Spanish Proficiency Videos
Description:
Videos
to practice for Spanish proficiency exams which are divided into six proficiency levels and include videos with native speakers from various
countries.
Activity Ideas:Interpretive: Play the video and have the students guess the question that was answered.
Interpersonal: Students select one of the questions from the site and survey the class, collecting different oral responses to that question.
Presentational: Students take their results of the interpersonal class survey above and write an essay comparing and contrasting their own opinion with those of their classmates.
Phonetics Website
Description:
A video and animated guide to phonetics in English, German and Spanish.
Activity Ideas:
Interpretive:
Students watch the videos about Spanish vowels. They form groups
based on the five Spanish vowels. Keeping their eyes closed, students make
their vowel sound and try to find their group.
Interpersonal: The teacher draws a
phoneme from a hat or pick from a list. In groups of two, students would then go back and
forth coming up with words that contain the given phoneme until one is
“stumped”. The other player then receives a point. The teacher can assign a time limit or wait for a lull in participation before moving on to the next phoneme.
Lingus TV Videos
Description:
Lingus TV provides videos made for students divided by proficiency levels of Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Videos feature the
same characters in every day situations and often include humorous miscommunications and behavior.
Activity Ideas:
Using the video "El mando de la tele"
Interpretive: Students examine the use of
"exclamativos" in the video. They also receive a list of possible solutions to the problem of the
remote not working and they check off the ones they have heard.
Presentational: Students are assigned a group. Each group will be given two Qué expressions: qué extrano, qué raro, qué cursi; and groups will need to come up with a skit incorporating those expressions and presenting a problem.
Description:
These videos are divided into 4 levels of proficiency. Topics are varied and high-interest. Website provides transcripts for all videos and well-done activities with answer keys for most.
Activity Ideas:
Using the video "La familia del Rey"
Interpretive: Students receive names and titles of the family members mentioned in the video and they need to match the name with the title.
Interpretive: Students receive names and titles of the family members mentioned in the video and they need to match the name with the title.
Interpersonal: Students complete an information gap activity with two versions of the royal family tree.
Presentational: Students create a digital photo album of the royal family including short captions.
Using the video "Opinar sobre las corridas de toros"
Interpretive: As a previewing activity, students answer some true/false questions about their prior knowledge. After viewing, students write down arguments for and against bull-fighting.
Interpersonal: Students form two lines: one "pro bull-fighting" and one "against bull-fighting", one side begins with an argument and the other side refutes it. The arguments move down the line refuting each new point creating a spontaneous debate.
Presentational: Students write a short research paper explaining how bull-fighting used to be in Spain , how laws have changed and a list of places where bull-fighting still occurs. Students could also write a creative story from the perspective of the bull (i.e. Ferdinand).
Pronunciation Videos
Description:
This site provides videos of the pronunciation of many tricky words, pronunciation explanations with audio, and a fun word of the day.