Do you leave what you think are very clear Spanish sub plans or French sub plans only to return to chaos the next day? Have any of the following happened to you? The sub didn’t do any of the Spanish sub plans that you left, but just played games with the kids. The sub gave the wrong assignments to the wrong classes. The kids treated the sub badly (translation: tortured the sub) and didn’t do anything. You can’t find any…
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15 Ways to Add Francophone Culture to Your French Classes
January 11, 2018We all know that Francophone culture is an important part of language French, but we often don’t spend as much time as we should teaching our students about the cultures of…
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How to Teach Spanish Numbers, French Numbers 1-20, 1-100, 1-1000 In Part 1 of teaching French, Spanish numbers 1-1000, we discussed how to teach numbers 1-12. Today we’ll be focusing on…
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How to Teach Spanish Numbers, French Numbers 1-20, 1-100, 1-1000 Teaching numbers in another language is easy, right? Yes, but are you really teaching your students to master the French or…
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First Week of Spanish Class, French Class: How to Teach Using Immersion In my previous 4 posts, I’ve talked about why it’s so important to create an immersion atmosphere, how to…
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First Week of Spanish Class, French Class: How to Teach Using Immersion In my last post, I talked about why it’s so important to create an immersion atmosphere in your class…
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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 for World Language teachers! There are French, Spanish, and World Language libraries, so you can…
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How to Teach Tricky Verb Tenses and Grammar, Part 2
February 28, 2017In the first 2 parts of this series, you learned how native speakers learn differently than language students and how to break down tricky verb tenses into manageable chunks by teaching…
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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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How Native Speakers Learn Differently Than Language Students
February 28, 2017When I applied for a new teaching position this month, it made me realize how much my language teaching philosophy has changed as a result of raising my own kids bilingually.…
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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…