The teacher calls out two body parts and the student pairs have to put these parts together. For example:. Mano a mano —they put together their hands. Make it more fun by calling different body parts.
Codo a rodilla-they put together their elbow and knee. Variation: You can also use flash cards for this game. A student uncovers two cards. If the pictures match, the student gets to go on and uncover two more pictures.
Each fish has a magnet pasted on the back. Pesca un pez,. The student who is fishing must say the color. Write questions on the fish, and instead of saying the color, the student will have to answer the question. To play this game you need to have a group of three or more students. Give a ball to pass around the circle they will have to pass the ball to the person sitting next to them and the ball goes in one direction only.
While the ball is coming around, the. Variation: Have the students quietly listen to traditional music from Latin America or Spain while passing a ball around. Using masking tape, make a line on the floor and place numbers from 1 to 5 in a line.
Have two students stand on either side of number 1 facing each other. Show a flashcard. If both students identify it at the same time they both get to move to the next number.
The student who gets to number 5 first wins the game. Divide the class into two teams to make it more fun you could name the groups by using names of Spanish speaking countries. Each group will get the score on the opposite side of the field. If both teams answer the questions at the same time they both get points.
Have the class sit in a circle. Place pictures or objects of the unit of study around the circle. Have the class be in a circle. Place a line of picture cards or objects in the middle. Pick two students from the class and have them face to face on either side of a particular card.
The teacher or another student calls out some of the vocabulary placed on the line. The two students have to jump to find the card. Non-Competitive variation:. Have one student jumping around the line. When you or a student calls out the name of an object, they find their place on the line. Have fun playing in Spanish! TracyLyn Smith on September 7, at am. I was looking for blogs on using technology in the Spanish classroom when I ran across this post. Authentic music is by far, one of the best ways to incorporate more target language into your classroom and students love it.
They get so into it. They ask for certain artists once you start to play them a lot. Close listening is one of the best ways to build listening skills too. Close listening just means that when you are playing an authentic song that you omit certain lines of the lyrics as your playing the song and students get to listen for it and fill it in as they go along.
And you can do a lot of different activities that build on that skill as well. Are you ready for the last one? Here it comes. The last one is another personal invention of mine that comes from an old game called, I Love a Cougar who … And you just insert your mascot here, I Love a Falcon who … I love a, I love a??? So, for this game you put students in a circle. In addition to the circle, they have to bring a placeholder with them.
So, pencil case, a shoe, whatever. Kind of like musical chairs. Point b, someone in the center is going to say something that they like. I love a cougar who loves pizza and everybody who also loves pizza has to move to a new spot in the circle.
So they have to move at least two spots away from where they originally were. Spanish students need a high degree of comfortability in your classroom in order to do this. It worked great with middle schoolers because they just love to talk and try things.
So there you have it ten bombastic activities for you to do that involve a ton of target language, a ton of movement and a ton of fun you need to do at least three things a week. You need to have engagements, you need to have fluidity and need to have fun. I hope you can steal at least one of these that you could use in your class. Grab the FREE toolkit here to learn the framework for updating your practice to comprehensible input — without all the overwhelm — and prepare for the challenges ahead.
Keep at your important work and have fun with your Spanish students trying out all these fun speaking activities for Spanish class! Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. They swat the correct word with the flyswatter. This is a fun game for Fridays or as a review. Jenga or Tumbling Tower Games You can buy colored tower block games on Amazon , you can also sometimes find mini tower games at the Dollar Store.
You can do several things with these; you can write numbers on the blocks and then have a related activity on a sheet of paper for students to follow. You can write high-frequency words or math problems on each block for immersion students and have them read the word or solve the problem on their turn. Caller calls out one of the four words and everyone that is in that corner is out. Game continues until one person is left. This is a fun game to get people up and moving in the classroom.
Pictionary Spilt your class into teams, have one member from each team draw something on the white board while everyone else guesses what their teammate is drawing. The first to guess correctly gets a point. There are going to be games that fall flat on their faces, however here are 5 tried and true games to learn Spanish that are quick and easy to run in a classroom and work well both in secondary education and with adults.
Circumlocution game Vocabulary Circumlocution is a huge skill to produce, especially with second language learners. What happens if you cannot remember a word? Well, you work around it! In this game, modeled off of a few game shows, have students partner up or form groups of Place a topic up on the board. It may be as general as nouns and adjectives, or as specific as female celebrities. Everyone can see this word. Once the topic is revealed, one or two people in each group must turn their backs to the board.
At this point half of the class can see the board; display the magic words Give them a time limit, usually minutes is sufficient.
If you have more advanced students, make the time a minute or less. As you can see, students are left to their own devices and, hopefully, your voice is simply to talk them through how to describe the words without actually saying them! Globo or any other fun word you want to use Answering questions about Spanish vocabulary, grammar, culture, etc.
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