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Singing the Basics Beg Spanish CD and Acty Bk
Although there are a lot of educational songs written to help students learn a new language, most of these focus on isolated words like numbers, days of the week, and basic words. This unique song and activity book includes songs for these words, but also features songs on Spanish sounds, grammar, pronunciation, parts of speech and more. Most songs are accompanied by a lesson and activity sheet, which explain the concept and offer examples in both Spanish and English. The songs are catchy, lively, and feature toe-tapping rock beats and guitars. I have to warn that you just may get some of these stuck in your head (especially the “-ar Verb Song”). 15 songs are included, which cover days of the week, weather, helping verbs, questions, stress and accents in words, masculine and feminine endings, times of the day, family words, -ar verbs, time words, words for different forms of “you”, pronunciations, direct objects, and more. The exercises and examples that accompany the songs are excellent, and offer the student more practice and variety of examples than the songs alone can offer. Teaching tips, suggestions for games and other activities have been included as well, offering you additional options for covering the material. Although not a complete Spanish course, these songs and activities will help students to remember details about grammar, sentence structure and words that could otherwise fall through the cracks! - Jess
Customer Review
Teresa D. from Round Rock, Texas wrote the following on 08/27/2008:
This CD is really upbeat and the songs DO stick in your head. I think with a few of the songs the music is a little overwhelming to the lyrics, but as a whole they are excellent. In a song about helping verbs, the lyrics say: "Use ser for being/ and not for doing/ use it for the cow is fat/ not the cow is mooing." I thought this set was a good value for the money, and that was when I had only listened to the CD. Then later I investigated the book and thought it was a really! good deal. We listened to "The Question Song" and then used the question words we learned to practice our vocab in the 1st 100 words picture dictionary. My younger children dance to the beat while my older children and I refer to the written-out lyrics (written out in Spanish, with the English translation a shade lighter underneath). There is a (inspirational?) poem for the student discouraged by pronunciation and a list of "English" words that are actually Spanish. The author gives permission to reproduce and even edit the workbook pages and has a website to further assist you. For those in a co-op, he sells additional CDs in a 15-pack for $5 each and no shipping.
