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Spain Webquest
La Información General
Direcciones: Use the websites listed at the bottom to help you answer these questions.
1. Where is Spain located?
2. What is the capital city of Spain?
3. What currency is used in Spain?
4. What is the rate of exchange between this currency and the dollar in the United States?
5. What kind of government do they have in Spain? Is it similar to the government in the United States? Who is the current leader?
6. How is the country of Spain divided? Do they have states like in the United States? Or regions? What are they called?
Draw and label them AND the unique languages spoken in each on the back of this page.
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How many autonomous communities are there in Spain? How are they unique?
Spain Webquest
Las Celebraciones
Direcciones: Use the websites listed at the bottom to help you answer these questions.
1. Name the festival that takes place from July 7 – 14 in Pamplona, Spain.
2. What happens during this festival?
3. Name four other festivals or celebrations that take place in Spain and tell when they are and the reason they are celebrated.
Festival Name / When? / Where? / Why?4. Name at least two activities that people in Spain participate in during the festivals? For example, parades.
5. What are castellers?
6. Fill-in-the-blank analogy
Birthday cakes are to birthday parties as ______is to a festival in Spain.
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Spain Webquest
La Comida
Direcciones: Use the websites listed at the bottom to help you answer these questions.
Spanish food is not Mexican food. The Spanish rely on resources from their own country to use in their recipes.
1. What are some typical ingredients that are used in Spanish food made in Spain?
2. Name four popular Spanish dishes.
3. What are tapas? Name a type of tapa popular in Spain.
4. What is the schedule of meals like in Spain?
5. Name two popular postres in Spain.
6.Find the recipe for a Spanish food you would like to try. Write the name and 5 main ingredients.
7. Fill-in-the-blank analogy
La hamburguesa is to the United States as ______is to Spain.
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Spain Webquest
Los Pasatiempos Y El Arte
Direcciones: Use the websites listed at the bottom to help you answer these questions.
1. What is the most popular sport in Spain?
2. What is the name of the sports team hosted in Madrid? Barcelona? Sevilla?
3. Name other sports played in Spain.
4. Name a famous sports figure from Spain.
5. What is the name of a traditional dance popular in Spain?
6. In which city is the Prado Museum located?
7. Name four Spanish artists whose work is displayed in the Prado.
8. What famous artist has parks, buildings and other architectural designs around Barcelona?
Name describe and name 2 buildings.
9. Describe Park Guell and what you can see/do there.
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Spain Webquest
La Vida Cotidiana
Direcciones: Use the websites listed at the bottom to help you answer these questions.
1. What is a siesta?
2. Many people in Spain consider themselves to be very religious. What religion do most of the people in Spain follow?
3. What language do teachers in Spain use to teach their students?
4. What are the school hours like in Spain?
5. What kind of la ropa do people wear in Spain?
6. Where is the Plaza Mayor? What is it and what do people do there?
7. What is las ramblas? Where is it? What can you see there?
8. What time is it in Levittown, NY? What time is it in Madrid, Spain? What is the time difference?
9. What is the temperature in Barcelona, Spain? What is different about the way they describe the temperature in Spain?
10. Fill-in-the-blank analogies.
Fahrenheit is to the United States as ______is to Spain.
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