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.

Songs About Immigration 2017

Many musicians write songs about the effects of immigration, I posted some here a few years ago, but it's time to share some more recent songs. 

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

This song is about a man leaving his family for the United States.

• 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 group. 
• Find the lyrics in Spanish, translate and summarize them in English.

This song is about the 11 million immigrants that come to the United States.

• Describe the scenery in the video in your own words. What do you see in the video? What instruments do you see?
• Did you like the song? Explain your answer.
• Did you like the video? Explain your answer.
• Write a brief biography in English about the group. 
• Find the lyrics in Spanish, translate and summarize them in English.

Here is an older song from Kinto Sol, La Bestia, which talks about how many immigrants from Central America travel through Mexico on trains known as La Bestia, or the beast. These trains are known to be very dangerous to navigate. 

This song is about the children of undocumented workers (many of the children are born in the United States).

• Describe the video in your own words. What happens in the video?
• Find the lyrics in Spanish, translate and summarize them in English.
• Explain the social, political or economic effects of immigration based on 2 or 3 statistics that are stated 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 artists. 

Canción para viernes 9/15!

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

Here is the first video

These artist are 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 two artist. 

Canciones para los novios

Es el mes de febrero, y escuchamos música en la clase de español.

Here are some romantic songs with great music videos are catchy lyrics to celebrate el amor and impress tu novi@!

The best music video!

Also a great music video!

A super catchy song from a boy band!

"Por fin te encontre" means "I finally found you"

Nice lyrics to repeat to someone you really.

Another great video!

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.

• Which song do you like more? Include the video & explain your answer.
• Which music video do you like more? Include the video & explain your answer.
• Pick two of the videos that have a story (not just lyrics or video of people performing) and explain what happens in the video.
• How do you celebrate Valentine's Day? Which romantic song in English is your favorite?

el día de San Valentín

Valentine's Day is approaching and if you really want to impress that special someone then say something special en español!

source: Speaking Latino

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio and complete the following task 

based on the information above.

• Create a card using one of the phrases above. You can create it
• electronically using Publisher or Photoshop
• online
• by hand and take a picture of it.
• Embed/Insert it into your blog post!

Immigration Infographics

I have many many many posts on this blog about immigration (so many many many)!

Below are info-graphics (visual representations of data) that highlight different pieces of information about immigration in the United States.

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Economic Impact of Immigrants from Paragon Design Group on Vimeo.

Hot Tamale Activities

Create a new blog post in your Spanish blog portfolio, title it the same as this blog post, and complete one of tasks

• Chose one of the info-graphics/videos and embed it into your own blog. Describe in detail what information this info-graphic is sharing. 
• After looking at all the info-graphic, what new information do you now know that you didn't know before? What questions do you still have?
• Find other info-graphics about immigration on the internet and embed them into your blog.