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October 25, 2009
Correction on Pin Pon in Shrek
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I blogged about the brilliant use of Pin Pon in the Shrek film (to replace the culturally irrelevant reference to the Muffin Man) here. But since then it appears that video has been removed. The clip is currently available here. (As an added correction I should mention that the tale is actually from a Chilean […]
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October 23, 2009
If you’re going to explain to students the difference between que and lo que and expect that to do the trick, good luck. I don’t think I’ve ever taken the time to explain the difference in my class, but it’s interesting to see how students use it just with input. For a more focused approach, […]
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October 20, 2009
This has been out for a while but I thought I’d post it in one list here. It always surprises me how few of these I’ve ever heard of. Always makes me head to imeem or YouTube to hear some new stuff. SO glad to see Aquí Estoy Yo as one of the nominados for […]
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October 20, 2009
Subjunctive by reason of indefinite or negative antecedent… doesn’t that sound fun? This is my story for this reason of subjunctive. We do this in the spring semester of Spanish 2. Our principal wakes up in the morning and goes to school. He asks the woman at the front desk, “I’m looking for the student […]
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October 16, 2009
When you’re testing someone to place them in a certain level at a language school, you’re supposed to push them until their language breaks down, and the best way to do that is to stop asking “is your mom tall” and start asking “what do you think about interracial marriage?” The assumption is that when […]
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October 15, 2009
I wanted to give a shout out to Zachary Jones, a blogger I found out about through Twitter, who does what I do, only better. Take a minute to visit Actualidades and it’ll be worth your time. At least I still have my stories, haha.
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October 11, 2009
My October playlist
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These are the songs I’ve downloaded this month: REIK: Llegó tu amor, Noviembre sin ti TOMMY TORRES DUET WITH JESSE & JOY: Imparable LUIS FONSI: Llueve por adentro, Quien te dijo eso LA QUINTA ESTACIÓN WITH MARC ANTHONY: Recuérdame (Fabulous duet but too sensual for my class) JUANES: Lo que me gusta a mí JESSE […]
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October 11, 2009
Juanes’s Paz Sin Fronteras concert was such a big deal on the world politics scene (he’s more deserving of the Nobel PP than Obama, but don’t get me started on that, lol) that it would be a shame for a Spanish teacher to pass up the opportunity to encourage world citizens in our classrooms. Here’s […]
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October 8, 2009
Here’s another website idea–use nikecorre.com’s shoe-builder to build the shoe that’s right for you. I mean, for your students. http://nikerunning.nike.com/nikeos/p/nikeplus/es_LA/footwear_finder
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October 8, 2009
You just never know what you’ll find surfing through corporate websites. Yes, sometimes you end up getting a cow on a motorcycle through an obstacle-ridden farm on Mundonick.com, and that’s fun, but corporate websites often contain videoclips that are pure gold for Spanish teachers. They’re exactly what we need–short, high-impact, high-interest, and repetitive. Go check […]
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September 25, 2009
The website of the Latin Recording Academy has undergone a serious makeover, and I have to say it is COOL. More importantly, the nominations for the Latin Grammys are out!! This is an important way for me to see what’s new and what’s popular-I’m always embarrassed at how few names I even recognize on the […]
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September 24, 2009
Certain things are super easy to find songs for. Reflexives. Present tense, particularly yo y tú. Preterite yo y tú. That’s about all love songs do, right? Talk about you and me in the past, lol. But the other day my colleague asked if I knew of any songs for 3rd-person preterite, and that was […]
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