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Here are ideas and lesson plans from educators who are currently using SpinTX. Please contact us if you have an idea you would like to share.

tale_of_two_speakers

A tale of two speakers: listening and comparing stories

Attribution: SpinTX team

Description

Students listen to and compare two similar stories from different speakers.

Audience:
Advanced, Intermediate
Skills:
Culture, Listening, Vocabulary
Communication Mode:
Interpretive, Presentational
Setting:
Classroom, Group or pair work
Prep Time:
15-30 minutes
Activity Time:
15-30 minutes
childhood_li

Childhood Listening - Spanish

Attribution: David Eifert

Description

This is a video (2:03 long) resource of a woman from El Salvador talking about her childhood. Ideas for guiding students through understanding this video are given.

 

Audience:
Secondary
Skills:
Listening, Speaking
Communication Mode:
Interpersonal, Interpretive
Setting:
Classroom
Prep Time:
5-15 minutes
Activity Time:
15-30 minutes
sample_word_b

Circle the words you hear

Attribution: SpinTX team

Description

This activity provides a simple yet interactive way to introduce students to or have them review vocabulary.

Audience:
Advanced, Intermediate, Novice
Skills:
Listening, Vocabulary
Communication Mode:
Interpersonal
Setting:
Classroom, Group or pair work
Prep Time:
5-15 minutes
Activity Time:
5-15 minutes
hypothetical_situati

“Si los tuvieras”: describing hypothetical situations with the imperfect subjunctive

Attribution: Jonathan Fleck

Description

Students will learn how to use the imperfect subjunctive to describe hypothetical situations.

Audience:
Heritage, Intermediate
Skills:
Culture, Grammar, Listening
Communication Mode:
Interpersonal
Setting:
Classroom
Prep Time:
5-15 minutes
Activity Time:
30 - 60 minutes
la_primera_vez_que_nos_conocim

“La primera vez que nos conocimos”: Regular Verbs in the Preterit

Attribution: Jonathan Fleck

Description

Based on Raúl’s interview in the Spanish in Texas Corpus, students will learn how to use regularverbs in the preterit to refer to completed actions in the past. After warming up with the video, you’ll practice the forms (conjugations) and the functions (uses) of the preterit in Spanish. Then, you’ll apply what you learned to expand your communication skills.

Audience:
Novice
Skills:
Culture, Grammar, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Communication Mode:
Interpersonal
Setting:
Classroom, Group or pair work
Prep Time:
5-15 minutes
Activity Time:
30 - 60 minutes
stars-159801_640

¡Que no pare la fiesta!

Attribution: Tina Dong

Description

Students will be able to discuss celebrations, customs, and traditions in the Spanish-speaking world and compare these to their own traditions.

Audience:
Advanced, Heritage, Intermediate, Novice
Skills:
Culture, Listening, Speaking, Vocabulary, Writing
Communication Mode:
Interpersonal, Interpretive, Presentational
Setting:
Classroom, Group or pair work
Prep Time:
15-30 minutes
Activity Time:
1 hour or more
what_would_you_say_next

What would you say next?

Attribution: SpinTX Team

Description

Students work on their understanding of pragmatic features through listening and speaking.

Audience:
Advanced, Intermediate
Skills:
Listening, Pragmatics, Speaking
Setting:
Classroom, Group or pair work
Prep Time:
5-15 minutes
Activity Time:
15-30 minutes
schema

Through the eyes of Spanish speakers

Attribution: SpinTX team

Description

Students compare their concept of a topic with that of Spanish speakers.

Audience:
Advanced, Intermediate, Novice
Skills:
Culture, Vocabulary
Communication Mode:
Interpretive
Setting:
Computer Lab
Prep Time:
5-15 minutes
Activity Time:
15-30 minutes
variation

Testing the rules

Attribution: SpinTX team

Description

Students test the rules taught in the textbook by determining how frequently the are followed by native speakers in real life.

Audience:
Advanced, Intermediate
Skills:
Grammar, Vocabulary
Communication Mode:
Interpretive
Setting:
Computer Lab, Group or pair work
Prep Time:
5 minutes or less
Activity Time:
15-30 minutes
ser-estar

Reviewing Ser and Estar

Attribution: Jared Abels

Description

Students practice distinguishing / differentiating between the contexts of Ser and Estar, and also practice with the imperfect. 

Audience:
Secondary
Skills:
Grammar, Listening, Writing
Communication Mode:
Interpersonal, Interpretive, Presentational
Setting:
Classroom, Group or pair work
Prep Time:
5-15 minutes
Activity Time:
1 hour or more
before_during_afte

A collection of discussion activities for beginning Spanish heritage language courses

Description

The activities are presented in three parts: Antes, Durante, and Después. These discussion activities can be used in both face-to-face or online courses. In our case, these exercises were originally created for online courses and presented as asynchronous interaction activities. When used in a face to face situation, the opportunities for student interaction and discussion increase.

Audience:
Heritage, Intermediate, Novice, Post-Secondary, Secondary
Skills:
Culture, Grammar, Listening, Reading, Speaking, Vocabulary, Writing
Communication Mode:
Interpersonal, Interpretive
Setting:
Classroom, Group or pair work, Homework, Online Class
Prep Time:
15-30 minutes
Activity Time:
15-30 minutes
48994

Inspiring an Animated Discussion

Attribution: SpinTX team

Description

Students listen to and then discuss a video with content relevant to the material being covered in class.

Audience:
Advanced, Intermediate
Skills:
Culture, Listening, Vocabulary
Communication Mode:
Interpersonal, Interpretive
Setting:
Classroom, Group or pair work
Prep Time:
5-15 minutes
Activity Time:
15-30 minutes
_modifying

Listening for Family History (for Healthcare Professionals)

Attribution: Sarah Jey Whitehead

Description

Students will use family-related vocabulary to practice asking/hearing information about family history. Students will employ listening strategies to understand information about family history when patients aren’t answering specific questions. Students will create follow-up questions to ask patients about their family history.

Audience:
Novice, Post-Secondary
Skills:
Listening, Speaking, Vocabulary, Writing
Communication Mode:
Interpersonal, Interpretive
Setting:
Classroom, Group or pair work
Prep Time:
5-15 minutes
Activity Time:
1 hour or more
canvas-quiz

Practice Quizzes: Listening and Grammar

Description

Learners practice on their own with online interactive quizzes using video clips from the SpinTX archive.  

Audience:
Novice
Skills:
Grammar, Listening
Communication Mode:
Interpretive
Setting:
Computer Lab, Homework
_studentgrouppresentation

Quiz your Classmates

Attribution: SpinTX team

Description

Students prepare mini-quizzes for their classmates, and then take the mini-quizzes.

Audience:
Advanced, Intermediate
Skills:
Grammar, Listening, Vocabulary
Communication Mode:
Interpretive
Setting:
Classroom, Group or pair work, Homework
Prep Time:
30 - 60 minutes
Activity Time:
30 - 60 minutes
retelling_stories

Retelling stories

Attribution: SpinTX team

Description

Students listen to a story and retell that story in their own words. The focus may be on the content or a grammar point, particularly the reviewing of verb tense.

Audience:
Advanced, Intermediate
Skills:
Culture, Grammar, Listening, Vocabulary, Writing
Communication Mode:
Interpretive, Presentational
Setting:
Classroom, Group or pair work
Prep Time:
5-15 minutes
Activity Time:
15-30 minutes
students-at-computer

Real-World use of the Rules

Attribution: SpinTX team

Description

Students search for examples of the target grammar being covered in class, and explain it.

Audience:
Advanced, Intermediate, Novice
Skills:
Grammar, Listening, Reading
Communication Mode:
Interpretive, Presentational
Setting:
Classroom, Group or pair work
Activity Time:
15-30 minutes
spintx_random_video_generator

Random Video Selector

Attribution: Arthur Wendorf

Description

In my linguistics and grammar classes, I like to pull up a video at random so that we can look as a class to see if we can find the things we are talking about in class in a random video. For example, we can look for the weakening of final consonants or the omission of subjects.

Audience:
Advanced
Skills:
Grammar
Communication Mode:
Interpretive
Setting:
Classroom
Prep Time:
5-15 minutes
Activity Time:
5 minutes or less
quiztitle

Generating Quiz/Exam Content

Attribution: SpinTX team

Description

Obtain real-world examples of target content for quizzes/exams.

Audience:
Advanced, Intermediate, Novice
Skills:
Grammar, Reading, Vocabulary, Writing
Communication Mode:
Interpretive
Setting:
Classroom, Online Class
Prep Time:
30 - 60 minutes
Activity Time:
15-30 minutes