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De dos en dos
by Diego on 4/21/2016
Nuestro buen amigo Lauris dedica unas palabras de recuerdo a dos famosos que, aunque no llegaron a saberlo, fueron estupendos colegas.Hace pocos días nos ha sorprendido la noticia de la muerte de dos personajes de la… more »
The Princess of Asturias Awards 2015
by Lauris on 5/14/2015
Sometimes our resistance to change, force of habit and what some people call our “autopilot” mode can play a dirty trick on us. That is what happened to me with the Prince of Asturias Award, which I forgot are, as of… more »
Por and Para - Examples
by Salomé Torres on 3/26/2015
As I was saying a couple of weeks ago, I think that Cognitive Grammar is extremely useful for teaching the difference between POR and PARA.We have to look for a unique grammatical meaning that can be expressed in… more »
Thoughts on this Year's Goya Awards
by Lauris on 2/19/2015
A new mode of writing known as noir fiction emerged in the US during the great depression. Perhaps as a child of the movement, film noir elevated Bogart and his Maltese Falcon to the height of the film genre.The… more »
Spanish language movies...
by Lauris on 11/6/2014
... that every Spanish teacher should knowHere we are, racking our brains trying to come up with a method for selecting films which for different reasons may be of use to us as Spanish teachers.Here in Spain of course,… more »
Spanish Movies in the Classroom
by Lauris on 9/18/2014
We’ve already discussed here on several occasions the value of using film in the classroom. A movie screen is like an open window that invites viewers to dive into new worlds, places where students can observe and… more »
Classroom Activities for Spanish Class
by Lauris on 3/13/2014
When we come across, in the natural progression of our student’s learning, the need to significantly increase their level of vocabulary to reach B1 level, we often encounter the difficulty of giving an overdose of… more »
Some Fantastic Material for Spanish Classes
by Lauris on 2/7/2014
The Spanish Film "Amanece que no es poco"The 2014 Goya Awards ceremony is being held this Sunday the 9th and it can be seen at 10 pm (Spanish peninsula time) on TV on channel TVE 1 or on the internet at www.rtve.es.… more »
The Goya Film Awards
by Lauris on 1/16/2014
Spanish film’s Goya awards are right around the corner, and I’m glad to see that despite the fact that everyone keeps talking about Spain’s eternal cinematographic crisis, film exhibitors studying the viewing public’s… more »
When the impossible unfortunately becomes real
by Lauris on 11/14/2013
"Lo Imposible"A few months ago we published an article about the Spanish film “The Impossible” which was a box office success, was hailed by critics and could take its female protagonist (Naomi Watts) to the stage of… more »