This document summarizes a presentation about teaching vocabulary to Spanish students. It includes: - The presenter's background in teaching Spanish language courses and working as a court interpreter. - The objectives of exploring cognate recognition to increase reading comprehension and learning academic vocabulary from Latin, Greek, and Arabic. - An overview of course levels from Spanish 1 to AP Spanish and IB programs. - A discussion of using cognates to help students learn academic vocabulary at high school levels. - Recommendations for activities to introduce new vocabulary over several weeks and practice resources for students.