Activities for any language class
TweetThe 200-hour Challenge: Italian Two hundred hours is a perfect amount of time to invest in upping your skills in a language. Building language proficiency in a foreign language requires an investment of time engaged in understanding and using new words and phrases. While we can track and note our progress and improvements every day,… Read More The 200-hour Challenge: Italian
TweetDo you know about italki? If you do you know it is a great way to connect with speakers of the language that you are learning. We learn languages by understanding (Krashen) and build our skills through practice. Communicating in the target language provides the perfect opportunity to get the input we need to understand… Read More Italki for the Language Classroom
TweetThis is a fun one from acting. It has many variations: 1. Have students act out a situation from your chapter/unit/task goal. These come from whatever they are learning. This might be ordering at a restaurant, going to the doctor’s or meeting someone for the first time. 2. Have them all prepare a situation.… Read More Subtitles
TweetI LOVE this game. You can teach a lot of vocabulary and grammar with this game. As long as you have duplicates of cards with vocabulary you want to teach, you can play this. I normally make them out of Power Point presentations. I print doubles of the slides and laminate them. The decks last… Read More Go Fish
TweetI LOVE this game. Here is how it goes: 1. Have SOMETHING to represent each word in your vocabulary set. It can be a toy, the actual thing or a card with the picture on it. 2. Have the students sit in a circle. 3. Pass out the “words” that they are learning. Say… Read More Pass It
TweetGive students small white boards (or scratch paper, butcher paper- whatever) and something to draw with (the more colorful the better). Have them take turns drawing pictures from your vocabulary set and saying what they are. Students can even play in small groups. My students love this as it is fun and lets everyone talk… Read More Partner Pictionary
Tweet Do as a Pinterest Project, Prezzi or a board. My Dream Wardrobe 75 points The student created a Pinterest Board or another type of presentation with at least 15 different clothing items. The student wrote a description for each item that they chose. The description was at least 2 sentences for each item.… Read More My Dream Wardrobe Project
Tweet Letter Writing Vocabulary and Conventions informal openings Querido= Dear (to one male) Querida= Dear (to one female) Queridos=Dear (to more than one male or males and females) Queridas=Dear (to more than one female) informal closings un beso un abrazo besos un abrazo fuerte formal openings Estimado= Dear in the formal sense (to one male)… Read More Spanish Letter Writing Vocabulary
TweetLa familia real española The student selected two members of the Spanish royal family from the tree. The student created an oral presentation consisting of the following: 4 biographical facts (4 x 5) How their people are related to 3 other people in the tree. (3 x 5) 1 interesting story/detail about their… Read More Voice Thread Project: La Familia Real Española