ALTEC | Spanish Language Links

Spanish Grammar http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/index.html This website's modules are organized by grammar topics and each module is often based on a song that students can listen to.

Lectura Paso a Paso http://cvc.cervantes.es/aula/lecturas/ This website provides authentic reading activities at three different levels. The site offers practice activities and a Spanish Vocab glossary. The activities can be used as reading and grammar review.

Spanish Video Resources http://www.ashcombe.surrey.sch.uk/Curriculum/modlang/shared/vod_sp.htm The videos clips are organized by everyday life interests. Each topic includes a video clip of a native speaker and some fill-in the blank activities. The transcripts of the video clips are also available.

The sounds of Spanish and English http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/collection/lm_brazil/bpIndex.html This website is an animated library for pronuciation of the sounds of Spanish and English. For each sound, students can look at a native speaker pronounce each sound in isolation and in a word.

Culture & Society

La Tuna - Universidad Polit‰cnica Valencia http://tuna3.upv.es/fart2002/ This beautiful website introduces the students to the topic of troubadours in medieval Spain and the Spanish speaking world. (over 250 songs, and sound files).

Diego Rivera http://www.diegorivera.com/index.php This reference website offers a wealth of information on Diego Rivera. It provides pictures of 32 of his murals, access to digital versions of the Mexican Folk Way of the 20Æs and the 30Æs video media.

Discovering Mexico http://www.nationalgeographic.com/mexico/ This is a website sponsored by the National Geographic magazine and it is a comprehensive multimedia database of information on four beautiful geographic areas of Mexico (North, Heartland, Mexico City and Chipas).

Literature

Modulos Culturales http://www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/ This website is organized in modules on authors from Spain and South America including pre and post reading activities. Each module also provides a biography of the author that the students can either read or listen to.