Here’s another idea inspired by the fabulous Diana Painter (how’s that for a link, Diana?!) at our Cooperative Learning class on Wednesday. For this one, her brilliance came from just being difficult and lying about where she had spent the previous weekend during an otherwise serious activity. This activity (download the worksheet here) starts out…
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Rumors lesson plan
We are really focusing on the past tense with my Spanish 2 classes. We started with a Weekend Chat / Card Talk style activity to focus on the word ‘fue’ (went), which you can read about here. Teaching “said” in Spanish class Moving on from ‘fue‘, today we started focusing on the high frequency word…
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Card Talk
Card Talk is one of the most simple lessons known to language-teacher-kind. It is zero prep, student centered, and is easy to extend into other activities and content. Also…it’s FUN! I first saw Card Talk done by Carol Gaab at AFLA 2011. Even though I had read extensively about Ben Slavic’s version of Card Talk (“Circling…
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