All levels including SP Beginners 1. I have thought long and hard about why geography is not taught properly at the primary level and admit that I really don’t know the answer. So instead of getting upset, I put together these maps. I put each one on a separate page so I could just use the one I needed. This worked for me, so I hope it also works for you. The maps are contextualized: there is a map of different musical styles; another of the conquerors and the explorers; a map of the cities of Spain shows where some famous Spanish painters were born. Mapas de Latinoamérica Mapas de España Maps! Maps! Maps! Clear, well drawn, easy to reproduce! Each map provides essential information so your students can master the geography of the Spanish speaking world. Much more than just countries and capitals! Everything in the target language: Spanish. Maps 1 includes: (TpT does not allow previews for free resources.) Subject matter: geography of Latin America and Spain (11 different maps) Vocabulary: names of countries and capitals, names of cardinal points, names of oceans, names of various famous people and places Grammar: ser, llamar, estar Oral practice: ¿Cómo se llama? ¿Es…? ¿De dónde es…? Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search 11 maps, each a separate printable page. Contextualized maps. Use a variety of devices to teach geography: musical styles, conquerors and explorers, artists. Show different perspectives to learn map reading . IF YOU LIKE THESE MAPS, I have put together MAPS 2, a second set of content based maps called: Spanish in Europe and the Americas. Content based maps and more. It is meant for Spanish Beginners 1, can be used at all levels. PS After I did these, I wrote three mini-thematic units for beginners. Compare Spain and Perú, compare Barcelona and Mexico City and the regions of Latin America. So we compared two countries, then two cities and then because there were so many countries and the kids were having trouble, I put the countries is groups (Andean countries, Central American countries, etc.) All three come in a single download.

Weird and wonderful topics that will inspire your students. Classroom tested many times. We provide the key words for students to research. And we give them a task to fulfill. Students interested in ecology will not be disappointed by the large variety of subject matter: not only the Galápagos Islands and the monarch butterfly, but also the white stork, the largest of all migratory birds, plus the llama and the hairless dog. ALSO AVAILABLE IN A BUNDLE. SIX SETS OF WRITING ASSIGNMENTS (ÚTIL A - ÚTIL F) FOR THE PRICE OF FIVE. GET ONE FREE. In addition, students are given the tools to explore the Amazon rain forest as well as national parks in several countries. Many wonderful out of the way places! D 1 - The Galápagos Islands Sample assignment: Your newspaper article belongs in the Travel section and includes a headline, a text and a picture with a caption. Answer these questions: Why are the animals in the Galápagos unique? What is their importance? Are any on the endangered species list? D 2 - Fly away Sample assignment: Two tiny ones: the monarch butterfly and the ruby-throated hummingbird! Choose ONE! Your map shows the migration route from both the east and the west coast of North America to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. When do they leave? When do they return? What season(s) are they away? Any other details? D 3 – What a beautiful day D 4 - Eat it, you´ll like it D 5 - Llama alpaca, guanaco and vicuña D 6 - Underground D 7 - Weird and wonderful animals D 8 - National parks D 9 - The lungs of our planet D 10 - Nature´s power

Contextualization. Use the Grimaldi Palace to learn the room in the house; Belgian chocolates to do the vocabulary of food and review number and telling time with Swiss clocks. Small countries, big histories. The Grimaldi Palace is a wonderful way to practice the rooms in the house and proves the strength of content based learning! So much better than a pretend house! Students compare their homes to a grand palatial residence. Switzerland is the land of watches. This unit allows you to review numbers both to tell time and to introduce or review the European currency, the euro. We always teach the vocabulary of food. Let's start with chocolates. So delicious! So Belgian! ALSO AVAILABLE IN A BUNDLE: FRENCH BEGINNERS CULTURE BUNDLE. SIX SETS OF THEMATIC UNITS! THE ENTIRE FRENCH SPEAKING WORLD FOR BEGINNERS 1. Subject matter: introduces three countries through chocolates, watches, palace Vocabulary: foods; days of the week; languages spoken; vocabulary of the house Grammar: beaucoup and un peu; ouvrir, fermer and pouvoir; articles Oral practice: ordering a meal; school week (comparison); Grimaldi palace Homework: foods; shopping; home Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search

Topics that inspire! Classroom tested with great success. All oral presentation topics are based on research. Key words guide the student's web research. Guidelines for research are provided. Cooperative learning is required. Suggestions are given for audience response. Spain: Bicycling and queens, cities and paintings! Students investigate and present many facets of Spain’s rich culture. 2. Three levels of difficulty, A, B and C. Each level is on a separate page. 3. Level A provides the student 3 suggestions, level B gives the student 4 suggestions and level C, 6 suggestions. Group work is required to divide the assignments and prepare for a class presentation. 4. There is always a central theme. All topics are guided. First sentences are provided. ALSO AVAILABLE IN A BUNDLE. EIGHT SETS OF ORAL PRESENTATIONS (PRESENTE A - PRESENTE H) FOR THE PRICE OF SIX. Presente B has 8 topics about Spain, each divided into three levels of difficulty. Here are the topics and some examples. 1. Visita Madrid – Each student acts as a tourist guide, guía de turismo, and takes the audience on a guided tour. One example: - ¡Tenemos mucha suerte! Esta semana celebramos la fiesta de San Isidro. Les voy a explicar la fiesta y vamos a participar. Palabras clave: Madrid + Fiesta de San Isidro 2. ¡Felicidades¡ Students hand out a prize and explain what it is for. One example: - Los Premios Zarcillo son para los mejores vinos españoles. Me complace otorgar el Gran Zarcillo de Oro y hablar de la región donde crece la vid del ganador. Palabras clave: Premios Zarcillo + Gran Zarcillo de Oro 3. «Vuestra Majestad» Participate in an «audience» with the queen, Isabel la Católica. An example: - Vuestra Majestad, vengo con alimentos del Nuevo Mundo. (Escoge varios.) Voy a decir cómo se llaman y dar sus colores y tamaños. Palabras clave: alimentos del Nuevo Mundo 4. Guernica – Oral presentations on the painting, the town, the bombing, all with the same name. 5. La Vuelta a España - Report on Spain´s national bicycle race, the Spanish equivalent to the Tour de France. 6. Monumentos – Associate an iconic landmark with a city. - Cuenca es la ciudad de las Casas Colgadas. Yo también tengo fotos. Es una ciudad fortificada. Es una ciudad bonita. Palabras clave: Cuenca + Casas Colgadas 7. Toros – A controversial subject. Different students explore and present conflicting opinions. 8. Don Quijote – Spain´s most famous book and its illustrious protagonist, Don Quijote. - Voy a hablar de Sancho Panza, el segundo personaje del libro. Primero, usando un cuadro, voy a describir su aspecto físico. Luego, voy a describir su carácter. Palabras clave: Sancho Panza

Two content-based units about Venezuela. Please preview. Unit 1. El petróleo: mucho más que un producto de exportación Venezuela supplied most of the oil used in the eastern states of the United States. How has the country used the oil wealth? Well? Poorly? Practice ordinal numbers and get your students to talk about oil dependence and consumption. What is petroleum used for? What is its future? Unit includes: Subject matter: daily life Vocabulary: ordinal numbers Grammar: agreement Oral practice: products made from oil Homework: consequences of rules banning use of petroleum run vehicles Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search and further research Answer key Unit 2. Simón Bolívar, el Libertador Bolívar’s face in on the bills; there is a mountain named after him; there is a city named after him; there is even a country named after him. Does that sound familiar? That’s right! Just like Washington. (He has a state not a country, named for him.) Learn more about Bolívar and make history come alive. Unit includes: Subject matter: history Vocabulary: government, democracy Grammar: preterit Oral practice: George Washington and other figures Homework: national heroes Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search and further research Answer key All Miraflores resources are exclusively in the target language. Full disclosure. For reasons I don´t understand, this is not a popular unit although my own students thought it interesting to learn about a national heroe and even more interesting to discuss oil and the future of our planet. Go figure. The continuing unravelling of Venezuela also makes petroleum, its sale and misuse, a difficult subject.

Two culture units about Chile. Please preview. Be bold! Try new subjects! My students loved these units. Unit 1. El cielo del sur When you look up to the sky, do you really see a Big Dipper or do you join the stars in such a way that you visualize a dipper? When Magellan looked at the sky, he saw a cross and called it the Southern Cross. But when the indigenous people of Chile saw the same stars, they saw the head of a bird. Compare the two interpretations. Relate them to the power telescopes and the scientific discoveries in the Atacama Desert. This unit helps students understand multiple realities. Unit includes. Subject matter: astronomy Vocabulary: the sky, myth and legend Grammar: pronouns Oral practice: the Zodiac, astronomy, astrology Homework: flags and constellations, the Zodiac Internet: key words list to facilitate a search and further research Model tests and teacher’s guide Answer key Unit 2. El Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar Popular music is of great interest to many students and teachers. Read about Latin America’s biggest song contest in the Chilean coastal city of Viña del Mar. Compare this music festival to North American award ceremonies and discover ´the monster.´ Unit includes. Subject matter: popular music, Isabel Allende Vocabulary: music, story, novel Grammar: future Oral practice: traveling to a festival Homework: festivals, phobias Internet: key words list to facilitate a search and further research Model tests and teacher’s guide Answer key All Miraflores resources are exclusively in the target language.

Two units about ecology, a large bird, the stork, and a beautiful park in northeast Spain, el parque de Ordesa y Monte Perdido. Introduce new and varied subject matter. Please preview. Unit 1. La cigüeña blanca Did you know there are no storks in the Americas? Why are there myths about storks, such as the carrier of newborn babies? Did you know the storks are very big, their wingspan up to one meter? In the past these huge birds spent the summer in Spain and other European countries and wintered in Africa, yet with today’s changing climate, many storks have stopped migrating. Why? This fun science unit also deals with storks in the Autonomous Regions, the Spanish equivalent of states or provinces. Unit includes: Subject matter: ecology, Pyrenees Vocabulary: body parts Grammar: comparative and superlative Oral practice: game on Extremadura Homework: animals in danger of extinction Internet: key words for web searches and research. Answer key Unit 2. El Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido A group of friends goes hiking in a Spanish national park near the French border. The text is written like diary entries. One of the hikers describes what they see, do and think about. Of course ecology is important! Students then compare national parks in northern Spain with another in southern Spain and learn about the varied geography of the country. What a way to study the comparative and the superlative, contextualized. Unit includes: Subject matter: ecology, Pyrenees Vocabulary: parks Grammar: comparative and superlative Oral practice: regional and national parks Homework: letter Internet: key words for web searches and research. Answer key I remember clearly when I first saw a stork nest. On my first trip to Spain, a fellow traveler pointed up and I gaped. I had never seen a nest that was several feet wide and was perched on the roof of a church. I kept looking until I saw my first stork. Again I gaped. It was so much bigger than any bird I had ever seen. Amazing. I knew I had to write about this. Also available in an ECOLOGY BUNDLE.

Three thematic units on the Quinto Centenario, 1992. 500 years after Columbus. Please preview. In 1992 Spain celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Encounter, mistakenly called the ‘discovery’ of the Americas. Barcelona hosted the Olympic Games, Seville had the World Fair and Madrid grew by leaps and bounds. These units are much more than just facts: compare the size of your classroom to the length of Columbus’ boats; analyze the consequences of hosting the Olympic Games and find out how the Prado Museum began. **Unit 1. Sevilla. La Expo ´92 y la importancia del Encuentro ** Subject matter: history; tourism Vocabulary: views of the discovery of the Americas Grammar: preterit; articles Oral practice: a concert Homework: immigration and emigration Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search Answer key **Unit 2. Barcelona. ¿Para quién son los Juegos Olímpicos? ** Subject matter: history; sports Vocabulary: sports / business Grammar: preterit; articles Oral practice: comparing products of the New World and the Old World Homework: salaries of stars Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search Answer key Unit 3. Madrid 1992 Subject matter: general information Vocabulary: the city Grammar: preterit; articles Oral practice: comparing products of the New World and the Old World; a concert Homework: students’ background Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search Answer key

Two units for intermediate students. Deal with the fate of our planet through ecology. This is of great interest to all. Content-based and interdisciplinary. Please preview. Each unit includes a pre-reading, a level appropriate reading, comprehension, extension of the subject matter integrating both vocabulary and grammar. An oral that relates the content of the unit to the students’ reality, homework suggestions and Internet key words for further research. **Unit 1. La contaminación en la Ciudad de México ** The strength of content based units is that they present students with reality, including problems that are hard to solve. If Mexico City reduces the number of cars and cuts down the emission of CO2, the consequences are a large reduction in jobs. Unit includes: Subject matter: ecology Vocabulary: urban life Grammar: poder plus infinitive 4 .Oral practice: urban transportation where you live Homework: transportation Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search Answer key **Unit 2. La mariposa monarca ** If the forests where the monarch butterfly spends its winter are fully protected, the people who live in the area and use the wood for cooking are left hungry. How can Mexicans solve these problems? Unit includes: Subject matter: ecology Vocabulary: seasons, animals Grammar: stem change UE 4 .Oral practice: migratory animal Homework: an animal Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search Answer key These two units will elicit lively and thoughtful class discussions! Your students will automatically relate the problems to their own environment and you will see how excited they can get!

Three contextualized culture units. Three contextualized culture units. The indigenous cultures of Central and South America. Read, write, speak, think. Culture for beginners. Please preview. All Miraflores resources are entirely in the target language. Unit 1. Copán; una ciudad maya The unit on the Maya reviews numbers in two different formats: the Maya and ours. Ours is based on 10, theirs on 5. Discover how pyramids are built, or shall we say layered. Yes, layered. Unit includes: Subject matter: Maya culture Vocabulary: numbers Grammar: adverbs of place Oral practice: other calendars; extraterrestrials Homework: other calendars Internet: key words for Net search Model tests Teacher’s guide **Unit 2. El calendario azteca ** **The Aztec Calendar is round. Ours is usually a rectangle. This shows the diversity in form but not in substance. It does not matter whether we divide the year into 20 months or 12 months, we will end up with the same number of days. How is this possible? This unit underlines the fact that we are all inhabitants of the same planet. Learning that there can be several ways of describing the same facts is important! ** Unit includes: Subject matter: Aztecs Vocabulary: days, weeks and year Grammar: tener Oral practice: other calendars Homework: other calendars Internet: key words for Net search Model tests Teacher’s guide Unit 3. Las misteriosas Líneas de Nasca You can only see the Nazca lines if you fly above them. So it was only in the era of the airplane that they were discovered. Why were they made? Here is a real mystery that still needs to be solved. This unit reviews the vocabulary of animals and body parts. Please note the spelling of Nazca. In Peru the Spanish spelling is now Nasca. Unit includes: Subject matter: Nazca / Nasca (the newer spelling is with an S) Vocabulary: body Grammar: articles Oral practice: extraterrestrials Homework: mysteries Internet: key words for Net search Model tests Teacher’s guide The Piedra del Sol is in the Archeological Museum in Mexico City. Have you seen it? It is huge and there are always groups of school children and tourists milling around, photographing and pointing.

Thee mini thematic units for real beginners. Please preview. Do not wait to introduce Cervantes, Picasso and the King of Spain, Felipe VI until your students are «ready.» Writers, painters and kings! What a combination! Introduce these Spanish icons to beginners. Unit 1. Miguel de Cervantes y sor Juana Two icons. A man and a woman. Two writers they have never heard about. Work on cognates, famoso, importante, autor, poeta. The pre-reading prepares the short reading and it is packed with information. Yes, it is possible to do culture with beginners! Unit includes: Subject matter: introduction to Spanish literature, art and history Vocabulary: basic literary Grammar: articles; agreement Oral practice: Cervantes Homework: book Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search Answer key Unit 2. Pablo Picasso Another icon, in this case a painter. My students really liked the paintings. Practice ¿cómo se llama?, practice ser and llamar which are often confusing for the students. All in context. How many students have you corrected when they said, ¿Cómo es tu nombre? Yikes. I don´t want to count. Unit includes: Subject matter: introduction to Spanish literature, art and history Vocabulary: basic basic art Grammar: articles; interrogative pronouns Oral practice: music and art Homework: change paragraph to 3rd person Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search Answer key Unit 3. Felipe VI The family! Everyone teaches the family in Spanish 1. Here is the Spanish king´s family, parents, grandparents, children. Language in context! The students find out that Spain is a constitutional monarchy and learn or review the vocabulary of the family. What more can you ask? Unit includes: Subject matter: introduction to Spanish literature, art and history Vocabulary: royal family Grammar: interrogative pronouns Oral practice: the King´s family Homework: my family Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search Answer key

Four mini-culture units. Each one is only four or five pages long. Please preview to see if units fit with your curriculum. Unit 1. Deportes Sports and music! Two subjects that both students and teachers like. Introduce your students to the World Cup. Have them do a logic exercise to determine who will win the Cup. Inductive and deductive skills are part of the learning process and the Spanish classroom is one more place to learn. Unit includes: Subject matter: sports Vocabulary: names of sports Grammar: ser / hay Oral practice: sports , 5. Homework: sports figures Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search Answer key Unit 2. El fútbol - Messi Unit includes: Subject matter: sports Vocabulary: names of sports Grammar: jugar Oral practice: cartoon about sports Homework: sports figures Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search Answer key Unit 3. Música The music of Spain and the Americas is rich and varied. Introduce your students to the merengue, the chachachá and the tango; learn the names of the instruments and extend the vocabulary. Simple verbs like cantar, presentar and bailar have corresponding nouns. Content based means that the information comes from the text and the students make the connections! Unit includes: Subject matter: music Vocabulary: names of instruments Grammar: interrogative pronouns Oral practice: music Homework: music Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search Answer key Unit 4. Las estrellas de la música popular - Shakira and others Unit includes: Subject matter: music Vocabulary: verbs related to music Grammar: prepositions en and de Oral practice: music Homework: song and dance Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search Answer key Entirely in Spanish.

Real signs for content based language! Yes, even beginners can understand Montreal street signs. Have fun with the beginners! They may not know all the words, but will understand the meaning of the signs. Students are often afraid of reading words they do not know. Here is the way to get rid of that fear, plunge in and enjoy. Culture in content.

Presente F – The six oral presentations on the Spanish speaking countries of the Caribbean are divided the following way: three broad themes on the area and one each on Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. You can examine some oral presentations using the Preview. 1. La música – Explain different musicals styles. Play some music for the class. 2. El carnival – Carnaval is a huge festival with costumes, music and dances. The Cubans tried to abolish it, then rescheduled it in July instead of February. 3. Salimos de vacaciones – The students prepare TV commercials to advertise different places, some famous, others less so. They can video their presentations. 4. El béisbol – Home of many baseball stars, the students research the impact the individuals and the game have had on the Dominican Republic. 5. Carteles cubanos – Propaganda posters for everything are fun to describe and analyze. - Este es un cartel de Ernesto Che Guevara. La foto es del fotógrafo Korda. Su nombre real es Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez. Voy a explicar el cartel y hablar del Che. - Palabras clave: Korda + Ernesto Che Guevara 6. Los parques nacionales de Puerto Rico – P.R. is very rich in parks where people flock to enjoy the day. Students describe a park and then suggest improvements. 1. All oral presentation topics are based on research. Key words are provided to guide the student's web research. Guidelines for research are provided. Cooperative learning is required. Suggestions are given for audience response. 2. All oral topics have three levels of difficulty, A, B and C. Each level is on a separate page so teacher can choose. 3. Level A provides the student 3 suggestions, level B gives the student 4 suggestions and level C, 6 suggestions. Group work is required to divide the work and prepare for a class presentation. 4. There is always a central theme. All topics are guided. First sentences are provided. Number of pages: 23 Teacher and student rubrics: included Name of store: MirafloresCultura International Baccalaureate

In Montreal all the street signs are in French! Use the signs to practice basic vocabulary of food and daily life. Use the cultural information to compare and contrast with your own community. Use the pictures to talk about Quebec, Canada´s French speaking province.

USEFUL - ÚTIL A - 10 topics. Every topic is in both English and Spanish. There are 3 levels of difficulty for every assigment. Please note that there are SIX different sets of composition topics, Útil A, B, C, all the way to Útil F. No student can say - ¨I don´t know what to write about.¨ Sample beginners writing assignment: Prepare a flyer / travel brochure Mexico City is one of the biggest cities in the world. Find 3 pictures of Mexico City: something old, something new and something you really like. In your travel brochure, identify and describe each picture. Variation: Each student chooses ONE capital of a Spanish speaking country and finds 3 pictures..... Útil A has 10 topics. Each one has a specific writing assignment. 1. Prepare a flyer. 2. Prepare an itinerary for a trip. 3. Organize the information for a documentary. 4. Make a placemat for a restaurant. Every table will have one. 5. You will be interviewed. Get ready. 6. Find pictures and compare them. 7. Give advice. Good advice? Bad advice? 8. Write a dialogue for a shopping trip. 9. Create or draw a map and add the description. 10. Prepare an itinerary for a trip to Machu Picchu Students explore both the famous and the out of the way places in the Spanish speaking World. They include Machu Picchu and Aracataca; La Boquería and Bilbao; Cartagena de Indias and the Chilean Lake Region. The places are diverse: markets, beach resorts, treasure fleets. The assignments tap into students´ natural attraction to the digital media. Number of pages: 42 Teacher and student rubrics: included Name of store: MirafloresCultura International Baccalaureate

USEFUL - ÚTIL C The culture of the Spanish speaking world is so very rich! 10 Composition topics / 3 levels of difficulty plus a 4th topic called ´In my country´. Sample assignment: C3 Spanish Family Portraits INTERNET SEARCH KEY WORDS En español: el nombre del pintor + el nombre del cuadro In English: name of painter + name of painting FORMAT You work for a film studio and are casting for a film where the people and the stories in the paintings come alive. Find the right actors. Give the names of real actors and explain your choices. ASSIGNMENT Beginners A: Find Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez. The little princess, Margarita, stands in the middle of the painting. The two teen-agers, on either side, are her ladies-in-waiting. What are the people doing? What actors will play the roles of the princess and the ladies-in-waiting? Intermediate B: Find Goya´s, La familia de Carlos IV. You are casting only three or four figures. Who are they? Explain how they are related. Is their relationship important for the casting decision?... C1. Don Quijote C2. Catch the thief C3. Spanish family portraits C4. Music, the international language C5. A picture is worth…. a thousand words. … High and low cultural topics are covered. Don Quijote and Las Meninas, El Prado and the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the sardana and Venezuela´s youth orchestras. We include photography, pre-hispanic masks and Carnival costumes. Not only Frida Kahlo, but also María Félix, Lola Flores, Mercedes Sosa and Celia Cruz. Number of pages: 23 Teacher and student rubrics: included Name of store: MirafloresCultura International Baccalaureate No student can say - ¨I don´t know what to write about.¨

Bilingual writing assignments related to SPORTS – 10 Composition topics / 3 levels of difficulty plus a 4th topic called ´In my country´. Internet searches necessary to complete every assignment. It is called Useful because it really is! Culturally relevant and thought provoking! Even the rubrics are innovative! Sample writing assignment: Hurricane sale! A hurricane has devastated the Caribbean beach resort of Cancún. The owner of a sport´s store salvages some of the beach clothing. Your flyer identifies the items on sale and gives both the old price and the new sales price. Be sure to use local currency… 11. Make an ID card. Write a speech. 12. Draw the outlines of a house and it describe it. 13. Prepare an album or write a blog about your visit to a specific city. 14. Write an article for your school newspaper. 15. Write a newspaper editorial. 16. Complete a form and write a dialogue. 17. Write a composition with explanatory photographs. 18. Write a letter to complain about treatment received at a hotel. 19. Prepare a flyer. 20. Describe a World Cup mascot and… The assignments include everything from the clothing athletes wear, prizes they receive, autographs gathered, minor leagues, stadium, tickets, fans and drug abuse. Traditional and non-traditional sports are covered. Thus, there are assignments on soccer, bicycling, skiing, baseball, and more that integrate technology and advance cultural understanding. Number of pages: 44 Teacher and student rubrics: included Name of store: MirafloresCultura International Baccalaureate

Did you know that Peru has a very large Asian population? Did you know that in the 19th century 100,000 Chinese contract laborers came to Peru? Did you know that no women were allowed? Did you know that the Peruvian government then closed the borders for over thirty years? The Chinese laborers married local women, became first small business owners and then prospered and became professionals. They integrated into Peruvian society and today play a very important role. In these uncertain times where people are being targeted because of their faith or the color of their skin, I have gone back to the 19th century and written a very positive text. Racism vanquished. If we can teach openness to the ´Other´ perhaps we can go forward! This is my small contribution. So, here is a thematic unit called Peruanos chinos, una historia desconocida, 12 pages. For Spanish 2 at the high school level. Many past tenses. The unit Includes a reading, comprehension exercise, grammar extension based on factual information, oral work, written assignment with comparisons to other Chinese immigrant experiences, a large number of key words to do further research, questions for a model test, teacher´s guide with further information and an answer key.

Presente D has 10 broad themes, the first three deal with the Andean area, the next seven are related to specific countries. The preview is complete, has every oral presentation. 1. Los Andes 2. La Amazonía 3. ¡Adivina! ¿Cuál es el personaje inventado? 4. ¡Socorro! - Al volver de la Piedra del Medio, uno de los compañeros vio una serpiente anaconda, (Añade detalles. Termina con estas frases.) se inclinó para verla bien y se cayó al agua. Palabras clave: serpiente anaconda 5. Cartagena de Indias 6. Grandes Colombianos - Estamos aquí con Ana María Orozco, actriz que interpretó el papel de Betty en Yo Soy Betty la Fea. Bienvenida. Quiero empezar la entrevista con preguntas sobre el éxito mundial de esta telenovela. Palabras clave: Yo soy Betty la Fea 7. De viaje 8. Vamos a Machu Picchu - Hola, yo soy el / la profesor/a de historia de la escuela y también voy a acompañar al grupo. Voy a hablar de lo que vamos a hacer en Cuzco. Tenemos DOS días. Palabras clave: Cuzco / Cusco 9. El nevado Huascarán 10. El poncho 1. All oral presentation topics are based on research. Key words are provided to guide the student's web research. Guidelines for research are provided. Cooperative learning is required. Suggestions are given for audience response. 2. All oral topics have three levels of difficulty, A, B and C. Each level is on a separate page so teacher can choose. 3. Level A provides the student 3 suggestions, level B gives the student 4 suggestions and level C, 6 suggestions. Group work is required to divide the work and prepare for a class presentation. 4. There is always a central theme. All topics are guided. First sentences are provided. Number of pages: 35 Teacher and student rubrics: included Name of store: MirafloresCultura Target language only. International baccalaureate