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The didactic capsules will serve as a good reviewing material for the advanced students, while meeting the beginners'
needs and interests.
- Each program can be presented completely, that is, non- stop, then the most significant elements of each chapter exploited
with focus on teacher-student and student-student interaction. Here are some examples:
Its options menu features multilingual subtitling to use while watching the entire program or parts of it.
After the first overall "exploration", the DVD components will enable you to:
- Go back to specific sequences, with the rewind button.
- repeat or note down some words and phrases, using the pause.
- go quickly over the well known, or adquired ??? elements, using the fast forward.
Here are a few helpful tips :
At first use, get acquainted with the show hosts and guests, all of Latin-American background, through start to
finish viewing of the program.
This will also give you good clues about some typical Spanish sounds, words and expressions. All your attention should
focus on listening, so it might be a good idea to leave the subtitles blank at this point.
Next, you could listen to it again, using the pause button after each significant sequence or chapter.
The same sequences can then be watched again, but with English subtitles, to ensure you the best comprehension possible.
" yo soy Jean Tremblay y vengo de Canada".
Do the same with the following pieces of information : The activities suggested in the student' s book: Mirando y Practicando will serve as reinforcement and enrichment of the
DVD learning contents.
For example, activity 7, page 6, refers to the above-mentioned part of the show: presenting and introducing.
Besides, you can refer anytime to the transcript of the DVD at the end of the activity book, in order to clear up possible misunderstanding.
A useful lexicon relating to the instructions for each activity is found at the end of the student's book.
However, A English-Spanish dictionary and basic grammar are essential, having in mind that this course
is not a grammar-based tool, but rather a new, dynamic and authentic communication skills -oriented materials.
The internet also provides various lexical and grammatical resources.
Here are some:
www.studyspanish.com
To teachers :
Program 1 :
- Greeting
- Introducing oneself
- Introducing someone
- Giving information about a person : nationality, family, profession, etc.
- Exchanging information about people : relatives, friends, favorite people.
- Congratulating
- Thanking someone.
- Exchanging information with classmates about favorite people.
Program 2 :
- Greeting
- Asking information about places.
- Making a phone call
- Answering a phone call
- Searching an address
- Describing places
- Describing the parts of a home and its components.
- Introducing someone new
- Exchanging information with classmates, about tastes, hobbies and accomplishments
- Congratulating
- Thanking
To users of the DVD : Historias de otro mundo en español
This tool, for use in a standard video and computer DVD reader is a new and efficient modern way to familiarize yourself with,
and improve your comprehension and use of the Spanish language.
EXAMPLE 1 :
After the repeated greeting sequences at the beginning of the show, using the pause will allow you to learn and practice
the typical expressions: " Buenos dias, buenas tardes " , while being aware of the time of the day they are used. You may
then pronounce them out loud and write them down (memory aid).
EXAMPLE 2 :
The brief presentation of the first guest :
¿hola! ¿Cómo está? Bien gracias. Yo soy Rafael Hernandez y vengo de Colombia
can be watched two or three times - first without subtitles - then repeated aloud and in connection with yourself:
" Mi nombre…es y soy…Mí profesión es…Estoy aqui en Canada…y mi estatus es…" etc.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/
http://www.worldwidelearn.com/language-courses/learn-spanish.htm