So after the relative success of my last post about what I did with the commercial: "Me voy de casa", I decided to go ahead and share a majority of things that I did last year in my Spanish 1 classes.
Feel free to open the folder, download things to your Google Drive or to your computer and enjoy!
My hope is that you can find a new activity or a new spin on an old activity you have used. Or maybe something to inspire you as you try out more communicative-based teaching via TPRS or Comprehensible Input methods!
I tried to include a plethora of things to give you an idea of what you could do in your classes as well to push kids towards proficiency by de-emphasizing grammar in actual grammar lessons each day (Don't worry, I, Señor Jordan, still teach grammar to my kids. But it's more of a back-door approach!)
Let me know what you think and happy perusing!
So click here to see my google drive folder (minus Agentes Secretos stuff since some of that has images from the teacher's guide by the very talented Mira Canion).
*Disclaimer* Please don't judge me too much for how I might have done an activity. I am far from an expert on teaching via TPRS. But I figure the best way to get better is to share with others who might be farther back on the path to encourage them and maybe the more experienced people can offer a suggestion or two!
Showing posts with label additional activities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label additional activities. Show all posts
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Foreign language and wordless comics
*Edit* Maybe I should sell this idea as a "brand new method" called "ComicTalk". Could I make millions?
My memory is a little foggy on this one, but I remember hearing once about a language (foreign or language arts?) teacher that taught a class with a book that had no words, but was a series of pictures.
That would be a great idea (at least in my opinion) because each level you would add richer and richer language.
Last year, when I taught multiple levels, I was able to do the same thing with some comics I have found called "buni-comics". They are a bit dark at times (and you definitely couldn't show some of them to your class). But the best part is that they often have a strange turn of events for the main character and they have few to no words!
Your ability to sell the comic is entirely up to you and making it comprehensible for the kids. In the low levels, I try to tell a short story (with words we know to review) and have the kids try to guess (in the language) what might happen next.
In the higher levels, you could ask them to put themselves in the shoes of the character. Or you could ask them what should he do... or what will he do... or would you do that, etc.
Why do I bring this up now?
Well, maybe it's the mixture of students I have this year, but today when my students remembered that Thursdays we had a comic to look at (see template post to see how I pace it in my class), they got incredibly excited! Before I even showed the comic, they I could already see the anticipation building on their faces. And the comic delivered.
Good engagement, fun mini-discussion.
My memory is a little foggy on this one, but I remember hearing once about a language (foreign or language arts?) teacher that taught a class with a book that had no words, but was a series of pictures.
That would be a great idea (at least in my opinion) because each level you would add richer and richer language.
Last year, when I taught multiple levels, I was able to do the same thing with some comics I have found called "buni-comics". They are a bit dark at times (and you definitely couldn't show some of them to your class). But the best part is that they often have a strange turn of events for the main character and they have few to no words!
Your ability to sell the comic is entirely up to you and making it comprehensible for the kids. In the low levels, I try to tell a short story (with words we know to review) and have the kids try to guess (in the language) what might happen next.
In the higher levels, you could ask them to put themselves in the shoes of the character. Or you could ask them what should he do... or what will he do... or would you do that, etc.
Why do I bring this up now?
Well, maybe it's the mixture of students I have this year, but today when my students remembered that Thursdays we had a comic to look at (see template post to see how I pace it in my class), they got incredibly excited! Before I even showed the comic, they I could already see the anticipation building on their faces. And the comic delivered.
Good engagement, fun mini-discussion.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Templates for additional activities
First semester flew by and I wasn't able to get into the rhythm that I like to create until this semester since we were still using the first 10-15 minutes of class interviewing a student (very basically about one thing they like to do) until we finished talking about everyone.
But I like to establish a routine with some additional activities. I'm only doing Spanish 1 this year, but these activities worked for other levels because you can always use more language when reacting or describing whatever it may be. And these are great to get into class mode.
Often times I pick something because it relates (well or loosely) to some words we have been going over or I simply find it hilarious and need to share it but find a way to get the high frequency words in there.
Here is what I ended up on. Since we only meet every other day (due to block scheduling), I really will only do this 10 or so times each. The thing I enjoy is I can often do some different passes of old words and/or add some enrichment vocab (for those quick kids who want more vocab) and sometimes (if appropriate) I can do some pop-up grammar.
But I like to establish a routine with some additional activities. I'm only doing Spanish 1 this year, but these activities worked for other levels because you can always use more language when reacting or describing whatever it may be. And these are great to get into class mode.
Often times I pick something because it relates (well or loosely) to some words we have been going over or I simply find it hilarious and need to share it but find a way to get the high frequency words in there.
Here is what I ended up on. Since we only meet every other day (due to block scheduling), I really will only do this 10 or so times each. The thing I enjoy is I can often do some different passes of old words and/or add some enrichment vocab (for those quick kids who want more vocab) and sometimes (if appropriate) I can do some pop-up grammar.
Every day:
- Daily report (today is) - on board
- How is everyone? - Talk in Spanish about them for 5 minutes, ask follow up questions as appropriate
- Weather report (clip off weather from espanol.weather.com) TEMPLATE
Then I also will do an additional warm up activity.
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