In my video I share a simple, high-interest activity I love using in beginner classes: Teaching Languages: Guess Who? It gets students speaking, listening and using descriptive language in a low-pressure, interactive way. If you teach beginners and want a game that doubles as a speaking/listening warm-up and an assessment tool, this activity is for […]
5 Essentials for Teaching Spanish: A Teacher-Centered Guide to Proficiency, Joy, and Work–Life Balance If you teach Spanish at the secondary level, you already know the truth many new teachers discover the hard way: world language teaching is incredibly rewarding—but it can consume all of your time if you let it. We want our students
In this post I share 25 low‑prep and no‑prep activities you can drop into your lessons tomorrow. If you’re building a Teaching Languages: Survey Template or simply want quick, engaging tasks to check knowledge and spark conversation, these ideas are adaptable to any language and any CEFR level (A/novice, B/intermediate, C/advanced). Why low‑prep matters (and how
Past Tense Practice: Memoir Project – Days 1 & 2 Memoirs are a fun way to personalize practicing the past tense in a new language. Consider this activity: Using your styrofoam board, map, and flags, mark the places where you have lived or traveled. Please note that students can do these digitally, too, on a
The language experience approach is a powerful way to combine speaking, reading and writing by using students’ own language as the source text. Using Google Forms makes this method even more interactive: you collect authentic responses in real time, visualise class data with built-in graphs and turn student answers into meaningful reading and speaking prompts.
In this post I want to share a quick, low-prep activity that you can use all the time in your language classes: Teaching Languages: Hangman Template. This version of hangman is designed to be instant, easy to set up, and perfect for 5–7 minute review bursts that feel fun rather than tedious. Why this hangman