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Nov 19, 2015

As of today, our entire faculty has been prohibited from showing any movies to our classes - it seems that "parents have complained-" isn't that always the reason?!

Is there any research to confirm my belief that Spanish (and even some English) movies are beneficial learning tools?

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Monica :D Don Quijote, or Día de los muertos, etc. something
cultural. As you all said, our instructional time has been
cut so short we barely have time to teach culture. It's
quite sad.

On 11/23/15, tyler wrote:
> I would fight hard to show some fantastic movies I have
> shown in AP Spanish and Spanish 4. Movies are amazing<...See More

Nov 23, 2015

Try this.. If you want to show a certain movie, explain why in writing: This video reviews the weather in Spanish.

This video is in Spanish (and that alone should be sufficient unless it's 3 full hours long). I feel that part of learning a second language is learning about the history and culture where the target language is spoken. Thus I would like...See More

Jan 6, 2016

Grammar question

by Allison

Dec 7, 2015

A student wrote, "Empieza conservar tu dinero." I feel like there should be an "a" before conservar but I can't explain why. Can anyone help? Actually, I'm not even sure Empieza a conservar tu dinero would be right. Seems like you would just say "Ahorra tu dinero" or something like that.

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Allison Mil gracias!

On 12/07/15, Daniel Hanson wrote: > On 12/07/15, Allison wrote: >> A student wrote, "Empieza conservar tu dinero." I feel >> like there should be an "a" before conservar but I can't >> explain why. Can anyone help? > > There is a word used to join these two verbs in Spanish: > ...See More

Dec 8, 2015

ahorrar Conservar is actually "to conserve". Saving money is ahorrar. And you say empezar a with an infinitive. Hoy empiezo a ahorrar mi dinero. On 12/07/15, Allison wrote: > A student wrote, "Empieza conservar tu dinero." I feel > like there should be an "a" before conservar but I can't > explain why. Can anyone help...See More

Jan 6, 2016

How to say "quarter" as in First Academic Quarter

by Lisa

Dec 2, 2015

Hello, How would you say "quarter" as in first, second academic quarters. Would you say "trimestre", "termino", or something else? Thanks!

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Daniel Hanson "Bimestre" would work for an academic quarter.

"Trimestre" would not work in the context of a marking period because a quarter of a school year in the American school system is about two months. "Trimestre" would work if the school only had three marking periods for the entire school year (teachers submit grad...See More

Dec 3, 2015

In Ecuador we used parcial nfm On 12/02/15, Lisa wrote: > Hello, > How would you say "quarter" as in first, second academic > quarters. Would you say "trimestre", "termino", or > something else? > Thanks!

Jan 6, 2016

by Dominga

Jan 4, 2016

Does anyone have any resources they use for this day? I want to plan some activities or show video clips for this.

Gracias! :) ¡Espero que hayan gozado y descansaron durante la Navidad!

montgom On 1/04/16, Dominga wrote:

> Does anyone have any resources they use for this day? I

> want to plan some activities or show video clips for this.

>

> Gracias! :) ¡Espero que hayan gozado y descansaron durante

> la Navidad!

Google "Creative Language Classroom", she li...See More

Jan 5, 2016

definite and indefinite articles

by lynzie

Dec 8, 2015

_____ casa de mi hermana tiene _____ ascensor y _____ escaleras.

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Daniel Hanson Agreed, mswa. That's why I didn't reply. Also, I see there has been some recent troll activity on the chatboard.

On 12/14/15, mswa wrote: > Um...shouldn't any Spanish teacher know this or was this a > student fishing for answers?? > > > On 12/09/15, Ann wrote: >> On 12/08/15, lynzie wrote: >>> _____ casa de mi...See More

Dec 14, 2015

michael On 12/14/15, Daniel Hanson wrote:
> Agreed, mswa. That's why I didn't reply. Also, I see
> there has been some recent troll activity on the
> chatboard.
>
> On 12/14/15, mswa wrote:
>> Um...shouldn't any Spanish teacher know this or was this
>> a student fishing for answers??
>>
>...See More

Dec 29, 2015

level 3: Spanish or English instructions

by torn

Dec 28, 2015

Hi everyone! I'm looking for advice/opinions. In my level 3 Spanish course, our students do various projects and presentations throughout the year, and I am struggling with whether to give students the rubric/instructions in English or Spanish. Part of me feels that I should give them Spanish instructions, because they should be able to read and un...See More

Michael On 12/28/15, torn wrote: > Hi everyone! I'm looking for advice/opinions. In my > level 3 Spanish course, our students do various projects > and presentations throughout the year, and I am > struggling with whether to give students the > rubric/instructions in English or Spanish. Part of me > feels that I should give them Spanish i...See More

Dec 29, 2015

Out of Office Message Suggestion?

by Mel

Dec 23, 2015

I am looking to post an out of office reply that has fun Spanish info or links on it as well. Suggestions!?

Spanish Sports Project

by Ryan

Dec 13, 2015

Anybody have any ideas for a project involving Spanish sports? We are taking a unit test on Tuesday and our last day before break is Friday. I really do not want to start something new before break as they will forget it, but would like to do something meaningful with them.

Any thoughts? I need to fill up 2 hours worth of time and would li...See More

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Al On 12/14/15, I wrote

> You can go to espndeportes DOT espn DOT go DOT com FORWARDSLASH beisbol

but it doesn't display that way.

Dec 14, 2015

Al On Monday, I wrote: > ... > The loanwords with domesticated spellings, like béisbol > itself, are useful in what they demonstrate about the sound > correspondences. (I seem to recall homrón or the like was

Silly of me -- it was jonrón.

Have a look at

es.wikipedia.org/wiki/B&37;C3&37;A9isbol
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Dec 16, 2015

by Ryan

Dec 1, 2015

Hey all,

Having a tough year. I have been in the classroom for 6 years now and have never had problems like this.

I have kids who just don't care. They hate Spanish, aren't motivated, etc. I teach 5 hours of Spanish 2 and am just frustrated.

I have a couple of little gems who have yet to do a single assignment this year i...See More

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Julieta Connect Four using verb forms is a good game. If they
understand strategy, it will take a while. I bought mine
off the Teachers pay teachers dot com website.

Another thing I've done is write words on a strong paper
plate and wrote either the English equivalent or the
definition in Spanish (higher levels) on clothes pins from...See More

Dec 8, 2015

Michael Hi Ryan....I am sorry to hear that you are having a tough year! I have been teaching for 11 years and I have had a couple bad classes or times when I had a student who did not care. One year, I had a student who did nothing!! His average was a 14 for fourth quarter. I partnered with everybody, parents, counselor, administration, and he did not chan...See More

Dec 12, 2015

Spanish Last Names

by Don Jaime

Dec 10, 2015

I thought I was smarter than I apparently actually am. If Pablo Sanchez Garcia marries Isabella Martinez Lorca...she becomes Isabella Sanchez Martinez...correct?

And if they have a daughter...named Maria...she is also Isabella Sanchez Martinez???

Its apparently been too long since I thought about all of this.

From what I...See More

Ann I think the wife (traditionally) becomes Isabella Sanchez de Martínez (implying "wife of").

On 12/10/15, Don Jaime wrote: > I thought I was smarter than I apparently actually am. If > Pablo Sanchez Garcia marries Isabella Martinez > Lorca...she becomes Isabella Sanchez Martinez...correct? > > And if they have a da...See More

Dec 10, 2015

Evan The traditional naming pattern is Father's name + Mother's maiden name

If a woman marries,she will frequently just keep her name: Isabella Martinez Lorca

If she decides to use de, she would usually drop the Mother's maiden name and then add de Husband's father's name

Isabella Martinez de Sanchez

The child's name ...See More

Dec 11, 2015

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