Individuals or groups, fictional or real, famous or infamous. Share your authentic resources about people from your target culture. Or check out what others are sharing.
Many thanks to all who have been commenting. Around 100 new resources have already been shared. Love our PLN! We will draw on Sunday morning so keep on adding.
Interview avec Stromae: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbTTJ7CrqKw
Listening guide here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbTTJ7CrqKw (see page 7; there are other authentic resources about Stromae in the packet)
Here’s an infographic about how the Pope was elected it has lots of great info and verbs in the preterite for an interpretative reading activity.
http://endimages.s3.amazonaws.com/legacy/1363284672_Como%20se%20eligi%C3%B3.jpg
Here’s another great infographic on Gabriel Garcia Marquez: https://spanishbloggin.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/cultura-42.jpg
El impacto de Shakira y su fundación Pies Descalzos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S75DRvTAW7A
http://www.fundacionpiesdescalzos.com/es/
http://authenticspanishlanguageandpedagogy.blogspot.com/
Site with oral histories from a variety of Latinos.
http://latino.si.edu – search for virtual gallery
The Smithsonian Latino Center Biography Page. Ojos has a series of biographies in Spanish about famous Latinos across disciplines.
Authentic phone calls from various countries AND downloadable items for listening activities in class. Love it!!!
http://phone.dliflc.edu/default_spanish.asp
Omg where has this been all my life????
wonderful!
Click on any team and find several Hispanic players. Lots of info about the players in Spanish. My Spanish I students have asked and answered questions about the players, and they have also written answers to questions about the players.
http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/beisbol/mlb/jugadores
For my French students, I love 1jour1actu. Here is a nice article and video about Malala. http://www.1jour1actu.com/monde/il-ma-appelee-malala-76557//#boxCommentContainer