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| Title | Ideas for Cognate Activities |
| Body | A recent request on the FLTEACH listserv for activities for learning about cognates received the following reply from a Spanish teacher. This type of activity might be useful for teachers of beginning learners of any language which shares similar vocabulary with English. ---- 1. Use the Pledge of Allegiance to introduce cognates and show the students that they can understand. http://www.secstate.wa.gov/flag/pledge.aspx 2. Get pictures or clip art of different people/animals: actor, actress, doctor, student, detective, elephant, gorilla, etc. Give each person a name and make a list of the professions/words in Spanish. Have students match them and write a sentence in Spanish. You can make this into a worksheet, do a paired or group activity, or post pictures around the room, have students match sentences or the words and then write the sentences. 3. Bulletin Board: Have the students bring in the words or picture/word. 4. Adjectives: You can use a Venn diagram to use cognates to describe themselves and a friend and characteristics they have in common. 5. Pronunciation practice: Divide class into teams to practice pronunciation/spelling. 6. Dictionary practice: Pair the students and have them discover the cognates. 7. Find a simple reading, have the students make a list of the cognates and then draw the content to show their understanding. Stolbach, E. Cognates. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (29 Aug. 2005). |
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