There are so many interesting resources to utilize here. In the latest post, In the spirit of open source: Ciudad de las bestias, La Cuentista Profesora (as she calls herself) generously shares palabras claves and reading guides for all 20 chapters (!) of a book for adolescents by Isabel Allende. She includes a link to her Google Docs for accessing and printing the materials. This is for advanced, high school level students. As a huge fan of reading assignments for language students, I find this an amazing resource!
Another post provides a link to Nike's Spanish language website, along with her idea to use the "Nike shoe-builder" function as a personalized and extremely authentic activity with tons of visual cues in support of the language. The language is basic enough to be used for novice or perhaps intermediate students.
She's a prolific blogger, with nicely labeled posts that can be easily browsed under the labels section on the side. And I find her enthusiasm contagious!
Hey Betsy! That is super cool. This made me think, I just ordered pizza today and I looked at the Pizza Hut website. I think it might be fun to use that as a potential food-related activity (having students go online and order a pizza). I looked at the Nike site and it's really cool because it is, like you said, very authentic, but at the same time, fairly simple. So its seems like an empowering activity for students. Thanks for posting that!
ReplyDeleteHere's the Pizza Hut site (not that it would be difficult to find) if you're interested:
English: http://www.pizzahut.com/#
Spanish: http://espanol.pizzahut.com/enes/
Love the musicuentos site (blog)! When you click on the "songs" label it directs you to a ton of videos which have all been labeled under headings describing their grammatical content. What a great resource for showing authetic examples of some of those constructs taught in the classroom. Fun site!
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