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The music in the Spanish transition videos create a direct and speedy path in the brain to spontaneous output.
The music in the Spanish transition videos create a direct and speedy path in the brain to spontaneous output.

A teacher, Hannah,  wanting to follow her school’s   “opening traditions” every class period, but her students quickly bored with it.  I have the perfect solution for her!  Transition videos inserted into her daily slide show or”tech guide” as I call my daily PowerPoint.  Use a remote clicker or wireless mouse so you can click from the hall or from anywhere in the room.

As my students walk in each day they hear “the day song” and soon they are using the words to express their feelings.   It sets the tone that we are a 90% TL Spanish One class.   The examples below are in Spanish but scroll to the end for videos in English, French, German, Italian, Latin and Mandarin.

Hannah can end there and have the same tradition – the daily song – with variety.  But I think she should have a few more musical transitions to get the class going.  Since it is a musical video, my students look forward to them, imitate them and the words from the songs drop out of their mouths as music is the fastest path to output!

Adapt the three closing ones, cleaning up the room, writing down the homework, and reflecting on what was learned and I believe that Hannah’s administrators will be so impressed that they will suggest that all classes have traditional closures as well!

We just added a template for you to use every day to structure your classes.  Read about it here.

Join the 5 day challenge here and receive the free skeleton outline of the template – without songs but showing all current videos available.

If you  just want to jump to acquiring them, go here, and scroll down until you see “Feliz Lunes.”

Here is the latest list with links of the videos.

1.  When I am ready to start, I play the class count down video – students know to be seated and quiet as they count down the 3 -2 – 1 ya!

2-Al-principio-de-la-clase2 from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

Students use this expression spontaneously before beginning anything.

3. Put away the phones

MBMS_101 Guardar Teléfonos – trimmed from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

 

I greet them, ask how they are, and tell them the objective of the day and the class activities of the day – all on 3 slides.   I play the “Take out the Homework” video and show the answers on the board while I quickly check for completion.  Since day two of the school year when I first played it, my students spontaneously tell me ‘la tengo’ or ‘no la tengo’ and if someone doesn’t have it everyone else asks, “¿en serio?”

 

4. Check for questions and play the musical slides for the date  and then  to take attendance – we get nasty emails if we miss attendance for any class!  My students tell me” X está ausente” or “no está ausente, en el baño.” These are part of the Survival Vocabulary set.  It comes with the current year’s calendar and video.

fecha with calendar from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

To purchase,  click here.

Every year I will put out the school calendar – so reload it for the updated versions.

 

MBMF_7_3 Date from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

Updated Attendance Song

5.  Play “The Daily Review”song and complete five minutes of review.  My Spanish 1 students can fluently say “cuando necesito gramática perfecta” and “¿Qué hago – repaso, repaso, repaso”

6.   Play “Take Out the Vocab List video and they can all mimic “Favor de sacar la lista del vocabulario.”

I also play the self- talk musical slide that reminds students if they don’t get it right to tell them selves – I don’t have it yet!  I introduce a chunk of vocabulary, practice comprehension with gestures and then show slides with visuals.  My Spanish 1 students use “lo acerté spontaneously in many situations” and even “no lo acerté – todavía.”

7.    Play the video about finding a random partner of the week or if we already did it play the musical slide to find this week’s partner.

My students can say ¿Quién sera? even though they won’t be taught this tense for three more years.

8. Practice with partner(s) usually some kind of spontaneous speech activity – there are videos that show the students how to play guessing games. If we have the computers then they will watch “The Take Out the Computer”  video, “Practice QuizletLive” video, students practice on their own, play the quizlet live video and finally I play the  “Put Away the Computers” video and rearrange the chairs slide.  My students quickly learn the games that have songs to teach the vocabulary and create spontaneous dialogues – month two of Spanish One!  They can all do “más alto, más bajo” and many others.

9. Slide leading into next activity – could be a listening activity or a reading activity or Simon says.  My students all know “vamos a jugar” and can follow it with many games.

 

We also use timers that feature appropriate cultural music, bachata, salsa, gaita, llanera, regaeton, etc.

10. First of the last three routines for closure: Clean the room!

_13 Que desorden Pls no posting – trimmed from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

11.Take out the Agenda video and students write down the homework.  My students can say any line from this song at appropriate times.

“ay no me gusta, pero es importante”  “Saco mi agenda, escribo la tarea.”

_20 Saco Mi Agenda Pls no posting – trimmed from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

12. Students can retrieve phones.

 

MBMS_10MIN_Bachata – trimmed2 from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

MBMS_102 Sacar Teléfonos from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

13. Closure – students sing and then tell me something new they learned.  My students can spontaneously say “Hoy, hoy aprendi ” and complete the thought.

14-Hoy-Aprendí-Pls-no-posting-trimmed.mp4 from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

My public school seventh, eighth, and ninth graders in Spanish One produce spontaneous speech even if they don’t want to – they can’t help themselves because music enters their brains and remains like nothing else that I have tried in these past 30 years.  You can make your own songs or use mine.

Start making your own daily tech guide to create a structure that matches your own teaching voice.  Start with this blog.

You can even use  my videos,  created by native speakers, and offered here  on TeacherspayTeachers. Or click here for the starter kit!

They help support several Venezuelan families.

Venezuelan Families from ellen shrager on Vimeo.

 

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All net proceeds go to help three Venezuelan Families to survive their economic crises.

 

Here are the Spanish links and the other languages are below:

1.       Feliz Lunes
2.    Saquen la Tarea
3.    La Clase Va A Empezar
4.    60 Saludos
5.    Las Noticias
6.    Repaso
7.    Sacar Vocabulario
8.    Trabajar En Parejas
9.    Bingo
10.  Leer
11.  Músicas
12.  Saco Mi Agenda
13.  Desorden
14.  Hoy Aprendí
15.  Querido viernes
16.  Matemáticas
17.  Cumpleaños – 5
18.  Adiós Libros
19.  Cultura
20.  Partner of the week
21.  Dos filas
22.  Dibujar
23.  Mirar el video
24.  Regresar a sus pupitres
25.   Sacar los libros
26.   Tarjetas del vocabulario
27.  Escribir en español
28.  Sacar las computadoras
29.  Devolver las computadoras
30.  Matamoscas
31.  Simon Dice
32.  Charadas
33.  Baloncesto
34.  Quia
35.  Quizlet
36.  Kahoot
37.  Geopardy
38.  Juego de memoria
39.  Carreras
40.  Dar Direcciones
41.  Escucha y dibuja
42.  Meses
43.  Acorazado
44.  Dice – Dados
45.  Días
46.  Preguntas
47.  Bienvenido a la clase
48.  Martes amigo
49.  Miércoles
50.  Jueves
51.  Querido Estudiante M – F
52.  En hora Buena
53.  Me siento fatal – free
54. Dedo ROTO – free
55.  Adivina fechas
56.  Advina números
57.  Notas en linea
58.  Juego Juega
59.  Ojalá que Nieve
60.  El cubierto
61.  Bravo
62.  Date
63. Voluntarios
64. Lo acerté
65.  Habla, habla, cambia
66.  Saquén el protector
67. Sepárense
68. Levanténse
69.  Pásenme
70. Arreglen los pupitres
71.   Venezuela Anthem
72. EG Anthem
73. Honduras Anthem
74. Guatemala
75.  Costa Rica
76.
77.
78.
79.
80. Vamos a la alfombra
81. ausente
82. Encuesta signature
83. Encuesta class report
84. Rotating rows
85. Chequeen
86. Super Juego
87. Pobre Ana
88. Pongan las hojas en la carpeta
89.
90. Custom Birthday for Ryan
91. Pongan las carpetas en el cuaderno
92.
93.
94.
95.
96.
97.
98.    Upper Level writing expressions
99.    ¿Es posible que hablemos?
100.
101.  Teléfonos a dormir
102
103   Réplicas Rejoinders
104   Lo veo-lo observo-me pregunto
105   Lo veo video with powerpoint
106   Lo veo with ppt preguntas
107   Lo veo video

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are making them in French, Mandarin, German, and Latin, and English.  What I love about TeacherspayTeachers is that it helps new teachers to quickly climb the learning curve by selecting tried and true activities from veteran teachers still in the classroom, like me!  If you need something new to get your students spontaneously  speaking in the target language – this is it!


These videos are offered in other languages.
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Click here for French Videos

 

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Click here for Mandarin videos

 

Based on my students, my response is that 10 – 15  daily doses of thirty- second  meaningful and engaging music and voiceovers sprinkled through out the class period will have the appropriate phrases dropping out of students mouths!

My students have a constant stream of transition videos that release relaxing endorphins and teach them useful phrases for the classroom.  I understand the input/output theories but in my experience this year, music creates a direct shortcut to output!  No research on this,  just what happens in my classroom every period every day!

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