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A quick game using vocabulary cards
Posted by Alvaro
Most people need to see or hear new vocabulary at least six times before they can remember it. This is a fact that makes our jobs as foreign language teachers especially challenging: how can we review so much without making our classes too repetitive and boring? Fortunately, there are different strategies we can use to review vocabulary, and the combination of them is what can help us to keep the interest and attention of our students. One of our favorite methods to work with words is through vocabulary cards. In this video we’d like to present a quick but very effective game to review a large number of words in a fun way. We have also added a set number 2. The new set covers different topics, including shopping, holiday, sports and leisure.
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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 by clicking the Vocabulary Cards button 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 that you 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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