Otros sitios interesantes /Other interesting sites

IxChel: La Diosa de la Luna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtkeNM1B1Ko
This is a great video about a story from Guatemala. I will definitely use this video as a listening activity and to expose my students to some Latin American culture.

Foreign Langauge in the Elemantary Schools (FLES)
http://www.tesd.k12.pa.us/fles/teacher_resources.html
In this website you will find a lot of teacher resources for any context. There are games, vocabulary words, activities, songs, and lesson plans that you may use to teach any language. I find this website interesting because it has a lot of good ideas of how to teach important vocabulary words that you have in your own classroom. Also, there is a link to commentaries on students' favorite activities which I think it's helpful to read if it's your first time teaching and you don't have an idea of what kind of activities your students might enjoy doing.

Mama Lisa's World
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=sh
I recommend this website to everyone interested in teaching English, French or Spanish to young learners. In this website you will find a variety of songs from around the world that you may use in your lessons. Most of the songs are translated in the three langauges mentioned above. Teachers may also use some of these songs whenever they talk about a specific country. For example, if you will be teaching about Venezuela, you  may use one of the songs found under the Venezuelan list of songs.

Online Resources for Teachers of Spanish
http://www.iteachspanish2.com/Bienvenidos.html
This is a good website that has  alot of ideas to teach Spanish. I especially like the idea of having students recite their phone numbers to the whole class as a practice activity after they have learned the numbers in Spanish. Also, if you keep on browsing in this website, you will find a variety of activities that you can incorporate in your lessons to teach different topics like colors, food, family, days of the week, and adjectives.

Españole
http://www.espanole.org/
This is a website for teachers and students interesting in Spanish. This is a great website if you're planning to teach your students about the countries where they speak Spanish. If you click on the "countries" link, you will find all kinds of infromation about 20 hispanic countries. Therefore, if you want to do a cultural project, this is a god resource. Also, there are some literature resources for the Spanish teacher.

Aprende a hablar y pronunciar "Speaking and Pronuniciation Resources"

Phonetics: The sounds of Spoken Language
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#
 This is a great website for Spanish or English teachers because you can learn what parts of the mouth are needed to articulate different sounds in Spanish or English. I found this website interesting for my teaching context because I can help my students improve their pronunciation of specific sounds by teaching them where they have to place their tongue, lips etc.  After you choose a language, you click on a type of sound like fricatives or trills and  you will be able to see how the tongue moves every time a sound is


English 4 Kids 
pronounce.http://www.english-4kids.com/games.html
 In this website, you will find a lot of games hat will encourage your students to speak and practice their pronunciation. If you go down the list, there is a title that says "ESL Communicative Games for Learning" and under that there are a variety of games that you can play with your students. This website is for ESL teachers but you can modify the games for any teaching context depending on your students' levels and interests. I think most of the games fit in my teaching context and young learners will love playing this games.

Los pollitos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4y6PEWhGmE&feature=related
This is a very popular song called "los pollitos" that I will use with my students to help them improve their pronunciation. I think that the incorporation of songs in the language lessons is a very fun and effective way to motivate students to pronounce words in the target language. Also, singing songs is a good way to practice the pronunciation of words several times.


ESL galaxy 
 http://www.esl-galaxy.com/speaking.html%20
This website has a variety of communicative activities that will encourage your students to interact and communicate with each other. All of these activities are in English but can be modified to Spanish. I especially like the activity called "find someone who likes to..." In this activity, students have to look for other students by asking them who likes to do certain activities. For example, "Do you like watching TV?" Therefore, in this activity students have to communicate in the target language in order to fill out a list. I think this is a great activity after you introduce the words like and dislike in Spanish.

 Teaching Ideas
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/more/timefiller/describpics.htm%20
I like this idea of "Describing Pictures" because students are encouraged to describe a weird picture given by the teacher. The picture may include shapes, letters, colors or numbers that will motivate students to do a careful observation in order to orally describe the picture. I think this activity is something that I will consider doing for my teaching context because young learners like to create and describe funny pictures.