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Extend the Garbanzo lesson "Roberto y el monstruo del armario" with a fun, whole-class activity designed to encourage language proficiency and comprehensible-input!

While it’s tempting to correlate Garbanzo points with a numerical score, it’s not actually the easy fix for your gradebook that you might think. Let’s chat about why Garbanzo is best used as a formative assessment across the board, and how restructuring your gradebook, if necessary, might be the best thing you can do for your students. 

Learn how to extend a Garbanzo lesson with our new series, where we highlight a Garbanzo lesson and the activity you can do to extend it! In this blog post, we focus on "El dibujo de Timmy." 

Ever wondered where Bonzo, Garbanzo's mascot and friendly guacamayo bird, came from? He's ready to share his origin story. Learn about the power of friendship, interactive storytelling, and creating connections across the world. 

Should comprehension-focused language teachers just retire dictation as an activity? Don't dismiss dictation as an outdated exercise just yet - there are ways you can use it in the language classroom, especially as a formative assessment. 

Did you know you can extend your Garbanzo lessons to provide the most comprehensible input for your students? One of our favorite methods also engages students’ creativity by asking them to expand a text.

We’ve got a rooster laying an egg and a snake incubating it… what could go wrong?  Find out in this episode! 

This episode was written around the Somos 1 Unit 12 level.

Hear about a Chilean ghost ship called “El Caleuche” which sometimes can be found, and sometimes can’t be found, in the waters of southern Chile.

This episode was written around the Somos 1 Unit 12 level.