We are less than a week away from March Music Madness 2024. Plenty of time to get in on what will sure to be the highlight of the year for your students. We recently sat down with Claudio Elliot on her podcast Growing with Proficiency to discuss the Music Tournament. One of the key talking points is how we can use music as a way to discuss in the target language, without having to study the lyrics.
Our resource drive is growing and the one thing you won’t want to miss is the Round 1 Matchup Slideshow which has all the links you need and is the perfect thing to project if you listen and discuss in class.
A recently updated document that you’ll want to look at before next Monday is the Teacher Digital Bracket Prediction Document and Google Form, where you can enter to win prizes award to teachers who have the best score. We also offer a version that teachers can copy and send out to their classes, or new this year is a national google form for students to submit their predictions.
Don’t forget to take pictures of your classroom bracket display (Here’s a folder of materials you can use) and post them in the social media thread of our Facebook Group. A randomly selected post will win a prize. You can also help spread the word about this bracket by posting pictures on social media and tagging us, @SpanishPlans.
Still not quite sure how you can use MMM in your classroom? Read the different ways teachers implement it in into their own classes and adapt it to make it fit their schedule and needs.
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Hello. Thank you for all the great work you put into this excellent music resource. My students love it!
Question: Can you substitute “el merengue” by Manuel Turizo with the Spanish lyrics video, please? It would make it easier for me to use it in class. There are very few music videos that I can use in my classroom. Thank you, in advance!
Most teachers don’t show the music videos anyway. There is a playlist of the lyrics videos and in the matchup document posted above the lyric video is on the head-to-head slide. You can make a copy of the doc and paste it to the song slide, or just play from the Spotify link with just the slide projected. Another option is using the file in the shared resource folder and projecting artist info as you play the music.
Does that make sense? ( I know there is a lot of documents to go through)