These authentic resources support a unit about town and community in Spanish.
The impact of natural disasters is made vivid in this video segment adapted from NOVA. A small town in Iceland, prepared for recurrent avalanches, is devastated when one takes a new and damaging path.
Today students will be discussing their daily routine using the resources provided to use certain words for comprehension.
Students begin by reading Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax" as an example of how overdevelopment can cause long-lasting environmental destruction. Students discuss how to balance the needs of the environment with the needs of human industry. Student teams are asked to serve as natural resource engineers, city planning engineers and civil engineers with the task to replant the nearly destroyed forest and develop a sustainable community design that can co-exist with the re-established natural area.
Students discuss Boise and their own hometown. They discuss tourist attractions, Make a pic collage of different places and describe their pic college to the other students.
Visit with Andres during fiesta time at Paracho Michoacan, Mexico's "guitar town". As Andres shows in this video segment from ZOOM, guitar music goes beyond simple sound vibrations.
This is the third chapter in French 104, a 14 week course at RVCC. This chapter will deal with vocabulary for shopping in town and puchases made, the verb acheter and vendre will be intoduced.