Señora Alicia introduces body parts: el ojo, los ojos, la boca, la oreja, las orejas, la nariz using pictures and after that, she reviews the command toca using the same body parts.
This video was adapted from ¡Arte y más!, originally produced by KET as a complete curriculum for primary-level Spanish based on arts and humanities content. Spanish teachers can use these resources in traditional or online instruction to reinforce language acquisition and teach about Latin American culture.
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Faces
We all have distinct individual faces. We come from many different places and sometimes look very different. Latin America is a mixture of people from many different places, joined by a common language and history. The Spanish empire conquered the native populations. Later, Africans were brought to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and other parts of the Caribbean as slaves. Europeans from Italy and France settled in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Chinese and Japanese immigrants settled in Brazil and Peru (which even had a Japanese-Peruvian president in recent history!).
When the Spanish came to Latin America, they found hundreds of different indigenous people. The largest, most well-known groups were the Aztecs in Mexico, the Mayas in Central America and the Incas of the Andes, but there were and are many smaller tribal groups scattered throughout Latin America. Each had a different culture and a different language, and most of them looked different as well, with different facial features as well as different styles of clothing. Many died from disease, forced slavery, and cultural oppression. People who were the result of the mixture of Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous people are called Mestizos.
African slaves were mostly brought to work on the sugar plantations around the Caribbean. While they came from many different places, they have now formed unique cultural groups in Latin America, in Haiti, Brazil, and along the coasts of Honduras and Columbia as well (often called Creoles). Most of the people in Latin American share a common language of Spanish, Portuguese (in Brazil), or French (Haiti). But many people still speak traditional indigenous languages, or local versions of Spanish, Portuguese, or French that can be difficult to understand. So Latin America is a very diverse place with many different kinds of faces!
Teaching Tips
Activity: Let’s do faces with construction paper
Vocabulary
el ojo, los ojos, la boca, la oreja, las orejas, la nariz, toca
For this activity, you will need:
• circles made out of construction paper in different skin colors for faces, eyes, mouths, ears, noses, in different colors, pictures of people’s faces of different ethnic background
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