disagreement

This jam-packed lesson in Spanish, to be used across one or more days of class, contains readings about foods from the Spanish-speaking world, activities for two videos, lots of images to aid comprehension, and lots of interaction and opportunities to use and acquire Spanish. Objectives include: Talk about food and food preferencesIdentify and describe some traditional foods from Spain and Latin America that have become popular in the United StatesCompare and contrast typical foods in the U.S.

In this intermediate/advanced lesson, students build on their existing knowledge of travel vocabulary and explore the ideas of ecotourism and how it is culturally and environmentally responsible, using a reading, a video, and an included worksheet. Objectives, strategies, and activities in this lesson include: •Hablar de nuestras preferencias para viajes •Conocer el concepto del ecoturismo y sus principios •Leer y escuchar para encontrar información específica •Sugerir ideas para reducir nuestro

In this intermediate lesson about arts, students learn the difference between the preterite and imperfect as they gain experience reading and talking about personal experiences in the past. The readings focus on artisans in Mexico and one young artist/designer's inclusion of her local Oaxacan culture in her designs. Objectives, strategies, and activities in this lesson include: • Hablar del arte y de nuestras preferencias del arte • Hacer y contestar preguntas sobre el pasado usando el pretérito

This jam-packed PowerPoint includes video, explanatory links, and conversation activities to help students understand and explain their morning routine in French. Objectives include: •Review saying what time you do things in French •Identify the names of some daily routine activities in French •Use cognates to recognize unfamiliar vocabulary in French •Listen for a main point and a few details •Describe your morning routine in French

This PowerPoint introduces the forms of the verb ser through listening, reading, and speaking activities that allow students to start using it in Spanish to increase their communicative ability. Extension activity is to present a Spanish-speaking celebrity to the class. Instructions are in English. Objectives: Recognize main points and a few details of self-introductions (spoken and written)Identify people, places, and things using forms of the verb serDescribe a few physical and personality ch

A beginning or intermediate lesson that includes sports, stem-changing verbs, comparatives, listening, and interaction. Cultural components include learning about the popularity of baseball and soccer in Cuba in an authentic video and listening to the rules of each sport described in an authentic video designed for Spanish-speaking children. Objectives include: ▰ Conocer un poco de vocabulario relacionado con los deportes ▰ Usar los verbos que cambian de raíz (stem-changing verbs) para hablar de