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

Encuentra a alguien que

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Objective: encourage students to use Spanish in a conversation with other studentsRequired materials: a copy of the handout for each studentPreparation: minimalTime: about 40 minutes, depending on the class size.Number of students: this activity works better with classes over 10 studentsResources: El fin de semana – Pretérito indefinido: PDF – Google slide Join Bablingua to access the file about reflexive … Read More

Una mentira

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Objective: review tenses or vocabularyRequired materials: nonePreparation: noneTime: at least 10 minutesNumber of students: noneDirections: Three trues and a lie is a popular activity that I like to use to review and practice what students learnt in previous classes. It could be a certain tense (pretérito indefinido) or vocabulary (familia).If you’d like the activity to last longer, start by organizing … Read More