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Here are some helpful websites where you can practice and review skills as well as learn more Spanish :)
Dictionaries and Translators
*SpanishDict - dictionary, verb conjugator, language forum
*Word Reference - Online dictionary, verb conjugator, thesaurus
Video lessons
Online Practice
Study Spanish - This site has some free access and the option to pay for a subscription. The free version explains grammar concepts that are covered in class. There are also practice activities so that you can check your understanding of a concept. http://www.studyspanish.com/Conjuguemos - This site is is designed to practice verb conjugation in various tenses and vocabulary (you need to select our textbook Avancemos) http://www.conjuguemos.com/http://www.spanishlistening.org If you want to practice listening comprehension, this is a good resource.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sports Websites in Spanish
http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/
http://www.nba.com/enebea/ Baloncesto/Basquetbol
http://nfl.univision.com/ Fútbol Americano
http://es.fifa.com/ Copa Mundial 2014
http://mlb.mlb.com/es/ Béisbol
News Websites in Spanish
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ BBC World News en español
http://cnnespanol.cnn.com/ CNN en español
http://noticias.univision.com/ Univision - Noticias en español
http://msnlatino.telemundo.com/informacion_y_noticias/Noticias_Telemundo
http://www.dlatinos.com/portal/ Online magazine from Florida
TV shows in Spanish
Plaza Sésamo (Sesame Street) (Nuestro Planeta)
Gaby y su primer dia de clases
Pop Culture
http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/
http://www.cinemark.com.ar/ Cine Argentina trailers, descriptions, current showings
http://www.elcorteingles.es/ Clothing Department Store in Spain
http://eshop.muaa.com.ar/ Muaa Clothing (Argentina)
http://www.amigofoods.com/spfopr.html Online Latin Foods Store
http://www.muyinteresante.es/ Online magazine
Crea tu Nissan Build your own Nissan :)
Disney Latino
Spanish Cartoons on demand (http://www.rtve.es/ for other shows)
http://www.trailersdepeliculas.org/ Spanish Movie Trailers
Activities
Build Your Wild Self an online person/monster creator. Use this to build someone/thing that students could use to describe in writing or orally, or to write stories about.
http://www.cristinalosantos.com/contes/contes-frm-ang.htm Drawings for oral and written description
Cuentos con Valores Short stories in Spanish
5 Card Flickr tons of "stories" within 5 random photographs...use to prompt students to create an oral story or a written story
http://www.miscositas.com/Sancocho%20Didactico.pdf Projects, worksheets, necessary reproducibles for any level of Spanish.
What if Story Genie What if questions to prompt stories
Other dictionaries and language tools
Rhyming Dictionary (Diccionario de Rimas) Enter a word and get all of the rhyming words
RhinoSpike an online language learning community tool that lets users around the globe connect and exchange foreign language audio files. Get any foreign language text read aloud for you by a native speaker
http://www.deanimalia.com/index.html Enciclopedia Animal
Other online practice sites
Rocket Languages - This site has review of Spanish culture, grammar, and language. http://rocketlanguages.comClasszone - There are practice activities, videos, audio recordings, and practice tests. It will help you prepare for everything we do in class. http://www.classzone.comLingolex - Helpful for many Spanish topics - language, culture, grammar. http://www.lingolex.comDuolingo - An app you can put on your phone to play games to practice language, grammar, pronunciation, and listening. It's actually kind of fun! http://www.duolingo.com/
http://www.bowdoin.edu/~eyepes/newgr/ats/ An outline of essential grammar + practice
http://www.practicaespanol.com/ Another practice site
http://personal.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/ Spanish language, grammar and audio practice
http://www.babbel.com/d Audio (listenng) and Vocabulary Practice.
http://www.trentu.ca/academic/modernlanguages/spanish/masarriba/ Interactive Workbook with audio and pictures.
http://www.ver-taal.com/telediario.htm Audio (listening) exercises for advanced students
http://www.ver-taal.com/index.htm Ejercicios de español current news, trailers, vocabulary, grammar, listening practice - highly recommend this site!!!
http://www.veintemundos.com/en/ Veinte Mundos articles with videos, pictures, related material, audio file for many Spanish speaking countries, interesting topics; intermediate & advanced
http://todo-claro.com Grammar activities, vocabulary, cultural information.
http://spanish.tolearnfree.com Practice with all grammar from levels 1 - advanced