Use your tablets to participate in a culture-sharing project with a class in a foreign country. Your class can communicate and share ideas with a class in another country, swapping information regarding language and culture. Together you...

Students in a Spanish foreign language class are giving topics to develop a skit to preform in front of the class. As a class, they are introduced to new vocabulary and the concept of paraphrasing. After performing their skit, they...

Students focus on their required lessons in Spanish by integrating music and songs as they complete their assignments. They assess the vocabulary, grammar patterns and culture associated with music and various different songs. Each...

Students explore the Spanish language. They review their assessment task and rubric and play a card game. They draw cards containing instructions and phrases in Spanish and perform the instructions on the card in Spanish. They continue...

Students work in groups to write and perform a role play in the target language. They prepare an outline or notes on index cards. Each person in the group will pretend to have a job in the target country. They will describe their...

Students listen to a song in popular culture. Using the lyrics, they identify the theme and share their conclusions with the class. While listening to the song again, they complete a worksheet along with defining new vocabulary words. ...

Students listen to popular music in French. In groups, they identify and practice speaking the words they are unfamiliar with and examine the context of the song. They complete a worksheet with a partner to end the instructional...

Students listen to the songs "Tous les Blues Sont Crits Pour Toi" by Celine Dion and the song " 'Ti Monde" by Beausoleil. Students write their impressions of the song. They look up and write vocabulary definitions in the target language...

Spanish learners will follow directions given in Spanish (provided here) to craft an "ojo de dios". Learners will also discuss where it originated from and what its purpose is. 

"Why do we have to learn a foreign language?" Have you ever heard that question before? Give your novices this project, and have them research different jobs that require the use of a foreign language. They create a PowerPoint...

Students work in small groups to plan an imaginary trip to Europe, including Germany. They research travel routes, prices and popular sights of each destination. Students assemble a booklet describing their itinerary, budget, packing...

Students in a foreign language class are introduced to the vocabulary and basic concepts involved in reading and interpreting a train schedule. They then complete a comprehension/application quiz based on a train schedule from a foreign...

Students role play the characters and events which led to the holiday of Cinco de Mayo. In this Cinco de Mayo lesson, students dance the "La Raspa" dance. Students complete a Cinco de Mayo word search.

Explore a short piece of French literature with intermediate French scholars. Either assign readers to each character, or divide the class into groups to give the story some life. There's a student task sheet included as well, although...

Students practice retelling a simple story representative of the country where the target language is spoken: French, German, or Spanish. Given a worksheet with story details, students fill in missing details and rearrange details to...

Young scholars identify and more completely research a historical event that coincides with their own birthday. They then write a report about the event or a person whose birth, death, or life took place within that same timespan and/or...

Students, using their foreign language of study, role-play as two people meeting for the first time. They use courtesy expressions and respond to questions and prompts with correct intonation, pronunciation, and inflection. Students...

Young scholars create classified ads for jobs. They discuss careers where their target language can be used and review background information about careers. They prepare want ads to describe preparation for and activities for three...

Students create outlines of folk tales and legends. They read a folk tale or legend in the target language. They complete an outline of the key events of the story including the main characters, plot, story elements and theme or moral.

Young scholars complete sentences using appropriate family names and terms in a target foreign language: French, German, or Spanish. Using a fill in the blank worksheet, students give the appropriate noun to complete a sentence about...

Pupils analyze television commercials. They listen to audio tapes and view video tapes to answer questions about the content. They answer questions related to the products, images, characteristics, and presentation. They rewrite the...

Young scholars write social letter to friend or penpal in target foreign language to demonstrate knowledge of vocabulary and complex language structures, write with understanding and facility, and use appropriate presentational...

Learners match sentences and phrases to pictures in a target language. They identify the proper written form of familiar spoken phrases. Students practice labeling objects and pictures with the proper greeting, color, number or object...

High schoolers participate in a role play with a partner in which they practice interviewing for a job. In the scenario, they must ask or answer questions regarding three different careers in a foreign language. A great lesson on...