Cancion para viernes 10/27

Each Friday we'll listen to and watch a music video of a Spanish speaking country.

This is another video with a cute story.

Fonesca is from Colombia

Create a new blog post on your Spanish Blog Portfolio, title it the same as this blog post, and answer at least 2 of the following questions.

• Describe the video in your own words. What happens in the video?
• Did you like the song? Explain your answer.
• Did you like the video? Explain your answer.
• Write a brief biography in English about the artist. 
• Find the lyrics in Spanish and summarize them in English.

Steph Curry Top 10 Plays in Spanish

A teacher made a video in Spanish about the 10 best plays of Steph Curry described in Spanish!

Check it out, I bet you can understand quite a bit!

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio, title it the same as this blog post, and complete the following task based on the video.

• Make a list of 5 words or phrases you heard in Spanish and what they mean in English. Listen for cognates, words that look and sound the same in Spanish and English. 

Geography Games

I'm a big fan of learning about geography and the history of the world, and there are plenty of websites to play games and practice! Here are a few that I've recently found.

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio, title it the same as this blog post, and play one of the following games. Take a screen shot of your score and explain what you thought of the game.


Where in the world is a quick game where you try to figure out where in the world the Google Street View photo is taken. It gives you 3 options to choose from and the ability to select what kind of places to focus on.



My Name is Hunt is a "choose your own adventure game" using Google Street View! Play the first chapter and explain what happens!



Urban Opticon is similar to GeoGuessr in that you try to pinpoint on a map where a Google Street View image is. It has a Pittsburgh version, but you can also pick different cities from the United States or around the world! Take a screen shot of how well you did on the Pittsburgh version then choose a different city!


Unrelated to geography but still fun,
Quick Draw!

Canciones para viernes 10/6

Each Friday we'll listen to and watch a music video of a Spanish speaking country.

Today I have two videos from an amazing Colombian group ChocQuibTown 

Create a new blog post on your Spanish Blog Portfolio, title it the same as this blog post, and answer at least 2 of the following questions for one of the songs

• Describe the scenery in the videos in your own words. What happens in the video?
• Did you like the song? Explain your answer.
• Did you like the video? Explain your answer.
• Which song/video did you like more? Explain your answer.
• Write a brief biography in English about the group. 
• Find the lyrics in Spanish and summarize them in English.

Building a Human Tower in Spain

Every year in early October in Spain teams of people compete to see who can build the largest tower made out of humans!

Members of "Vella de Xiquets de Valls" fall as they try to complete their human tower during the 26th Human Tower Competition on October 2, 2016. #

See more photos here.

Watch this video to see one being built in action.

Here is an another article and video about the human towers.

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio, title it the same as this blog post, and answer 4 of the following questions in complete sentences based on these images.

• What are the human towers called?
• Where does this take place? What is the region of Spain?
• How many people does it take to make a tower?
• What is the history behind this activity?
• Would you ever participate in this competition? Explain.