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20 Ways to Get Your Students Speaking in the Target Language, Part 1
November 30, 2016Know what makes my language teacher heart break? When I tell people that I am a French and Spanish teacher and they proceed to tell me that they took X number…
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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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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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5 Days of Christmas (and Other Holiday Fun)
December 16, 2019Join me for some holiday fun! Over the next 5 days, I’ll be sharing World Language activities, giveaways, and freebies. If you’re already on my email list, you’re all set. If…
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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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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…
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Are you struggling to teach Spanish writing to your students? Do they write short, choppy first grade level sentences which are extremely painful to grade? And even more frustrating, do they…
