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EXPLORACIONES, 2nd edition

Una entrevista con John Quiñones, corresponsal de ABC sobre su carrera y la importancia de aprender otros idiomas

Summer Reading article: Inca Kola

TEMAS Supersite

ALBERT TEST PREP FOR AP SPANISH LANGUAGE

MY QUIA PAGE

AP Articles QUIA page - for articles NOT in the TEMAS textbook

WORDREFERENCE.COM --English-Spanish / Spanish - English Dictionary

Audiria - podcasts, etc. for listening practice, idioms, vocabulary

BBC FACT FILES - COUNTRY PROFILES

Pasajes Lengua, 7th edition activities

Continuemos, 7th edition

Login to our BLOG

Online tools--thesaurus, verb conjugator

English-Spanish / Spanish - English Dictionary

Practice with sound for accent / stress

Pasajes Lengua activities

World Atlas

Poll Everywhere

Penn State Berks - Tutorials and Interactive activities

123TeachMe Spanish - verb information / activities

SPANGRAM - Presentations and exercises

DonCarlos 123

Rebecca Anderson - Santa Monica College

Sample letters - formal and informal

Activities listed in this table are self-correcting--check your work!

TEMA 1 - LAS FAMILIAS Y LAS COMUNIDADES - GRAMÁTICA
 

Stress and accent

123TeachMe Spanish Practice with written accent marks

Gender of nouns

Uses of definite article

Uses of the indefinite article

Preterite v. Imperfect tenses

Imperfect and Preterite practice

Spangram activities: practice with individual tenses (preterite / imperfect) and distinguishing between the two past tenses.

Prepositions and prepositional pronouns

Isla site: Preposition Exercises

Spanish Prepositions - Exercises

Activities with present subjunctive (noun clauses) -Choose exercises 1,2,5,6,7 on left side

Tema 4 Contexto 1
 

Practice sheet 4B: Adjective Clauses

Practice Sheet 4A: Adjective Clauses

Spangram notes: Relative Pronouns

Practice with Relative Pronouns

Another activity for Relative Pronouns

BK Nelson Activity: Relative Pronouns

Watch slide show: 123 TeachMe Spanish-Relative Pronouns

Bowdoin site: Practice activities with relative pronouns

TEMA 2 - LA CIENCIA Y LA TECNOLOGíA- GRAMÁTICA

Tema 2 Contexto 1

Practice with Future Tense

123 Teach Me - slide show - Conditional Tense

123 Teach Me - slide show on Future Perfect Tense

Practice with the Future Perfect Tense

123 Teach Me - Conditional Perfect slide show / activities

Practice with many concepts (perfect tenses, Practice #11 B,C,D) - some activities with answers

Tema 2 Contexto 2

Learn the Adverbial Conjunctions - games / flashcards

Practice with adverbial clauses - self-correcting

Practice #2 with adverbial clauses

Tema 2 Contexto 3

Notes and activities on passive voice with SER and with SE

Notes on passive voice with SER

Notes on passive voice with SE

Practice with use of SE for passive voice

On the following link, you need to put in your first name, email and say "just practicing", then chose from the pull-down menu an exercise on passive with ser, and then do the other exercise on passive with se.  (self-correcting site)

Link to practices on passive voice with ser and passive voice with se

Practice with ser and estar + past participle as adjective for passive voice (ser) and resultant condition (estar)- note how the sentences are different!

123 Teach Me practice with estar + past participle

BKNelson activity: use of past participle as verb and as adjective

4 Activities to practice / learn about passive voice

Tema 2 Contexto 4

YOU TUBE VIDEO - María's relatives faint when they read her letter from camp...it lacks any punctuation, so they get short of breath and faint! Watch the middle video to find out how to punctuate María's letter from camp so that her relatives don't keel over!

Practice with the different punctuation marks in Spanish

Signos de puntuación- un cuento sobre la importancia de la buena puntuación

Web site with embedded "ejercicios" with the different punctuation marks

Tema 4 Contexto 2
No content for this part of unit

Tema 4 Contexto 3

Slide show: 123TeachMe Spanish: Si Clauses

BK Nelson site: Poem "Instantes"

Practice #1 with si-clauses

Practice #2 with si-clauses

Practice #3 with si-clauses

Another activity with si-clauses

Tema 4 Contexto 4

Practice with numbers

A whole page on cardinal and ordinal numbers

TEMA 3:  LA BELLEZA Y LA ESTÉTICA - GRAMÁTICA

Penn State Berks: Audio tutorial for ser/estar

Penn State Berks: Practice with ser/estar

BK Nelson activity: Ser v. Estar

Bowdoin Activity: ser v. estar

Todo Claro: Ser v. estar v. hay

123TeachMe ser/estar activities

Trinity activity: ser/estar/tener/haber/hacer

Tema 5 Contexto 1
 
Use of infinitives
Use of gerunds

Spanish Grammar Lab Drill Site (in-class activities)

Bowdoin site: use of infinitives & gerunds

Tema 5 Contexto 2 - false cognates p. 306-307

Tema 5 Contexto 3 
Prefijos pp. 308-309

Tema 5 Contexto 4
Palabras compuestas pp. 339-340

Tema 3 Contexto 4

Como explicar Guernica a los niños youtube video

La Sagrada Familia - Scroll down to see CBS 60 Minutes video about this marvel of arquitecture.

Lonely Planet video- La Sagrada Familia

One minute 3D animation of the completion of Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

Learn more about Antoni Gaudi and his work

La Barcelona de Antoni Gaudí

 
 

AP EXAM PREP

Practice with subjunctive

Flexibility in vocabulary - synonym match

   

Authentic print, audio and visual resources:

YouTube Video: Cómo explicar el Guernica de Picasso a los niños

Veinte Mundos (lectura, audio, video) sobre muchos países hispanos

BBC News Country Profiles

TECLA articles (Spain)

El Mundo (España)

El País (online Spanish newspaper)

La Sexta (España)

La Prensa - online newspapers from all over the Spanish-speaking world

The Paper Boy - newspapers by country

El Nuevo Herald

LANIC - periódicos y noticias en Latinoamérica

Spanish News Network - América Latina y México

Noticias del mundo (España, México y otros lugares)

La Gaceta - Argentina

Cadena 3 - Argentina

CNN español

Artículos sobre América Latina

UNESCO-United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (check under theme and countries tabs)

El Universo

BBC Mundo

Noticias del Mundo: BBC Mundo

Audiria: Podcasts in Spanish on a variety of topics

InformativosTeleCinco (España)

Univision - news from the Hispanic world

RTVEes: Spanish TV Station

Radio Latinoamérica

Radioteca - search by country / language (castellano)

Radio de las Naciones Unidas - check under Temas tab for articles related to what we are studying

Radio UNICEF - about children all over the world

Ejercicios de español para extranjeros: vocabulario, gramática y ejercicios de escucha

Zachary Jones - articles and activities

People en español

TV Azteca

Actividades de repaso por nivel

Spanish Proficiency Exercises - University of Texas at Austin (native speakers of different countries)

You Tube - check for countries, cultural topics (en español)

Listening Practice: Escucha de anuncios publicitarios y de mensajes de campañas de información

Anuncios para películas en español

Más práctica: escuchar reportajes y hacer ejercicios de comprensión

Cultura y canciones

Audio files from Abriendo Puertas by theme, topic

Enchanted Learning English-Spanish Dictionary - with pictures!

The Internet Picture Dictionary- by category/topic

Powerpoints on all the basics of Spanish!

Powerpoints to review vocabulary, grammar and culture

BBC Languages-Spanish - lots to do and enjoy here!

Topical Videos

Notes in Spanish--PODCASTS in Spanish - 3 levels

Topical Vocabulary Quizzes

Revista Selecciones - reading selections from Readers' Digest!

Some helpful links for you when you write:

Notes on use of the DEFINITE ARTICLE (el/la/los/las)

Practice - definite article use / omission (2 exercises)

Notes on use / omission of the INDEFINITE ARTICLE (un/una/unos/unas)

Practice - use / omission of INDEFINITE ARTICLES

Practice page - definite / indefinite articles

Notes on RELATIVE PRONOUNS

RELATIVE PRONOUN PRACTICE

More RELATIVE PRONOUN practice

Uses of LO

TIME CONSTRUCTIONS

Use of HABER

PERO V. SINO

POR V. PARA

SER V. ESTAR

Practice of grammar by TOPIC (Grammar Lab Drills)

More practice of grammar by TOPIC (SPANGRAM)

123TeachMe Spanish