Fluent Teaching

Introduce Gustar with these google slides and then practice building sentences with printable manipulatives. There is some prep needed for the cutting out the manipulatives and separating them into bags. My students loved this unit and I was very impressed by their ability to use gustar fluently after just 3 classes with none of the common errors (like forgetting the pronoun or using the first person "yo" form of gustar).

Gustar manipulatives to help students build phrases with gustar and understand the sentence structure with gustar!I created this activity after realizing some students had trouble copying the structure from a substitution table on the board. I wanted to give the students a physical "puzzle" of sorts to work out the vocabulary to physically build the sentences. While some students might be fine writing the sentences, some of my students need a more hands on approach. To turn it into a reading act

Gustar manipulatives to help students build phrases with gustar and understand the sentence structure with gustar!I created this activity after realizing some students had trouble copying the structure from a substitution table on the board. I wanted to give the students a physical "puzzle" of sorts to work out the vocabulary to physically build the sentences. While some students might be fine writing the sentences, some of my students need a more hands on approach. I separate the description (g

Are you looking for an activity to help your students practice simple biographical information? This could be perfect! With access to this PDF you will receive the following: Table with biographical information about 7 famous hispanos (nombre, cumpleaños, edad, origen, nacionalidad, ocupación)Student sheet to summarize the information into a paragraph.Additional writing space to give your students the opportunity to look up information on a famous person of hispanic heritage in your culture.Teac

These slides include visual aids to build your students speaking fluency. This is a great activity to get the students up and moving and practicing the gustar structure along with high frequency activity vocabulary. The slides include an end of class formative exit ticket in the form of presentational writing using a gustar substitution table to help students form sentences using gustar, infinitives, and descriptive language: Me gusta + hacer deportes + porque es + divertido. This activity woul

This is an interpersonal speaking task to build interpersonal fluency in Spanish and should be completed after students have had input from the following structures:Proposing plans: ¿Quieres? ¿Te gustaría? ¿Tienes ganas de?Transportation vocabulary: ir en autobús, tren, bicicleta, carro, metro, etc.Rejecting plans: Lo siento no puedo, me gustaría, pero…, no tengo muchas ganas de…Fluency Development: Vocabulary for places in the city: (el cine, el museo, el centro comercial, el restaurante, etc.)

Do you ever have an extra 5 minutes and need a quick and easy speaking activity? Are you looking for a no-prep way to get your Spanish 1 students to remember simple question words and answers to basic level 1 questions? I've got the perfect activity for you! This is a short slide show with Spanish 1 introductory questions and answers and you can slowly make the words disappear: ¿Cómo te llamas? ¿Cuántos años tienes? ¿De dónde eres? ¿Cuál es tu ocupación? ¿Cuál es tu correo electrónico? ¿Cuál es

This is a sheet I print and laminate and attach to my students' desks so they can reference vocabulary to keep them in the language during class.

This PDF product includes an infographic with Spanish phrases to talk about the weather in both the present and the past tense, along with days of the week and a "level up" option for students who want to include a bit more detail. It also includes a worksheet with 7 daily calendar writes for students to write the date, the weather, and the day and the weather from the previous day (great CI for simple and HF past tense words!)

Google Slides self-paced intro lesson to the AP Spanish Literature and Culture class. The slides include mini-lesson on the 5 works by Dragún, Lorca, Bazán, Rivera, and Montero. Each mini-lesson follows the following structure: 1) Biographical video about the author 2) Activity slide: answer questions, write a reflection about what you learned about the author 3) Read the story/poem/drama/etc. 4) Activity Slide: answer questions about the work you read (questions taken from Azulejo) 5) Watch a

This is a multi-day unit on the Short Film "El vendedor de humo" I love using this in any level - the materials I provided could be simplified for Spanish 1, or they could be used with Spanish 2 and/or Spanish 3. With access to this Google Drive Folder you will receive the following: Present and preterite/imperfect summaries of the video (both of which can be used as a movie talk script) (both have links to quizlets to practice vocabulary/phrases)The story divided into parts/story strips to prin

Included in this reading are verbs like gustar and ghost and zombie themed vocab. Good for Halloween time! 1/2 my students thought I was crazy, they other 1/2 got into it...can't win 'em all!