Back to school Video Clips
33July 28, 2012 by Kara
Now that we have shared our listening forms, we will share some of our favorite videos by themes. After discussing this with Megan, I’ve realized that we show videos to teach the culture in addition to learning new words. We both try to include a daily video to get them excited and thinking about the language. It creates great discussion too! Remember that it is important that they are doing something while they are listening.
I’ll start with back to school. I learned that “vuelta al cole” is the popular way to say this in Spanish. I will ask my students to try to find some videos too. I’m sure there are some new commercials that will come out soon.
They can learn from these! I will give them the supplies (or a picture) and the word on paper. They can match them up while they listen. I will take a little time to talk about “marcatextos” and how to break down that word. They could create their own video list for a project. Give them a real scenario: Greenwood elementary (our elementary nearby) is getting new students that speak Spanish. Create a…
Same as previous. There are a lot of these videos on Youtube. You could play only the sound as an assessment.
She gives a nice introduction and talks about her uniform. They should be able to get the main idea. This shows a lot about the culture.
I will ask the students to count how many times they hear “libros” and “cole”. This can lead to a comparison of how we get textbooks. It reminds me of college.
¡Qué onda! This is a quick one with “mochillas”. I would ask the students to describe this video in Spanish using Megan’s novice listening form. Es un… anuncio… sobre… escuela… Hay… estudiantes… en la clase.
Barbie can be anything! Even a profe de dibujo! I will freeze the screen at the end and ask them what profe would they be? This may fit younger or all-girl classes better.
One question: ¿Quién es tu profe de mate?
This song uses “papel” and “boligrafo” several times.
Cute song about “la de la mochilla azul”.
Cute song about “Su nombre en mi cuaderno”. I will give them the lyrics while they listen.
She talks quickly in this one, but I can think of two ways to simplify it. I will give them a short list of words and have students circle the ones they hear. Then at the end she says their days and times open, so I will see if they can figure that out.
And my favorite video for starting the year: http://www.senorwooly.com/video_indiv.php?cancion=puedo_ir_al_bano
I teach an entire lesson on how to get out of class. They have to give me this information so I can fill out their pass including WHERE are they going, the TIME, and the DATE.
What are your favorite videos about back to school??
Megan
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Kara
How would you write Post-It note? I’ve Googled and found the uses of “nota adhesiva” and “nota autoadhesiva”; however, it’s only at Chile’s 3-M site that I found any use of Post-It in Spanish. (3M, naturally, dubs them “Notas Post-it®.” The girl uses the slangy Post-It, which I like, but I don’t know how that would be written.
As a native speaker I can tell you that post-its are one of those things you call by its brand name and have become regular slang. the “nota autoadhesiva” is a valid term, but in the day to day, no one says that. We say “Tienes un postit?”
I said this in class today and they loved it! Thanks for that clarification!
Got any French ones?
I found a few today while looking around. Not super crazy about any of them, but they’re at least a start!
Most of them are too long and would need to be shown in shorter segments to make them comprehensible and meaningful. And one of them uses a bad French word a few times, but it’s so fast and my students do not know it, so I’m still deciding about that one. I’ll let you know if I find any more!
-mme manion
oh wow. I’m so sorry Megan and Kara–not quite sure how that happened! It was supposed to be links to four short clips! Can you please delete this post? Sorry again!
It says they might still be loading… Let’s see if they do! (I didn’t even know you could post a video as a comment! Awesome!)
I’m no expert (as I teach Spanish); however, I stumbled across a cute video with Isabella from the Disney show “Phineas and Ferb”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLZH8oap7po Apparently, there’s a running gag that she asks Phineas and Ferb every single day what they’re doing. So the song uses “Qu’est-ce que vous faites?” over and over. I wish they had it in Spanish! I would SO use it for when we start activities.
I used this site – thankyou so much! my kids loved it!
Hi girls i am so inspired by your site!
Do you have an equivalent of those funny video sites of Senor Wooly in French?
Can anyone recommend some for my 15-16 year old intermediates? (we have YABLA)
cheers
Unfortunately I only know Spanish ones. Can any French teachers help out there?
I loved this!
I love your site so much! I am a German teacher and even though none of the examples are in German, I get ideas from every single post.
So glad to hear! Please share anything you have. I know there are other German teachers that follow.
This is cute as well to play on the theme of school related crushes / not being able to pay attention in class. Would be fun for beginning / end of class.
This would be great for present progressive, too!
Yes!! Target has a new catchy one in Spanish like their “Backpack” one.
Music Teacher: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s8JIcDOJM4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
It’s “Blame it on the Boogie” by the Jackson 5.
Actually Target has their own channel on YouTube. I found several other Spanish videos on there. Click on “more by” and it shows their commercials.
Kahn Academy has hundreds of videos on topics of interest to students academically…
This one is a very basic arithmetic–the language is very basic and clear and covers information they already know (addition) to they can focus on the language.
Keep this going! I have been seeking videos all summer and would love to be part of a group that shares them in an organized way.
Do you have a wiki for video links or a you tube channel?
How do you find these in Spanish? So far I can only see Target commercials in English. ¡¡¡¡Millón de gracias!!!
The best way is to search using target language words like “vuelta al cole”, “mochillas”, and “cosas para escuela”.
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Do any of you know how to convert youtube videos to a MOV file(I have a mac) online for free? I used to use zamzar.com, but they no longer download youtube videos:(
I’m not sure if this will work, but try http://www.keepvid.com. I’ve used it on my PC. Now I have RealPlayer and it downloads with one click.
Thank you!
I found this video that was super cute! It involves interviewing a lot of students about going back to school. It gets a little lengthy, but my favorite interview is at the end!
Thanks! I can see asking a simple “What subject does each kid like, or not like?”
Just wanted to share a cartoon that I found on youtube for the “regreso a clases” topic
(parte 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLQ1jwaTMg8
(parte 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2-niENXr_M&feature=youtu.be
Thanks Sherie!
Just love it here! Keep it up!
I signed up on the ecard site and just got some ‘back to school’ cards today: http://www.kisseo.es/w/p/4_colegio-y-estudios/1/?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=vuelta20120831
Has anyone found a good internet site(s) for the school unit? For school schedules, I have I tried Google images, but only came across one. Most are from American Spanish Class, not a school schedule from a Hispanic Country.
OR sites for authentic readings/web searches?
I have tried using key words (in Spanish) but not having much luck. My Spanish 1 Class starts this unit tomorrow.
I have enough videos from the blog!
Thanks!
Try going to a specific school/university’s website and looking at classes, Universidad de Salamanca. Or a summer language program site (When I find that site, I’ll post it, but I can’t remember off the top of my head!) It was nice to talk about places they could go.