Introduce your class to Spain and liven up the class period with some Spanish pop music! Learners view a presentation about Spain and take notes on the information before watching a couple of music videos in Spanish. They use listening skills to pick out 10 Spanish words they know from the videos.

Concepts

spanish speaking countries, spain, spanish culture, spanish vocabulary, oral language, listening

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Additional Tags

languages

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Instructional Ideas

• Invite Spanish language learners to research a particular part of Spain and present to the class
• After watching your chosen music videos, provide lyrics so that class members can follow along

Classroom Considerations

• The slides for the PowerPoint mentioned have been placed in the document, but will not work as a slide show; you can use them as models and base your own show off of the note-taking guide provided
• The resource lists two music videos to watch with your class, but one may not be appropriate because it is made up mostly of club scenes; the plan would work with any two Spanish music videos of your choice

Pros

• Note-taking guide for the presentation is included, as is an answer key
• The goal of the lesson, to show that learning a language is about more than just vocabulary and grammar, is an important aspect of language classes

Cons

• None