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Geography: Group Project for Intermediate Foreign Language Students

Eric W. Vogt
Categories : Teaching tips for foreign language instructors

Get intermediate foreign-language students doing research to find data and present it! This brief series will use intermediate Spanish as an example, …

How to Form and Translate Imperfect Tense Latin Verbs

John Garger
Categories : Tips for learning & translating latin

The imperfect tense is most similar to English’s simple past tense. However, there are some subtle differences of other past tenses that must be …

How to Form Latin Future Tense Verbs

John Garger
Categories : Tips for learning & translating latin

The future tense of both Latin and English indicate an action that will take place or is expected to take place sometime after the present. Learn how …

How to Form Latin Perfect Tense Verbs

John Garger
Categories : Tips for learning & translating latin

The Perfect tense in both Latin and English are similar and normally do not give students a difficult time in translation. Learn how to form Perfect …

How to Translate Latin Pluperfect (Past Perfect) Verbs

John Garger
Categories : Tips for learning & translating latin

The Past Perfect or Pluperfect tense is used in Latin to indicate an action that happened before some other action that also occurred in the past. …

How to Translate Latin Present Tense Verbs

John Garger
Categories : Tips for learning & translating latin

The present tense, supposed to be the easiest tense, actually has some surprising twists that give Latin students trouble. Learn how to form Latin …

How to Translate the Future Perfect Verb Tense from Latin to English

John Garger
Categories : Tips for learning & translating latin

The Future Perfect tense is used to express an action that will happen in the future, before another action that occurs even further into the future.

Ideas for an Oral Presentation for a Foreign Language Class on the History of a Country

Eric W. Vogt
Categories : Teaching tips for foreign language instructors

The second student of the group of four assigned to present a case study of a country covers history. He or she follows the student who has covered …

Lesson for Oral Presentations of Culture in Foreign Language Class

Eric W. Vogt
Categories : Teaching tips for foreign language instructors

This article is the last of four in a series about preparing oral presentations about countries by doing research with material written in the target …

Summary and Activities for Call of the Wild

Trent Lorcher
Categories : High school english lesson plans grades 9 12

Jack London’s Call of the Wild has delighted high school students for years. Refresh your knowledge of this captivating book with a brief …