As I was searching for different podcasts I could use in the classroom, I came across "Finally Learn Spanish". This group creates podcasts concerning different grammar topics. They have a nice way of organizing the information and giving really good examples. I figure I would use these in an intro to Spanish or Spanish 1 class, since many of the topics are taught in English. After Spanish 1, students should be getting most of their instruction in the TL, so these would become a little too easy, but could be used as good review. They are constantly updating with new podcasts, so I'm sure they will continue to grow as a resource as I grow as a new teacher.
One example of an episode from this series is their podcast on "Ser v. Estar". I think they do a great job of quickly and perfectly describing the different ways to use the two verbs for "to be" in Spanish. They use lots of examples and many different reviews. I think this would be a great tool so that when the students go home from school after learning about the two verbs, they could listen to this refresher and then work on homework.
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Mary Caitlin,
Your plan for using this podcast series for introducing a unit might be useful. You'll only know by giving ita try. Sometimes it's hard to judge what students reactions will be. However, for this mod you must choose one specific episode from this site to report on. Perhaps I should have been more careful with my terminology in the syllabus.
Dr. Burgos
I fixed to the post to include an episode from the series as well!
Mary Caitlin,
The episode on "ser" and 'estar" sounds like ti would be a great review.
BTW how did you get your blog to be totally in Spanish? I didn't notice it at first. Did you initially set it up that way?
Dr. Burgos
I changed it the other day actually. You go to settings, formatting and change the language. I was showing it to my ESL writing class and someone asked if you could. So I tried and I did.
I like it for a FL classroom.
Mary Caitlin,
Thanks for the tip!
Dr. Burgos
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