A fun way to get your students to learn about Spanish culture is through sayings or proverbs. One activity I like to do with my students is to divide the class in small groups of 3 or 4 and have each group pick a random saying. Each group then tries to understand their saying and find an equivalent for it in English. They then explain it as a group to the class and share the equivalent in English as well, using only Spanish of course! This is really fun because sometimes they act out what they're trying to explain when the rest of the class doesn't understand.
A good wrap up for this activity I've done in the past is to play a song in Spanish that uses some of the sayings gone over in class and have the students identify it. A song I've used in the past is La Tortura by Shakira. This way they connect the sayings to real context and it even helps them understand the meaning of the songs a little better.
Here is a helpful site with a list of popular Spanish sayings and their meanings http://www.refranesysusignificado.com/
You should try it out and let me know how it works for you!
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