Teach Children Italian: Names for Body Parts
This lesson will consist of teaching children parts of the body in the Italian language. Try these fun activities, worksheets, index cards, and audio …
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Teaching Unequal Comparisons in Spanish
The grammatical and lexical tools of this lesson will enable students of Spanish to verbalize their observations about the world in ways that parallel …
Continue ReadingThe Difference Between the Imperfect Indicative and the Conditional in Spanish
Somewhere in the latter part of the first year of study, students begin to get “morphological” cobwebs in their brain. Strange hybrid …
Continue ReadingLearning Italian: Describing Family Members
In this lesson we will look at different ways to teach children the names of the family members in Italian. Children will listen to audio samples as …
Continue ReadingUnderstanding the Compound (or Perfect) Tenses in Spanish
The compound tenses, also known as the perfect tenses, are the ones formed with the tenses of “haber” plus a past participle. This lesson …
Continue ReadingAnimals: Teaching Children the Italian Names
Children love learning about animals! In this lesson plan, teach children Italian vocabulary for animals with activities, worksheets, index cards, and …
Continue ReadingItalian Numbers Worksheets and Lesson Plan for Children
This lesson will help teach young students the numbers in Italian. The numbers one to one hundred will be taught with the help of audio files, …
Continue ReadingSpanish Lesson Plan for Teaching the Progressive
From a Spanish perspective, English overuses the progressive. Nevertheless, teaching students how the progressive is formed in Spanish can be eye …
Continue ReadingA Lesson Plan for How to Use Por and Para
This pair of prepositions causes a great deal of trouble for English speaking students of Spanish. No doubt about it: they can be problematic, but …
Continue ReadingTeaching Idioms with Tener in Spanish
In English, one is hungry or is a number of years old. In Spanish, one has hunger or has a number of years. These are just two examples of the …
Continue ReadingHow to Run Conversation Class in a Foreign Language
Wouldn’t it be great if all language professors had ideal sized classes? They’d be fewer in number than the 20, 25 or even 30 or more …
Continue ReadingHow to Teach Spanish Possessive Adjectives
What belongs to whom and how does one keep all this straight in Spanish? Possessive adjectives, that’s how! This Lesson Plan will help you teach …
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