Spanish Classroom Activity: Interactive Game to Practice Target Vocabulary Words
The following activity gets your students working in groups comparing the target vocabulary with visual representations of the words in a game of …
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Designing a Spanish House: Lesson Plan with a Vocabulary Word List
Creating a Spanish house plan is a fun vocabulary building activity for your language students. Have your students pick a house design, label it, …
Continue ReadingHow to Teach Children the Hebrew Alef-Bet
This article reviews techniques to introduce the Hebrew alphabet (Alef-Bet) to your students. It lists resources and hints for making learning Hebrew …
Continue ReadingUse Latin Translations of Kids' Books to Teach Children Latin
Have you been to the foreign language section of the bookstore? If you have, you will have noticed that many children’s’ books are …
Continue ReadingSpanish Vocabulary Pictures: Using Pictures as Memory Aids
Memory experts have long recommended associating pictures with words as a way of enhancing recall. Learn how to incorporate this technique–plus …
Continue ReadingAdvice for Teaching Spanish to Younger Students Online: How a Formula Can Help!
Teaching younger Spanish students online poses some special challenges for the instructor. Curt Smothers, who tutors Spanish online for a national …
Continue ReadingSpanish Verb Conjugation Classroom Activity: Board Game to Get Students Practicing and Competing Conjugating Spanish Verbs
Spanish students need constant practice with verb conjugation. The following activity gets students working together in groups to conjugate verbs, in …
Continue ReadingHow to Talk About the Weather in Spanish: Activity Using Index Cards & Vocabulary Words
This is a great idea for a lesson activity to teach Spanish students about phrases associated with the weather.
Continue ReadingHow to Teach Commands to First Year German Language Students
The imperative mood makes direct commands, expresses requests, and grants or denies permission. The following article describes a lesson plan for …
Continue ReadingHow to Teach the Impersonal to First Year Spanish Language Students
The following article describes a lesson plan including a practice exercise for teaching the construction of the impersonal in Spanish to first year …
Continue ReadingImprove Your Conversation with Common French Idioms
Learning French is one thing. Learning conversational French… that is quite another. Here’s a quick guide to some common idioms in French …
Continue ReadingPractice Preterite Verbs Conjugations With an Interactive Exercise for the Entire Class: Great Spanish Activity for High School
Have your students practice pronunciation and communication by asking questions and looking for the correct answer. As the instructor, you make up …
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