What was happening and what is happening? Students can use this repeated structure to talk about what they were doing yesterday (Intermediate Low) and what is happening to them today (Novice High): estaba _ando/iendo, por (un lugar) _ando/iendo, _ando/iendo. It’s neither healthy nor friendly to be so negative, though, right? Tell students, okay, enough complaining – we can just as easily make this about talking about what’s going great all we do is remove the no and replace with sí – “Es que _, esto sí me gusta, esto SÍ me gusta!” (Got any ideas for adjusting that middle phrase?) Higher novice / Lower intermediate: As an extension, create a survey or poll for students to ask and answer questions to find out what everyone’s complaining about. Finally, ask students to make their own and present (sing?) it. See if any extroverts are willing to actually sing the line with one of the sample complaints. Model using your own simplified complaints, then invite those who are ready to help build a class list. Invite lower novices to practice complaining – they’ll love that, right? Focus on the repeated structure from the chorus: Es que _, dime ¿quién puede ser feliz? Esto no me gusta. Here are some suggestions for what to do with the song “ El perdón,” a collaboration by Nicky Jam and Enrique Iglesias. Two repeated structures in particular in this song shine with opportunities to get students talking, even students on different levels. (Though I wanted to say, Dude – she moved on, she’s happy, get over it! Ha.) a couple of high frequency structures repeated.We should resist the opportunity to complain… but how often do we?Įver feel behind the times? I just caught the current #1 song on Latin Billboard and it struck me as having two golden ingredients for a good class song:
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