El personaje misterioso 2

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A collage featuring Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Sonia Sotomayor, Gloria Estefan and Dolores Huerta.

This is the second video of our El personaje misterioso series. Students learnt in the first one how to conjugate regular -ar verbs in the past tense, while trying to guess the famous soccer player the lesson focused on. El personaje misterioso is now back to take care of the pretérito conjugation of regular -er and -ir verbs. In this … Read More

El personaje misterioso 1

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An extract from a video featuring 4 famous Hispanic soccer players: Leo Messi, Maradona, Andrés Iniesta and Alfredo Di Stéfano

What do you talk about with your students?Once that we get to know them, and we ask them about their names, likes, favorite colors and so on, most of the spontaneous and real conversations will be about things they did.We may ask them how their weekend was.How they celebrated their birthday.If they liked the movie they went to see at … Read More

La carta a los Reyes Magos

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A Spanish kid writes a letter to the Three Wise Men

The Three Wise Men is such an important tradition in the Hispanic world. It makes the Christmas holiday more than a week longer. In our country (Spain), students don’t go back to school until, at least, 8th January. That means the Christmas break usually lasts 18 days, and it could be more depending on the day of the week 6th … Read More

El diseño de La Catrina

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A mural from Diego Rivera showing La Catrina and Frida Kahlo

Laura worked with her students on one of our Bablingua projects the other day. The one about making a photo frame about a Hispanic champion. The activity went great, but Laura was surprised most of the kids didn’t know any of those champions. Not even Frida. Or Picasso. Do your students know them? And in any case, how can we … Read More

La celebración del Día de Muertos

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A man with his face painted as a skull poses in front of an ofrenda during the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead

If you’ve seen the movie Coco, you may remember the scene in which Abuela Elena breaks Miguel’s guitar. Miguel’s family is ready to celebrate the Day of the Dead at home, where they’ve built a beautiful ofrenda. Then Miguel’s grandma breaks his guitar, and Miguel runs away. He ends up going to the cemetery to steal -or borrow- the guitar … Read More

Hacemos una ofrenda

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An ofrenda for El Día de Muertos divided in 3 different levels

I’m sure we all agree that learning by doing is one of the best educational strategies. So if you want your students to learn about El Día de Muertos, making an ofrenda is clearly the thing to do. It sounds simple. But hold your horses! If you decide to build an ofrenda, there are 2 risks you need to get … Read More

¿Qué es el Día de Muertos?

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Paper photo frames made my Spanish learners to celebrate EL Día de Muertos

This is what you’ll see by the end of this super engaging lesson about the Day of the Dead: Your students will make beautiful photo frames to decorate the class. They’ll also describe those frames in Spanish. They’ll know what Day of the Dead is about: when, where, how and why it’s celebrated. They’ll learn the basic vocabulary related to … Read More

Excursiones en el eje cafetero

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An explorer, a palm tree, a Jeep, a map and a banner that reads "5 excursiones - Eje cafetero - Colombia"

When tourists visit our home country (Spain), they don’t need to use big numbers. Most of the things they buy -train tickets, souvenirs, meals- cost less than €1,000. Unless they buy several expensive tickets to see Real Madrid or spend many days at a fancy hotel, bills will stay in the dozens or hundreds. Colombia, and most Spanish-speaking countries, are … Read More

Mi barrio

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El Pueblito Paisa, Medellin (Colombia)

We used to live in Alcorcón, Madrid (Spain), in a small apartment in a building block. There were many places we could easily just walk to: our school, the supermarket, the park… We live in Dover, Delaware (U.S.A.), now. We have a much larger house with our own yard. Even if our schools are really close, as well as other … Read More

Quiero ser… Auxiliar de vuelo

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A Spanish flight attendant answers the question "Por qué has querido ser azafata?"

The title of my last school PD of the 2022/23 academic year was Student voice. Its goal was to encourage student participation and to come up with strategies that help us listen to their input. Why?Because when students are involved in the education process they’re more engaged. When they’re more engaged, there are less discipline problems and we can focus … Read More