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This year’s official commercial for the Spanish Christmas Lottery was released early this morning. Kent House shared it on the iFLT/NTPRS/CI Teaching group on Facebook and oh, I am so glad that he did! These commercials make me cry every year. Instead of luck and fortune and indulgence, each year they uphold the values of generosity…
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Instead of playing with a deck of cards, play this familiar children’s game with original cards filled with images or text as an opportunity to to get students speaking in low-risk situation even as they continue interacting with a text (’cause it’s all about the input, baby!). Before you play Go Fish Prepare students for…
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If you follow The Comprehensible Classroom on Facebook, you may have already seen this video. (If not, visit our Facebook page now and “like” us!”) This video is perfect for MovieTalk because the action repeats several times within the video clip. (That’s also what I love about the short film Destiny, which I’ve blogged about before.) Here…
Read MoreLast year, I made reference to a Pingu clip that I MovieTalked as an anticipatory set for Chapter 2 of El Nuevo Houdini, but I never posted the clip! Silly me! Thanks, Nancy, for reminding me to put it out there! The episode is about what happens at home when Pingu’s parents go out for…
Read MoreSa-weet! I’ve found a good film to use for MovieTalk in my Cierra la puerta unit! Check it out! It provides lots of repetitions of the structures because of the repetitive nature of the plot. It’s also great for ordinal numbers and house and home vocab. I’ve written out the basic Spanish and English scripts…
Read MoreJulia used this short to do several MovieTalk demos in French at TPRS gatherings here in Anchorage, and she MovieTalked it to my students in Spanish. It is great to include in any unit about cooking, dating, getting ready/reflexive verbs, or house and home vocab. I used it to do a targeted study of reflexive…
Read MoreSo remember how I mentioned that I have an intern this quarter? Well, she’s awesome. It has been SO GREAT to have someone to talk through ideas with. Two brains are better than one, that’s for sure! We just finished a killer CI-friendly introduction to -AR preterite verbs (since I am backtracking and trying to…
Read MoreI used Movie Talk to show a videoclip suggested in the Teacher’s Guide of Houdini Chapter 5 with my Spanish 2’s today. IT WAS AWESOME!! I need to do MovieTalk at least once a week. It took us 35 minutes to talk through a 3 minute clip, including re-watching it straight through at the end.…
Read MoreEarlier this week, I was catching up on some blog reading and noticed a pattern…MovieTalk, MovieTalk, MovieTalk! Laurie Clarcq wrote about using MovieTalk with Despereaux on her Embedded Reading blog. Kristin Duncan wrote about using MovieTalk with The Paperman on TPRS Teacher. Bryan Kandel wrote about trying out MovieTalk for the first time with a…
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We are about to begin the novel El nuevo Houdini by Carol Gaab with my Spanish 2 class. To introduce the book, I started with the Houdini Slideshow from the book’s Teacher’s Guide. Then, I followed it with a MovieTalk using this clip of Houdini’s rope escape. Great success!! It was fun to watch the…
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