Language Explosion

This document is a simple Interpretive Listening activity using a Spanish weather report on Hurricane Ian (September 2022). The questions are geared to the Novice Level but can be adapted for more advanced students. Students should have a previous knowledge of weather vocabulary, numbers, and cognates. An answer key and a possible rubric are included.

This document is a set of activities and worksheets to learn about the Spanish-speaking countries in South America. For each country, there is: 1) a list of unusual words that can be used to play a guessing game like Balderdash (with instructions for the game at the beginning of the document), with definitions of each word written in English; 2) a worksheet with unusual or interesting facts (written in English) about that country along with an answer key for the worksheet; 3) a list of some famo

Students color as they learn to conjugate and discover Québec's Temps des Sucres. This set of conjugation coloring pages includes the same drawing with three different conjugations of the French -ger verb "manger." - Present Tense - Passé Composé - Futur Simple There is also a blank coloring page without any conjugations written on it so you can add a different verb or tense/mood based on what works in your class. Each of the three pages included in this set also comes with an Answer Key. The pi

This Novice level Interpretive Listening activity takes about 15 minutes to complete. Students watch a 4 minute video in French and answer comprehension questions related to the dialogue, including a question asking for cultural observations. The 6 page document includes: - the student version of the worksheet / assessment, - an answer key for the teacher, - a transcript of the video used along with a link to the video, and - a simple rubric with a suggested grading scale. The video used for

The text for this activity is a page from an authentic calendar in Spanish. The activity is best suited for students at a Novice Low level who are learning dates (months, days of the week) but could also be used for a quick review activity. This activity is primarily an Interpretive Reading activity but also includes a short dialogue for Interpersonal Speaking and a possible Presentational Writing evaluation (for a Novice learner). An answer key is included for the Interpretive Reading section.

This is an Interpretive Reading activity using a Safe Kids flyer in Spanish. The focus is on house vocabulary. A rubric is included for grading.