This short clip breifly illustrates the excitement of Christmas in Spain by ringing bells and watching clocks. Not only is it informal, but it is rather silly, and the language is simple enough for beginning to intermediate speakers. If you feel in a silly mood, this clip might work perfectly for the right class who is receptive to silliness when studying Spanish.
Las Campanadas
Here is another video with subtitles in Spanish. It is about Spanish eating and working schedules and how they are distinctive from other cultures. The video paints the Spanish use of time in a negative light, so a good class discussion questions might be, ¨Do you think the Spanish working schedule is really as negative as the video portrays it to be? It is higher level and almost news-like, so I suggest that a teacher pick out vocabulary words to have students review before the viewing so that they have a better grasp of the material. Listening to this video several times would probably be appropriate for intermediate students, and having students pick out words they do not know and defining them would be a good vocabulary building exercise.
Horarios España
Just curious...Is the first clip about Christmas or New Years?
ReplyDeleteI think the second video could be quite useful in the way that you described. Teaching students about bias and using this video to understand different perspectives could be effective. The discussion question you mention would probably create some interesting opinions among your students, especially if they come from various L1 settings.
The first clip is about both Christmas and New Years. Christmas has 12 days, so the fist thing they say in the video is "Estamos en la Navidad," which means, "It's Christmas." Then they start talking about New Years.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you like the idea. I think that giving students the opportunity to voice their opinion about something makes them feel like they can really use the L2 to express themselves.