Spanish Machu Picchu Game
Do you have a deskless classroom and kids who like to/need to move? Do you want your students to be able to understand and answer questions in Spanish with more automaticity? Here’s a fun, no-prep game they will beg you to play. Think of it as a communicative form of musical chairs. Why I Love […]
Higher Than/Lower Than Brain Break
Here’s an extended brain break that you can use starting from the first week of a level-one class. It’s perfect for getting reps on the first-person form of the verb “I believe that…” or “I think that…”, making comparisons (higher than/lower than), and reviewing numbers 1-10. There are plenty of times where you can naturally […]
Compare & Contrast the Day of the Dead and Halloween
I created this Venn diagram for my students to examine the similarities and differences between el Día de los Muertos and Halloween. I included a PDF and the original Word document in case you want to edit it. While I anticipate that many students will include more visual descriptors such as food, costumes, and makeup, […]
El Internado BINGO
Are you looking for something that will keep you in the target language and that your students will enjoy while you press “pause” on the series to give your students time to process what’s happening? Here is a BINGO game for the first half of the first season of El Internado: La Laguna Negra. There […]
Mystery of the Iced Tea Bell Ringer
Here’s a quick bell ringer/brain teaser you can open up class with since it’s still 80* in October. Prior to introducing the riddle, work in some PQA with the following questions: “Do you drink iced tea?” “Does anyone else in your family drink it?” “Do you drink iced tea only when it’s hot out or […]