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Tag Archives: drilling

  • Activity Students each have a small piece of paper/card like the one above with a phrase in the target language and it’s translation [...]

    Quiz-quiz-trade

    May 5, 2012
  • Drill the points of the compass, but rather than arrows or flashcards, get students waving their arms about!  So arms up for North, arms right [...]

    Human compass

    April 18, 2012
  • Another silly arm-waving/cheerleading game. Students use their arms to show M or F (whole-body F!) to indicate whether a word is masculine or [...]

    Masculine or Feminine? (YMCA Style)

    April 16, 2012
  • Whenever you want to reinforce accent knowledge, you can ask students to respond to questioning with actions. I use acute / grave accent with [...]

    Accent Karate

    April 16, 2012
  • Activity Students each have a sheet in the format of the one pictured above.  Each student secretly chooses one of the phrases from inside of [...]

    Burbujas: Bubbles

    April 16, 2012
  • This is a good way for testing vocabulary in a whole class situation.  There are two ways of doing this: you either reward knowledge and the [...]

    Last one standing

    April 15, 2012
  • Activity A nice little ‘mixer’ I use when doing circle time with my classes just before an activity or a plenary.  When students sit [...]

    Ensalada de fruta: Fruit salad

    April 12, 2012
  • Have a load of pictures of vocabulary you are drilling on the board. You point to a picture and say the vocabulary.  If you’ve said the [...]

    Repeat if I’m right

    April 12, 2012
  • This is a bit like Snatch, but calmer and fewer bits of paper flying around! You give students a sheet of paper with images (or words) on, and [...]

    Pointy Pointy

    April 12, 2012
  • Activity Students have one vocabulary table like the one attached to the link below between the pair of them, when student A says, [...]

    Carrera de palabras: Word Race

    April 8, 2012

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