Here are all of my favorite traditional Christmas songs from Spanish-speaking countries, as well as some Spanish-language-versions of English songs (I included those in the document because they are part of the ‘International SongFest’ that our district celebrates every year; we don’t spend much time on them in class.). The lyrics are in this document:…
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El Día de los Veteranos
Here is an article that my students read on Veteran’s Day…sorry for not posting it sooner!! Save it away for next year, or use it whenever. I like it because there are many cognates, making it easy to understand, and it is in the past tense, which is what we are working on in Spanish…
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Ghost Stories Part II
Thank you so much to Emily Baker at Barlett High School for sharing the reading that she made about ghosts in Anchorage! I adapted it only to include some of the target structures that we’ve worked on so far this year. I am so excited that I now have a ghost reading for my students…
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Halloween
Are there any ghost stories about your school or other places in your community? Now is a great time to dig them out and translate them into comprehensible target language stories. They are always high interest and often involve pretty basic vocabulary (people often HEAR or SEE ghosts that WALK or TALK or SCREAM or…
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Men Make a Difference Day
This has nothing to do with World Languages, but I want to share it with you because it is fantastic!! Today, our school celebrated Men Make A Difference Day. This is a day created by Dr. Michael A. Robinson, CEO of Forest of the Rain Productions. According to Dr. Robinson, the goal of the day…
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Hispanic Heritage Month Writing Idea
Biography.com has a nice variety of fairly short biographies (written in English) of twelve different people from Spanish-speaking countries. For a writing activity, I had my students choose two and summarize them in Spanish. My directions were to include Where and when the person was born Where s/he lives (or lived) Something about his/her personal…
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