Laughing in Language For Foreign Language Classes Karen Swinford

Laughing in LanguageFor Foreign Language Classes

Karen Swinford

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Find a comic suitable to your topicVocabulary use

Vocabulary lesson from comic

Students will write down the words from the comic,not more than three words.

Example: Imagína , y, verás

Verbs

Soy milk

Use as introduction to teach Soy and that in Spanish it means I am.

Then students can make several sentences beginning with Soy.

Discuss there is an implied subject of Yo. Yo can be added before the verb but is not a

necessity.

Llegue-arrives Gana-wins Dale-come on

Write verbs from comic

Teach direct objects

Te odio- I hate you Use this to explain object pronouns come before a conjugated verb. Te is the object pronoun "you".

Random clip art

Can be used for basic vocab

Cat- gato Pajaro-bird Nido-nest Is best to use in threes. Upper level language

classes can write complex sentences with the pictures.

Paper and pencil board games

Using board games to teach those weekly vocab lessons

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How the gameboard works

Draw a pic in each box

No words in either language

The pic represents a vocab word

Place a number in each box

Make an answer key on separate sheet in English and target language

Work someone else's puzzle

Write your answers in English and target language

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