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Promociones de Cafam

As I prepared and brainstormed review activities to use with my Spanish 4 students, I ran across a big flyer from the Colombian supermarket Cafam filled with food and toiletry items. I have a few ideas on how to use the food items in this flyer, and I wanted to share a Flickr album with you. I'm sure many of you will be able to use the photos as you review food. The photos include an image and the vocabulary word paired with a price. Please stop by and tell me what you did/plan to do with the images. 

Five for Friday: 5 ways to use photos in the classroom

 Photo taken in Bogotá, Colombia on International Skateboarding Day, 2011

 

One of my hobbies is photography so I am always looking for ways to use it in the classroom.  If you have the opportunity to travel, photography is a great way to bring culture back to the classroom, but there are other ways to use photos in the classroom. Here are a few ideas:

1. Set up a scavenger hunt on Flickr or better yet have the students make one for each other.  

2. Have students take photos of vocabulary for homework & then use it in class to review vocabulary.  

3. Use a high interest photo as a conversation prompt for partner work.  I am always looking for images to get my students talking.  If you have a favorite resource for this, please let me know.

4. Pair a photograph with a sentence structure when you are explaining grammar items. Some kids need the grammar explanation, but others will remember the structure because of the image.

5. Use photos to review vocabulary on www.quizlet.com, or on a digital matching game like www.quia.com.  Many of these web 2.0 tools will allow you to load photos to their digital flashcards. 

I know there are many other uses for photos.  What are some of your favorite ways to bring the language alive via images?

 

 

Foto Cultura: Día del monopatín

This content was created as a review for my Spanish 3 class. Foto Cultura 2 is a short post about Skateboarding Day in Bogotá, Colombia. (You can view the first in the series  here.) I hope to review the preterit, clothing and description using the photos, as well as talking about how skateboarding is a past time/sport shared by many different countries. You can see the post on my class blog.

Back from a (too) short trip

I just got back from visiting my dad in Bogotá, Colombia.  I wanted to take as many photos as I could in the short time that I was there to use in the classroom for short cultural mini-lessons.  As I write the content on my classroom blog I will share it here.  I hope you enjoy these Foto Cultura articles.  

The first Foto Cultura article is about La Ciclovía in Bogotá.  Every Sunday and holidays major streets, avenues and roads are closed from 7 am to 2 pm so that cyclists and runners can practice their sport.