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August 19, 2019
Supercharge a “News” unit
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And now, for the nightly news. For students approaching or solidly sitting in Intermediate Land, a unit focused on news reporting can add some real power to world language class. Consider what pops up in the news: high-interest stories (engagement!) narration interviews (multiple voices!) culture (practices + perspectives!) the perfect tenses (“17 people have gotten sick […]
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June 29, 2009
Developing world citizens
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With all the amazing things popping up on the internet, there’s no excuse not to help our students become educated world citizens by keeping them pondering important events in the Spanish-speaking world. E.g. last year’s rescue of Betancourt and the other hostages was a monumental shift in the situation between FARC and Uribe and dominated […]
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