music
July 6, 2011
A song made for early Spanish 1
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Last week Luis Fonsi‘s new album Tierra Firme came out – and it’s good. It’s worth the whole download, I promise. The Deluxe version came with the video for Gritar, as well as acoustic and ranchero versions of that fabulous song. As I was listening, this song called “Me gustas tú” came on. The more […]
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May 23, 2011
Combat the ‘este tiempo’ monster
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photo by Xiang Xi I don’t know about you, but my students even in their third and fourth years will slip into phases where they keep saying or writing ‘este tiempo’ instead of ‘esta vez.’ Or, un otro tiempo or más tiempos or el último tiempo. Here are a couple of songs to combat that […]
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February 23, 2011
photo by Jorge Mejía Peralta Sra. Birch commented on this post adding my lyrics file to Google docs, offering a link to her awesome wiki that has a link to her spreadsheet of music. It’s an amazing store of music categorized by singer, title, grammar focus, and other info, including YouTube links. It’s cool enough […]
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January 26, 2011
@lisajmch asked on Twitter this week about good activities for stem-changing verbs and my mind immediately went to a blog post I thought I’d made about a song with repetitions of ‘puedo,’ and again, it turned out it was in the dashboard and not written or published. So here goes. I feel like a broken […]
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January 15, 2011
Somewhere in Spanish 1 or 2 there usually comes up a unit that has something to do with health. I even have a unit in my AP course (with units I wrote myself) called “Cuidándo a mí” with health-related issues. In your Spanish health-related unit you really ought to include the song “Bilirrubina” por Juan […]
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December 20, 2010
I got a question via @espanolsrs about how I “teach” songs and whether my students understand what they’re singing. I thought I’d written a post about this before but when I browsed through my song label I didn’t see anything about it. Probably I just thought about it and didn’t actually write it (that happens […]
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August 15, 2010
Added some great new links
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I’ve tweaked some of my links on the right – added a couple of “communicative bloggers” and some “communicative tools” including a FANTASTIC YouTube channel for anyone who’s raising bilingual kids or teaches Spanish to children. I also finally replaced the old Yahoo radio link with a new link to my Pandora station, so you […]
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November 21, 2009
Voy + a + infinitive is a fun construction because it gives students the ability to talk about the future without too much trouble. It’s also fun to teach through music because there are several good songs for it. The first is ‘Irreemplazable‘ by Beyonce, always fun because the students know the English version. It […]
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November 19, 2009
It’s 19 de noviembre!
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http://media.imeem.com/m/X1eVzvIJMO/aus=false/ 19 De Noviembre – Carlos Vives Take advantage of today’s date to play Carlos Vives’ song 19 de noviembre. Here are some ways to use it: Listening: -See if they can hear the date at the beginning without seeing it (Spanish 1). Culture: -Tell students to look under “Historia” in this article to see […]
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November 4, 2009
The word ojalá finds its roots in Arabic, meaning “May allah grant that.” In Spanish it’s always followed by subjunctive, and here are two songs to help work with that. The first is with present, Ojalá que llueva café, by Juan Luis Guerra. It’s one of those songs that can lead you in a hundred different […]
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November 4, 2009
A song just for @mamitati
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This is a special post out to Tati, amazing bilingual mami blogger at WannaJugarWithMigo. I caught this song just the other day and I LOVE it! It’s a Christian song (I teach at a Christian school). Well, most of my high-schoolers were not as impressed as I was, but it’ll be fun to teach to […]
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October 26, 2009
David Bisbal’s YouTube channel
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David Bisbal is all over the music news lately for his whirlwind promotion of his new album, Sin Mirar Atrás (and it doesn’t hurt that his esposa Elena is expecting a little princesita). To stay up-to-date on what he’s doing these days, follow him on Twitter @davidbisbal and check out his muy chévere YouTube channel. […]
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