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¿Qué significa el dibujo? Los vaqueros.
What is happening in these pictures? Emerging Spanish language learners are presented with five pictures. Each picture has four options, and they have to decide which one relates to the picture the best.
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Object Pronouns with Commands
Intermediate and advanced Spanish language learners will appreciate knowing how to shorten their sentences when making commands. After all, native language speakers usually use informal language when conversing with other native...
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Color Me: The Elephant
Join the herd! Teach your young Spanish language learners the Spanish word for elephant, and have them color the picture provided. You could also introduce other basic Spanish vocabulary like sol, tierra, and agua.
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Es Rudolph!
Your young Spanish speakers will love coloring Rudolph during wintertime! Consider reading them Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or teaching them the famous song in Spanish! It's a day they're sure to remember.
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Picture and Word Match: Fruit
How do you say watermelon in Spanish? Young learners match the Spanish words with the six pictures shown. They'll review the translation for grapes, banana, watermelon, pear, plum, and strawberry.
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Practice with Dar
What does dar mean? How do you conjugate it? Learners use the chart provided to conjugate the target verb. Then, in the second exercise, they use the correct form of the verb to complete each sentence.
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Las contracciones
Certain words, when placed next to each other, need a contraction. This worksheet (which looks like printed out PowerPoint slides) covers a + el and de +el. Spanish learners read sentences and identify where contractions should be placed.
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Prueba-Verbs with Irregular Yo Forms
Some Spanish verbs have an irregular yo form. This quick worksheet looks at 10 of these irregular forms. First the pupil reads a sentence that uses the verb in a different form, and then the pupil conjugates it into the yo form.
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El Condicional
Are you introducing your intermediate and advanced Spanish speakers to the conditional? Learners conjugate the word in parentheses and insert it into the sentence provided. There are twenty sentences.
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Subject Pronouns
With this basic activity, Spanish-speakers practice, practice, practice identifying the correct subject pronouns to be used with the people provided. There are twenty examples to practice with.
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La Leyenda de Betsy Ross
Is your native Spanish-speaking class learning about American legends and the history of the United States? Introduce them to Betsy Ross, the woman often credited for the making of the first American flag! After reading the short...
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El Día del Trabajo
Celebrate el Dia de Trabajo on September 1st, and honor all those who work in the United States. This four-paragraph reading passage provides background information on the holiday, and there are three comprehension questions that follow....
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Harriet the Hedgehog
Meet Harriet the hedgehog! This reading passage, written entirely in Spanish, introduces this fun character as she explains who she is and what her life is like. The following page asks readers 12 comprehension questions (also in...
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Spanish Interrogatives
Are your beginning Spanish speakers learning how to form questions? This activity contains two exercises related to interrogatives; the first exercise requires the learner to translate the interrogative into its English counterpart. The...
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Pre-AP Strategies for French Language and Culture
Build vocabulary, fluency and confidence in your French speakers by having them participate in some of these engaging activities. Several suggestions are given, but you will have to design the actual activity yourself.
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Reverse Construction Verb: Gustar
What does reverse construction mean? This reference guide gives models and explanations, bringing confusion down to a minimum. It discusses some of the differences in English sentence construction and Spanish sentence construction. A...
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¿Qué significa el dibujo? La diversion.
This activity works well for beginning Spanish language learners or native Spanish speakers who are being assessed on visual comprehension. There are five pictures, and each picture has four sentences next to it. The learner must choose...
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Collage: Casa para pájaros hecha con semillas
Your young, native Spanish speakers will love this hands-on activity! Each receives the outline of a birdhouse and several different types of seeds. They glue the different seeds to different parts of the house. For older learners,...
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The Body and the Five Senses
Read De la cabeza a los pies once for your learners before teaching them the body movements that accompany the book. Then, read it again and have the learners demonstrate the movements! There's also a chart to help reinforce some of the...
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Immersion: Basic greetings
Hola, buenos dias! One method of language teaching requires the teacher to create an immersion classroom, meaning that no English is spoken. This plan shows how a teacher would go about modeling phrases to teach greetings and appropriate...
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Problems Over the Border
Discuss the issue of illegal Mexican immigration and its effects on the Mexican people. Play the song "Migra" by Carlos Santana, and have learners analyze the lyrics to help gain an awareness of the difficulties Mexicans face. This is...
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Possessive Adjectives
There are 20 fill-in-the-blank questions for your Spanish speakers to complete. Each sentence is missing the correct possessive adjective; can your class use the correct one to complete the sentence? Since this learning exercise doesn't...
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Matemáticas
Have your young native Spanish speakers complete this math worksheet. They compare the ages of three fictional characters and complete simple addition and subtraction problems.
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"Cool Cats Counting"
Students listen to the book "Cool Cats Counting" and demonstrate how to count from one through ten in English and Spanish. They count objects in bags, then place the bags in numerical order, and play a memory matching game using images...