Teach Foreign Languages: Reasons to Use Bingo Teaching foreign languages can be hard work for students and the teacher. We all know Bingo is a fun way to get in a much-needed change of pace while learning vocabulary at the novice-level. Here are a few reasons to include it regularly in your beginning-level classes. Instant… Read More Teach Foreign Languages: Reasons to Use Bingo
Spanish Lessons: Teaching Clothing in Spanish Some of the most engaging novice Spanish lessons to teach are themed on clothing. The lessons are fun, active and provide lots of opportunities for immersive comprehensible input and communicative activities. These Spanish lessons are written based on the lesson bundle I link to below. You can also curate… Read More Spanish Lessons: Teaching Clothing
Week Five: Putting it all Together Week 5: Putting it all Together How to learn a language: 5-week Crash Course When thinking about how to a learn a language, we generally talk about four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Generally speaking, these four skills have an order in which they develop. We first listen,… Read More How to learn a language: 5-week crash course
Week Four: Learn New Languages through Writing and Speaking Writing. You already have literacy skills that can serve as a powerful tool to develop you learn new languages. This is actually the last thing we develop in language, and not just in foreign languages. Many high school English teachers would probably agree that a lot… Read More New Languages: 5-week crash course
Over the next five weeks, check out The Five-Week Linguist Crash Course. Each week, you will see a summary of the fundamentals of learning a new language. In this first week, find out the basics of learning a new language, to include how to define fluency, different categories of languages and how long it takes… Read More Learn a new language in 2020: 5-Week Crash Course
The best way to learn a language in January Coming back to school from winter break can be rough. Many of the kids (and adults) spent the last couple of weeks staying up WAY too late. If you surveyed your class, I think you might find many of the kids fell asleep very late the… Read More The Best Way to Learn a Language in January
Teaching World Languages: 20 Zero-or-no Prep Activities One of my very favorite things about teaching world languages is that while you need to be really structured and focused on the skills we’re teaching, we also get a lot of opportunities to have a lot of fun. The time that we spend in the target language… Read More Teaching World Languages: 20 Zero-or-no Prep Activities
Language Teaching: 5 Weeks of Low and No Prep Fun- Week 5 Looking for some fun, low prep activities to incorporate into your language teaching repertoire? Have a look at these activities that can be adapted to any language and any level. Talking During Class Beginner/A. Basically, they have to be able to say words-… Read More Language Teaching: 5 Weeks of Low and No Prep Fun- Week 5
World Language Lessons: 5 Weeks of Low and No Prep Fun- Week 4 Looking for some easy-to-implement, engaging world language lessons? Check out the following activities that can be used for any language at any level. Card Games Beginner/A. Practice big numbers (War) or Go Fish for example. Concentration works nicely, too. Any deck you… Read More World Language Lessons: 5 Weeks of Low and No Prep Fun- Week 4