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Improving Speaking Skills in the Language Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How can you create an "English-free" classroom for your foreign language learners? This year, use some of these strategies to maximize your students' opportunity to communicate in the language.
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Weather and Seasons

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Use pictures and manipulatives to develop vocabulary with your beginning language learners. This plan can be used with foreign language learners (although you'll have to provide the vocabulary), English language learners, or a young...
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What I need for School

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
You can use this instructional activity with English language learners, a young language arts class, or speakers of a foreign language. The phrases learned are I need and I don't need. The teacher collects several items around the room,...
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Classified Advertisements: Target Language Practice

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Foreign language learners decipher the meanings of classified ads in the target language. They investigate a large collage created by the teacher of foreign language advertisements and discuss the content with classmates.  Then they...
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English/Spanish Cognates: Food

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Everyone loves food! Help your English language learners pick up some vocabulary with a series of activities based around cognates and food. Pupils practice each word and focus on the words in-depth by filling out Frayer model...
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Ideas to Spice up Greek and Latin Roots

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learning Greek and Latin roots is an important way to develop vocabulary, but it does get quite boring. Use this list of ideas to add some fun to your daily lessons. Lots of games are suggested to get your kids up and moving. Note: no...
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Telephone Game

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game.  In this foreign language lesson, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5...
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Jeopardy Game

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice discovering a target language by playing a game of Jeopardy.  In this foreign language lesson plan, students utilize their target language vocabulary to answer Jeopardy style questions they prepared the day before....
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Time Capsule: Oral Presentation

For Teachers 1st - 12th
A great way to gain proficiency when learning a new language is to prepare an oral presentation.  In this foreign language lesson, pairs collaborate to develop a Time Capsule which they present to their class using their target language.  
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My Daily Routine

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Foreign language learners work in pairs to translate the daily routine of celebrities or everyday people, presented in daily planner format, into English. They then illustrate and record their own daily routines in storyboard (film...
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You're Special

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students utilize a new language to tell someone they care for them. In this complimenting lesson plan, students practice saying nice things to friends and strangers in their target language. Students react to the lesson plan afterwards...
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Participating in a Class Birthday Party

For Teachers K - 12th
Students celebrate a fellow peer in class by having a party for him or her.  In this foreign language lesson, students celebrate a classmate's birth using their target language to host a party.  Students create a bulletin board using...
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Family Album

For Teachers K - 12th
Kids of all ages discover their family histories through pictures. First, flip through the PowerPoint provided (or consider making one of your own). It should show pictures of your family and have clear, easy to understand sentences that...
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Crossword Review

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice using their target language vocabulary by completing a crossword puzzle.  In this foreign language instructional activity, students complete several random tasks based on new vocabulary words in their target language...
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Letters and Photos

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Young scholars practice using a new language by reading letters.  In this foreign language lesson plan, students read a fictional letter by a young person from the target language's country.  Young scholars read the letters separately,...
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Expressions of Frequency

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice discussing timely manners in a target language.  In this foreign language instructional activity, students discuss words that represent frequency such as never or often.  Students create a timeline illustrating how...
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Planning a Community Service Project

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students practice using a new language to plan a community event.  In this civics lesson, students practice writing a proposal for a community project using their target language.  Students brainstorm in small groups what their project...
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A Look at Geography

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students discover geographical places and terms in another language.  In this geographical identification activity, students utilize their geographical vocabulary to describe to other classmates where they would like to go or where they...
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Let's Read the Newspaper

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Learners investigate the format of a typical newspaper.  In this journalism lesson, students read a newspaper from a target language and discover the vocabulary associated with the news.  Learners work together as a newspaper group each...
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Baseball Vocabulary

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils review new vocabulary and verb conjugations. They are divided into two teams and simulate a game of baseball while practicing their new vocabulary. They are given the word in Spanish or English.
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Teaching Each Other Gestures

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars are introduced to the use of gestures in other countries. They define gestures in a personally meaningful way that conveys significance to the entire class. Working in small groups, students play a game to aid them in...
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Letter Recognition Flash Games for Kids

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore the alphabet by completing an on-line letter identification activity. In this phonetics activity, students utilize the website www.literarycenter.net and listen to word sounds as they identify the spelling of the...
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Music - Lesson 16 - Songs

For Teachers 1st
First graders determine that Spanish is the language spoken in Mexico before singing a number of Mexicans songs. They make maracas to use while singing Mexican songs. They sing the song, "La Cucaracha," in English realizing that it is a...
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Spelling Takes a Hit!

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners actively practice spelling words. In this spelling lesson, students use a flyswatter to swat at letters that spell each of their spelling words.

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