El Gordo 2019 Videos

The Spanish Lotería de Estado has launched its annual Xmas lottery video publicity campaign. This time there are four videos telling heart-warming stories which your students might find useful listening opportunities.

Here's a link to the official site:
https://www.laloterianavidad.com/videos/

Also an article from El País newspaper discussing this year's campaign as reading practice:
https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/11/14/television/1573726006_744458.html

I've already got my décimo so, buena suerte a todos!

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Alguien Quiere Brunch?

English is well known for 'borrowing' words from other languages, or simply inventing new ones, but Spanish is not usually considered to be such a 'magpie' language. In the following article (link below,) el Mundo newspaper outlines some of the latest additions to Spain's Real Academia Española (RAE) (digital) dictionary, the 'bible' of castellano, the Spanish language. 

So, anyone for a Spanish 'brunch'?

elmundo.es

If you like the blog, why try the books?

Zen Kyu Maestro: An English Teacher's Spanish Adventure, 
(a Monday Books eBook) available from Amazon.  

Cucarachas or Cucuruchos? An English Teacher's Spanish Dilemma. eBook or paperback from Amazon.

The first years of an English teacher, teaching a class of lively Spanish seven-year-olds, in English, in Spain.

What could possiobly go wrong?

“The detailed way Dean has described the atmosphere of this little city in Spain is magnificent.” Salford University, The Salfordian.

 For free sample chapters:

 of Zen Kyu Maestro, click HERE.

Cucarachas paperback, click HERE.

Cucarachas eBook, click HERE.