Spanish: Antología - Shakira

Hola, Claudia here again. Today I have an old song by Shakira to share which you can use to help your students practice the preterit tense.

Antología - Shakira 

Para amarte necesito una razón
Y es difícil creer que no exista
Una más que este amor

Sobra tanto dentro de este corazón

Y a pesar de que dicen

Que los años son sabios

Todavía se siente el dolor

Porque todo el tiempo que pasé junto a ti

Dejó tejido su hilo dentro de mí

Y aprendí a quitarle al tiempo los segundos

Tú me hiciste ver el cielo más profundo

Junto a ti creo que aumenté más de tres kilos

Con tus tantos dulces besos repartidos

Desarrollaste mi sentido del olfato

Y fue por ti que aprendí a querer los gatos

Despegaste del cemento mis zapatos

Para escapar los dos volando un rato

Pero olvidaste una final instrucción

Porque aún no sé cómo vivir sin tu amor

Y descubrí lo que significa una rosa

Me enseñaste a decir mentiras piadosas

Para poder verte a horas no adecuadas

Y a reemplazar palabras por miradas

Y fue por ti que escribí más de cien canciones

Y hasta perdoné tus equivocaciones

Y conocí más de mil formas de besar

Y fue por ti que descubrí lo que es amar

Lo que es amar

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Spanish: Me Gustas Tú - Manu Chao

Hola, everyone, Claudia here again. Today I have a fun song to share which you can also use to help your students pick up some grammar. Para practicar el verbo gustar...

Me Gustas Tú - Manu Chao

Qué hora son mi corazón?

12 de la noche en La Habana, Cuba

11 de la noche en San Salvador, El Salvador

11 de la noche en Managua, Nicaragua

Me gustan los aviones, me gustas tú,

me gusta viajar, me gustas tú,

me gusta la mañana, me gustas tú,

me gusta el viento, me gustas tú,

me gusta soñar, me gustas tú,

me gusta la mar, me gustas tú,

Qué voy a hacer? je ne sais pas

qué voy a hacer? je ne sais plus

qué voy a hacer? je suis perdu

qué hora son mi corazón?

Me gusta la moto, me gustas tú,

me gusta correr, me gustas tú,

me gusta la lluvia, me gustas tú,

me gusta volver, me gustas tú,

me gusta marijuana, me gustas tú,

me gusta colombiana, me gustas tú,

me gusta la montaña, me gustas tú,

me gusta la noche, (me gustas tú).

Qué voy a hacer? je ne sais pas

qué voy a hacer? je ne sais plus

qué voy a hacer? je suis perdu

qué hora son mi corazón?

Doce un minuto

Me gusta la cena, me gustas tú,

me gusta la vecina, me gustas tú,

radio reloj, una de la mañana,

me gusta su cocina, me gustas tú,

me gusta camelar , me gustas tú,

me gusta la guitarra , me gustas tú,

me gusta el reggae, me gustas tú,

Qué voy a hacer? je ne sais pas

qué voy a hacer? je ne sais plus

qué voy a hacer? je suis perdu

qué hora son mi corazón?

Me gusta la canela, me gustas tú,

me gusta el fuego, me gustas tú,

me gusta menear, me gustas tú,

me gusta La Coruña, me gustas tú,

me gusta Malasaña, me gustas tú,

me gusta la castaña, me gustas tú,

me gusta Guatemala, me gustas tú.

Qué voy a hacer? je ne sais pas

qué voy a hacer? je ne sais plus

qué voy a hacer? je suis perdu

qué hora son mi corazón?

4 de la mañana.

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Spanish Video: No lo tengo

Hi all, this is a fun video I found about the verb tener, 'to have'. It's a nice short video to show your students and practice the conjugation of tener and number/gender agreement in Spanish. Enjoy!



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Useful Links: Le Conjugueur

Hello, I came across this neat website for French teachers and students. Le Conjugueur provides help with spelling, conjugation, and has conjugation exercises.

http://leconjugueur.lefigaro.fr/

German: Verb Battleship (Download)

Hello all, Chris here again with another downloadable activity. As the Verb Battleship activity appears to be quite popular I decided it would be useful for fellow German teachers to have the activity readily available. Below you can find the activity as a PDF download. Enjoy!


Verb Battleship (German)

Games: Verb Battleship Template

Hello all, Chris here.

Today I am adding the blank template for Verb Battleship. Check it out below. You can save the picture and print off as many copies as you need! For a description of how to use this game in your classes click here.

This game is for purely educational purposes and no infringement of any kind is intended of Milton Bradley's rights to Battleship.

German: Verb Battleship

Hello all, Chris here. Today I would like to share a fun activity I created back in 2003 to help my students with conjugation. Almost everyone has heard of and/or played the strategy game of Battleship. Originally, Battleship was actually a pen and paper guessing game. I decided to take that approach when I adapted it for verb conjugation. The pronouns go across the top of the grid while either the teacher or the class chooses a set of nine verbs which will be used. The game is flexible in that you can target specific groups of verbs, such as separable prefix verbs in German, irregular verbs, or even different tenses, depending on where the current focus in your courses.

Each student receives a copy of this sheet (to save time) or you can draw this example on the board and have students copy it on their own if time is not an issue. As it would be impractical to have your students use the little plastic ships and hit markers of the board game, students will mark the location of their ships with Xs as is indicated at the bottom of the template. Each X represents one square on the grid. The number indicates how many of each ship a student has. Students should place their ships in the bottom grid and ships may only be placed either vertically or horizontally. Students will guess where their opponent's ships are in the upper grid.

In order to make a guess a student must pick a verb and then conjugate it by choosing one of the pronouns. If the guess is correctly conjugate the opposing student will either say hit (Treffer! in German) or miss (Daneben!) or sunk (Versunken!). If the guess is incorrect the opposing student should provide the correct answer and may then take their turn. Students should alternate after each guess. The teacher should circulate among the students to make sure students are only providing information for correct conjugations and to help students with any questions that may arise. Students should keep track of their guesses as well as their opponent's guesses in some reliable manner (generally just drawing a small circle works).

As an added challenge teachers could require students to form an entire sentence with the conjugate verb.

The game can be a bit time consuming the first few times you use it in class. It definitely saves time to print of the sheets for the students beforehand. The game will also easily work for most other languages and I will add a blank template for others to use as well. Feel free to download the picture and print it off for your own use.

This game is for purely educational purposes and no infringement of any kind is intended of Milton Bradley's rights to Battleship.