http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages.aspxenhttp://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/42470.aspxSat, 18 Jul 2009 03:52:39 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:42470hmkosurSpanish teachers can use the following classroom activity to have students practice asking and answering questions about favorite colors in Spanish. Students will also practice counting with Spanish numbers while charting the results of the ¿Cuál Es Tu Color Favorito? questionnaire. Repasar las Oraciones y el Vocabulario – Revie...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/40455.aspxMon, 29 Jun 2009 00:13:37 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:40455cjsmothersSpanish idioms add cultural luster to learning the language. This article introduces fourteen Spanish family- and marriage-related idioms that the Spanish teacher can incorporate into weekly lesson plans for literal translation, discussion, and cultural relevance. Introduction The Hispanic culture has a number of instructive and humorous idioms (sa...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/37190.aspxSun, 31 May 2009 03:34:54 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:37190AngelesThis is not just a funny activity. In fact, it will help your students to learn new vocabulary and feel more confident about the use of those struggling verbs, ser and estar. As simple as a questions and answers game. I personally find this activity very useful. And it will help the students in several ways: To put into practice the use of two Span...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/37058.aspxSat, 30 May 2009 04:15:21 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:37058lmaloneyLooking for a way of motivating your students to practice and learn their Spanish vocabulary? Sometimes all you need is the right hook to draw them in. The following article explains how to get your students hooked on Spanish through the magic of dance. The Rhythm Gets You Going One of the language teacher's greatest challenges is finding a way...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/36676.aspxThu, 28 May 2009 01:11:10 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:36676djthybergSpanish students often miss out on the chance to practice for a phone conversation when they are studying in a formal class. This lesson activity will help students get more comfortable making and receiving phone calls, and it will also improve their conversational skills. Introduction Speaking a foreign language face to face with another person is...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/35280.aspxSun, 17 May 2009 04:43:21 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:35280alawtonGet your students forming and pronouncing sentences to express the date in Spanish. Through this activity your students will work together in groups to express the appropriate numbers and months to state the month, day and year in Spanish Teaching your students how to say the date in Spanish lends itself to many possible interactive communication e...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/32001.aspxThu, 16 Apr 2009 02:09:26 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:32001alawtonSpanish students need constant practice with verb conjugation. The following activity gets students working together in groups to conjugate verbs, in the verb tense that you pick, while correcting each others' mistakes. Spanish students need constant practice with verb conjugation. The following activity gets students working together in groups...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/31212.aspxFri, 03 Apr 2009 02:49:26 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:31212alawtonThis activity involves students walking around the classroom asking questions written on index cards in Spanish while looking for the student who has the card with the appropriate answer. As the instructor, you make up the questions and answers to fit what you are teaching that week. Your Spanish class will most likely be composed of students who l...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/30721.aspxTue, 31 Mar 2009 00:22:57 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:30721alawtonIn your Spanish classroom you will want to have your students working on their Spanish pronunciation as much as possible. This activity gets students working in groups while concentrating on pronouncing Spanish words correctly. In your Spanish classroom you will want to have your students working on their Spanish pronunciation as often as possible....http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/30720.aspxTue, 31 Mar 2009 00:17:10 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:30720alawtonThe following activity involves you reading a passage in Spanish while students actively listen for meaning and for grammatical or pronunciation errors that you intentionally make. Students will compete to explain what error you made and to correct it. While you have your students in class you will want to give them plenty of opportunities to work ...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/28708.aspxMon, 09 Mar 2009 22:58:21 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:28708alawtonThis activity lets your students practice pronunciation of target vocabulary while working on listening comprehension skills. Students will work in groups of twos as they pronounce, write and listen to the Spanish sentences you have created. Spanish teachers will always need to provide opportunities in class for students to practice their pronuncia...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/28561.aspxSun, 08 Mar 2009 04:38:07 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:28561alawtonGet students working together in groups to form sentences using direct and indirect object pronouns. Each group will use manipulatives as they discuss the correct word order of each sentence. One of the more difficult concepts of Spanish grammar for students is learning indirect and direct object pronouns. It gets even tougher when you introduce se...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/28349.aspxThu, 05 Mar 2009 03:46:44 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:28349alawtonThis activity gives your students an opportunity to practice their Spanish conversation skills while responding to questions using "porque" or "para". Each student will form several different questions in Spanish using the vocabulary from the chapter. After you teach your students present tense verb conjugation you will want to prov...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/27151.aspxThu, 26 Feb 2009 04:14:57 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:27151alawtonStudents in Spanish I will need to learn the possessive adjectives early on in the semester. The activity presented in this article gives your students the opportunity to practice these words while forming a conversation with another person in class. Once Spanish I students have learned a variety of different nouns it is time to teach possessive ad...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/26289.aspxThu, 19 Feb 2009 02:51:32 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:26289alawtonThis article presents a group activity for a Spanish teacher to use . This involves reading a passage and having the students write about it in Spanish. Students will work in interactive groups to describe in Spanish what they have just read. In my previous article, Spanish Classroom Activity for Teaching Reading Passages I talked about an exercise...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/25986.aspxMon, 16 Feb 2009 04:42:41 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:25986alawtonThe interactive Spanish classroom activity presented in this article will let your students identify Spanish speaking countries and capitals while practicing Spanish conversation skills in a question and answer format. Use estar plus prepositions of location. Spanish teachers from middle school to high school will at some point teach the Spanish co...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/25500.aspxMon, 09 Feb 2009 21:17:09 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:25500alawtonThis article presents an activity to be used in the classroom to teach and practice telling the time in Spanish. Student will work in groups to form conversations using previously learned verbs with expressions of time. Each group will have a clock to practice saying the time in Spanish When you teach your students how to tell the time in Spanish t...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/24847.aspxSun, 01 Feb 2009 04:30:12 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:24847alawtonThis article presents a classroom activity to teach family member nouns while reviewing and using previously learned basic verbs. Students will form sentences and converse in Spanish about their family. Most Spanish I instructors will teach the different titles for family members at some point in the semester. These are usually taught after student...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/24150.aspxThu, 29 Jan 2009 21:33:14 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:24150alawtonThis article presents an activity that allows students to practice the differences between "ser" and "estar" while describing famous people. It is an interactive exercise that gets the students to think outside of the text book while forming original Spanish sentences. Spanish instructors, from the first week of class on, will be co...http://www.brighthub.com/education/languages/articles/23747.aspxTue, 27 Jan 2009 03:34:38 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:23747alawtonThis article helps students learn and use present tense Spanish verb conjugations. Students will respond to questions in the present tense and practice Spanish pronunciation in "real world" situations. The following activity to teach and practice present tense verb conjugation in Spanish is one of my favorites. It gets the students moving a...