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Games with Spanish Proverbs
by Lauris on Thursday, August 7, 2014
We left off last week playing around a bit with idioms. I also mentioned that this week I’d propose activities that you could use to get started teaching proverbs and the challenging lexicon these include.One thing I… more »
Language Learning with Spanish Proverbs
by Lauris on Thursday, July 31, 2014
When Spanish learners reach the intermediate level, let’s say B1 or B2, their progress often begins to slow and it may even come to a gradual halt. This phenomenon has a relatively straight forward explanation: when… more »
Observations on the DELE Oral Exam
by Lauris on Thursday, July 24, 2014
As Spanish language teachers, we are inevitably faced with certain situations when helping our students prepare for a successful DELE exam that make us step back and rethink what we are doing. Often, to help our… more »
On The Hunt For Typos
by Lauris on Thursday, July 17, 2014
I love to laugh especially if it’s a pierna suelta. If that's the case then trying to define the happiness I express through laughter is very difficult but the joy is clearly visible. I like bad jokes (and good ones… more »
The Spanish Wishing Tree
by Lauris on Thursday, July 10, 2014
Once students move on from level B1 to B2, the task of working with them on the present subjunctive, the imperative (both positive and negative) and the different pragmatic options that are available to the speaker… more »
Spanish Level Evaluation
by Lauris on Thursday, July 3, 2014
Evaluating the Language Competency LevelOne of the most arduous tasks that the ELE Spanish teacher takes on is that of correctly evaluating the language competency level of those new students that enter the classroom.… more »
Descriptions in Spanish
by Lauris on Thursday, June 26, 2014
The Great Inventions of TBOI have always been fascinated by Rube Goldberg’s machines, those complicated and imaginative gadgets that, when interconnected, produce a succession of actions that are fun, extraordinary… more »
Mafalda & Friends Role Play
by Lauris on Thursday, June 19, 2014
A few weeks ago I wrote about Quino, one of the most important cartoonists in the Spanish-speaking world, and how he was named one of the Prince of Asturias Award winners this year. Don Joaquin Lavado, Quino's full… more »
25 Years don Quijote Salamanca
by Lauris on Thursday, June 12, 2014
I can still recall, through the dense haze of my memory, a young, freshly graduated university student brimming with pride over his new Spanish studies degree. He dreamed of becoming a high school literature teacher,… more »
13 Rue del Percebe
by Lauris on Thursday, June 5, 2014
One learning resource that we have used occasionally to liven up our Spanish language classrooms is the use of comics, especially Spanish comics or "tebeos". The use of these can be a double-edged sword and failure of… more »
Mafalda - Opening the Door to Argentine Spanish
by Lauris on Thursday, May 29, 2014
This week we received the great news that don Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, an 81 year old Argentine, who on March 22 of this year received the French Legion of Honor in recognition of his lifetime work as cartoonist… more »
Intercultural Conflicts: Practical Questions
by Lauris on Thursday, May 22, 2014
The other day I was recalling some situations that I have witnessed where my intercultural know-how left me a little short or simply wasn’t there. Those moments have made me reflect on how I can help our students avoid… more »
Intercultural Competency in the Classroom
by Lauris on Thursday, May 15, 2014
The Developmental Model of Intercultural SensitivityOn the road to achieving or raising awareness of, if that is the case, intercultural competency among our students, we will need to act as a guide and counselor while… more »
The Spanish Teacher as a Guide
by Lauris on Thursday, May 8, 2014
A Guide on the Road to Intercultural CompetenceDuring the last few weeks we’ve seen how some Europeans are shocked when they discover the daily schedule of the “average” Spaniard. They frown when they hear that we go… more »
The Courtyards Festival of Cordoba
by Lauris on Thursday, May 1, 2014
In the Spanish language classroom one thing that we can and should do more often is to utilize cultural events and topics as subject matter. If we use texts that are more or less journalistic in nature along with… more »