Ramito de violetas- Miguelichi López is a Spanish “cantautor” (singer- songwriter). This is a recent cover of an older song. Ramito de violetas was originally written by Spanish songwriter Cecilia in the 1970’s. It has been covered many times, famously in Mexico in “banda” style by “Mi Banda El Mexicano”.
In this song, a married woman receives flowers and a card from a “secret admirer”, and wonders who it might be. (Spoiler: it’s her husband!) I think it’s such a good song for listening comprehension because it is so well written. We want our students to get grammatical concepts and vocabulary but also to be able to understand a cohesive narrative such as this one.
I’d use this in Spanish 3, Spanish 4 and up. My Bellringer focuses on listening comprehension with some future speculation highlighted.
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