Category Archives: Lesson Plans

Family Tree Spanish

Posted on October 24, 2011 by spanishplans

I think we can all agree that the textbooks’ family trees are as engaging as an 8 a.m. lecture in a lecture hall of thousands. After a few years of using my own personal family to teach the family vocabulary … Continue reading →

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Mexican Independence Day

Posted on September 14, 2011 by spanishplans

¿Estás listo? Casi es El día de Independencia de México. Although more Americans can pronounce “Cinco de Mayo”, el dieciséis de septiembre is actually a national Mexican holiday. And not just ANY holiday; THE biggest national holiday in Mexico. So … Continue reading →

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Using Magnets to teach Location

Posted on August 9, 2011 by spanishplans

This activity feels like a game because students are engaged and they get to play with magnets. Little do they know, they are also following instructions in Spanish, and responding to verbal or written cues to accomplish a task. Using … Continue reading →

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Subject Pronouns

Posted on July 8, 2011 by spanishplans

The Achilles heel of Spanish class. Don’t know your subject pronouns and you won’t be able to conjugate that verb. A topic that students MUST understand and master if they are to have any success the rest of the year. … Continue reading →

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Partes del Cuerpo actividad

Posted on May 16, 2011 by spanishplans

Teaching Body Parts in Spanish Class: It’s getting that time of the year: Garage Sales. As a teacher, garage sales are a great opportunity to find cheap items that you can incorporate into your classroom. Today’s idea features the classic … Continue reading →

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Past Tense

Posted on March 21, 2011 by spanishplans

I remember hearing that over 85% of communication in a language is in the past tense. Yet, we as language teachers, generally wait until second year to fully engage our students in past tense. Ideally, we should be introducing and … Continue reading →

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Los Verbos Reflexivos

Posted on February 13, 2011 by spanishplans

When I was a student learning reflexives for the first time, I thought to myself, “Why do these verbs have a ‘se’ at the end? How am I supposed to conjugate these?” A topic I struggled with as a student, … Continue reading →

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Making Comics and Cartoons

Posted on February 9, 2011 by spanishplans

It’s project time. Looking for something new and unique and something that will interest students? How about having your students create their own comic strip or comic book to showcase their knowledge in the unit. Want students to summarize a … Continue reading →

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Adivina Quien Guess Who Spanish game

Posted on January 30, 2011 by spanishplans

I know many teachers would love to play the game Guess Who in Spanish to practice descriptions in their early level classes. Teacher’s Catalogue’s offer the game Guess Who or the Spanish vesion Adivina Quién for $25-35 dollars. I don’t … Continue reading →

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Spanish Sub Plans

Posted on January 3, 2011 by spanishplans

It happens all the time. A sick child. A family emergency. The stomach flu. A 102 fever. A car accident. Things come up at the last minute either before school or during the school day. We may need to rush … Continue reading →

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