Buenos días,

My name is Sandra and I teach Spanish in High School in Georgia. I’d like to share with you an activity that I do to start the class, hoping to receive similar activities from other teachers.

What I do, is to give one word to a student, regarding one of the topics we’re covering in class. Then, the next student has to say a word connected to the one the first students said. Then a third students will add a new word, connected to the previous one, and we keep going until everybody in the class speaks.

For example, if our topic is “restaurant”, I might say “Restaurante”. And this could be a logical chain of words from student to students:

Restaurante > Menú > Comida > Pescado > Agua > Vaso > Botella…

If someone says a word that we don’t think is connected to the previous one, we ask that student to explain why he said it.

It’s a quick activity, helpful to review many words in a short time, and to make sure everybody participates.