Spanish 3
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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April 6, 2009
In Spanish 3 these days we’re looking at the por/para contrasts and for this I like to use two songs that nicely illustrate this unique difference. The first is Solo por ti by Josh Groban. Yes, some students won’t like it because he is a classical singer, but it’s a beautiful song. Incidentally, also an […]
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March 9, 2009
Hey, my title rhymes. 😀 Luis Fonsi has a new(ish) song out that actually hit the Billboard Top 100. It’s kind of slow but very catchy. The song is called No Me Doy Por Vencido, and incidentally the video is pretty good too (and 100% legal, yay!). In one part in the chorus, the verb […]
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March 9, 2009
Today I gave my 3rd quarter story test in Spanish 3. It’s about a peasant and a princess who get married despite the facts that they just met and her father doesn’t approve. It uses a lot of the vocab we’ve worked on in Spanish 3 this quarter. There’s a mistake on the question part–I […]
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February 3, 2009
It greatly bothers me how history books, history classes, and the daily news sources largely ignore Latin America. Car bombings and such in Iraq make headline news all the time because we’re involved and that somehow makes them more important than such things that have become commonplace in Colombia because of a more than 40-year […]
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October 3, 2008
Reading in Spanish 3
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I firmly believe that the best way to acquire new vocabulary is to hear it or read it, in context, in multiple contexts, many times. So, personally, I read in Spanish whenever I have the time. I rarely read fiction in English. This year I’ve been really in to Isabel Allende’s Zorro and Inés del […]
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