Infográfica: Historia de la Camiseta de Fútbol

Will Ferrell on Jimmy Kimmell in Spanish

Promoting the movie 'La Casa de mi Padre' on the Jimmy Kimmell show.

Memes en Español

I recently came across Memes en Español and bookmarked it to use for next year since we are about to enter our exam period. It is a very simple set-up with a meme and 3 accompanying questions in Spanish. I can see myself using these to start class off to get my students talking and in the mood to communicate. It may be a bit challenging for my first year class, but with a little tweaking of the questions, I'm sure I can still use it with them.

Here is the (comical) May 20th entry.

Achoos of the World

Infographic: Teachers & Digital Resources

#SituacionIncomodaCuando

I wanted to ease my students back into the swing of things so instead of jumping head first into the Subjuntive (eek!), we had a little fun.
I compiled a series of tweets about #SituacionIncomodaCuando which they had to go through and understand. We then voted on the top 3 most awkward ones. And finally each student had to come up and write their own tweet on the board.
Here is a shot of the sheet. Get in touch if you'd like the pdf version.

La Comida

I found these 2 great videos for preparing Guacamole that I will use during my Imperativo by way of Comida lessons.

The first one has comprehension questions pop up in the subtitles section. The language is simple and pretty straightforward and the speed is manageable for the students.

The second one highlights the use of the Imperativo in the 'tú' form showing the written form of each verb.

Final art project in Spanish class

To cap off our art unit, my Grade 12s were finally able to share their projects with our Art Gallery today.
The project was entitled 'La Hispanidad en el Arte'. The premiss was to include an element (individually chosen) from the Hispanic culture and to include it in an art form of their choice. They had to record themselves as the artist and answer questions.
You will see in the pictures below that projects ranged from watermelons, to maracas, to a piñata and many more. The creative juices were definitely flowing. 
The questions each artist had to record answers to were: -->

1. nombre del artista

2. fecha de nacimiento

3. lugar de nacimiento

4. ¿Qué inspira tu arte en general?

5. ¿Cuándo te sientes lo más creativo?

6. ¿Por qué escogiste este elemento de la hispanidad?

7. ¿Por qué es importante este elemento de la cultura?

8. ¿Cómo se llama tu obra?

9. ¿Qué fue tu inspiración para esto?

10. ¿Cuánto tiempo duró para terminar tu obra?

11. ¿Qué material utilizaste?

12. ¿Por qué utilizaste estos colores?

13. Incluye cualquier otro elemento para describir la obra que todavía no has mencionado.

They all sent me the recordings, I uploaded them to our blog and labelled them as Artista #1, etc., then labelled the pieces of art on each table accordingly. Then they used the ipads and headphones to listen to the recordings.

 

As they did the gallery visit, they had to fill in the following information.

I really enjoyed the outcome of this activity. The pieces were fantastic as you can see. Having them listen to each other was a great way to expose them to other Spanish accents. Overall they had fun creating their pieces and seeing each other's work. Some even asked to take pictures of their peers' projects!