Friendship+&+Love

//This page contains ideas, information, and materials for teaching and learning about friendship and love in Spanish.// toc

= = =Children's Literature=

- A bilingual book about a girl who becomes friends with immigrants who live next door

- A book in Spanish about a little girl caught between the prejudices and stereotypes of two rival groups

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media type="youtube" key="fUIkLTPwyC4" height="315" width="420" - Karaoke version [|Arroz con leche] media type="youtube" key="be0z0AM6XuU?rel=0" height="349" width="425"

media type="youtube" key="4ogCH380CIc" height="315" width="420" - Version from Cuba

=How-to Articles & Videos=

- Fabulous site in Spanish that contains both how-to videos and well-scaffolded how-to print articles illustrated with photos for accomplishing a variety of tasks on a variety of topics, including body, cars, education, environment, fashion, food, games and hobbies, health, home and garden, languages, law, music and dance, parties, personal finance, parenting, pets, relationships, shopping, sports, technology, travel, and work

=Interviews=

- 5,000 interviews in which participants answered 40 essential questions about the challenges of daily life, differences, dreams, environment, family legacies, fears, God, hopes, joy, love, and war were filmed in 75 different countries and presented here in English, Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese (Click on thematic movies to access them)

=Music=

[|Canciones de amor]

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media type="youtube" key="bt9efP6Kx0E" height="315" width="560" - //Mi buen amigo// by Franco de Vita

[|Mi Princesa por Victor Muñoz] media type="custom" key="25316242" - Song uses lots of references to Cinderella's glass slipper, //príncipe azul//, and subjunctive (//yo quiero que tú seas mi princesa//)

[|J King y Maximan - Sr. Juez] media type="custom" key="25316542" - Song is full of vocabulary relating to legal issues (arrepentir, atrever, el caso, el cobarde, cometer, condenar, confesar, contar, convertir, correr, culpable, dejar, el delito, encarcelar, encontrar, el enemigo, fallar, los fracasos, el juez, luchar, morir, pensar, perdonar, seguir, seguro, sentenciar, sentir, el sufrimiento, el tiempo, la verdad, volver) and uses it as a metaphor for discussing lost love. Some preterit tense, some present perfect and some present subjunctive, but no single tense really dominates.

=Poetry=

[|Besos by Gabriela Mistral]

- Interactive activities created by Barbara Kuczun designed to engage students with a poem about love and friendship while practicing the future tense



media type="youtube" key="r-O3rcbWjGg" height="315" width="420" - The poem, //El sol de Monterrey,// by Alfonso Reyes Read aloud to photos of the sun

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[|Un lunes cualquiera] media type="youtube" key="E-mXiTFzhEs?rel=0" height="315" width="420" - Beautiful, poetic commercial filled with hopeful possibilities for the future (focuses on Peru)

=Videos=

[|Por eso no tienes novio] media type="youtube" key="uDLqCRox_MU" width="420" height="315" - Amusing video in which a woman delivers a monologue about the importance of not eating like a pig to an unseen person who turns out to be her small daughter. Final text at the end discusses the importance of eradicating stereotypes about beauty. This would be great for discussing what "good friends" do, what kind of advice is appropriate for a "good friend" to give, etc.

[|¿Qué es el amor para ti? - Experimento real] media type="youtube" key="0UQ5zqJ5r_w" width="560" height="315"

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media type="youtube" key="mqqLoUcLX5I" height="315" width="560" - [|//Sale el sol// by Shakira (Lyrics)] media type="youtube" key="cX5eu5AvxIw" height="315" width="420"

media type="youtube" key="8zTNJOc-3AE" height="315" width="420" - Compares life to a train and the people in it to people who share the train ride with us

See also: Emotions, Family, Holidays, Personality