Are you learning a language? Do you teach one? Check out these GCSE-style writing prompts to build fluency to talk about food and learn culture. Describe your favorite meal. What is it? When do you eat it? Why do you like it? Write about a typical day of meals for you. What do you eat […]
Do you feel like you (or your learners, if you teach) are just on the cusp of that point where you can start creating with language? Maybe you just need to check in and invest a bit of hard work to get there? If so, check out this collection of review activities and tasks to
Do you teach French? Check out this selection on New Year’s in French Read. Do the questions. Have students circle or highlight unknown vocabulary. Clarify and have them take notes in the text. The selection talks about New Year’s in various countries. Clarify New Year’s in France. It is similar, of course, to many Western
Polite Complaints and Everyday Conversations This skit project is a highly engaging way for students to practice everyday vocabulary, real-world communication skills, and the structure of polite complaints in French. By working together to write, memorize, and perform a short scene/skit, students build confidence speaking French while acting out practical situations they may encounter while
Assessment for language learning and teaching often focuses on tests, grades and performance metrics. Yet one of the most powerful, low-stakes forms of assessment is what learners do when they read for pleasure. Pleasure reading reveals comprehension, vocabulary growth, motivation and engagement in ways that formal tests rarely capture. When we recognise reading as both
Here is a quick summary of common tasks a speaker learns to do in a beginning level class. Are you just getting started in a language? Take a look at what to do. Are you reviewing? Check in and see what you need to review. Do you teach a language? Consider these Can Do tasks.