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Monthly Archives: September 2008

El desafío Animoto (this time for real!)

This is a task for the boys in 6.2. The brief:

  • Produce a minute long video montage on El Medio Ambiente using your most recent piece of extended writing and related photos.
  • You must upload your own commentary in Spanish in mp3 format (see Audacity, below)
  • ¡Pásatelo bien!
How do I do this:
  1. Go to Animoto and register following the link found here (make sure you register a new account! otherwise it won’t work)
  2. Find creative commons pictures and upload them to Animoto
  3. Record your own commentary in Spanish and upload that as the soundtrack (mp3) 
  4. Let Animoto do its cosa… ¡y ya está!
Useful websites and tools
Hint: Use Audacity to mix your commentary with some nice creative commons music from Jamendo to make it sound professional!

Learn Spanish with Lingus.tv

Lingus.tv is a new website that allows you to learn Spanish while watching a specially devised sitcom. It’s really simple to use, just choose a video and click on play, and it comes with beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.

Each video comes with a script of the dialogue, a translation (should it be needed) and grammar notes.

This is really a fantastic resource.

¡Venga, a pasarlo bien!

Year 10 introduce themselves…

The boys in Year 10 (second year studying Spanish) practised introducing themselves in our first lesson back after the summer holidays. Listen out for these questions:

  • ¿Cómo te llamas?
  • ¿Cuántos años tienes?
  • ¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños?
  • ¿Cuántas personas hay en tu familia?
  • ¿Tienes hermanos o hermanas?
  • ¿Tienes animales en casa?