¡Visita Madrid!

Student Sample
This is a student sample of a scripted, presentational writing task of partners enticing someone to visit the city.
Fully developed  lesson plans, resources, and  postcard template
Proficiency-oriented Rubric
Recommended digital recording platform,
https://online-voice-recorder.com/

Handout to share via Google Classroom for online-voice-recorder.com

City Guide | A Proofread .pdf Copy
City guides are easy to find with the help of Internet access. However, please always proofread your city guide .pdf copies and vet with teacher eyes; not all content in these publications are appropriate for K-12 learners. These copies can easily be pushed out as documents on a Learning Management System like Google Classroom or Canvas. These resources serve well as a lead in to the activity in target language with guiding questions:
1. What do you notice? What do you see?
2. What kinds of categories are there?
3. What can you do there?
Here is a 2026 version of screenshots of the Guía.

Fresh Perspectives from Native Speakers
I asked my host cousin, Ana, to record her highlights from the city. Believe or not, kids prefer to hear it from a younger third party and not my stories and photo albums of me with a fanny pack in the 90s. This is a superb interpretive mode activity for kids to notice popular activities done by native speakers in the city. If I were to ask Ana to do this again, I would invite her to send me a video on her camera roll, record a screencast, or a Microsoft Flip stand-alone video.

Lesson 1.0 | Novice Postcard Writing Task
Click in to see Brooke's strong novice writing sample. Students were asked to select three activities to do and write back home to describe what they are going to do. Kids are asked to expand detailing the when, why, with whom, and where in addition to the what. This postcard ends up serving as a brainstorm prior to students collaborating on the radio announcement script. 

360cities.net | Exploring First Before Describing
A majority of students in my classes haven't yet traveled outside of the United States. To ask for them to entice someone to visit Madrid is a big ask without at least first seeing some sights. Linking students to specific panoramic photographs in 360cities.net is an ideal way to get kids to visualize their virtual experience.