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Foods and Beverages
Young scholars practice ordering food in a new language. In this food vocabulary lesson, students utilize the information from their previous lesson to create entire conversations about going to get food, as opposed to just the...
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Discussing One's Health
Pupils explore common health issues. In this health and literacy lesson, students match simple health statements with appropriate visual representations. Pupils prepare and perform dialogues in which health issues are the main topic.
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Letters and Photos
Young scholars practice using a new language by reading letters. In this foreign language lesson, students read a fictional letter by a young person from the target language's country. Young scholars read the letters separately, but...
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Expressions of Frequency
Students practice discussing timely manners in a target language. In this foreign language lesson plan, students discuss words that represent frequency such as never or often. Students create a timeline illustrating how often they...
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Location, Frequency, Likes, and Dislikes
Students identify and write short sentences with likes and dislikes, frequency, and location. In this short sentences lesson plan, students read the sentences, identify what is asked, orally practice saying sentences, and then write...
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Planning a Class Party
Students investigate event planning. In this literacy and communications lesson, students brainstorm food, activity, and guest ideas for a monthly classroom celebration of student birthdays.
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Home Tour
In this exchange student lesson, young scholars create a story about an exchange student. Students draw a map to show the location of community buildings and practice providing directions from location to location.
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Jeopardy Game
Students practice discovering a target language by playing a game of Jeopardy. In this foreign language instructional activity, students utilize their target language vocabulary to answer Jeopardy style questions they prepared the day...
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A Look at Geography
Students discover geographical places and terms in another language. In this geographical identification instructional activity, students utilize their geographical vocabulary to describe to other classmates where they would like to go...
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The Clothes Line
Students practice using clothing related vocabulary in a class game. In this descriptive words lesson, students utilize newly learned vocabulary words to describe what a classmate is wearing. Students participate in a game where...
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Buying Clothes
Students create a story about friends going shopping with new vocabulary. In this creating a story lesson plan, students use new language and number words in their story.
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Bargaining
Learners create a newspaper or magazine advertisement for clothing and personal items. Students make statements of preference regarding these items. Learners engage in a role play where two people are bargaining for various items.
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Telephone Game
Students practice their listening comprehension by playing the "telephone" game. In this foreign language lesson, students listen to a story read by a teacher in their target language and try to remember the details by writing 5...
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Charades
Students play a charades game to communicate what they like or don't like when they travel. In this travel lesson plan, students play the charades and then read and write sentences about a past traveling experience.
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Time Capsule
Students create a rough draft for a time capsule project. In this time capsule lesson plan, students bring in items to put into a time capsule and write a rough draft to submit to their teacher.
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Communicating with My World
Learners create a time capsule. In this oral presentation and history preservation lesson, students provide feedback for their time capsule project, work with a partner to write an oral presentation, and present their time capsule to the...
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Grooming Activity
Students discover the essential items to properly groom for a nice event. In this cleaning habits lesson, students discuss and identify important cleaning items such as a brush, shower gel, cologne, etc. Students create a chart and...
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Planning a Community Service Project
Young scholars practice using a new language to plan a community event. In this civics lesson, students practice writing a proposal for a community project using their target language. Young scholars brainstorm in small groups what...
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Let's Read the Newspaper
Learners investigate the format of a typical newspaper. In this journalism lesson, students read a newspaper from a target language and discover the vocabulary associated with the news. Learners work together as a newspaper group each...
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Correspondence
Students write a pen pal letter to narrate a special event in the life of a young person in the TL culture. In this pen pal lesson plan, students read and respond to letters by their classmates.
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Creating Our Newspapers
Students write newspaper articles in groups to form a class newspaper. In this newspaper lesson plan, students share their work with another group who critiques it.
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About Discussions
Students exchange opinions, express feelings, and listen to presentations of others about an argument. In this discussion lesson plan, students learn how to listen and respond for an argument they intend to have.
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On the air! Interviews
In this mock interview lesson, students view pictures of famous personalities and determine which of these personalities they would like to interview. Students follow the three step interview process and conduct a mock interview with a...
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Proofreading Practice
Learners investigate proofreading marks. In this proofreading lesson, students evaluate a paragraph for editing mistakes. Learners correct mistakes and return to the teacher.