I traveled to Ecuador this summer through ICTFL with EF Tours and it was amazing! I am very excited to teach about Ecuador this year. So, recently in my quest for engaging Ecuador resources, I discovered this YouTube Channel Zonacuariotv and I love it! It is from Ecuador and geared towards children. I found it when I was creating this unit: El Kichwa en el Ecuador. I love the wawa kichwa videos series to learn kichwa and I incorporated some of those videos into that unit.
From there, I stumbled upon a whole bunch of leyendas ecuatorianas that I am really excited to use. They are engaging, authentic, pretty, and diverse. Within Ecuador, there is a wide variety of geography and people and these legends seem to show some of that diversity. Each of the legends is from a different place and has different indigenous roots. These are some of my favorites that I plan to develop:
- "Las guacamayas," una leyenda puruhá is from Chimborazo
- "El nacimiento del Río Amazonas," una leyenda waoraní is from Pastaza
- "Como aparecieron los mosquitos," una leyenda cofán is from Sucumbíos
- "El Kuychi," una leyenda kañari is from Azuay
- "El origen del arcoiris," una leyenda waranka is from Bolívar
- "Ñañe se casa," una leyenda siona-secoya is from Napo
- "El gallo y el zorro," una leyenda afroecuatoriana is from Valle del Chota
- "Nunkui," una leyenda achuar is from Morona Santiago
- a short reading about the waoraní (indigenous people from Ecuador)
- a slideshow (see below) that walks through the embedded readings and has other activities
- a sequencing activity for after the second embedded reading (with answer key)
- a matching text to picture for after the embedded reading (with answer key)
- a ¿Quién lo dijo?/¿Quién lo hizo? activity for after the second embedded reading (with answer key)
- a cloze activity for the final audio of the authentic video
- a doc with the final transcript and two embedded readings (that leave out the certain parts of the ending) that lead to that final, authentic transcript
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And if you want another legend with very similar resources, click here for Las Guacamayas or click here for a more in depth unit about El Kichwa en el Ecuador.