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El Fútbol Femenino en España
Students use a worksheet to help focus their research on Spain's national women's soccer league. They access primary sources in Spanish and write a journalistic article using their findings.
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A Discourse on the History of Language
Analyze and make inferences from the information used by linguists to construct the evolution of languages. They research different dating techniques to explain how scientists infer age with evidence.
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In the Time of the Butterflies Packet
Considering using Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies? Here's a resource designed to be used before and during a reading of her powerful story of the murder of the Mirabal sisters. Included in the packet is a vocabulary...
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Superlative Form
High schoolers examine how to correctly use and form the superlative form. They practice writing and speaking Spanish words using the correct superlative form. Students complete a worksheet using the superlative form of words correctly.
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Religious and Political Changes in Europe
Eighth graders examine the Protestant Reformation and the Spanish Armada. After taking notes, they read an excerpt of their textbook and complete a worksheet. To end the lesson, they complete a timeline of the major events of both time...
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Communicating Who I Am
Students practice their Spanish grammar, vocabulary, punctuation and pronunciation skills by creating a personal portrait and personal narrative, and sharing it with native Spanish speakers via email.
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Describing Your City and the Weather
Tenth graders explore how to describe the weather in their own town or city. They complete a paragraph that describes a city by filling in the correct words into the sentences in the paragraph. Students translate English weather...
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Spanish II
Learners listen actively to the teacher go over the note sheet and copy down other important information not on the sheet and ask questions about what they do not understand. They then use this information to help them complete...
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Spanish and New Standards
Students, at the end of the lesson analizar una lectura period??stica.
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Ella y Él
Take a trip to Costa Rica with th popular song "Ella y Él" by Ricardo Arjona. After listening to the song (and possibly reading the lyrics) the class discusses the general message of the song, the political nature, and other US bands...
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Welcome! What's Your Name?
Sing a song about friends and practice basic greetings! This is a good introductory lesson for young learners. First, as a class, review how to introduce yourself. Then, in small pairs, each learner introduces him or herself. Then...
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Buen vs. Bien
Should you use buen or bien? These two are often confused! Give your learners these 32 sentences to test their understanding of both words.
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Days
The majority of the eighteen fill-in-the-blank questions listed here require the reader to select the correct time-related vocabulary term. There are misspellings and similar words to trick your middle schoolers. The answer sheet is...
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Definite Articles
What is a definite article? After discussing this with your class, have them complete this practice opportunity. They identify the correct definite article for each word or phrase given. The exercise is pretty straight forward, so it...
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Demonstrative Pronouns
After introducing your intermediate language learners to demonstrative pronouns, assess their ability to use them correctly in a sentence. For each of 32 questions provided, they will choose the option that makes the most sense. Words...
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Gustar in the Present Tense
What does gustar mean? After discussing the meaning and conjugation of the target verb, give your class this practice sheet to assess their current understanding. For each of the 32 sentences provided, they select the best option...
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Subject and Verb Agreement
Practice subject and verb agreement with the 32 sentences provided here. For each sentence, learners identify the verb and decide which subject should be used. Each sentence has at least four subjects to choose from. This will be an easy...
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Quel temps fait-il?
Hit all the basics with this lesson, focusing on weather, greetings, and dates! Start by singing a weather related song ("Quel temps fait-il by Barbara MacArthur is suggested), and then read a story about getting ready for school. The...
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Happy 14th B’ak’tun, the start of the next Great Mayan cycle
The ancient Mayans had a complex calendar and number system with a rich history. In fact, the date 12/21/2012 was the center of much controversy as to whether or not it was the end of time. It wasn't the end of time, but...
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Renaissance Art: Flash Cards
Flash cards are a great way to study new concepts, especially those with specific dates and names. Hand out this stack of ten cards to your class and give them a chance to study Renaissance art. Van Dyke, Ruben, Dante, Durer, Velasquez,...
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Yellow Journalism in the Spanish-American War
High schoolers write a newspaper based on events in the year 1898 using Yellow Journalism, the exaggeration of facts or events.
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Countdown
How many days until summer? Find a special day, and use this activity to determine how many days, weeks, hours, even seconds until it arrives! There are three levels of difficulty, which can provide differentiated instruction with...
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Multicultural Social Studies
Second graders read and discuss the book "Jalapeno Bagels" in order to explain the Mexican American culture.
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Ser
There is only one question posted here, but consider pairing it with a question that requires some higher-level thinking and present it to your class as a bell-ringer. The pupil simply has to choose the correct word (son, estamos, or...