So the coronavirus has hit your town, your school closed, but you are still expected to teach your students who can’t come to school. These online French activities will provide engaging…
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Online Spanish Activities for Students at Home
March 5, 2020So the coronavirus has hit your town, your school closed, but you are still expected to teach your students who can’t come to school. These online Spanish activities will provide engaging…
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What to Do with Talkative Students in French Class
January 21, 2020Even as an experienced teacher, sometimes I still struggle with chatty students in French class, so I put together this list of 25 strategies for talkative students. If you’d like to see the Spanish version…
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Preterite vs. Imperfect: How to Choose the Correct Tense
October 16, 2019Simple 5 Question System for Choosing Preterite vs. Imperfect As Spanish teachers, we all know that one of the trickiest topics to teach is how to choose between the preterite and…
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25 Spanish Writing Activities, Spanish Writing Projects for High School, Middle School Students
December 12, 2018In this series on teaching Spanish writing skills, we’ve discussed using templates to model good writing, as well as the importance of Spanish transition words to decrease choppiness. This post will…
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Free French, Spanish Lesson Plans!
August 7, 2017Want free French and Spanish lesson plans? Well, guess what? I just opened 3 Free Resource Libraries! Join thousands of other teachers who are already have access to this secret treasure trove…
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90% Target Language, Comprehensible Input, or Immersion?? The biggest trends in French and Spanish language classrooms right now are 90% target language and comprehensible input. While I agree that these are…
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How to Teach Tricky Verb Tenses and Grammar, Part I
February 28, 2017Don’t you just love teaching tricky verb tenses? Nope, not really! In particular, the past tenses and the subjunctive can be so troublesome to teach. But why are they so hard to teach?…
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You know you’re ready for the school year to be over when: A. You find yourself secretly daydreaming about your summer vacation plans. B. You started the daily countdown to summer…
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Advice for a First Year Teacher
August 6, 2016Recently Rachel A. wrote this to me: “Hola! My name is Rachel and this fall I will be starting my first year as a Spanish teacher. I’m trying to plan…
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How to Rock Cinco de Mayo in Your Spanish Class
April 19, 2016Cinco de Mayo is fast approaching. Are you ready to create a memorable Cinco experience for your Spanish students? What? You’re busy grading papers, writing final exams, and trying to figure out…
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Virtual Field Trips in Your Foreign Language Classroom
July 27, 2015So I’m sure many of you have taken your students on real field trips – boy, they’re an awful lot of work: permission slips, chaperones, counting kids, finding the one kid…
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Spanish Valentine’s Day, French Valentine’s Day, Día de los enamorados, le jour de la Saint-Valentin
January 17, 2014Valentine’s Day, Día de los enamorados, le jour de la Saint-Valentin is coming up soon. I LOVE teaching on this day – so much fun to incorporate French and Spanish love…
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9 Day of the Dead Spanish Activities and Lesson Plans
October 14, 2019Looking for engaging Day of the Dead Spanish activities? Spice up your classes with these Day of the Dead Spanish activities ranging from authentic video clips to make your own memorials,…
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5 Day of the Dead Spanish Activities
October 14, 2019Hey guys! Just made a video sharing 5 of my favorite Day of the Dead Spanish activities. It’s too big to host on my blog (boo hoo!), but you can watch…
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9 Ways to Improve Your Students’ French Writing Skills
January 22, 2019Let’s be honest – for many of our students, writing in French is such a struggle. As teachers, grading 60-125 essays that are poorly written can be torture. Imagine if you…
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25 French Writing Activities, French Writing Projects for Middle School and High School
January 2, 2019In this series on teaching French writing skills, we’ve already discussed using templates to model good writing, as well as the importance of French transition words to decrease choppiness. This post…
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Do you struggle to teach writing to your French students? Do they write short, choppy first grade level sentences which are extremely painful to grade? Do they continue to make the…
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Using French Transition Words to Improve Student Writing
January 2, 2019In my last post about how to teach writing in French, I shared tips about the importance of providing templates for your lower level language students. This next post will teach…
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Using 100 Spanish Transition Words to Improve Writing for High School, Middle School Students
December 12, 2018In my last post about how to teach writing in Spanish, I shared tips about the importance of providing templates and examples for your lower level language students. This next post…
