Spanish Reading Activity for Learners: The First Thanksgiving Are you learning Spanish? Do you teach Spanish and you’re looking for an activity to develop your skills? Here is a reading and some extension activities to do just that. El Primer Día de Acción de Gracias El primer Día de Acción de Gracias se celebró en […]
Horoscope Activity for Learners of Spanish Bring high-interest reading into your Spanish classroom with this horoscope activity, where students learn personality vocabulary through zodiac sign descriptions and compare their traits to the readings. Perfect for building comprehension, sparking discussion, and extending learning with authentic horoscopes from Spanish-speaking countries. I love finding ways to do high-interest
Boost interpersonal speaking skills with this speed conversations world language activity. Students rotate through short, timed dialogues to introduce themselves, discuss personal topics, and stay in character using the target language. Includes a teacher guide, student conversation mat, useful phrases, setup instructions, extensions, and a detailed speaking rubric—perfect for building fluency and real-world communication. Teacher
World Language Class Project: My Vacation Home (Airbnb Project) Engage world language learners with the “My Vacation Home” Airbnb-style project. Students choose or design a vacation home in a target-language country, describe its features and location using present tense, and narrate a week-long stay using past tense verbs. Includes step-by-step tasks, sentence starters, vocabulary support,
World Language Class Project: My Dream Car Inspire creativity and language skills with the “My Dream Car” world language project. Students design and describe a futuristic car using transportation and technology vocabulary, adjectives, commands, and future tense expressions. Includes visual design, an 8–10 sentence written description, a short presentation, suggested vocabulary, a detailed rubric, and
World Language Class Project: Leave a Message! (Voicemail Project) Enhance novice-high and intermediate language learners’ communication skills with this “Leave a Message” voicemail project. Students practice technology vocabulary and informal commands by writing and recording a realistic voicemail that includes greetings, reasons for calling, multiple commands, and a friendly closing. Includes templates, sample models, vocabulary