Finally, the Evita Movie Worksheet Set you have been looking for! Designed to be used by students as they watch the film, this Evita movie worksheet will help students pay better attention and zero in on important details, something that they can find challenging without some scaffolding, since most students aren't used to watching movies that are wall to wall singing! The movie Evita is perfect for both Spanish and World History classes and these Evita Movie Worksheets work equally well for both. HOW THIS EVITA MOVIE WORKSHEET SET WILL KEEP STUDENTS ON-TASK AND WATCHING The approach here is cloze or fill-in, which means that students won't get anywhere just guessing. They'll have to pay close attention to the movie in order to be listening for the next fill-in problem. The Evita movie worksheet works like this: key statements from the script are included on a worksheet, with important words or phrases blocked out. Students are to fill in the missing words or phrases as they watch the film. I have used these worksheets with my classes for years and have found them to be highly successful at helping students follow the movie better. LOTS FOR STUDENTS TO DO The worksheet is several pages long and has 51 cloze (fill-in-the-blank) problems to be solved while students watch the film. LOOKING FOR A REUSABLE EVITA MOVIE WORKSHEET? LOOK NO FURTHER! Teacher convenience is a hallmark of my products. With that in mind, I have organized student and teacher materials in several ways so that you have a variety of options. Student Materials: Two worksheet versions are provided for your convenience: 1) Re-usable. Make one class set and use it with multiple groups over multiple years. Save on paper, ink, and the hassle of making printouts. Answer blanks on this set are noted with the characters: -----. This is on purpose so that students do not feel they have a "blank" to write on. ----- is too short to be of much use and the position of the hyphens would block their writing in any case. 2) Consumable. If you prefer to let students write directly on the worksheets, use the set that has answer blanks noted with the characters: ______________________________. Please note that all blanks are the same size (except when shortening a blank will help with formatting the flow of the sentence). This is to avoid giving students unintentional hints or clues about the answers. The answers can be derived only from carefully watching the film.

Are you showing the film version of Evita in your Spanish or history class? These movie tests will provide you with three different ready-made assessments so you can evaluate student learning and help students stay on task as they are watching! Good for both social studies and Spanish classes, since the movie concerns the history and culture of a major South American Spanish-speaking nation. THREE TESTS TO CHOOSE FROM 1) True/False 2) Multiple Choice 3) Essay Prompts There are 50 questions between the first two tests, and eight different essay prompts, making it a snap to differentiate instruction for all levels. IDEAS FOR USING THE TESTS These questions are perfect for assessing how well students paid attention to the movie, certainly, but they can also be used as a springboard to preview important points before viewing or to help the teacher discuss the film with the class afterwards. The tests are all designed to assess understanding after students have seen the entire film. Another way to differentiate instruction is to require students to take notes during the movie for use on the test... or to have students respond to the test questions and/or essay prompts using their memory only.

Spanish is spoken in far more places than just Spain or Mexico, yet most Spanish textbooks hardly ever emphasize the multinational aspect of the language. Enhance your teaching with these fun interactive exercises / computer games which will help students "grasp" the simple concept: Se habla español en muchos paí­ses. Spanish Interactives Mean Automatic Differentiation! The exercises are done on computer and work right inside a web browser! Each exercises consists of a matching drag-and-drop game where students have to pair up Spanish synonyms. Download the preview to see it in action -- the preview has 4 games for you to try out. The full download has 16. With computer-based instruction, all students can be actively engaged at once in the computer lab -- and each one will be working at his or her own pace to achieve mastery. I taught Spanish for 12 years and developed an extensive Spanish-instruction website to help my students. My exercises really led to mastery -- and trust me, the ones in the textbooks I used generally didn't. The solution to passing the AP Exam: Practice, Practice, Practice! Every student I trained for the AP Spanish exam passed it, and exercises like these with fun, intensive practice that leads to mastery, is a big reason for that record of success. These exercises could be used for enrichment/enhancement or you could make them an extra credit activity -- OR, you could incorporate them into your core curriculum in order to give your students a more well-rounded understanding of Spanish as a multinational language. Spanish Exercises by Elise Parker

A set of 11 exercises to help students get a solid foundation in Spanish verb meanings and conjugations. Self-checking individually paced learning that really makes differentiation a snap -- and that promotes true mastery of the language! INTEGRATE WORD MEANINGS WITH GRAMMAR TO PROMOTE TRUE COMPREHENSION INSTEAD OF ROTE LEARNING When students are practicing conjugations, they should at the same time be acquiring the MEANING of the words they are using. What sense does it make to have them write charts of rompo, rompes, rompe, etc, when they don't know what the words MEAN? My exercises are designed to constantly reinforce the meaning of the conjugated forms. As students advance through the exercises they will master increasing numbers of word meanings, and all the while, they have been acquiring the target conjugations as well. TARGET SPECIFIC TROUBLE AREAS THAT LEARNERS STRUGGLE WITH No matter what textbook I used, the book always took for granted that students would understand when to use the nosotros versus the ellos/Uds. forms. You probably know that students have HUGE difficulty in figuring out which form is needed in any given plural situation. Sure, they'll use the ellos form when the sentence says "ellos," and they can handle a simple nosotros, too, but what about when the sentence says "Marta y Luis," or "Maria y yo," or "Los profesores y Ud.?" Sentences like that would absolutely baffle my students until we started doing massive practice sets on how to know when you need a nosotros versus an ellos/ellas/Uds. form. But these exercises take care of that for you! I built them that way from the start so that students would have tons of practice in recognizing real-life subjects -- which as we know, do not always consist of the pure subject pronouns. So yes, sometimes the exercises cue them with "Ella," but sometimes they use a name or a title (La alumna) or even a non-person noun when the verb is suitable (El libro...). And when it comes to the plural forms, students will work with complex subjects from the start: Maria Elena y tú, El director y los estudiantes. Tú y yo. Uds. y yo. Juan, Elena, y Teresa. Etc, etc, etc. This exercise set has a special multiple-choice section that requires students to focus on when they would need the nosotros or the ellos forms for complex subjects. THE NITTY-GRITTY: HOW THESE SPANISH INTERACTIVE EXERCISES WORK All exercises are computer based and designed to run in any web browser. All you have to do (as explained in the included Read Me file) is copy the exercise set to a computer's hard drive and double click on the START HERE file!

A set of 10 exercises to help students get a solid foundation in Spanish verb meanings and conjugations. INTEGRATE WORD MEANINGS WITH GRAMMAR TO PROMOTE TRUE COMPREHENSION INSTEAD OF ROTE LEARNING When students are practicing conjugations, they should at the same time be acquiring the MEANING of the words they are using. What sense does it make to have them write charts of lavo, lavas, lava, etc, when they don't know what the words MEAN? My exercises are designed to constantly reinforce the meaning of the conjugated forms. As students advance through the exercises they will master increasing numbers of word meanings, and all the while, they have been acquiring the target conjugations as well. TARGET SPECIFIC TROUBLE AREAS THAT LEARNERS STRUGGLE WITH No matter what textbook I used, the book always took for granted that students would understand when to use the nosotros versus the ellos/Uds. forms. You probably know that students have HUGE difficulty in figuring out which form is needed in any given plural situation. Sure, they'll use the ellos form when the sentence says "ellos," and they can handle a simple nosotros, too, but what about when the sentence says "Marta y Luis," or "Maria y yo," or "Los profesores y Ud.?" Sentences like that would absolutely baffle my students until we started doing massive practice sets on how to know when you need a nosotros versus an ellos/ellas/Uds. form. But these exercises take care of that for you! I built them that way from the start so that students would have tons of practice in recognizing real-life subjects -- which as we know, do not always consist of the pure subject pronouns. FOCUS ON COMMONLY CONFUSED VERBS I identify problem verbs from the start, and provide practice specifically targeted to them. Problem verbs are the ones that students consistently mix up when they are trying to communicate. In this set, lavar and llevar are problem verbs. Students use llevar when they mean lavar, and vice-versa. An exercise of nothing but distinguishing lavar and llevar takes care of the problem. Students reach mastery and gain confidence with my exercises! THE NITTY-GRITTY: HOW THESE SPANISH INTERACTIVE EXERCISES WORK All exercises are computer based and designed to run in any web browser. All you have to do (as explained in the included Read Me file) is copy the exercise set to a computer's hard drive and double click on the START HERE file. To have your whole class use the exercises at once, load them onto your local area network.

When I was teaching Spanish, one of the best purchases ever was that comedy jewel, Dumb and Dumber. You see, I found a DVD with a Spanish audio option, and I thought, neat! The students know the movie fairly well already, in most cases. They can listen to it in Spanish and pick up a few words! Even more student-friendly is the option of turning on English subtitles with Spanish audio, so that students can read along in English as they listen to the words and structures rendered into Spanish. I made this vocabulary chart to give students some specific words to look for and learn as they enjoy a fun movie, making class both educational and *highly* entertaining. The chart is just one page long, containing about 60 key terms, along with room for students to write the English translation of the Spanish terms they are looking for. The chart is really helpful if you use this particular movie with the Spanish audio, which makes it a highly specialized product, but in case it's of use to a Spanish teacher looking for a fun activity that will last a couple of class periods -- enjoy!