Remote Learners: Write each answer on their own on a piece of paper and then will add up all their team points at the end.
Ladder Gameĭivide the students into 3-4 teams (depending on your class size). In Class: Split into groups of 4, 2 for Team A and 2 for Team B. Keep going until one team can’t think of any more commands. Each team must keep doing the action until they are given a new command. Team A must do the command and then say another command to the others. While they are acting out the command, they think of another command to tell Team A. The person/people in Team B must do or pretend to do the command. form if more than one person, tú form if one person). Bésala – Disney song in Spanish with Spanish and English subtitles.Students write the commands they see and then do simple gestures to mimic keywords or get up and dance. Mueve tu cuerpo– By Beyoncé in Spanish with subtitles in Spanish.No te metas a mi Facebook – Catchy song in Spanish.Try teaching gestures for keywords before the song and have them do the gestures when they hear them. There are sooo many good Spanish commands songs and students usually relate well to songs. Jorge, dime, ¿quién es tu cantante favorite?ĭime un secreto, tu nombre entero, quién va a ganar The Bachelor, the Superbowl, the game between your school and a rival, etc., quién es el padre del bebé de Lucía. Have a student take someone’s pencil/pen and ask, “Carlos, dime la verdad. Create situations to use the irregulars and practice just one irregular at a time until they master it.Įx. Suzy, ten cuidado, algo va a caer encima de tu cabeza. (Silly Sentence) Juan, ten cuidado, hay una abeja encima de tu nariz. Rose, ven conmigo al escritorio de Pablo. Use gestures and silly sentences to help them remember the most common expressions.Įx. Throw in silly ones, too, such as Aféitate las piernas (Shave your legs – the boys think this is funny), Lávate el ombligo (Wash your belly button), etc. Say common commands and have the students act them out. Haz, ve, di, sé, ten, ven, (pause) sal, pon (Do this part altogether). Have students stand up and march around the room following you like little ducklings until this song is stuck in their heads forever (ha, ha, ha – insert evil Spanish teacher laugh here). Now I’m not a singer, so don’t laugh when you listen to this, but I wanted to give you an idea of how it sounds. Teach the irregulars song.Ī student of mine came up with this handy song and it worked like magic.
No ha gas, no di gas, no ven gas, no pon gas, no sal gas, no ten gas 4. The boys, especially, think this is very funny because anything having to do with farting is hysterical in middle school or high school.Įx. Teach students that the “Go-Go verbs get “gas” in the negative form.
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Get game instructions in my 50 Review Games – free in my Resource Library (see below). Afterward, ask students to write a sentence with some of the more tricky commands because writing reinforces what they’re learning. If you call on the students randomly, they have to pay more attention. Hold up a card and randomly call on a student to say the command and the meaning. tú + one day, tú – another day, tú irregulars another day). After a while, I learned that it was much better to make sure students mastered one part before adding more (ex. tú affirmative, negative, and irregulars all in one day). Don’t introduce all the forms at once.Īs a newer teacher, I used to teach big chunks of information all at once (ex. Start by grabbing your F ree Spanish Commands Formation Guide in the World Language Cafe Free Resource Library. No worries! Here at SecondarySpanishSpace, we’ve got you covered with Spanish commands activities, teaching tips, lesson plans, songs, and videos. forms and pretty soon your students’ heads are spinning. You start thinking, “No problem – commands – piece of cake”, but then you realize that students get confused by positive and negative commands. There are a lot of intricacies and nuances to teaching Spanish commands.
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