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, these are the takeaways that I want my students to leave … [Read more...] about Compare & Contrast the Day of the Dead and Halloween
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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 are 50 clues and 35 unique BINGO cards. While I designed this edition (there … [Read more...] about El Internado BINGO
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 year round? "Do you like lemon in your iced tea?" "Do you … [Read more...] about Mystery of the Iced Tea Bell Ringer
Homecoming Bell Ringer
Homecoming is just around the corner. I enjoy talking with my students about it because it's a great way to build culture and community with my freshmen (as well as upperclassmen). Here's a bellringer with sentence starters to get the conversation going. For added effect, you can add a second slide with pictures of you as a teenager from your own Homecoming … [Read more...] about Homecoming Bell Ringer
“All The Things Crocodiles Can’t Do” Picture Talk
I found this series of pictures that someone posted on the iFLT/NTPRS/CI Teaching Facebook page and added a sentence using the structure "no pueden" for each one. All The Things Crocodiles Can't Do - Microsoft PowerPoint … [Read more...] about “All The Things Crocodiles Can’t Do” Picture Talk