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Here are pools of questions I use in class to get my students talking! Use them to interview students, let them interview each other, as speaking tests or quizzes, divide them up into task cards, or my favorite, use them with numbered jenga blocks. I bought a few cheap jenga games, split each tower in half to end up with 30 blocks, and I numbered each block. I pass out a paper, and a bag of blocks. Then students just play regular jenga, but each time they draw a block, they have to properly answ

Here is a pool of questions (focusing on regular preterite tense) that I use in class to get my students talking! Use them to interview students, let them interview each other, as speaking tests or quizzes, divide them up into task cards, or my favorite, use them with numbered jenga blocks (play jenga, but answer the corresponding question to each block you draw).

This powerpoint can be used in any of the ways below to keep you students engaged. The topic is stem changing subjunctive verbs! We use this powerpoint in various ways depending on the class and the day: 1. We play around the world (2 students stand up and compete to conjugate the verb correctly. Winner moves to the next challenger, and all students record their answers) 2. Students write on whiteboards and hold their answers up for me to check. 3. Student play against each other, conjugating

This is a set of cards for you to print and cut out. Give each student a card, and then one student begins by reading their card... Me gusta (nadar). A quién le gusta (cantar)? Then the person holding that card reads and so on until all 22 cards have been read. My students love to repeat this a couple of times to see how fast they can get it done!

El Banquillo El Banquillo is an opportunity for students to demonstrate to the teacher their ability to answer a variety of questions in Spanish. Students are given a list of 20 questions in advance to prepare for, and then during an assigned class time, students are interviewed for a short period of time by the teacher. Students have a limited amount of time to answer as many questions as they can from the pool, and the grade is assigned accordingly. Students are awarded fractional p

This powerpoint can be used in any of the ways below to keep you students engaged. The topic is irregular YO verbs verbs! We use this powerpoint in various ways depending on the class and the day: 1. We play around the world (2 students stand up and compete to conjugate the verb correctly. Winner moves to the next challenger, and all students record their answers) 2. Students write on whiteboards and hold their answers up for me to check. 3. Student play against each other, conjugating the ver

Here is a pool of questions (using ser and estar) that I use in class to get my students talking! Use them to interview students, let them interview each other, as speaking tests or quizzes, divide them up into task cards, or my favorite, use them with numbered jenga blocks (play jenga, but answer the corresponding question to each block you draw).

Play the simple card game 'war' with this accompanying powerpoint. All you need to supply is the deck of cards for each team or player. Students will speak the target language while playing and will give definitions of the words.

5 pages of question sets to use to interview your students and better understand their speaking and conversational level. You can adapt these to use in groups, let students interview each other etc. El asiento caliente es una oportunidad para los estudiantes. Aquí, pueden demostrar su habilidad de contestar una variedad de preguntas en español. Les daré 20 preguntas, y tendrán tiempo antes de la clase para preparar sus respuestas. Cuando empezamos la clases, escogeré un estudiante. Le pregunt

Use this survey to get your students up and moving while speaking Spanish!

Use these cards to start conversations, work in teams, as a cue for conversation lines or rotating circles!

This powerpoint can be used in any of the ways below to keep you students engaged. The topic is regular preterite verbs (this does include car/gar/zar verbs)! We use this powerpoint in various ways depending on the class and the day: 1. We play around the world (2 students stand up and compete to conjugate the verb correctly. Winner moves to the next challenger, and all students record their answers) 2. Students write on whiteboards and hold their answers up for me to check. 3. Student play ag

In Spanish class, I love to get kids up and moving! Do so with these cards that will give students a silly command to complete one after another! You can edit these cards to include your name and details specific to your classroom.

A great way to start off the year in a Spanish classroom (or end it on a fun note)! Get signatures for the people who have done these things...first to get five in a row is the winner! You can easily adapt this word doc to fit your students better.

Use this rubric to get your students presenting using subjunctive tense and commands of any kind. In Word format, so this is easy for you to edit and make your own or adjust to fit your students' needs.

Check out this minimal prep verb conjugation practice game that gets your students working in partner and small groups. This can help drill one tense or can be used for many tenses. Vocabulary can be incorporated as well. The best part is all you need to make is one set of copies, and you are ready to play this game for anywhere between 15-75 minutes!

Use this as a tool to get students up and moving about the room while speaking Spanish! I have students ask as many people they can to get a sampling of answers on this survey. We sometimes stop there, or we then discuss and chart our responses. If I really want to expand the activity, we then write about what people said and the results.

This powerpoint can be used in any of the ways below to keep you students engaged. The topic is all preterite verbs! We use this powerpoint in various ways depending on the class and the day: 1. We play around the world (2 students stand up and compete to conjugate the verb correctly. Winner moves to the next challenger, and all students record their answers) 2. Students write on whiteboards and hold their answers up for me to check. 3. Student play against each other, conjugating the verbs an

This powerpoint can be used in any of the ways below to keep you students engaged. The topic is Commands, so you decide whether students are ready for Tú, Usted or Ustedes! Vocabulary is based off of Vistas Chapter 10 (doctor/medical vocabulary). We use this powerpoint in various ways depending on the class and the day: 1. We play around the world (2 students stand up and compete to conjugate the verb correctly. Winner moves to the next challenger, and all students record their answers) 2. Stude

This powerpoint can be used in any of the ways below to keep you students engaged. The topic is all imperfect verbs! We use this powerpoint in various ways depending on the class and the day: 1. We play around the world (2 students stand up and compete to conjugate the verb correctly. Winner moves to the next challenger, and all students record their answers) 2. Students write on whiteboards and hold their answers up for me to check. 3. Student play against each other, conjugating the verbs an