Future

//This page contains ideas, information, and materials for teaching and learning about the future (dreams, goals, plans, etc.) in Spanish.//

=Articles=

- An article from Peru21 on the topic. Very brief text with interesting predictions from Microsoft that hint at the social problems of the future

- This article contains some intriguing predictions likely to stimulate students' imaginations

- Scroll down to bottom part of article. Structure is EXCELLENT for beginning learners (use of future tense in //yo// form with simple descriptions of what the job will be like in the 3rd person)

- Brief article from Forbes Mexico. Some professions are similar to those identified in the article above, others are not. Students could compare and contrast.

=Music=

[|Bonito] by Jarabe de Palo - Music video discusses the speaker's optimism about the future despite all that is wrong with the world--not much in the way of future tense included though media type="custom" key="25789654"

[|Bonny Cepeda - Fiesta de graduación (1991)] media type="custom" key="25316438" - Not really a video--just shows the album cover. Song discusses how a student has anticipated the night of his graduation for a long time, along with his future plans. Song is full of vocabulary words relating to school (amigos, computadoras, contabilidad, estudiantes, idiomas, graduación, matricular//é,// medicina, universidad, etc.), as well as future tense (//bailaré salsa y merengue, estar////é,// //estudiaré, matricular////é,// //presentar////é,// //seguir////é,// //tomaré//, etc.)

=Poetry=

// -// Interactive exercises from Barbara Kuczun Nelson designed around the poem //Instantes// that help students think about how they might change the choices they have made if they were given the opportunity to relive their lives while practicing the conditional and the subjunctive

=Videos=

[|Profesiones del futuro] media type="youtube" key="EhAuDUhUBjg" width="560" height="315" - Discusses how technology is transforming the economy, employment opportunities, and the need for adaptation

[|Sueños] media type="youtube" key="fZdfip6Lcb8" width="420" height="315" - Cute video, in Spanish with Spanish subtitles, in which a guy goes around selling dreams on public buses and discusses his "career" with his grandmother, who has retired from the same career. Students could generate ideas for similar, non-existent careers. They could also practice telling the story (using preterit v. imperfect) of how their dreams came true as a post-viewing activity. Also, lots of opportunities to discuss cultural elements of the video, such as the use of "vos"

See also: Dreams, Environment, Health & Hygiene, Heroes, Professions, Science, Technology