Hola, Charlie Brown

To practice both my listening skills and catching on to visual cues, I watched Charlie Brown videos in Spanish. Because this is a show directed at children, the topics are something that most speakers on the intermediate level will be familiar with. I will definitely use this in my future classroom. It's a good idea to center the videos around what is being studied in class. "Feliz Navidad, Charlie Brown" is great for studying about Christmas and holidays, while "The Manager" would be appropriate when studying sports and exercise vocabulary.

I really found these videos helpful because the characters overexaggerate all of their emotions and actions. This made it easier to understand what was being said (or not said). I realized that that was exactly what Krashen was saying with his Input Theory---students can "pick up" on the lesson and words when there are cues to go with them.