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A CT I V I T Y
The Spanishspeaking World
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The world is a big place but it becomes much smaller when you learn about it.
Look at a map of the world. Can you point out where all the Spanish-speaking
countries are? There are people who speak Spanish all over the world, but a
Spanish-speaking country is a country where Spanish is the official language.
In this activity you
will:
➜ Learn about Spanishspeaking countries and
their capitals.
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España—Spain
One Spanish-speaking country that you’ve probably heard of is España, Spain.
Spain is the only Spanish-speaking country in Europe, Europa. The capital of
Spain is Madrid. The Spanish language originally came from Spain and has been
used and modified in all the other Spanish-speaking countries of the world. The
people of these other Spanish-speaking countries spoke their own native languages before Spanish was introduced to them. There still are some groups of people that speak native languages as well as Spanish.
México—Mexico
México is a neighbor to los Estados Unidos, the United States. The capital of Mexico is la Ciudad de México, Mexico City. The city’s full title is México, Distrito
Federal or Federal District, but many Mexicans refer to the capital as just
“México” or “El D.F.” (pronounced: el day f-ay). This is similar to how people in
the U.S. say D.C. when talking about the capital of the United States, Washington D.C.
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Latinoamérica/América Latina—Latin America
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The majority of all the countries in the world where Spanish is spoken are
located in Latin America. Latin America is made up of three main areas: Central
America, the Caribbean, and South America. In Spanish these areas are called
Centroamérica/América Central, el Caribe, and Sudamérica/América del Sur.
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Countries and Capitals
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INSTRUCTIONS Listen to and repeat out loud the names of the Spanish-speaking
countries in Latin America and their capitals.
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Countries and Capitals
Interesting Facts
• English is the official language of
Belice, but Spanish is spoken there
too.
• Bolivia has two cities named as its
capital. La Paz is the seat of its government and Sucre is its legal capital
and seat of the judiciary.
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Country
Capital
México
Ciudad de México (D.F.)
España
Madrid
Guatemala
Guatemala
Honduras
Tegucigalpa
Belice
Belmopan
El Salvador
San Salvador
Nicaragua
Managua
Costa Rica
San José
Panamá
Panamá
Cuba
La Habana
República Dominicana
Santo Domingo
Puerto Rico
San Juan
Colombia
Bogotá
Venezuela
Caracas
Ecuador
Quito
Perú
Lima
Bolivia
La Paz and Sucre
Chile
Santiago
Paraguay
Asunción
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Uruguay
Montevideo
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Memorizing
INSTRUCTIONS Memorize each of the capitals from the previous chart before filling in the blanks below from memory. Answers are in Appendix A, on page 266.
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, Nicaragua
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, Venezuela
, Uruguay
, Chile
, Panamá
, México
, España
, Guatemala
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Colombia
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Perú
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República Dominicana
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Cuba
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Costa Rica
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Ecuador
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Honduras
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Belice
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Paraguay
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Bolivia
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El Salvador
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Puerto Rico
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Individual 1 Look at a detailed map of a city in one of the Spanishspeaking countries. Compare and contrast it with a detailed map of your
own city. Are there any similarities? What differences are there? Make a
list of the things you find out from the maps.
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Write the names of all the Spanish-speaking countries and
capitals on small pieces of paper. Lay each paper upside down on the
ground. Pick up two at a time until you can match a capital with a country. Continue until you have all the capitals and countries matched up.
Individual 2
Divide the class into teams. The teacher will point to a Spanish-speaking country (on a large map or overhead) and ask one student
from each team to identify either the country name or its capital. A point
is awarded to the team whose team member responds correctly.
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