songs
November 7, 2009
Zachary Jones’s “Clozeline”
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Don’t re-invent the wheel-often there are magically appealing and effective activities out there on the web if you just know where to look. I just got a link over Twitter to Zachary Jones‘s post about his activity called “Clozeline.” He’s got cloze quizzes to a whole bunch of songs, with grammatical topics. Enjoy!
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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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October 27, 2009
I recently got permission to download Google Earth and it is addictive. For class, we’ve used it to look at the cropland around the towns in California where Francisco Jimenez grew up as a migrant child. We’ve used it to explore as much as possible the trip up the Orinoco by Alex and the crew […]
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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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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
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 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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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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August 29, 2009
I blogged about my favorite 5a Estación song, La Frase Tonta de la Semana, here and here. The second time I reported that the music video had been taken down for violation of copyright. Good news, Sony BMG has the videoclip oficial up on the La Quinta Estación YouTube channel, along with the duet with […]
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August 25, 2009
I love crossover songs
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I love crossover songs. That’s what I call those songs that have so much good material in them that they’re great from Spanish 1 to AP. Fanny Lu’s new hit Tú No Eres Para Mí is one of those. It’s especially good for uses and conjugations of ser. There’s the title, which is of course […]
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July 14, 2009
Fonseca is a fun singer, another Colombian (they can seriously turn out some people with rhythm, eh?) with some great songs for teaching. Of course our favorite in my class is the ‘dancing firemen song’ “Hace tiempo,” which I blogged about here, but another one I like to use is “Te mando flores”, with its […]
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June 30, 2009
A song for your hip-hop fans
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David Bisbal collaborated with reggaetón stars Wisin & Yandel on a unity-themed song called Torre de Babel. You can see the official music video here. Also, with reggaetón you never know, but I read through the lyrics and didn’t see anything offensive, but you might want to take a look because while I’m familiar with most […]
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