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October 25, 2009
Correction on Pin Pon in Shrek
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I blogged about the brilliant use of Pin Pon in the Shrek film (to replace the culturally irrelevant reference to the Muffin Man) here. But since then it appears that video has been removed. The clip is currently available here. (As an added correction I should mention that the tale is actually from a Chilean […]
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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
Juanes’s Paz Sin Fronteras concert was such a big deal on the world politics scene (he’s more deserving of the Nobel PP than Obama, but don’t get me started on that, lol) that it would be a shame for a Spanish teacher to pass up the opportunity to encourage world citizens in our classrooms. Here’s […]
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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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September 20, 2009
This is the presentation I did for the fall conference of the Kentucky World Language Association. And here is the handout.
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September 15, 2009
My husband is a bit of a tennis buff and so we were watching the US Open final yesterday and watched Argentinian Juan Martín del Potro defeat Federer in a stunning upset. In the awards ceremony, del Potro gave a short speech in Spanish (at 1 mins 15 sec). I thought, that’d be very interesting […]
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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 26, 2009
Today my AP students will do what they do every Wednesday–give a 2-minute oral presentation based on a print source and an audio source, involving some type of synthesis and persuasion. Our current unit (in my own curriculum) is called “Un Pasado que Me Construyó” and is intended to practice and develop command of the […]
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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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