LA - Learning Tasks: Lectura, Escuchar, y Cultura (Lesson)

Learning Tasks: Lectura, Escuchar, y Cultura

Lectura

Who does not enjoy listening to music? Research shows that music helps develop listening skills. It helps with remembering certain aspects of language which otherwise would be difficult for students; singing helps the learner to improve speaking (clearly) and helps them stay on task. Music is a universal mode of communication and a way to connect across cultures; getting to know music is getting to know the culture.

Learning the lyrics of a song helps the language scholar expand his/her vocabulary and helps the student learn to speak simple basic phrases. It is a very good source, of many sources, for learning a second language.

Click on this link to view a song by a Hispanic artist. Links to an external site. Download the handout and follow the instructions.

Escuchar: Las Diversiones

Time to talk about your favorite movies, actors, and singers. Listen to the audio clips of some native speakers describing some of their favorite films and painters. You may need to listen several times to get used to hearing the language being spoken. You will find a handout on an upcoming assessment page to determine how well you understood the native speakers.

Adverbs

Spanish adverbs are usually formed by adding -mente to an adjective. If there is a difference between the masculine and feminine form of the adjective, -mente is added to the latter.

ADJECTIVE	ADVERB
tranquilo (calm)	tranquilamente (calmly)
puntual (punctual)	puntualmente (punctually)
último (ultimate)	últimamente (ultimately)
admirable (admirable)	admirablemente (admirably)
ligero (light)	ligeramente (lightly)

 

When two or more adverbs ending in -mente are used in the same construction to modify the same verb only use the -mente ending on the second adverb.

Hicimos la tarea rápida y eficazmente. We did the homework quickly and efficiently.

Please listen to the following audio files.

Laura Simplified Example
Leonardo G. México, D.F
Daniela R. Perú, Lima
Paula O. Chile, Santiago
Luis A. Costa Rica, San José
Silvia M. Colombia, Popayán

 

Cultura

Click here to download a handout that will allow you to access one of the most famous art museums in the world, El Prado. Links to an external site. You will be navigating further into the website so make sure you read your directions as you go through the worksheet! You will see some of this material again in your chapter test.

Frida Kahlo

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (6 July 1907 - 13 July 1954), usually known as Frida Kahlo, was a Mexican painter. She was also known for having many lady friends in the bedroom. She was known for her surreal and very personal works. She was married to Diego Rivera, also a well-known painter.

She was born in Coyoacán, Mexico. She had polio that left her disabled when she was 6 years old and some people think that she may have had spina bifida (a birth defect affecting the development of part of the spine) as well. She studied medicine and was going to become a doctor. Because of a traffic accident at age 18 that badly injured her, she had periods of severe pain for the rest of her life. After this accident, Kahlo no longer continued her medical studies but took up painting. She used ideas about things that had happened to her. Her paintings are often shocking in the way they show pain and the harsh lives of women, especially her feelings about not being able to have children. Fifty-five of her 143 paintings are of herself. She was also influenced by native Mexican culture, shown in bright colors, with a mixture of realism and symbolism. Her paintings attracted the attention of the artist Diego Rivera, whom she later married. She was openly bisexual and was a communist. She died of a pulmonary embolism in Coyoacán.

Kahlo's work is sometimes called "surrealist", and although she organized art shows several times with European surrealists, she herself did not like that label. Her attention to female themes, and the honesty in her painting of them, made her something of a feminist cult figure in the last decades of the 20th century. Some of her work is seen at the Frida Kahlo Museum, found in her birthplace and home in suburban Mexico City.

 

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