Useful links

Spanish Resources/Supports

Imperfect Tense – This is a comprehensive introduction to the imperfect tense

On proficiency:

 

To improve listening:

Podcasts
http://www.notesinspanish.com/ , from beginner to advanced, longer, 10-20 minutes in length.
http://www.audio-lingua.eu/?lang=es , from beginner to advanced, shorter, 2 minutes in length.
http://lab.chass.utoronto.ca/rescentre/spanish/ , different accents in Spanish, more advanced.

To improve writing, grammar:
Grammar help with exercises, practice tests, etc…
http://www.audiria.com/
http://www.spanishdict.com/grammar
https://personal.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.html (colby superhombre)

Fun Apps for students
Duolingo, Papagei

Textbook Realidades:
Check reference pages, for example, P. 360, which explains the direct object pronouns, “lo”, “la”, etc…

Reading:
http://www.bbc.com/mundo, online newspaper from the BBC
http://www.veintemundos.com/en/library/, online magazine.