El Corte Ingles
15Students don’t have to learn EVERYTHING from their teacher!
Challenge: Make your next lesson one with NO teaching! Lead students to the right places and let them learn independently!
Check out great AUTHENTIC websites like www.elcorteingles.es that show the language IN CONTEXT! Use it at the beginning of a shopping or clothing unit. When students figure out what a new words means on their own it leaves a much more lasting impression than when they are given translations on a vocab list!
Plus, great opportunties to discuss currency differences and compare and contrast Spanish vs. American culture!
SHOPPING ONLINE – it’s hands-on, real world, and FUN!
Megan
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Kara
Love this idea, this project would definitely rewarding and motivating and motivating for students.
It’s really interesting. My students had never seen prices with the comma in the middle 43,27 and they were convinced Spain was the most expensive country ever!
Haha!! See, I suppose that’s true, things that you can be so accustomed to, you may actually overlook and forget to teach. You need to plant them in the middle of it all to see for themselves, or as close as the internet allows you to! Innovative ideas! Keep it up
… and excuse my second “motivating”… it’s late here!
Ha! No problem… Where are you from?
Dublin, 21:45 is late isn’t it? I’m not teaching at the moment though. You’re teaching in the US, correct?
Wow! I love that the internet allows us to share ideas across the globe! I love Ireland, I was just telling my classes about how I kissed the Blarney stone.
They thought it was weird. We’re both here in Kentucky.
Really? Hence all the blogging! Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. It’s really nice to find people around the world with the same interests and ideas. It’s really inspiring. Like every time I have doubts, I get a notification or read somebodies post, and I realise there’s no denying that this is what I want to do you know? I only moved to WordPress quite recently and it seems to be fantastic.
Sara,
Welcome! I just recently found Megan and Kara’s FANTASTIC website/blog. I am a homeschool mom and I teach Spanish I for my co-op group. Vivo en Maryland. My husband is 90% Irish and about 10% Scot (maybe less). I also have some Irish stock in me as well. We both love U2.
It’s wonderful to see how the Kara and Megan’s blog helps to connect so many teachers. What a blessing!
At the beginning of the clothing chapter, I taught clothing and colors in class. We then went to the language lab where students went on a no budget shopping spree. I had created a handout where they had to buy one of every clothing item. It was great because they chose what they wanted, had to write down the title and price. They learned lots of new vocab and the fashions in Spain. At the end they had to add up the total in Euros and then convert into American dollars. It was a great activity and the students learned a lot and enjoyed it.
Wonderful idea, Anne-Marie. I discovered this site two days ago and have been navigating through it for ideas. I just presented clothing and colors to my Spanish 1 this week. I wish I had seen this “No teaching” idea earlier, but now that I read your idea, I can add more to the lesson by making connections to a real life and add numeracy! Thanks!
Corte ingles is my absolute favorite! You can follow, el pais, museo Prado, a singer named Maná and many other places, things, etc on Facebook, twitter etc. when I taught older children they LOVED being able to actually visit the prado and tour the museum virtually
I’m doing a clothing/shopping unit now with my 8th graders, and this lesson idea is golden!
I’m going to try it out tomorrow with the laptops. I’m thinking about having them explore the website and shop for 3 complete outfits for 3 different occasions: VIP concert/school dance/party + regular school day + wedding in the family (or give them a list of items they need to get).
They’ll note the title of the item and the price, add it up and convert it, and since we’re on the computers I’m going to have them email me photos of their outfits that they can put together in a word document.
Now that I think about it, as an extension I could probably have them draft a kind of “mi look ideal” from El Corte Inglés (with the price) to put on our bulletin boards.
Thanks for the inspiration!
(If this goes well I might have my AP or Principal stop in and observe – incorporation of technology and literacy skills for the win!)
The app for the website is really cool too. I have a post about it too. Let us know it goes!
Hi! Great ideas! Do you do things like this when first introducing vocab? I have a tough chapter coming up (realidades 5A- reporter/disasters chapter). Is there anything you would recommend for this? Thanks!
If you have tech, maybe start with them looking at a news site in Spanish (Univision, bbc, etc.). They could “sort” the disasters they recognize into categories (natural, human) or something like which ones affected people the most to the least. The thing with vocab is that we want to keep the rigor high where they are using blooms higher level thinking (evaluate, assess, compare, etc) if possible. Without tech, you could do a “gallery walk” (search for that post: print stories about each one, hang them around the room, they walk to each). Twitter would also have lots of these words. I would want to know some ways to respond like “how sad, terrible, I’m sorry.” The comments people leave on the sites will be good too. Start by thinking what you want them to be able to do with the vocab at the end that is real life for them.