We just finished watching the movie La Bamba in Spanish 2, which my students liked a lot.  We watched it in English with Spanish subtitles.  To make the film add to language acquisition and to not have it just be “watching a movie” we did several activities with it.  I did some of these activities as stations.

First, we read a summary of the movie and did a cloze activity with it.  While reading it in class, you could even have someone write a simple true/false quiz.

HERE IS THE READING

HERE IS THE READING ACTIVITY

Second, we listened to the song La Bamba and did some vocabulary with it.

HERE IS THE SONG ACTIVITY

Third, we did a sequence activity.  I printed out very large lyrics and gave each student a part of the song.  As I played the song, they lined themselves up in order.  I gave them two tries.

HERE ARE THE LYRICS

I created this screen shot video:

http://photopeach.com/album/96o1se

I also made THIS SCREENSHOT POWERPOINT

Here is a collage that I used for a speaking assessment: