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Deutschland und die Europäische Union (Germany and the European Union)
Introduce your language learners in German class to the European Union, including the historic developments, the current structure, and some of the political and social principles behind it with this lesson. In small groups, learners...
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History of the Masons
Students are divided into groups and follow directions of their group leaders and complete a worksheet while on site.
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American Sign Language Cards
In this American Sign Language worksheet, students cut out and study six illustrated cards. Students follow the written directions and picture clues to learn to sign these words: animal, tree, bag, wind, rain, bird.
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Como Se Hace...?
Students work in groups to give step-by-step instructions to the rest of the class about an activity of interest. They write presentation proposals, research the activity and then draft and edit a presentation. Students present their...
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Mi Perro Perdido (My Lost Dog)
Learners receive a map of the school and a set of directions in Spanish for each pair that lead them to a specific place on campus. They use the directions and maps to leads them to pieces of colored paper that have been hidden. Each...
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Welcome to My Neighborhood
Students create pictures of neighborhoods and label the people and objects with Spanish words and phrases.
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Donde en el mundo estas?
Learners give & follow directions given in Spanish, using oral, written and graphics. They use maps, globes, atlases, and remote sensing, GIS, and GPS to acquire and process information about places.
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My Spanish Christmas
Tenth graders research Spanish Christmas customs on the interent and role play in their writing their findings in an essay. They teacher provides a list of web addresses for the students to locate information on and from that their...
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Reading the French Newspaper Le Figaro
Students guess the meanings of many unfamiliar French words because of their similarity to English words. They read an article from Le Figaro or another French-language newspaper with cognates underlined to guess the meanings.
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The Passive Voice in Spanish
The passive voice was mastered by Spanish learners. Your class members can find out all about how to create the passive voice in Spanish using ser, past participles, por, and the impersonal se. Examples are provided for each situation.
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Heroism in Hispanic Countries
Students investigate foreign newspapers written in Spanish. They pick an article to be read and summarized in English. This activity develops the skill of word recognition and sentence structure.
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Tortillas vs. Tortillas
Students compare/contrast Mexican and Spanish tortillas. They conduct Internet research, read recipes, list ingredients for recipes, and correct grammatical errors in a particular recipe.
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El Menu
Students, in groups, create a menu in Spanish. Then each group must present their menus to the class.
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How to Express Actions
Learners use online resources to practice and master the use of the most commonly used Spanish verbs in the infinitive form. They develop an understanding of how verbs work, and follow a set of patterns to conjugate them.
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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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Coping with Verbs
First graders in a foreign language class explore how verbs function in sentences.
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In The Leaves Lesson Plan
Students are exposed to Chinese characters. In this multicultural early childhood lesson plan, students identify objects by using folding cards which have Chinese characters on one side and the English equivalent on the other.