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| Title | More Ideas for Extra Class Time |
| Body | Here are just a few more quick activities to have ready for those days when your students are quicker than usual. These require very little advance preparation. ---- Let them read whatever they want as long as it is in Spanish. Especially if you have a good and varied stock of reading material, I'll bet that class does much better overall than your other classes in the long haul. Simple children's books, cereal boxes, comic books... whatever. Mollard, C. Re: Activities for extra class time. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (25 Sept. 2005). ---- I take my Scrabble game & remove 9 letters at random from the pouch (not sure how I arrived at that number) and write them on the board. Students work individually or in pairs & attempt to come up with as many words as possible using combinations of those letters. When time is up, we can see who had the longest list of words, the longest word, and/or the most original words. If time runs out, sometimes I will just collect the lists, check them over quickly, and award a bonus point to the winning students. I also use Taboo Junior, and I will often spend the last few minutes of class playing the game with my students. I pull out a card & try to describe the word without mentioning the 3 forbidden words beneath it. The students need to guess the word. Even though there are no winners/losers, they get a lot of satisfaction trying to guess what I am trying to describe. Of course, I end up having to skip over a number of cards simply because they don't know these words, but most of them are ones they should know. Hamwey, D. Re: Activities for extra class time. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (26 Sept. 2005). |
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