I've been looking for resources about healthy lifestyles and food today, and came across this song on my travels around Youtube.
Very catchy and good for practising opinions about food - me gusta(n) / no me gusta(n)
Ojo - it's South American so uses the phrase 'el jugo de naranja' for orange juice instead of the Spanish 'el zumo de naranja'.
Another useful video on the same theme, and with the same 'quirk' is the one below. This time it's a rap that could easily be adapted to include other items of food, or other vocabulary too.
I loved the official song of the FIFA World Cup 2010 when i heard it for the first time today. And now I've found this bi-lingual version too with K'Naan, the original artist, singing with David Bisbal.
The lyrics are below!
Waving Flag de K´naan y David Bisbal Give me freedom Give me fire give me reason Take me higher see the champions take the field now youll be fighters make us feel proud En las calles muchas manos levantadas, celebrando una fiesta sin descanzo los paises como hermanos Canta y une tu voz grita fuerte que te escuche el sol el partido ya va a comenzar todos juntos vamos a ganar Unidos! Seremos grandes, seremos fuertes somos un pueblo bandera de libertad que viene y que va (x3) when i get older i will be stronger theyll call me freedom just like a wavin flag Now wave your flag (x3) ohhh ohhh ohhh ohhh Danos vida danos fuego que nos lleve a lo alto campeones o vencidos pero unidos a internarlos In the streets are exalted people as we lose our inhibitions celebretion is around us every nation all around us Singing forever young, singins songs underneath the sun lets rejoice to the beatuful game and together at the end of day Seremos grandes, seremos fuertes somos un pueblo bandera de la libertad que viene y que va (x3) when i get older i will be stronger theyll call me freedom just like a wavin flag Now wave your flag (x3) ohhh ohhh ohhh ohhh Unidos! Seremos grandes, seremos fuertes somos un pueblo bandera de la libertad when i get older i will be stronger theyll call me freedom just like a wavin flag Now wave your flag (x3) ohhh ohhh ohhh ohhh And everybody will be singing
The Youtube page also explains -
El español David Bisbal y el somalí K´Naan interpretan la versión latina del tema Waving Flag, elegido para la Copa del Mundo FIFA Sudáfrica 2010. La canción fue estrenada ayer, como parte de las celebraciones rumbo al Mundial. "La música y el futbol unen al mundo, y a través de esta canción queremos contagiar el sentimiento de alegría que nos provoca este evento mundialista", explicó el artista español, al referirse a la canción inspirada en costumbres africanas referentes a la fiesta, y que aborda temas como el amor, la unión y el optimismo. El tema presenta pasajes en español e ingles y un video en el que se pueden ver las pocas habilidades futbolistas de Bisbal, quien lucha sin éxito dominar un balón. La canción de la Copa del Mundo, Waving flag, fue compuesta por el rapero Knaan Mogasishu, quien nació en Somalia aunque es ciudadano canadiense. La canción es el tercer single de su álbum Troubador y meses atrás fue elegida por la organización del Mundial como su himno oficial.
I subscribed to the channel belonging to Imagiers a while ago.
Originally, I saw the traditional songs below -
Today I saw that there was new series - Les comptines de Gros nez. This is a series of 63 French rhymes / songs 'sung' by a cartoon blue man with a big red nose. For example -
Alternatively, you could use Les comptines de la souris -
Also on Imagiers are many vocabulary videos like the one below -
There are thousands of videos on the channel - some are more advanced grammar and so on, others are simpler vocabulary presentations. And some are not French at all - eg there are several clips about Helsinki!
Lyrics Training is a really fun approach to helping you pick up a foreign language. Choose a YouTube-hosted music video and select one of three mastery levels; Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert. As the video begins to play, the song's lyrics appear underneath with several words missing. Your job is to fill in the missing words as they're sung.
If you get stumped, the video stops playing until you can come up with the word, but don't take too long because the app keeps track of the time it takes you to fill in the blanks. Click the "Give Up!" button to see the words that elude you.
Videos are available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch, and are rated easy medium and hard. You can then choose easy medium or hard tasks. Having said that, I chose easy and an easy task - and it was quite tricky as you have to type as you hear. I think if I listened to the song first I might have had a better chance. There is help - you can rewind the last line with the back space and use the tab to skip words you really can't get! At the end you're given a score based on how many words you successfully filled in and the time it took you in comparison to the actual length of the song. This is how I got on with Himno de la corazon
Good fun! Practises your
listening skills and also your spelling as it won't accept the wrong spelling, letter by letter!
At the ELL Local Support Group (LSG) last week, we were talking about short activities that needed minimal preparation and could be used for the 'little and often' model.
One of the activities discussed was I spy...
In Spanish there is a lovely little rhyme that goes with the game - check out the East Riding site for sound files, instructions and words. A good game for playing with kids who have a wider vocabulary, but also for discrete groups of words eg food, sports, colours. You could change it to 'tengo tengo' (I have..) and play with items in a bag even.
Veo veo I see, I see,
¿Qué ves? What do you see?
Una cosita. A thing
Y ¿qué cosita es? And what thing is it?
Empieza con la ……. It begins with ………
¿Qué será? ¿Qué será? ¿Qué será? What can it be? (x 3)
I also came across this catchy sung version of the rhyme - here I've chosen the kiddies version rather than the tropical island and bikinis! Lyrics below.
Veo veo ¿qué ves? una cosita ¿y qué cosita es?
empieza con la "A", ¿qué será?, ¿qué será?, ¿qué será?, alefante
no no no eso no no no eso no no no es así
con la "A" se escribe amor, con la a se escribe adiós
la alegría del amigo y un montón de cosas más
Veo veo ¿qué ves? una cosita ¿y qué cosita es?
empieza con la "E", ¿qué seré?, ¿qué seré?, ¿qué seré?, eyuntamiento
no no no eso no no no eso no no no es así
con la "E" de la emoción estudiamos la expresíon
y entonando esta canción encontramos la verdad
Veo veo ¿qué ves? una cosita ¿y qué cosita es?
empieza con la "I", ¿qué serí?, ¿qué serí?, ¿qué serí? invidia
no no no eso no no no eso no no no es así
con la "I" nuestra ilusión va intentando imaginar
cuan insolita inquietud una infancia sin maldad
Veo veo ¿qué ves? una cosita ¿y qué cosita es?
empieza con la "O", ¿qué seró?, ¿qué seró?, ¿qué seró? oscuela
no no no eso no no no eso no no no es así
no no no eso no no no eso no no no es la hora del final
Veo veo ¿qué ves? una cosita ¿y qué cosita es?
empieza con la "F", ¿qué seraf?, ¿qué seraf?, ¿qué seraf?, final
Primary language learning isn't restricted to learning one language.
My pupils may learn Spanish, but they are also exposed to other languages in their lessons. Whether it's for interest, comparison, to celebrate the languages spoken by pupils at our school or just for fun, those opportunities are welcome and add to their language learning experience.
Youtube recommended the following clip to me and I love it! In 90 seconds, I've learned half a dozen useful phrases in Japanese and am warmed up and ready to boogie with my kids who this weekend have discovered punk!!
A lovely Christmas song, written by José Luis Perales and performed here by Los Toribianitos, and today brought to my attention by one of my online friends, Francisco Meza in Perú.
The lyrics are below (courtesy of musica.com) if you'd like to sing along.
I've been having a little look at Youtube resources again, and, inspired by the session last week on teaching Infants languages, I've found some sweet little videos featuring Winnie the Pooh and Tigger too! Now, Winnie is always a winner in my books - I just love that bear of very little brain! - but talking Spanish is even better.
A couple of ideas.
This clip is called Estrellita abrillar and is a version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (I know other words). The story seems to be that Lampi, the Heffalump can't sleep and they sing to him. However, his Mummy sings different words so he sings them to the friends then goes to sleep. A cute little story in a song in just over a minute.
The words are:
Estrellita ¿cómo estás?
me preguntas ¿qué serás?
en el cielo brillas tu
como un diamante es tu luz.
Estrellita ¿cómo estas?
me preguntas ¿qué serás?
Lindo lampi ¿cómo estás?
No te quejes; duerme ya
La noche es para soñar
Pon su trompa, descansar.
Qué se acabe mal humor
y no ronques por favor.
Lindo lampi ¿cómo estás?
Es mejor que duermas ya
Then there's this clip called Es la hora de pensar and is a little song to signal thinking time. I think it would be a lovely cue to send children to their desks to work on whatever they are doing, or as a signal to change activity. And not just in language lessons but as one of those 'embedded' ways of making language an everyday, incidental thing.
Here's one for your older 'pop' loving pupils. The Jonas Brothers of Disney Channel fame learning a (devilishly tricky it has to be said!) song - and not doing badly!
And here's Vanessa Hudgens from High School Musical singing When there was you and me including a Spanish section in the middle - subtitled.
Whilst writing an article on storytelling for a future publication, I found a song I'd downloaded to which I wanted to refer. As often happens, I couldn't recall whether I'd been sent it by a friend, downloaded it from a fora or found it online.
After a bit of searching - which took me once more to the wonderful West Sussex GFL language resources - I found that it had come from a site called MrsJonesRoom. When I approached the eponymous MrsJones for permission to use the song, she was very accomodating and pointed me towards other Spanish resources on her page.
I've had a look at some of the links and particularly like the downloadable mini books and the songs, complete with sound files of the tunes! There are even some Spanish Disney songs - great for EDL? Sadly there are a number of 'dead' links which is a shame but it's well worth a look.
With all sorts of bugs doing the rounds at the moment, here's another little gem that is a)fun b)free c)useful and topical.
El Barrio Sésamo in Mexico has made this little video to encourage children to wash their hands and advises them to sing part of the song 'Pin Pon' to help them judge how long it should take.
So let's see if the sinks will be ringing to the sound of children singing and washing...;o)
Just come across this lovely cuddly family - Los Patata on Youtube.
As the blurb says
Telemadrid emite todos los fines de semana, por la mañana, "Los Patata", una serie infantil realizada con muñecos, dirigida a niños en edad preescolar. Estructurada en mini episodios, pretende entretener fomentando conocimientos, valores, respeto e igualdad de roles... Además, la familia Patata, cada noche invita a los niños a irse a la cama con la canción "Hasta mañana, un beso". "Los Patata" también están a diario en la programación infantil de laOtra.
I love this goodnight song - very sweet and makes a change from Chris Jarvis on CBeebies with his mobile eyebrows telling us 'The time has come to say goodnight....'
Can't believe I haven't blogged for nearly a fortnight! Blame reports, three presentations and a morning of preliminary meetings / observation with TeachersTV in one week, and a short break in Spain!
There will be more posts soon, but to keep you going, here's another of the reasons I've not being blogging recently. Enjoy!
I'm a great one for writing songs and little ditties to help children (and those slightly older!) learn languages. We've had Diez animales to the tune of Ten green bottles, Hace sol y hace calor to Half a pound of Tuppeny Rice and ¿Quieres un helado? to a random (very annoying!) tune I composed myself.
It seems that some of my songwriting (dis)ability has been passed on in the genes as my eldest was inspired to song by Tottenham beating Chelsea on Saturday. Odd, as he is a Man Utd. fan , but his Dad and little brother are Spurs fans so I guess it is explicable. Very catchy, I have to say.
Strange that you weren't inspired to song by last week's match against Liverpool - now what was the score, Isaac? Oh yes - Man Utd 1 - Liverpool 4 :o)
Reception loved this song this week, and were all bopping along so for your delight and delectation, here's Feliz Navidad accompanied by the film Rudolph.
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