Students will with their classmates and be able to ask questions about what someone else is wearing. They will also be able to describe what someone else is wearing and students have to guess who that person is.
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Students will be asked to interpret a menu, and using the information from the menu, be able to recommend foods based on the customers preference and allergies.
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The students will be doing a pre-during-and post-reading activities about a Birkenstock plant opening in Pasewalk. This activity is set for Novice Level. Good to help understand German industry by discussing a popular cultural product.
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Explore the Peru Travel website under the Experiencias tab to see different categories of activities. Talk about travel preferences with a partner or small group.
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Student will practice interpreting an authentic German schedule as well as describing their own school schedule based on the different days of the week. Students will practice discussing different school subjects and their daily schedule.
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In this activity students will be practice telling time in Chinese, as well as create schedules to describe their school lives, and describe school subjects. Students will also practice interviewing with each other by sharing their school life and make comments on culture understanding about school life in America and China.
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This activity is revised for a face-to-face K-12 classroom, although it is most appropriate for secondary (middle school and high school) levels. I added layers to the warm-up and cool-down and the entirety of the activity could easily last one full (50 minute) class period or be divided into two classes. The entire activity is contextualized as an authentic performance task where prospective students go on a virtual “university campus tour”.
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Students will practice introducing themselves, greeting someone, and answering how they are doing. They will also learn greetings for different times of the day. Students will understand the cultural importance of la bise, how this particular form of greeting differs in distinct areas of France, and deepen their cultural insights into how to perform a ubiquitous French greeting. Students will also learn about the geopolitical divisions in France.
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Students will work with simple Fairytale character vocabulary and descriptions of them (Prince--charming, Snowwhite-beautiful, etc.) preparing them to work next with more in-depth vocabulary in the form of a Fairytale infographic. The infographic contains several charts, descriptions and information pertaining to the top 10 most popular Gebrüder Grimm Fairytales for students to discover after preparing first with a pre-reading activity to front-load the vocabulary they will encounter in the infographic.
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Through this Novice Level Interpretive Listening & Reading Activity we will get curious about the French education system, how levels and grades are organized and how this compares to our experience.
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Students will chat about popular movies and TV shows. They will discuss their opinions and preferences regarding movies and TV shows. Students will also decide appropriate ways to provide recommendations about what to watch.
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Students will discuss their preferences and defend and support their ideas. Students will exchange opinions on a variety of topics through a game of bingo. This activity was revised for a high school Heritage Spanish Speakers class. One of the goals with this class is for students to be able to articule and defend their point of view, even when it is abstract. By adding an intercultural compononent to this activity, students will go beyond themselves and explore the perspectives of their classmates.
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In this activity, students will practice identifying where they can buy certain items. Students will also work on asking a partner what their likes are and use these characteristics to come up with a potential gift for them. This activity has been revised to add an authentic resource as an interpretive reading activity to scaffold for the interpersonal speaking activity, also attached.
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In this activity students will survey one another to determine how much their classmates like/dislike certain foods.
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This activity includes a multiple-day lesson plan to engage students in awareness of their own ecological footprint, what simple actions young people are engaging in to minimize their imprint and how to makes steps towards living the ideal zero waste life.
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This PowerPoint contains images and videos that presents and explains Día de Independencia. It also contains conversation questions for students to compare and contrast the the differences between the 4th of July celebrations and traditions in the US with those of Mexico the 16th of September.
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In this activity, students will talk about their hobbies and what they like to do in their free time. Students will learn how to describe their hobbies and what they like or do not like to do. During the warm-up, a fun game will help students to review vocabulary and the main activity will provide many speaking opportunities. Interpretive pre and post activities help students expand their language competency.
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Students will practice recognizing family member terms (i.e. abuela: grandma), describe family members, and accurately use vocabulary related to families in Spanish. They will acquire information about another individual’s family and will practice describing their own and others’ family members.
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In this activity students will practice ordering food, discussing their meal, and paying for their meal.
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Students warm-up with 2 videos that we interpret and discuss as a class. Students then read a news article (A reads a different article then B) and identify the most important information from the article. A and B partner to talk about what they read and ask/answer questions about the others' article. Students then record a short, live report on the article they read.
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