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Learning Spanish Vocabulary Words Can Be Fun
Here are ways to help your students learn Spanish vocabulary using motivating activities.
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English/Spanish Cognates: Food
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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Food and Friends Quiz
If you're looking for a basic quiz to cover food and restaurant vocabulary, this could be it! Learners match Spanish food names with their correct descriptions, describe foods they like or dislike, and name three condiments, fruits,...
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Foods and Friends Quiz
Quiz your middle schoolers on Spanish food vocabulary. To start, they match names of food to their pictures and then categorize them into the following categories: plato principal, entrada, acompañamiento, postre, and bebida. Then, they...
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Food and Friends
After an initial sharing of and discussion about favorite foods, individuals or partners create surveys about food. Spanish language learners must include several comparative questions in their surveys. Once everyone has gathered...
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Food Translation
Practice translating a series of sentences using food and shopping vocabulary. There are 10 short sentences to translate, and a short essay question is also included. For the short essay question, writers describe what they eat and drink...
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Snack and Food Vocabulary
While this two-page worksheet is intended for use with the classroom text ¡Buen Viaje!, your Spanish language learners could search dictionaries and other resources to find the listed vocabulary words. In total, there are about 50 food...
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Food
Your beginning Spanish speakers have heard different food related vocabulary, but do they know how to spell the words they've heard? They read through the 32 sentences and decide which word fits the best. There are between three and five...
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Food Questions
Do you like meat? What about seafood? Answer the questions provided with your best Spanish. This activity could make a quick bell-ringer activity or even an exit card.
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La Comida!
What would you like to eat? Perhaps una hamburguesa? Teach your class eight Spanish words that relate to food with these cards.
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What's for Dinner?
Simply draw a line from the Spanish word to its English meaning. There are 11 vocabulary words presented including leche, encurtidos, caramelo, and manzana. A quick assessment!
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An Oral Course for Students of Spanish
Students practice new Spanish vocabulary and participating in a dialogue with another student. In groups, they use the internet to pretend to buy an airplane ticket and make hotel reservations on a trip to a Spanish-speaking country. ...
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Creating Chains and Webs to Model Ecological Relationships
The sustainability of an ecosystem depends on many factors and changes constantly. Young scholars consider these factors as they use a set of cards to create food webs. They review key scientific vocabulary such as predator, prey,...
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Foods and Languages of the World
Students review Mexico's location and language and learn to pronouns 10 new Spanish food words. Students listen as the book, Corn is Maize is read, touching and passing around an ear of Indian corn. Students discuss the contribution of...
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Comida
Introduce your young learners to some basic food vocabulary! Consider rearranging the slides to group foods by category. Later, after they have learned the target vocabulary, show them the slide again without the text and have them shout...
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Colors and Fruit
Review colors in Spanish by presenting different photographs and asking your charges to identify the colors in each picture. Consider bringing in pictures from Spain, Mexico, or another Spanish-speaking country to make the activity more...
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What am I?
Provide this vocabulary recall sheet for your young Spanish language learners. There are six foods pictured here (fish, muffins, strawberries, pears, tomatoes, and eggs), and your youngster must write the Spanish word for each. The...
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Food
Review food related vocabulary with your Spanish speakers. Learners must translate the 32 Spanish sentences and identify their correct translation in the four options provided.
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Dining Out With Fishes and Birds of the Hudson
While this lesson focuses on the birds and fish found on the Hudson River, it could be adapted for use in any classroom. Using a vocabulary list, learners explore the meaning of words like adaptation, habitat, barbel, and more. Then,...
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Lesson 2- Spanish Greeting
Break down a quick conversation in Spanish. After the teacher presents the vocabulary, the class heads to the computer lab, where class members can watch a brief interactive video. The visual is one clip separated into four clearly...
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World Food Day
In this World Food Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, asking questions,...
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Mexican Food
Students be able to: students identify the foods associated with Mexico and compare and contrast these foods with the foods associated wtih their region of the U.S. They write menus, take quizzes and practice ordering a meal in Spanish.
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Let's Go to Argentina/¡Vámonos a Argentina!
Give your young Spanish language learners a lesson in culture! Focus on learning Spanish though exploring Argentinian culture. Pupils interact with maps, fill out travel journals, discuss time and food, learn and practice new vocabulary...
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Team Teaching - Spanish
Learners present a Spanish grammar topic to the class. In pairs, they select and research a grammar concept, create an over-head transparency, homework assignment, and a quiz to use with the presentation, and teach their concept to the...