Break Out of Your Routine with a Classroom Breakout!!!
Classroom breakouts are one of the most effective activities you can do in any class, but especially in a language class. They naturally help develop critical thinking skills and teamwork, and with all the different materials students must interact with to find their clues, they provide an amazing opportunity for practice in the interpretive mode. And of course, you can customize the breakout to cover any topic that you want, making them great for bringing cultural content to life in a memorable way.
To Get the Most Out of a Music Activity, Turn the Music… Off?!?
It sounds counterintuitive, right? You’ve found the perfect song — it has a catchy tune that your students are just going to LOVE, the lyrics are comprehensible and full of examples of the exact grammar point you’re working on, and it ties...A First Day Activity for Spanish Class
Or, how to start the year off right in a foreign language class Do you ever have one of those moments where you plan the best activity ever for your class, and it falls completely flat because your students would literally rather die than participate? No? Just me? Am...Being Willing to Look Ridiculous
I get it. We all hate looking ridiculous. It’s part of the reason I’ve toyed with the idea of starting a blog for years, but am only just now writing my first post. Will anyone read it? Do I even want them to? What will they think? Will anyone find my...
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