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Wall Calendar for the 2009/10 School Year

Posted by Alvaro under: News

Our wall calendar is filled with pictures from the southern estates of Mexico, and it includes the most important celebrations of all the Spanish Speaking countries. You can order it from the Videos and More section of this site. Delivery charges only apply to orders below 80$, so take a look at our De Compras en el Rastro and Barcelona y Madrid sin humo DVDs before making a decision.

The calendar is totally in Spanish and it includes more than 60 public holidays and celebrations, some of them common to all the countries -such as Día de Reyes, Navidad or Jueves Santo- and others specific to one of them -Natalicio de José de Diego (Puerto Rico), Batalla de las Piedras (Uruguay) or Primer Grito de Independencia (Panama)-.It starts in August 2009 and it covers the whole school year, ending in June 2010. It is a great resource to decorate your classroom and to help you not miss any Hispanic festivity.

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Play Bingo with your students

Posted by Alvaro under: Resources

Our first Bingo game is available in the Games section of our page. It is a great way to review 75 words belonging to the housing vocabulary. After purchasing this game, you’ll be able to download a .zip file that contains the game executable file and a PDF document with the instructions and the 30 different bingo cards.
Since the game randomly draws the words, you’ll be able to play as many different games as you wish. There are also a large numbers of ways to play it: individually or in groups, with just one card per person/group or more…
Bingo is one of the most famous and useful games for foreign language teachers. We hope you enjoy our version, which combines technology, sound and the traditional cards with colorful pictures that will surely help your students to learn or review these words.

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Student books for next school year: buy 2 and get 1 free

Posted by Laura under: News

The 2008/09 school year is about to end, and it’s time to start planning for the new academic year. We’d like to offer you a free student book of our “De Compras en el Rastro” package for every two copies that you purchase. This is a great opportunity to take your students to “El Rastro”, Madrid’s famous flea market.
We chose Madrid’s “El Rastro” as the scenario for our first long video because of everything that it has to offer to foreign language students. It’s always crowded, full of curious things, and it’s a place where people do the kind of things that are usually the topics of our lesson plans: shopping, traveling, eating…
The “De Compras en el Rastro” DVD is divided in two parts:

  • A 5 minute documentary which provides the basic information about this street market.
  • A 17 minute story, in which your students will go to “El Rastro” with Alberto, Lucía, Raquel and Elena, the four main characters of the story.

The DVD covers different topics, including the time, meeting people, relationships, transportation, buying a ticket, describing people, shopping, and birthday parties.
The “De Compras en el Rastro” package includes a 28-page book full of activities, the answer key and the scripts of the DVD.
You can order “De Compras en el Rastro” and the student’s books in the video section of this page. Please notice that the $15.00 transport fee only applies to orders below $80.00. When ordering student’s books, introduce the number of copies you’d like to pay for, and we’ll add a free book for every two purchases.

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Video and activities to teach or review the verb “gustar”

Posted by Alvaro under: News


Many students struggle with this verb, and are not sure about where to place “no” or “mucho”, the difference between “gusta” and “gustan” or the use of the pronouns “me”, “te”, “le”, “nos” and “les”. We have added a new video to our icebreaker section about this topic. The activities that come with this video will help your students to solve those problems, while learning what Spaniards do in their free time. This icebreaker includes a 4-minute video filmed in Madrid, Barcelona, and Granada; an audio activity with native speakers talking about things they like; and a 7-pake PDF booklet with writing and grammar practice activities, the answer keys and the transcripts of the video and audio file.

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