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

Learning Tasks: Lectura, Escuchar, y Cultura

Lectura

Would you be able to describe your home in Spanish? Below are several paragraphs which describe housing in Spain. Once you have finished reading them review the La Casa Lectura Questions located below. Use the questions to assess how well you understood the paragraphs.

Las Casas En España En España, las cocinas son más pequeñas que las cocinas americanas, pero san también bien equipadas. Los españoles comen el dasayuno en la cocina. La mayoría de las casas en España tienen un cuarto de baño están separados en las casas antiquas. El salón y la sala de estar son para la familia. Es el cuarto más grande de la casa. Hay un sofá y las mesas. En muchos apartamentos, el comedor es una extensión del salón. Los dormitorios de los jóvenes tienen carteles y fotos. Como el salón es para la familia, el dormitorio es para el joven, donde escucha la música, hace la tarea, y trabaja en la computadora. En las ciudades, grandes, cerce del centro, la gente vive en un apartamento en un edificio. En el campo y en los pueblos pequeños, las casas son viejas y cada una es diferente. En los vecindarios en las afueras, las casas modernas son iguales.

 

Lectura La Casa - preguntas

  • ¿Cómo son las cocinas españolas?
  • ¿Dónde se encuentra la familia?
  • Compara los cuartos de baño de España y de Los Estados Unidos.
  • ¿Dónde vive la gente en las ciudades grandes?
  • Describe el dormitorio de un joven español.
  • ¿Qué hacen los jóvenes españoles en los dormitorios?
  • ¿Cuál es una diferencia entre una casa en un vecindario y una casa en un pueblo?

Escuchar

Listen to the audio clips below of native speakers describing their homes. You may need to listen several times to get used to hearing the language being spoken. Included below are also some vocabulary terms that you may be currently unfamiliar with but is necessary to understand the audio. You will find a handout on an upcoming assessment page to determine how well you understood the native speakers.

Audio One:

Simplified Spanish Example

 

amplia: spacious

comodidades: comforts

recámaras: bedroom

piscina: swimming pool

despacho: office

Audio Two:

Libia Contreras Julián

 

chiquita: very small

barra: bar

se comunica: connects to

agradable: nice

madera: wood

Audio Three:

Roxana Danae Bannach

 

escritorio: study

arriba: upstairs

acuario: aquarium

abajo: downstairs

Audio Four:

Carmen Gioliana Vila Raguz

 

residenciales: residential

jardín: garden

terraza: terrace

amoblado: furnished

azotea: terraced roof

Audio Five:

Christina C

 

tejado: roof

fachada: facade

chimenea: chimney

dormitorios: bedrooms

Audio Six:

Luis Emilio Aguilar

 

espacioso: spacious

regueros: messes

Cultura 

Alhambra

Photo of the Dawn Charles V Palace Alhambra in Granada Andalusia Spain.The Alhambra (from Arabic), "the red fortress", is a palace and fortress complex of the Moorish rulers of Granada in southern Spain (known as Al-Andalus when the fortress was constructed during the mid-14th century), occupying a hilly terrace on the southeastern border of the city of Granada.

"La Alhambra" is a popular tourist attraction in Spain. It was originally a palace and a fortress. See the two links below to access information about this gorgeous testament to both architecture and horticulture.

Click here for information on La Alhambra. Links to an external site.

Click here for information on Granada. Links to an external site.

Click here to download and complete a handout titled, "Cultura La Alhambra." Links to an external site. Read and reflect upon these questions carefully as you will see some of this material again on your module test.

Machu Picchu

Another famous city is in Perú. Machu Picchu was built by the Incas.

Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian 15th-century Inca site in Peru, South America.

The Incas built the city on a mountain ridge, 2430m above sea level. They lived there between 1200 and 1450 AD. Other people lived there before about 650 AD.

Photo of Machu Picchu June, 2009The Incas built houses, fields, and temples by cutting the rock on the mountain so it was flat. They built an observatory to look at the stars.

When the Spanish invaded Peru, the Incas left Machu Picchu. Nobody knows for sure why they did that, but some think it was because of diseases from Europe. The city was left unfinished, most likely due to the Spanish invasion and/or a civil war between the ruling rival Inca brothers named Huascar and Atahualpa. The Spanish never found Machu Picchu or the lost city during their occupation.

Machu Picchu is very difficult to get to because it is so high in the mountains. It has only one way in and a stone wall to protect it. Most people on Earth did not know it was there until a Yale graduate named Hiram Bingham rediscovered it in 1911. He heard rumors of a hidden city that was already known to the native Peruvians, who guided him there. He led a restoration project that was partly funded by the National Geographic Society. Bingham made a deal with the government to take artifacts to the Peabody Museum for study. Peru is still trying to have those artifacts returned to them.

Machu Picchu was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. In 2007, Machu Picchu was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in a worldwide Internet poll.

Today, there is a new road so that tourists can visit. People can also walk along the Inca Trail, or take a train from Cusco.

For a visual tour of the city's remnants click on the link in the sidebar titled, "Machu Picchu."

Please watch the following video.

 

 

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