New from NCLRC: The Culture Club Update |
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The Culture Club is an online environment where teachers of foreign languages can find materials and information to help them teach about the culture(s) of their target language(s). Below you will discover what is currently featured in each of the nine rooms of the Club. Each room also has a link to its Collection where you will find all the previously-featured materials. Please let us know what you think of receiving this update. If you have trouble following the links from the email, paste this URL into your browser: http://nclrc.org/cultureclub/email_club.html SPANISH SCAVENGER HUNT WINNER: We have a winner! Richard Detwiler has won the Culture Club's Spanish Scavenger Hunt. He will attend, tuition free, a one-day NCLRC summer institute. He joins the winner of the French Scavenger Hunt, Dr. Elena Odio. Full instructions can be found here. |
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Speakers' Corner
FEBRUARY 2010: Indro Montanelli: Le Stanze
By Carlo Mignani Go to article
JANUARY 2010: Nocturnal Adventure in Paris: A French Teacher's Panic Turns to Glee
By Lois A. Jarman Go to article
DECEMBER 2009: A Roman New Year (Capo D'Anno a Roma)
By Carlo Mignani
Go to article
Photo Gallery
FEBRUARY 2010 Photo Contest: Be the winner! Identify the location. See photograph
JANUARY 2010 Photo Contest Winner: Anita Kay
DECEMBER 2009 Photo Contest Winner: Kathryn L. Hedrick
Banquet Hall
JANUARY 2010: Mole de olla (Cocido de carne y verduras en olla) Read article
DECEMBER 2009: A Puerto Rican New Year's Dinner: Pernil Al Horno (Roasted Pork Shoulder) And Arroz Con Gandules Read article
NOVEMBER 2009: Breakfast with a Costa Rican Family Read article
Spanish Music Room
DECEMBER 2009: Renovatio by Orozco Read Review
NOVEMBER 2009: Lo mejor de Andrea Bocelli-Vivere by Andrea Bocelli Read Review
The French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian Collections are still available in the Culture Club Collection
Screening Room
FEBRUARY 2010:
French: Argent de poche (Small Change)
German: Absolute Giganten
Italian: Ricordati di me
Spanish: Planta 4a
JANUARY 2010:
French: Diabolo Menthe (Peppermint Soda)
Italian: Rappresaglia (Massacre in Rome)
Korean: Bakha satang (Peppermint Candy)
Spanish: La hora de los valientes
Library
FEBRUARY 2010:
French: Les femmes qui lisent sont dangereuses (Women Who Read are Dangerous)
Italian: Il Cacciatore
Norwegian: Hidden Falls
JANUARY 2010:
French: Chagrin d'école
German: Im Krebsgang (Crabwalk)
Italian: Sparrow's Revenge: A Novel of Postwar Tuscany
Spanish: La Catedral del mar (Cathedral of the Sea)
Discover new cinquains for use in your classroom in
the French Poetry Room: L'âme poétique de nos écoles
the Italian Poetry Room: Sala delle Poesie
the Spanish Poetry Room: El Rincón Poético
Go to the Teacher's Lounge for guidelines on writing cinquains. Send in your contributions as well as those of your students. You can all be published poets!
Teachers' Lounge
FEBRUARY 2010: Lessons for Le Stanze di Indro Montanelli
By Carlo Mignani Go to article
JANUARY 2010: El Origen y el Uso de la Tortilladora
By Sheila Cockey Go to article
NOVEMBER 2009: Entre Les Murs: Which French Should French Teachers Teach?
By Marcel LaVergne Go to article
The Hangout
FEBRUARY 2010: Hiroaki Higaki, a teenager from Japan talks about culture in Japan and his everyday life Go to interview
NOVEMBER 2009: Nelson, a teenager from San Salvador, talks about his life in the capital of El Salvador. Go to interview
SEPTEMBER 2009: Alexandre, a French teenager, answers questions about his life in Hautot sur Mer. The text of the interview in the original French is available for download and use in the classroom.
Bloggers' Den
Have you checked out our blog list recently?
Culture Shocks! is back. Read about incidents of cross-cultural miscommunication and add your own.
NCLRC intern Flavia has just begun her semester living and studying abroad in Barcelona. Keep up with her thoughts and experiences on her blog, Catching up from Catalunya.
Check out these blogs and many more, including blogs in additional languages and the NCLRC's own Culture Shocks blog, in the Bloggers' Den!
How to contact the Culture Club:
If you wish to share your own materials and have them published, or you wish to unsubscribe from this email, send your feedback, suggestions, opinions, please send an email to Christine, our Culture Club Director.
Make sure you specify what you are writing about, in the subject line of your email. Thank You!!!