refresh their memory of country names in Latin America.begin describing where people are from and where they are located with the interrogative “dónde”.begin mapping sound to letters in spoken (sung) Spanish.Specifically, this song and accompanying materials will help my students: In the end, I just made my own materials that fit my style and I know will work in my classroom. There are also many lyrics sheets and cloze activities out there, but that wasn’t what I wanted either. I also found two fun activities from estudiafeliz, one for practicing nationalities and one an oral activity with flags. But, alas, I did not purchase their packet so I can’t be sure. I also saw that Zambombazo has a “La Gozadera” activity about geography, which may have worked for me, actually. Martina’s packet came with some interesting cultural activities that I may be able to include later in the semester once my students have a bit more language.
I am, however, stashing their materials away for a rainy day. Both of those ladies are great and their work is great too, but the stuff they created just wasn’t what I was looking for. In fact, I went on Teachers Pay Teachers, which I had never been on before in my life, and bought “La Gozadera” materials from both Martina Bex and Kara Jacobs. So, starting with a song in the L2 feels right.īefore I set to making my own materials to go with this song, I looked up who else had already put effort into creating accompanying materials. We will spend most of the semester reading and listening to various texts in class, including pop songs but also lots of other kinds of texts. I hope it makes a good impression! I like to make the first day an “experiential forecast” of what the semester will hold. I’ll have the song “La Gozadera” playing as students walk into my class for the very first time. That’s a thing, right? They seem like a fun party. (Like, I want to go to the club with them as the middle aged mom type in the entourage. Instead, we’ll do this activity for 30 minutes or so, spend 20 minutes on how the course will work, then they will read the rest of the syllabus at home and have to take an online quiz about the syllabus details before the next day’s class. I plan to teach a song of the week every week, but this song is actually what I plan to do on the VERY FIRST day of class instead of, you know, boring them with the traditional reading of the syllabus. Scroll down to find my Google Slides and handout all linked and ready for you to copy, adapt, edit, and use if they might be useful for you!Īs I mentioned in my previous post about how I plan to use the song “Criminal”, this semester I am teaching a first-semester Spanish course at my university that is geared toward true beginners.