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Vocabulary Cards: Learning While Having Fun
Posted by Alvaro
Vocabulary cards are an excellent resource to teach and review words. There are many games that we can play with the cards, and they really help students memorizing new vocabulary while having fun. This game is very easy: the students just need to match a picture with a word. It is fast and simple, and what is more important: the students really learn a lot from this game.
You can create your own cards, or you can buy them clicking the Vocabulary Cards buttom at the top of this page. You just need to download the file, print the cards and cut them, and you will be ready to start the game. We also recommend to laminate them, because the students can get too excited, damaging them after a couple of rounds.
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The Homer Simpson activity
Posted by Alvaro under: Resources
We’ve been filming different videos lately in Granada and Barcelona, two of the most beautiful Spanish cities. While we work on the activities that will come with those videos, we’d like to present another original strategy that you can easily implement in your foreign language class. The goal of the Homer Simpson activity is to improve the listening comprehension of low-beginner students, and also to review basic vocabulary related to body parts, colors and clothing, in an original and fun way. The activity is extremely easy: the students will try to draw and color the following instructions, which the teacher will read:
1) Tiene la cabeza grande
2) Tiene los ojos grandes
3) Tiene la nariz pequeña
4) Tiene la boca grande
5) Tiene las orejas pequeñas
6) Es calvo, pero tiene poco pelo
7) Es gordo y mediano
8) Tiene una camiseta blanca y pantalones azules
9) Lleva zapatos marrones
10) Tiene los brazos, la cara y las manos amarillos.
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Speaking activity: using newspapers in class
Posted by Alvaro under: Resources
This is an activity that you can use in any foreign language classroom, mainly with advanced groups that have some fluency in the target language. We show the students a newspaper headline, but only after we have removed some of its words. Then the students need to tell the class what the missing words are, giving also their opinion about what the article could be about. When they have all spoken, we’ll show them the answer and we’ll talk about the article’s topic.
We would like to try it on-line in the following presentation, we hope you collaborate with us, so please record your suggestions about what the missing words could be and why. In order to leave your comments, you just need to register unless you’re already a Voicethread member. Registration is free, and very easy: you just need to provide an email address and a user name. You can also upload a photo to make it look nicer. Once you’ve registered, click the microphone icon to start recording your ideas ¡Gracias!
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Palabras Encadenadas: a fun and quick vocabulary game
Posted by Alvaro under: Resources
We’re trying to upload a video every week until our website is finally ready. Now that the school year is about to finish (at least here, in Spain) we’ve thought that this game called “Las palabras encadenadas” was the best activity we could share with you. It’s a popular game that can also be used in foreign language classrooms. It doesn’t need any preparation, and it’s a great activity to do when the students are tired (after an exam, for example) or in the last minutes of the class.
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