Las partes del cuerpo | Running Dictation

Make your Las partes del cuerpo unit more communicative! This ready-to-use resource gives beginning Spanish students repeated practice with body parts vocabulary through speaking, listening, reading, writing, movement, and personalized conversation.

Designed for Spanish 1, these activities are easy to add to any existing body parts unit or textbook chapter. Instead of simply memorizing and labeling vocabulary, students use body parts in meaningful sentences, talk about themselves and their classmates, and exchange real information in Spanish.

This resource includes:

• Info Gap Running Dictation with TWO version - simple and complex
• Body parts posters and student worksheets
• Answer keys
• Projectable slides for reviewing body parts vocabulary
• A large bank of Personalized Questions and Answers (PQA) for class discussion
• Human Bingo / Find Someone Who for student-to-student speaking
• Detailed teacher instructions and suggested lesson sequence

Students will practice:

• using tener and ser
• common Spanish body parts vocabulary
• describing themselves and others
• asking and answering questions
• reading and listening for information
• speaking with classmates
• communicating about real people and real preferences

The Running Dictation gets students out of their seats as they work in teams to read, remember, dictate, listen, and write Spanish. Two sets are included so teachers can choose between more basic or more complex vocabulary depending on their students.

After the Running Dictation, use the included questions to turn vocabulary review into a personalized class conversation. Questions such as ¿De qué color son tus ojos?, ¿Eres diestro/a o zurdo/a?, and ¿Prefieres caminar o correr? give students opportunities to understand and use familiar vocabulary in meaningful ways.

Finish with Human Bingo / Find Someone Who, where students circulate around the room asking classmates questions and discovering real information about one another.

Use the complete sequence for approximately 1–2 class periods, or choose individual activities to supplement your existing curriculum.

Perfect for:

Spanish 1 • Middle School Spanish • High School Spanish • Las partes del cuerpo • Body Parts Vocabulary • Textbook Supplement • Speaking Activities • Communicative Activities • Running Dictation • Spanish Review

Give students the body parts vocabulary practice they need and a reason to actually use the Spanish they are learning!

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