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The following activity ideas for beginning learners of Spanish were recently posted to the FLTEACH listserv. The first two were responses to a request for ideas for practicing adjectives in class. They are not step-by-step lesson plans, but they may help get your creative juices flowing.

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Create a funny and memorable story with the vocabulary. Have students illustrate their own story. Read, translate, have a partner translate, etc.

Use index cards to have students create sentences with "es".

Zichterman, E.A. Re: Spanish mini-lesson - adjectives. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (14 Oct. 2005).

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A fun way is to use celebrities - the kids enjoy it a lot!

Baxter, D. Re: Spanish mini-lesson - adjectives. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (14 Oct. 2005).

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My favorite activities for Spanish I are:

Create-an-alien: Students have to put together an alien, using all sorts of things (like paper, buttons, popsicle sticks, etc) and then give him a name. They then write a paragraph about him/her/it, telling me what he is like, what he likes to do, how many eyes (and other body parts) he has, etc.

Fashion show: I divide the students into four groups (one for each season), and they have to put on a fashion show in class. They all have to model and they all have to talk about a model. OR, they can have an emcee introduce each model and then each model must talk about him/herself.

Flaskrud, P. Re: Spanish 1. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (2 Oct. 2005).
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