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Spanish Resources Test Your Spanish Exercises, Grammar, Quizzes Games Examples of real lesson plans Spanish Search Engines Audio and Video Resources

 

 

Spanish Resources

http://www.carla.umn.edu/technology/learn_spanish.html

 

 

Test Your Spanish

• Centro Virtual Cervantes:

http://ave.cervantes.es/prueba_nivel/default.htm

• BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/gauge/

 

Exercises, Grammar, Quizzes

• BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/

• Learn Spanish:

http://www.studyspanish.com/

 

Games

• Quia:

http://www.quia.com/shared/spanish/

 

Examples of real lesson plans

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  Students have € 50 to plan a party.  They go to the supermarket and print the "shopping basket". Use postal code 28820 to get into the site:

  • http://www.elcorteingles.es

 

• Students need to travel from Madrid to Barcelona, find a hotel, a restaurant and a movie theater, and write a report on directions on how to get to all those places:
  • http://www.renfe.es
  • http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/en/hotels/hotelmaps/barcelona-hotel-map.html
  • http://www.guiadelocio.com/barcelona/
  • http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=barcelona&ie=UTF8&layer=x&ll=41.386984,2.15641&spn=0.025887,0.056777&z=15

 

Spanish Search Engines

• Yahoo localized:

España: http://es.yahoo.com/

Argentina: http://ar.yahoo.com/

México: http://mx.yahoo.com/

EEUU en Español: http://telemundo.yahoo.com/

• Terra: http://www.terra.com/

En la parte baja de la página, se puede escoger el país.

• Google:

Español: http://www.google.com/intl/es/

Google España: http://www.google.es/

Google México: http://www.google.com.mx/

 

Audio and Video Resources

 

 

• Oral Language Archive (audio conversations)
• Destinos (course video)
• BBC Spanish On-line
• Bitesize Spanish
• Primary Spanish - BBC
• Ashcombe School Video Resources
• Espana RealPlayer  Browse the guide to find something.