Spanish Audiobook for Beginners Spanish Novel El reloj desaparecido

El reloj desaparecido is a 5,454-word, easy-to-understand, compelling Spanish audiobook for beginners. You can finally assign authentic listening comprehension tasks to your beginner Spanish 1 learners. Pre-teach the included vocabulary and share the audio, or have students read the printed novel in class, do the comprehension activities, and then listen to the native speaker read the novel. Although the narrator reads the script naturally, the pace is slow enough for novice learners to understand. This audiobook provides excellent comprehensible input using authentic Spanish resources for listening comprehension and practice.

Appropriate for upper elementary Spanish, middle school Spanish, or high school Spanish.

This recorded Spanish novel provides comprehensible input with an engaging story that students can actually understand because the narration:

• Is in the present tense with a few exceptions.
• Uses Spanish 1 / novice vocabulary.
• Uses Spanish cognates.
• Uses high-frequency words.
• Scaffolds the vocabulary to keep the story flowing without frequent dictionary interruptions.
• Provides vocabulary lists to help students understand unfamiliar words.

AUDIOBOOK ONLY. THE PRINTED BOOK IS NOT INCLUDED. SEE BELOW.

WHAT’S THE STORY ABOUT?

The plot will hook students. It’s a compelling story about a high school boy who works in his mother’s clock store cleaning and fixing clocks… but can’t fix his own life at school. He’s invisible to everyone — especially Cati, the girl he likes. A valuable, and very expensive, clock goes missing, and Iago will be in serious trouble if it’s not found. Can he find it before everything unravels? Will Cati finally notice him?

FOR CLASS SETS: PRINT AND BOUND BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE AT AMAZON.COM. SEARCH BY TITLE.

 

HOW TO USE THIS SPANISH AUDIOBOOK:

 

• Assign the audio for homework after reading the book in class.
• Ask students to read the chapters as they listen in class.
• Ask students to listen first, without reading, then read the same text after listening.
• Ask the comprehension questions before reading the text, then ask students to listen for the answers in the audio. Then ask students to read the same scene and answer the comprehension questions.
• Assign the vocabulary-building exercises first, then ask students to read the passages as they listen to the audiobook.

 

This Spanish 1 Audiobook Novice Level Novel for listening comprehension includes the following resources:

 

• SPANISH AUDIOBOOK: 52 minutes of professionally recorded audio
• Eight audios of the novel, El reloj desaparecido, narrated by a native Spanish Speaker
• EIGHT MP3 FILES
• Audio 1: Iago
• Audio 2: Jueves
• Audio 3: Viernes
• Audio 4: Sábado
• Audio 5: Domingo
• Audio 6: Lunes
• Audio 7: Martes
• Audio 8: Miércoles
• 7 pages of vocabulary by chapters in Spanish and English
• The solutions to the riddles: Las soluciones de los enigmas
• Summary of the plot in Spanish: El resumen del argumento

 

Because the story is almost entirely in the present tense with Level 1 vocabulary, teachers can easily integrate it during the first year of instruction. It works beautifully for world language, Spanish comprehensible input, novice Spanish, homeschool Spanish, and Spanish listening comprehension practice.

I recommend teaching this novel midyear, once Spanish students have acquired some basic vocabulary and present tense conjugations.

 

This audiobook is included in the Spanish 1 Novel Complete Teacher Resources Bundle:

Spanish Novice Level Reading, Novel & Audio, Listening Comprehension, Questions

 

If you would like printable books for your students, you may buy them on Amazon. Search for the title: Spanish beginner novel for comprehensible input

 

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