Remix: Childhood Listening - Spanish


http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/spintx/player/1569

The University of Texas at Austin provides a lot of listening videos by native speakers. While they are not technically authentic resources because they are made for learning environments, they are excellent resources to use in levels 1-3 of Spanish. The activities would be changed to match the level.

In this video, a woman from El Salvador talks about her life when she was a child. Childhood being a common theme in level 2, you could guide your students through the following sequence of activities using this video clip.


  • Make sure you are at a place in your unit or teaching where you have taught the two past tenses (preterite & imperfect) and that the students know basic vocabulary relating to childhood (crecer, cuidar, campo, ayudar, nacer, ser, etc.)
  • Show students the video and encourage them to take notes as they listen
  • Show students the video for a 2nd time
  • After watching, students need to draw an image of this woman that reflects her upbringing
  • Students need to include 5 clear things in their image that demonstrates their understanding of what they had heard 
  • Below their image they need to write 5 sentences about the woman changing from the "yo" form (from the video) to the "ella" form, using the verbs from the first bullet 
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