¡Ay caramba! There's been a crime! Provided here is a letter (in Spanish) that details a man's journey on a train and the crime committed. Although there is no activity provided, it has several uses. You could have the class simply read...

In this recognizing -in words learning exercise, students fill in the blanks with the ending letters 'in', answer yes and no questions about the words with pictures, and read sentences and draw the pictures. Students complete sixteen...

Case studies, an examination of images, and readings of passages from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child are used to spark conversations in ESL/ELD social studies classes about this highly-charged topic. Using a variety of...

After reading up on relative pronouns and antecedents, Spanish learners can use the menu to navigate the material on the webpage. Each pronoun is paired with an explanation and examples. Within the provided presentation, you will find...

Assess your beginning Spanish speakers and their understanding of written text. They look at the picture on the right side of the page and read the sentences on the left, choosing the one that correctly describes the picture. Consider...

Work a few of these activities into your unit on jobs and professions for beginning French speakers. This teacher's guide focuses on feminine and masculine word endings, and introduces the teacher to different opportunities for oral...

Introduce your class to basic salutations in Spanish and English with a group of activities and exercises. The materials, which can be put together as a packet, include coloring pages, a matching activity, a fill-in-the-blank exercise,...

Whether working with pupils in their primary language or language learners, the exercises included in this resource will encourage your pupils to build more complex sentences. Using color-coded cards of nouns, adjectives, verbs, and...

Use this simple worksheet to give your beginning speakers quick practice with indefinite articles. There are five sentences for each picture provided, and the learner has to fill in the missing indefinite article in each sentence. 

Read Angela Royston's Ciclo de vida de la mariposa! You can show your class pictures of different butterflies that live in Mexico or Spain, or have your learners conduct puppet shows with caterpillars and butterflies. How does a...

With a variety of pictures, fourth grade Spanish language learners will review adjectives by describing the appearance of the people in the pictures. You will need to bring in the pictures, and consider creating a word bank of adjectives...

Read Animals Called Fish with your young Spanish language learners and talk about the different parts of a fish. After teaching terms like huesos, columna vertebral, aletas, escamas, etc, Learners...

Young, native Spanish speakers learn about the four elements: earth, fire, air, and water. As a group, discuss the different senses you might use with each element. This is a teacher-centered lesson, but consider having individual...

Students explore role of music in storytelling by watching and discussing effect music has on perception of scene from movie, and using Sibelius program to compose single excerpt of music, considering dynamics, timbre, and articulation,...

Participants are introduced to a variety of procedures to teach vocabulary. They gain oral practice with creative adjectives. They offer various vocabulary presentations along with games and acting out the words.

In this conditional form activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences with the future real conditional or the future unreal conditional form of the word. Students complete 10 sentences.

In this online interactive geography quiz worksheet, students respond to 20 identification questions about countries with the lowest fertility rates. Students have 3 minutes to complete the quiz.

Students recognize the short vowel u in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /u/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify the...

Students review clothing and climate words in Spanish. They choose a Spanish-speaking country, and on a piece of paper folded in half or in quarters, they draw the seasons of their country with people dressed accordingly for each...

Build vocabulary, fluency and confidence in your French speakers by having them participate in some of these engaging activities. Several suggestions are given, but you will have to design the actual lesson yourself.

Counting from seven to twelve in French is the foundational skill of a lesson from the BBC. Learners respond in French to the question, "How much is that?" (Ça fait combien?). The "Notes" and "Reinforcement" sections have inventive...

Students practice using Spanish vocabulary related to family members. Using the new vocabulary, they illustrate each family member and describing their family tree. They compare and contrast how last names are passed on in Spanish and...

In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that incorporate that end in letter "s" in them. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out...

In this beginning reading module, the instructor models how to pronounce words that the incorporate "ed" suffix. Students are prompted to interact with the video segments at various times. Students can choose to sound out words, see...