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I did something this year that I never thought I would do, and it worked very
well. I set up centers around the room with different activities at each one. I
divided the class into groups of 4-6 (depending on the size of the class) and
pushed the desks together. On each set of desks I put either a set of
flashcards, conversation cards, a tape recorder with headphones plugged in
and listening activity sheets, a reading with some questions, and the last
station was my computer, where I had them do Quia activities related to the
unit.

You could make up other activities and make more centers, depending on
what the test is like. I tried to have one center for each different type of test
question. It's better to have more centers and fewer students per group. They
would stay at each center for about 10 minutes, then I would direct them to
move on to the next center, and give about 2-3 minutes to get settled in to the
next center. Since we are on block scheduling, this worked perfectly, with
time at the beginning for me to explain, and time at the end for questions. But
you could do this in shorter classes, by either shortening the time at each
station, or doing it over 2 days.

Ben, A. (8 Jul. 2004). Re: test review strategies for middle school Spanish.
Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv.
FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (16 Jul. 2004).
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