verbs
October 20, 2017
Verb charts are a core piece of world language curriculum. Aren’t they? I suppose they are, but I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s because we know that visual organizers can work well for learning, and so someone once put the verbs in a chart in a certain order, and then it just got reproduced that […]
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December 14, 2014
I’ve skipped the #6 post for now and you’ll find out later why. Two of the resources I released this year were verb charts, a free pack of the three most common tenses and a complete pack of 8 charts available for purchase. You can find both of them here. But before you use them, […]
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March 24, 2014
A brand-new teaching resource is now available on the Learning Activity Resources page. The Complete Verb Pack contains the three charts in the free Simple Verb Pack (present, sudden past, and descriptive past) and five more charts designed to help your intermediate to pre-advanced students refine their accuracy. Each page contains an entire verb tense […]
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March 18, 2014
Corrections to simple verb pack
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The beauty of offering digital resources is as soon as I notice an error I can fix it and let you know about it! I’ve made two corrections to the sudden past chart in the Simple Verb Pack. One is just a colon that was missing, but I had also added conducir as an afterthought […]
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March 3, 2014
I’ve released the first resource through my new resource/activities page. It’s free and it’s a package of three verb charts: present tense, sudden past (preterit), and descriptive past (imperfect). Distribute as you wish to your students; I think you and they will find it a handy resource to check verb accuracy with entire tenses in […]
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February 7, 2014
How I use verb charts
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It occurs to me that putting resources in blog posts is all well and good, but then months pass and the blog post gets buried, and what if a teacher who just found Musicuentos needed that very resource? So, I’m about to begin releasing resources I’ve developed through a special section of the site. You’ll […]
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September 5, 2013
The most popular Latin pop song in the country has NOVICE written all over it. The song is called “Voy a vivir” by Marc Anthony. The chorus is a catchy, feel-good, novice-level message: Voy a reír, voy a bailar Vivir mi vida lalalalá Voy a reír, voy a gozar Vivir mi vida lalalalá This song […]
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July 6, 2013
Here’s a fun video that features an animal (gato), narration in present, and talking about wants and feelings. I don’t know the source of the song, but the video was made by a Spanish student who heard it in his class. Proficiency goals as you show this video: Narration in present Talking about feelings Talking […]
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