“Do you listen to music in English or Spanish?”
This was the question that arose again and again during my first few weeks teaching my native language—Spanish—in an English-speaking country some years ago.
I felt like a bit of …
Often teaching can feel like a game of chance.
When walking into my next lesson, I never know what I’m going to find.
If I’m very lucky, maybe a nice and calm group of thirty polite students who are …
True story: I took my students to Spain this past summer.
The weather there is just amazing, so it was a great opportunity to make them fall in love with the Spanish way of life, the relaxed atmosphere, the …
Are you done with the same old teaching and grading?
Want to kick it up a notch?
Wish you had new techniques and activities that would keep your students excited all year round?
Adding varied and appealing Spanish learning activities…
The feel of sculpting clay between the fingers.
Pushing hard on Cray-pas to make thick, colorful lines.
Feeling calm while painting with watercolors.
Art is associated with positive, creative feelings.
I mean, have you ever met someone who didn’t like …
“That was so hard!”
“The reading was impossible!”
“Did anyone get the answer to the last question on the listening paper?”
Does this sound familiar? With Year 11 students just about to sit for their GCSE exams now, …
Once upon a time there was a prince who could only speak a few words.
He could think them but was cursed with the inability to say them.
One day, he met a princess and instantly fell in love. “…
When was the last time you had a lesson that went completely wrong?
The kind of lesson in which even you got bored.
And it’s not that you planned it that way. In your mind everything was going to run …
“Nod and smile, nod and smile…”
I felt like I could read her mind. My student just stared.
I looked at her patiently and asked my question again: “¿Qué significa sombrero?”
She smiled and nodded. “Sí.”
Does …
I was once part of this love-hate relationship that marked me forever.
It was intense, and gave me so many good things.
I could have free time to enjoy, things were so easy…but then it all started to get kind …
Students cheering, laughing and dancing while learning Spanish.
Don’t pinch yourself—you’re not dreaming.
It’s very possible to have fun with your students and get them to learn at the same time.
The Spanish language is tied to diverse, brilliant, colorful …
Once upon a time, there was a Spanish teacher who wanted the very best for her students.
In fact, each and every one of her Spanish students had the chance to become near proficient in the language.
Speaking Spanish proficiently …
“Teacher, can we watch a video?”
Have your students ever said this?
Then give them what they want!
Mine used to suggest it all the time, especially when we were getting close to the Christmas period or just before the …
Teaching, lesson planning, grading, paperwork.
I think I can, I think I can…
Teaching, lesson planning, grading, paperwork.
I think I can, I think I can…
Does this sound like you? A never ending story of the Spanish teacher …
“Kill me now!”
That just might be the general feeling towards verb conjugations.
If we’re being honest, it’s probably the feeling many teachers get when having to introduce verb conjugations to their students. If this is true …
Imagine you walk into your Spanish class one day and hear lots of chit chat.
But you soon realize that everyone is gabbing away… in Spanish!
This is the dream, right? To hear your students authentically talking in Spanish?…
