News Sites
|
|
All activities shown with the following symbol have been fully developed and are available for purchase in our e-book | |
![]() |
|
Spanish News Bites | |
http://www.spanishnewsbites.net/ | |
This site provides short news articles in Spanish divided by both topic and level: beginner, intermediate and advanced (teachers should note that beginner level is more advanced than level 1). An MP3 file provides a native speaker reading each article. This can be listened to right from the site or can be downloaded. |
|
Interpretive: Students fill out a chart answering the key questions of who?, what?, where?, when? and why? after reading the articles on the site. |
|
News in Slow Spanish | ![]() |
http://www.newsinslowspanish.com/ | |
Listen to native speakers discuss the world news and much more in simplified Spanish at a slow pace. MP3 files can be downloaded and flashcards with new vocabulary, as well as grammar explanations and practice with expressions and pronunciation are provided. | |
Interpretive: Students respond to a teacher’s checklist, true/false or multiple choice exercise. Exercises will be most successful if teacher provides salient vocabulary. Presentational: Students create their own news podcast about their class, school or community. The stories can be real or fantasy-based. |
|
Front Pages of Newspapers | ![]() |
http://www.newseum.o rg/todaysfrontpages/ |
|
This site provides today's front pages of newspapers from the U.S. , Asia, Caribbean, Europe, Middle East, North America, Oceania, South America and Africa. | |
Interpretive: Students rank the top stories on the front page and categorize them based on content such as: sports, politics, entertainment, world news, environment. |
|
News in 4 minutes | |
Top news story is reported in 4 minutes or less daily. Video is provided along with a script of the news report. Older stories are also archived on the site. | |
Interpretive: Students get post-it notes and jot down words, ideas, pictures they heard.
|
|
TV sites |
|
Interpretive: Students write a summary or draw a picture of what they have seen during one week. Interpersonal: Students will interview each other to find out about what their partner(s) watched. Each group receives six poker chips and every time they ask a question they give one poker chip. Their goal is to get rid of the poker chips. Presentational: Students keep a TV journal based on what they've watched. ![]() |
|
wwiTV (1998-2006) | ![]() |
http://wwitv.com/portal.htm | |
Live TV from around the world. Note: Requires RealPlayer and/or Windows media player. |
|
Beeline TV (2003-2005) | ![]() |
http://www.beelinetv.com/ | |
Live TV from around the world. |
|
Cervantes TV | ![]() |
http://www.cervantestv.es/ | |
Cervantes TV offers TV from Spain. |
|