CI book reviews LA HIJA DEL SASTRE 27 Dec 20191 Jan 2020 A CI classic that carves new words in the students´minds It was almost seven years ago that for the first time I read La Hija del Sastre by Carrie Toth…
CI book reviews RIGO, PEDALING FOR LIFE 22 Dec 20191 Jan 2020 Rigoberto Urán, a famous Colombian cyclist and better known as Rigo, is the protagonist of this new story written by the prolific author Adriana Ramírez. In this novel Ramírez presents…
Games PUZZLES, PUZZLES, PUZZLES 19 Dec 201919 Dec 2019 Photo by Kevin Grieve During the school year we work on activities that allow our students to practice their second language skills. We do projects, games, tests and even act. However,…
Podcast Culturales MI CORDÓN UMBILICAL 18 Dec 201922 Dec 2019 Photo by Tim Bish Existe en Colombia y en algunos países hispanos, la costumbre de guardar un pedazo del cordón umbilical del recién nacido. Dicen las abuelas que era tradición enterrar…
Podcast Culturales GARCILASO AND GÓNGORA PODCAST 18 Dec 201918 Dec 2019 Photo by Thought Catalog Recently I shared a PODCAST PROJECT I gave to my upper level classes students as their midterm final. I will be sharing some of their work that teachers are…
Free resources and ideas HOW WE SEE THE WORLD 17 Dec 201917 Dec 2019 We, humans spend much of our lives organizing the world around us. We sort, separate and catalog until somehow everything makes sense. This desire to classify everything is the same…
Podcast Culturales DON QUIJOTE PODCAST 17 Dec 201917 Dec 2019 Photo by Mathew Schwartz Recently I shared a PODCAST PROJECT I gave to my upper level classes students as their midterm final. I will be sharing some of their work that…
Free resources and ideas A QUICK JEOPARDY GAME TO REVIEW FIRST SEMESTER OF AP SPANISH LITERATURE 15 Dec 2019 CLICK HERE TO ACCESS A FIRST SEMESTER AP SPANISH LITERATURE JEOPARDY GAME I CREATED USING FACTILE. "BE AWARE THAT I FOLLOW THE CRONOLOGICAL SYLLABUS" I´D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO…
CI book reviews BRINGING A LITTLE BIT OF ACTION TO CI 15 Dec 2019 The great boom that the Free Voluntary Reading (FVR) is cureently having in world language classes has allowed us to know much better the reading tastes of our students. In…
Free resources and ideas REAL FAMILIES IN THE WL CLASSROOM 12 Dec 201912 Dec 2019 Mi pequeña gran familia The family topic is usually only brought up in lower levels of second language instruction. The main objective is to learn -memorize- the words related to…
