Culture

Culture
General

• Culture Ideas from the NCLRC (A space to share multicultural and multilanguage resources to teach about culture)
• Cross Cultural Encounters (A blog for sharing cross cultural encounters and blunders)
• Cultural Resources
• Teaching Language in Cultural Context
• Dining Out in the World (International dining etiquette quiz)
• CAL Culture Article (Culture in Second Language Teaching)
• World Digital Library (Free access to libraries and museums around the world - search by language, time, place, topic,
  institution)
• It's International (Information on food, dance, children's games, traditional clothing, wedding customs, folktales, toys, names)
• Pictolang (CAPL project - features language and cultural learning through authentic imagery; games
• Culture Connect

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Bullfighting

• Bull in Mexico

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Clothing

• Traditional Costumes (Traditional costume links from around the world)
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• El Corte Inglés (Spanish department store)
• Stylecaster - spring 2012 Spanish influence

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Dance

• Bailemosjuntos (Paulino Brener website - Directions for Line Dances in Spanish)
• Kinesics - Paulino Brener

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• Spain - Flamenco
  • Flamenco (Flamenco performed by Celina Zambon - You Tube - 8:31)
  • Classical guitar with castanets (You Tube - 1:57 minutes)
  • Las castañuelas (Demonstration on how to play the castanets - You Tube - 4:10 minutes - In Spanish)
  • Classic dancing with castañuelas (Short introduction to flamenco - You Tube - 37 seconds)

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• Mexico - Mariachi
  • Mariachi - Jalisco (You Tube - 3:06 minutes)

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• Puerto Rico
  • Five Puerto Rican dances (Five dances with an explanation of each - You Tube - 4:42 minutes - In English)

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Flags

• Flag puzzles (Flags of countries - different languages represented)

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Houses

• Houses Around the World (Photographs of houses from around the world)

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Jokes

• Spanish Jokes

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National Hymns

• National Hymns

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Object

Object Lesson Questions
1. What are its physical qualities? (shape, size, texture, etc.)
2. How was it made, by hand or machine?
3. Was it designed for a particular use?
4. What facts can we determine about the culture by looking at the object?

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Spanish

• Eleaston (Many links to cultural sites)
• Ver-taal (Documentaries and promotional videos of Spanish-speaking areas)

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Sports

• Latino Sports Legends (Stats, multimedia gallery, sports news and trivia questions)