Lecturas en Espanol - Reading Materials - Instituto Cervantes

En este enlace encontraras una colección de lecturas para estudiantes de español creada por el Centro Virtual Cervantes! 

Las lecturas estan organizadas en tres niveles —inicial, intermedio y avanzado— según la complejidad de los textos que incluyen; en cada una de ellas encontrarás, además, actividades que te facilitarán la comprensión de los textos y servirán para que practiques lo que has aprendido.

http://cvc.cervantes.es/aula/lecturas/

Abajo hay otro enlace bien util para se utilizar en las clases, pues trae una lista de vocabulario al final de cada texto. 

http://www.spanish.cl/reading.htm

Task-Based Instruction

Developing Learners’ Communicative Competence Through Task-Based Instruction.


                                            This first link is presenting the basics about different language teaching approaches

www.unh.edu/spanish/lina/TBI.ppt

This second link is a very good example of how to apply it to the classroom setting.

http://www.britishcouncil.org/portugal-inenglish-2004aw-two-successful-task-based-activities.pdf

This last link has more theoretical explanations about the principles of task-based language teaching by David Nunan.

                                            http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=2281433

Icebreakers and Warm-ups activities

Icebreakers are structured activities that are designed to relax learners, introduce them to each other, and energize them in what is normally an unduly formal atmosphere or situation. Icebreakers are not normally related to the subject matter, where as “openers” are related to the subject matter that is to be discussed. In addition, they often help to break up the cliques and invite people to form random groupings in a non-threatening and fun way.

http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/icebreak.html

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson343.shtml

Songs in English - Exercise

Great website to listen and do exercises to improve listening skills.

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/songs/

Fast food Teaching!

 Mr  Ken Robinson addresses what he calls: Fast food education. 

What Are we doing in our classes?

What kind of principles do we share?


Watch the video on the link below


http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/865

Matching Exercise Creator

                             Great site to create your own matching exercises for your classes.

http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/test/matchmaker10.htm

Bingo Creator - Vocabulary

http://www.toolsforeducators.com/bingo/

Canciones por temas gramaticales en Espanol

 Pasado, presente, futuro, subjuntivo, imperativo.

http://www.todoele.net/canciones/Cancion_list.asp

Songs( Canciones) - Teaching Spanish

A very good source of songs. Un sitio muy bueno para canciones en español. 

http://formespa.rediris.es/canciones/

Vocabulary practice

This is a great website to create crossword solver, you can use that to create your own set of vocabulary. Students love to do it.

 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/crosswordsolver.htm