This blog is taking a long siesta while while all the MFL teachers at Nottingham High School concentrate their efforts into updating our new Modern Foreign Languages Department website.

Effectively, El Blog de AsíSeHace will be eventually superseded by our new departmental blog, although it will remain available on the internet for at least another year before we think of starting to wind it up.

Come over to visit us at our new website!

Mi vida loca

Mi vida loca is a Spanish course with a twist: it’s a virtual adventure that will take you on a tour of Spain, starting in Madrid. You will be following Merche, the main character, on a journey full of mystery and drama.

Although aimed at beginners, this very well produced BBC course is packed with real-life situations which will expose you to authentic language that is not always taught in the textbooks. The videos can be subtitled in either Spanish or English and come accompanied with printable grammar notes and vocabulary lists.

Click here to go to Mi vida loca

Lingus TV

Lingus TV produce sitcom style short videos for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. The videos are downloadable and all come with a transcript of the dialogue, as well as a translation. You can also access grammar and vocabulary notes for each of the videos.

Click here to go to Lingus TV or click here to subscribe in iTunes (free)

Euronews

Euronews is the companion website to the satellite TV channel. The website is constantly updated with the latest news, and features short videos covering the different news items. Most of the videos include complete transcripts of the newsreader’s account, so you can watch the news, listen and read all at the same time. Euronews is also available in six other major world languages.

Click here to go to Euronews in Spanish

Coffee Break Spanish

Coffee Break Spanish is an award winning Spanish podcast series from Radiolingua, who also make podcasts in many other languages, incidentally. Coffee break Spanish is aimed at beginners – it starts off easy – and then progresses to intermediate learners. The format is very accessible with a teacher, Mark, and a student, Kara, who will be learning Spanish alongside you in this series of 80 15-20 minute lessons. The podcasts are free with some premium features.

Click here to go to the Coffee Break Spanish website or click here to subscribe in iTunes (free)

Show Time Spanish

Show Time Spanish is also produced by Mark of Radio Lingua and is intended to continue building on the foundations laid by Coffee Break Spanish. These podcasts are therefore aimed at the more advanced learners of Spanish, taking them to the next stage in an engaging format in which Mark and his co-presenter ,Alba, discuss, in Spanish, topical issues. Every episode is divided into two acts, with an interval in which I present a short section on authentic Spanish phrases. The podcasts are free with some premium features.

Click here to go to the Show Time Spanish website or click here to subscribe in iTunes (free)

Notes in Spanish

Notes in Spanish is another series of podcasts which follows a similar format to the above. Two presenters, Ben and Marina, discuss topics at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels, providing you with another source of authentic, situational Spanish conversation. The podcasts are free with some premium features.

Click here to go to Notes in Spanish or click here to subscribe in iTunes (free)

Reading Spanish online with Lingro

An excellent source of vocabulary and a brilliant way to acquire new structures and phrases is good, old-fashioned reading. Why not read online newspapers or other Spanish websites?

You can start with El País or El Mundo to get you going, and, if you find the going difficult, why not read these websites through Lingro, a dictionary website with a difference: view any Spanish website through Lingro and all the Spanish words become clickable… if you don’t know what one means, simply click on it!

It gets better. Lingro remembers which words you looked up and automatically creates games and flash-cards to help you reinforce the new vocabulary.

Click on the arrows on the bottom, right-hand side corner to move through the presentation and click on the pictures to zoom in/out of the detail.

Ésta es la presentación de la sesión extraordinaria que atendisteis ayer. Si tenéis alguna pregunta no olvidéis que podéis preguntarme cualquier cosa a través de Edmodo.

¡Buena suerte!

Jonathan, in Year 10, has produced this slideshow to help him revise his verbs. Una idea muy buena, gracias Jonathan!

Remember you can also revise reflexive (me levanto) and stem changing verbs (juego) if you download these podcasts. There are also some interactive exercises in this section of AsíSeHace.net.

]]> http://www.asisehace.net/blog/?feed=rss2&p=245 0 http://www.asisehace.net/blog/?p=242 http://www.asisehace.net/blog/?p=242#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 10:09:06 +0000 Señor Picardo http://www.asisehace.net/blog/?p=242 The year 12 have been tasked with producing their best, coolest phrases – ¡la frases que más molan! – to use in a writing examination as a starter activity in our lesson.

This is what they came up with:

• Según los datos, los jóvenes que juegan a los videojuegos están hechos un lío sobre las cuestiones clave de la vida, a causa de los escenarios poco realistas en los videojuegos – Ross D
• Según los expertos, las drogas contienen sustancias dañinas que se intoducen en el cuerpo – Richard A
• Tenemos que eliminar focos de enfermedades contagiosas, como los mosquitos en el tercer mundo, para evitar una crisis higiénica – Gabriel C
• Según mis padres, para considerar el asunto más detalladamente, necesito tomarme la vida tal como viene – Ted B
• Si fuera periodista, hablaría sobre los temas que son importantes, por ejemplo las noticias de actualidad, y suprimiría los artículos sobre los famosos – Elliot M
• Desde mi punto de vista, es importante cambiar la perspectiva de las drogas de diseño para que en el futuro mantengamos una vida muy sana y, si pudiera, dentendria a todos los camellos para limitar la disponibilidad de las drogas – Sam A
• Es una ilusión creer que nos comportamos de una manera diferente, para darnos cuenta que sólo somos peces en un mar eterno – Jon N

Alex, este vídeo es genial y me gusta mucho. ¡Muy bien hecho!

Gracias Ted por este vídeo tan bueno sobre los animales en peligro en el mundo. ¡Me gusta la música!

Sam, no sabía que te gustaba el jazz… Un video muy bueno ¡Bien hecho!

Many thanks Jonathan for your fantastic video about La Fauna ibérica. ¡Muy bien hecho!

Esta presentación es para ayudar a los chicos de 6.2 a recordar los puntos más importantes sobre el período entre 1975 y 1996: La transición a la democracia.

¡Espero que os ayude!