El Internado. Have you caught on to the craze yet? Newly released on Netflix last year, this television series from Spain has Spanish language students all over the country really looking forward to watching TV in the target language, and even watching the show on their own time outside of class! Featuring a group of high school friends who investigate together the macabre events that are occurring at their boarding school in northern Spain, this show will have your students on the edge of their seats, and looking forward to watching the next episode each week. In my classroom yesterday after the screening of Season 1 Episode 3, I heard students bragging about how much of El Internado they had watched at home, with one student winning the competition by stating that they were already on Season 4. No easy feat, when we just started Season 1 in March, and each season features between six and eleven hour-long episodes! I always screen movies and television shows in my classroom with no subtitles, or subtitles in Spanish when available. I find that this creates an excellent immersion experience for students without the distraction of interference outside of the target language. I often pause the show or movie to ask questions of the class in the target language, which helps to ensure comprehension of the challenging authentic language practice. If you're interested in screening a high language level, high interest show to your students, look no further. There are many resources that can be found to enhance your instruction of the series, and I will list a few for you below, to help begin your search.
Best of luck screening this compelling show to your students. I'm sure they will be hooked on the series in no time!
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One of my favorite ways to provide authentic listening practice for my students is through hit television shows in the target language. In my classroom, I have a few different shows and movies that I like to show for students throughout the year. Not only do the movies and television programs provide invaluable listening practice in an authentic way, but also the programs introduce students to various aspects of Latino culture that would be difficult to replicate through another technique. My current favorite program to show students is the hit telenovela Celia. This television program depicts the life of the queen of salsa, Celia Cruz, beginning from her time in Cuba as a young woman developing her talent for singing. Celia broke barriers and overcame stereotypes in a genre that at the time was dominated by men. As a groundbreaking heroine and incredible force in the music world, Celia is an incredibly strong woman and musical superstar that you do not want to miss introducing your students to! (*As always, please preview each episode before you show it in class. There may be a scene or two that you will want to skip!) Celia highlights the beginnings of Cruz’s passion for singing in Cuba in the late fifties and her recognition as the most decisive singer of La Sonora Matancera. After leaving Cuba with her husband Pedro Knight, the series showcases how her career conquered markets in many languages, as she became one of the most recognized Salsa singers of all time. After taking a group of students from our high school to Cuba two years ago, this program has also served as a wonderful to introduce my current students Cuban culture and accents, in the hope that they will have the chance to experience life in Cuba for themselves in the future. All eighty episodes of the series Celia can be found free of charge online, streaming through www.telemundo.com, as well as Netflix. The first episode is also available through youtube at this link. I have also created two activities to help your students to analyze the television program in the target language. If you would like to access the activities, please follow this link to my TpT resources for the first episode and the second episode of the telenovela. If you're a Celia fanatic like I am, I bet that your students will be big fans too. My students loved learning Celia's tune La Vida es un Carnaval, and it would be a great song to consider teaching in your classroom. I have created a warm-up resource as well as a corresponding song exam to teach students this optimistic, upbeat tune. It's been one of the favorites in my classroom for the last three years, so I feel confident that you'll have success with this tune. Take a look at the resource by following this link. Enjoy! And happy teaching! My International Baccalaureate Spanish 1 students are nearing the end of their year long course, and as you could imagine, they are quite excited for the summer break. As we near the end of our school year, we are reviewing for finals and studying our comprehensible Spanish I novel by Carol Gibb, Esperanza, which has my students quite engaged in the story of the struggles of a Guatemalan family that immigrates to the United States in the 1990's.
As we finish our latest song warm up and exam cycle, (Latinoamérica, by Calle 13, which fits directly into the themes in our current novel), I have been searching for a song that relates to my student's summer-is-around-the-corner mentality. One song that caught my ear (and my eye, with a beautiful music video) is the January 2017 release El Amante, by Boston native Nicky Jam. Nicky jam grew up in Boston with his Dominican mother and Puerto Rican father, but moved to San Juan with his family at age 10. This move helped to inspire his Reggeaton-based tunes. Discovered in a supermarket by a scout at age 11, Nicky Jam has been working on his musical career ever since, collaborating with artists such as Daddy Yankee as well as Enrique Iglesias, his partner for his most recent hit, El Perdón. If you are interested in teaching El Amante by Nicky Jam, please follow this link for the song warm-up resource at The Immersive Classroom through TpT. Please follow this link for the song exam resource at The Immersive Classroom through TpT. Or, if you are interested in both resources, follow this link for the song exam resource and warm-up resource at The Immersive Classroom through TpT. The music video can be found on youtube by following this link. For instructions on how to teach a song through the song warm-up process in your classroom, follow this link. And, for the next two days, I am throwing a sale at my TpT store! In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, all resources in my store for the next two days are 20% off. Enjoy, and happy teaching! |
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