My mom sent me this video recently. These are the 6-years-old vloggers Andres and Lucas showing us a great sample of Puerto Rican Spanish words. Irresistible to watch! The Puerto Rican Spanish words and phrases featured are: jincho: fair skin zafacón: trash can al garete: without direction jicotea: turtle mapo: mop jugo de china: orange juice ¡Qué jartera!: so stuffed (of food) […]
3 Spanish Class Activities for Outdoor Classroom Day
In some parts of the world, a beautiful spring day in May usually means wistful and wriggly students, itching to look out the classroom window, longing for some time outdoors. One day in May, why not take your Spanish class outside for some outdoor learning to celebrate Outdoor Classroom Day? What is Outdoor Learning Anyway? […]
Quick Grammar Review for Spanish Teachers: 10 Ways to Use Your English to Teach Spanish
Here you will find 10 basic English grammar lessons that might be helpful to you and your students as you introduce your students to similar or equivalent grammar concepts in Spanish. The explanations are short and straightforward, as they are intended more as memory prompts for you and your students than actual lesson plans. How […]
Relative Pronouns Spanish Class Activities
1. Lesson Plan – Relative Pronouns: The Environment [MEMBERS] – Students learn about the relative pronouns and use the environment vocabulary to practice. They use the instructions of several eco-friendly projects to create an oral presentation using the relative pronouns and play a game in pairs where they join two sentences using the relative pronouns. 2. Lesson […]
Formal Commands and Negative Formal Commands Spanish Class Activities
1. Lesson Plan – Formal Commands and Negative Formal Commands, Uses of POR: The Outdoors [MEMBERS] – By the end of this lesson, students learn the negative and affirmative commands for usted and ustedes, the uses of the preposition por and vocabulary to talk about outdoor activities. 2. Video – Formal (usted/ustedes) Commands – This video lesson briefly reviews the […]