Spanish: Soccer Podcast

Hi everyone, Claudia here,

With the World Cup almost here I think many students would be interested in talking about soccer in class. A fun way to do so is to use a recent posdcast by Newsbites about one of this year's most famous soccer players. This would be a good way to practice listening conversation while covering a current topic. The website provides the transcription for the poscast making it easier for you to design your own questions and activities.

http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/spanish_newsbites/2010/04/un-futbolista-de-play-station.html

Spanish: Newsbites

Hello all, Claudia here,

I would like to share a great site with you today. It's a site designed for Spanish learners of all levels and it's great for practicing reading comprehension and listening comprehension. The site has news stories from Spain and Latin America in Spanish, with audio and built-in glossary, and each article comes with interactive exercises. The podcasts are really interesting and range in all sorts of topics, also, the language is very easy to understand.

Here's how to use the site: you can have your students listen to the podcast, without reading the text, and have the questions for them to answer after they listen. You can also have them only read the text and then they answer the questions or you can have them do all. Another thing you can do if you don't want to use the site during your class time is to give your students the link for them to practice at home.

Whatever you choose to do will definetly benefit your students! hope you try it out and let me know what you think!

http://www.spanishnewsbites.com/spanish_newsbites/