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This game has been played in thousands of classrooms for hundreds of purposes in many different subjects areas. This time, I am using it in Spanish class to practice the verb form “eres” (you are). I’ll get reps in of many other second-person structures, but we are targeting ‘eres’. Have students pick a famous person…
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This is another neat puzzle idea that came through the FLTeach Listserv from Deb Blaz. A Wordoku is a Sudoku puzzle that uses nine different words instead of the numbers 1-9. The nine words must be placed in a 9×9 grid so that each word appears once and only once in each row and each…
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Here is another PAT idea from Charlotte Meyer on the FLTeach listserv. She read about it in her Avancemos textbook, so you might already be familiar with it. Who knows 🙂 Anyway, I like it because it is simple, takes no preparation, and could be played for a short amount of time (it’s always nice…
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In February, I posted an awesome idea by the seductively fun Deb Abshier on this blog: The Jigsaw Puzzle. After several moderately successful uses of the Jigsaw in class, I think that I have finally found two perfect recipes for success. FIRST CHANGE, OPTION A–Time consuming, but doesn’t require much on the tech-end. First, cut…
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Click here to download two mad libs that I created as a fun, easy-going activity to do after the kids have spent a full morning on state tests. We’re going to fill them out simultaneously (so that I can make sure students understand those nasty grammar terms) using the Round Robin structure (the same way that…
Read MoreThis is a great way to get your students thinking logically. They will need to put themselves in order based on a series of clues that you read to them (download a template for the clues here.) Begin by assigning students to groups of four. If there are extra students, they can be the“director”for…
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This game is from Diana Painter, and it’s kind of like an interactive matching quiz. Download the form that I use here. Divide the students into groups of eight or fewer. Cut out the eight cards on the page and divide them amongst the students in the group. One student reads the question on his/her…
Read MoreDeb Abshier, you’re amazing! This idea comes from Deb, via Diana Painter at Friday’s TPRS gathering, via Michele Whaley’s blog post since I once again mixed up dates and didn’t attend…this is now the fifth time that this has happened to me since Ellis was born!! Ahh!! Anyway, this is another great P.A.T. type activity…
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