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English as a National Foreign Language in India
This reading comprehension worksheet includes a passage on the two national languages of India, followed by 6 multiple choice questions. Just click at the bottom of the form for the score!
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Combining Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns
Students combine direct and indirect pronouns in this instructional activity. They practice with rewriting sentences when a direct and indirect object is present. They create a story using PowerPoint with their new sentences.
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Follow the Directions
Students listen to a confusing poem about baseball. In this clear writing instructional activity, students write a set of directions for a game. Students rewrite their directions until they are clearly understood. Students make a game...
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U.S. foreign policy in the early Republic
Students research various events during the War of 1812 and then create magazine articles with supporting illustrations, students are in control of their learning.
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Spanish Drama: Latin America
Students explore Hispanic countries. In this Hispanic culture and language lesson, students choose an Hispanic country to research. Students explore given websites and prepare a dramatization incorporating the facts they find. Students...
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Transportation Lesson
Students practice using transportation vocabulary in a foreign language. In this language arts lesson plan, students utilize the vocabulary terms for locations in order to give directions and find a specific place. Students answer a...
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Direct Object Pronouns
Learners work together to identify parts of a sentence, and decide where the direct object pronoun should go and what it should replace.
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Vocabulary Activity
Talk about a menu! Who would have thought SAT prep could be so delicious? Treat your class to a full course of SAT words with a timed activity that asks groups to create clues for dishes on their bill of fare. Distained veggies anyone?...
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Easy Access: Creating Annotated Versions of News Articles
How can news coverage be made more accessible for teens? Model for your class how to use technology to annotate news stories containing unfamiliar references that hinder their interest in and understanding of a news story. Use the...
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Out On A Limb In The Pacific Rim?
Young scholars act as cultural attachés to investigate and present briefings on the post-1945 histories and United States diplomatic relationships with East Asian countries. They articulate their foreign policy findings.
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Indirect Object Pronouns
Directly address the use of the indirect object pronouns with a lesson on how to locate them in sentences and worksheets that provide opportunities for practice using them.
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The Kite Runner: Immigration Appreciation
Readers of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner engage in a simulation designed to give them an appreciation of the immigrant experience. Kids must finished the assigned task or face deportation.
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Iran Hostage Crisis: Reading Primary Documents
Following brief instruction about the Iran Hostage Crisis during Jimmy Carter's presidency, small groups read three-page sections from the diary of hostage Robert C. Ode. They write editorials from the perspective of either U.S. citizens...
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Poetry Passport
Passport photos are notoriously unflattering but here's an activity that encourages youngsters to create a poetic picture of themselves using each category on the passport as a prompt for a poem.
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Discovering Swahili
Learners investigate the African language of Swahili by translating vocabulary words. In this foreign language instructional activity, students write 26 English words that define Africa and utilize the Internet to translate them into...
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Coping with Verbs
First graders in a foreign language class explore how verbs function in sentences.
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The Gerund Phrase
Do your young grammarians need extra practice identifying gerund phrases? After reading a short definition and studying examples, learners underline the gerund phrases in 20 sentences. This worksheet could be used as the basis of a...
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Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Local Color in the Late 19th Century
Kate Chopin's The Awakening introduces readers not only to the lush Louisiana setting of Grand isle but also to the nuances of Creole culture. the second lesson plan in a three-part series examines how Chopin's use of literary realism...
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How Do You Say Hello?
Students access an online resource to study how to say hello in Spanish, Japanese, and Arabic. They complete a worksheet telling how to say hello in these three languages before practicing the proper pronunciation of each.
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Vocabulary; Learning Languages-2
In this foreign language worksheet, students select a word to complete each of ten sentences. Following each sentence are three choices, students are directed to select the one that is the best one. Sentences relate to learning to speak...
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Conflicting Views
Young scholars complete a Venn diagram comparing the United States and Afghanistan. They research the history of the Taliban and how they relate to the United States and its foreign policy. They write a paper on possible solutions.
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Tales from Arabia
Third graders explore and develop interest in reading of foreign lands through the reading of The Arabian Nights and a variety of Cinderella stories. Students participate in a variety of folk literature activities. Students recognize the...
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Reading Vocabulary Definition Test
In this recognizing definitions of daily vocabulary words worksheet, students listen to oral clues or definitions of their word lists from Monday through Thursday, write the correct words in the numbered columns, and create sentences for...
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Attractive Adjectives
Third graders, in a foreign language class, identify and use adjectives in sentences.