¡Listos! is a series of units for Heritage Spanish learners in grades 6-12. Three lessons aligned to the K12 Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) form four thematic clusters. Relevant scenarios related to personal life, college tasks, career readiness and civic participation frame each lesson and increase student engagement by making learning authentic and relevant to real issues that students face.
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¡Listos!
Portuguese Communication Exercises
A compilation of nearly 350 brief video clips, together with a complete Portuguese transcription and English translation of native speakers of Portuguese from various locations throughout Brazil (and some Portugal) who talk about 80 different topics.
Língua da Gente
In Brazil, the term língua da gente (literally ‘language of the people’) refers to the way that people actually talk in everyday speech. This audio podcast series provides practical lessons that demonstrate how people really speak, presenting brief, slice-of-life dialogs, which focus on some daily situation, scenario, or task that we encounter every day. Each podcast includes the presentation of a brief dialog, a line-by-line English translation, and more in-depth analysis of the pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and cultural content in the lesson.
Le Littéraire dans le quotidien
“The literary in the every day,” is a textbook for a transdisiplinary approach to reading/writing at the first and second year levels of college French. The files that make up the textbook serve as foreign language templates in the form of an OER to bridge the well known divide between lower level language courses and upper level literature “content” courses. Language teachers, with the help of these templates, can develop their own reading and writing activities to highlight the metaphorical nature of language. In our continued commitment toward making our resources more open and remixable, the resource is published in a publicly accessible Google Drive. With a Google account, users can even make their own copy and remix the content.
Hindi in America Collection
The Hindi in America Collection includes fully transcribed videos of interviews with Hindi-speakers. The aim of the project is to provide learners with unscripted examples of the contemporary colloquial language.
Français interactif
Français interactif is a unique, award-winning 1st-year French curriculum used by learners all over the world. Students explore French language and culture by following the lives of real students who have participated in the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. The online curriculum includes over 320 videos, vocabulary and phonetics audio, online grammar reference with self-correcting exercises and audio dialogues, verb conjugation and practice tools, internet activities, and a textbook of classroom exercises.
Deutsch im Blick
A multimedia 1st-year German language program based on videos of native speakers and the University of Texas Summer Program in Würzburg, Germany. The online textbook includes recorded vocabulary, phonetics lessons, an online grammar component, online comparative polls and internet writing activities.
Chinese Dialogues
An audio collection of simple Chinese dialogue exchanges. The listening materials are suitable for beginners and help them take the first step toward becoming proficient listeners. Based on the beginning level Chinese curriculum, the dialogues are creative yet realistic scenarios on topics that listeners can relate to, such as the social, family and school aspects of one’s life. Full transcripts transcripts in both traditional and simplified characters as well as English translations are provided as downloadable PDF documents.
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