This page shows a collection of lesson plans and activities categorized by purpose or level to help as you are planning. Each box is a hyperlink to take you to the various pages.
Games for review
Speaking and writing ideas
Fishbowl activity: to practice interpersonal conversations
Reading and Listening Activities
The tech tool Actively Learn to have students practice interpretive reading
A pre-reading activity using a word cloud
A list of ideas to teach interpretive listening and reading skills
More ideas to incorporate comprehensible input into your lessons
Level 1 Units and Lessons
- My Level I curriculum with hyperlinks to a variety of resources
- A mini-unit on Nailed It! Mexico
- A MovieTalk on monkeys and bananas
- A performance artist eats $120,000 banana story and lesson plan
Level 2 Units and Lessons
- La lotería de Navidad lesson plans
- Netflix unit that I use as an introductory/review unit
- Daily Routine Integrated Performance Assessment
- Romeo and Julieta: a lesson plan about frogs and conservation
- End of the year telenovela unit
Level 3 Units and Lessons
- A fast food unit based on authentic resources
- Unit on Venezuela
- Viewing guides: Go! Vive a tu manera tv series
- A comprehensible input unit on the ballet story of Paquita
- A news unit for intermediate students
- Song stories that I incorporated into my classroom
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