Imperfect and preterite are terms you will almost never hear in my classroom. Instead, when we focus on narrating in the past, we use phrases like descriptive past and sudden past. In my opinion, that’s the best way in my opinion to contrast them. The trick with putting them together is to get students to use one when they’re […]
Past subjunctive is not the easiest thing to find in a song, much less several repetitions of it. I blogged a bit about a couple of songs that do it, but I this song just crossed my radar and wow, what a gem for past subjunctive. It has 17 verbs in the past subjunctive, 8 […]
I just tagged on my Delicious all the Spanish-language corporate websites that I’ve mentioned on my blog. It makes it a lot more convenient to find the sites that my students have found interesting. You can find it here: http://delicious.com/wandermami/Corporate_Spanish_sites
Last week it was time to start reviewing how the two past tenses work together, and I just didn’t feel like the usual diagrams, writing exercises, prompted conversations, etc. So now that we have our Flip cameras, I told the students to write a movie script. They had to use both past tenses, and they […]
A little while ago I made a post about pleasure reading that elicited a few comments from Bethanie: Bethanie said… Could you elaborate on what you do with the reading guides/palabras claves? I would like to incorporate more long reading into my classes in addition to the shorter pieces I already use, but struggle with […]