¡Velvet Viernes!

My Spanish V-H class is addicted to Velvet. Yes, they are. No shame in that. Even the boys, even the football players!

Velvet is a Spanish TV series with a perfect balance between romance, humor and mystery. I watched season I and season II on Netflix, caught up with the third season when they were showing it in Spain, and anxiously waited for season IV to start. The moment I started watching it, I thought of my students... To be honest with you, I though of my girls, knowing they would fall in love with Alberto... Little did I know that the boys were going to love the show, too!

I usually show Velvet to my students on Fridays, after a week of hard work... There's a few scenes that I skip because they are bit too affectionate. I don't ask my students to take notes, I don't give them quizzes about the series... we just enjoy it. And we really enjoy it. But you know what? It's funny how they incorporate Velvet pretty much in anything we do in class! We look forward to Fridays...Students come through the door with a smile on their faces, snacks on their hands and saying "Velvet Vierneeeeessss! We look forward to seeing Alberto and Ana, to get mad at Cristina, to laugh with Pedro and Rita, and to enjoy the beautiful wardrobe of the late 50s early 60s, and the scenery of Madrid. 

This is the third year that I am showing Velvet to my Spanish V classes. We only get to see the first season, but some students watch ahead at home. I just ask them to not ruin it for the rest, but it's funny how they come to class to tell me how far they are into the show, to tell me how mad they are at whatever they've seen, or how happy they are with the turn the story took in whatever episode they saw. This year I am doing some activities with them to incorporate Velvet, but again, no assessments about Velvet. Velvet is just to enjoy it.

After we watched a few episodes, I displayed pictures of the characters around the classroom. Students had to walk around in pairs and write something about the characters; adjectives to describe them, sentences explaining their relationship with other characters... whatever came to their mind.
Of course Alberto got a few compliments... :)

Alberto rompe-corazones :)

After that, I assigned one character to each pair of students. They had to write a full description about them, and they could use the information they had from all the post-its.

This year, since we are working on personality descriptions, we described the main characters in Velvet. 

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So tell me, are you showing or planning on showing Velvet in class? I must warn you, it's addictive.