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List of Swap Shop Ideas - Spring 2009

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__January 23, 2009__


 * Jessica: Tito Torro is a bull that I use in my class and I have them come up with some questions they want to ask him. I usually start off asking a question and then toss it to another student. The student then answers for Tito and asks him the next question, then passes him on. This can be used for different grammar tenses, or different vocab. This takes the pressure off the students to tell what their real answer would be. This also becomes fun having a fun character in our classroom.

Erich: Go to any teacher store and find learning cubes. The one I shop at is called "The Knowplace". Here is the website: http://www.holcombsknowplace.com/index.cfm

They come for teaching Math, English, etc. Each one has pocketed 6 sides that you can slide papers in. Use them to teach vocabulary, especially verb conjugations. Print out verbs, cut them out, and place in one cube. Use another cube for subject pronouns. Roll or toss the 2 cubes to students and whichever lands face up the students have to conjugate. For example, if one cube lands on "yo" and the other "escuchar" students would write "yo escucho" if you are covering the present tense. Get excited and toss the cubes in fun ways. Students love the kinesthetic aspect of it. This is best used with white boards or other dry erase boards.

Amy: Project idea for unit about cities, directions, informal commands and prepositions of location. Students build their own city out of shoeboxes. Commands**


 * Aubrey:** //A fun game for students to practice vocabulary! Toca la Boca//

__January 30, 2009__

Alexandria: Flat Stanley Project. Students create their own Flat Stanley, write a biography for him (in the TL), and send him to the TL country. Students in the TL country take the Flat Stanleys around, take pictures with him in different places, and write a daily journal for him (in the TL, of course). They then mail the Flat Stanleys back, and the students get to see where and what their Stanleys did! Flat Stanley Project


 * Julia:** Battleship verb review game: to practice verb conjugation with pronouns! Battleship Verb Review

Caitlin: Preterite Practice: The students come up with songs in groups to remember the irregular preterite tenses and then they teach the class. Also attached is a sheet with all of the preterite tense that I got from another teacher's website, it's excellent! user:darkcait

__February 6, 2009__

Bluff-a-rama
 * Katie H.:** Bluff-a-rama - This is a fun review game I found on the wiki that all my students love to play the day before a test. It can be used with anything (grammar, vocabulary, or culture) and it can be adapted for any level. It is played like the card game "B.S." (you can say it stands for bologna sandwhich!), in which the better "bluffer" you are, the more points you get! No materials necessary!

Laura: If your school participates in any kind of foreign language week, this is a good way to keep track of how involved your students are. If you don't, this may be a good idea to get students to use the language at home. You can have your own mini foreign language week or language of your choice week. This is a passport that students get stamped depending on what events they go to and how they participate throughout the week. You can do it just for fun or make it for a grade as I did. Here is a "pasaporte" that I made. You can do if for any language and add as many activities as you'd like! Foreign Language Week This is a site that corresponds with the TV show Spain on the Road Again. It features Gwyneth Paltrow and that famous chef with the red hair! http://www.spainontheroadagain.com/

Linda: This is a "slider" study tool that can be used for just about any subject. Cut out the two squares, then fold back the sides of the paper and tape them together in the back (you will have a long paper half the width of a normal sheet, with a slot in the middle). You feed through a sheet with questions and answers, vocab words and pictures, L1 and TL. On the sheet you feed through, stagger the questions and answers so you can't see both at the same time.

Katie L: I did a couple internet-based activities via our class Wiki. One was an assignment for the 3rd-year class with El Corte Ingles and one was extra credit for the 1st-year students. Quiero Mis Quinces at MTV Tr3s Students had just watched "Sweet 15," and commented on how it seemed old-fashioned to them. For extra credit, they watched an MTV quinceañera and reflected on it in English. @MTV Tr3s: http://www.mtvtr3s.com/video/?id=1582824&vid=214188 [|Quiero Mis Quinces extra credit] El Corte Inglés Spanish 3 used their new vocabulary to "go shopping" at www.elcorteingles.es. They also watched the recent ads from this season's sales and used Google Earth to look at the storefronts. Assignment page: http://farmingtonspanish.wikispaces.com/El+Corte+Ingles

__February 13__

Lauren: Phrases brouillées Students re-arrange jumbled sentences. Each word and punctuation mark on a separate card. This game is great for reviewing word order and you can personalize it with sentences that correspond with your unit (cultural, grammatical, other content). Taken from __Index Card Games for French__

Phrases Brouillees

**Imperfect Story Book** Students use a large sheet of construction paper to create a flip book. The title of this would be, Cuando era nino... (When I was young). They will use pictures of themselves when they were young or pictures from online if they do not have any of their own to create a little story book. They will use the imperfect tense to describe their pictures. The project description and rubric that I used is below.
 * Lindsay:**
 * [[file:Imperfect Story Book.doc]]

Melissa: ~Vocabulary Hangman and Alphabet Game~ Vocabulary Hangman-** play hangman to help students "discover" their new vocabulary word.
 * Alphabet Game-** challenges students to quickly think of words in a given category using every letter of the alphabet.

Weather Project A fun way for students to get online and practice weather vocab and learn about different cities. Weather Forecast
 * Chelsea:**

__March 20__
 * Alison:** Preterit vs. Imperfect Folders My mentor uses this folder idea every year for introducing preterit vs. imperfect. It helps organize the rules, conjugations, key words and examples. I had the students make them in class, as I made an example on the overhead. It took a while, but it was worth it.

When trying to wrap class up everyday. I wanted to find a way to get my students to focus instead of standing up and walking around or packing up for the last couple minutes. I developed this daily three question quiz. I read them the questions out loud so I don't have to make a new form everyday. One question usually has to do with the previous day and 2 questions cover topics from the given day. I grade each quiz between class or after lunch and it is very quick. It also keeps the students on task during the hour!
 * Jade** - daily quiz


 * Kerry** - [|Vista Print] I'm sure everyone has heard of this website, but did you know you can get FREE things for your classroom, and you can write everything in Spanish and it will print that way? A great way to make nice birthday notes for students, free rubber stamps, and postcards to send home to introduce yourself to parents. This is an awesome resource for teachers! user:litwins5

__March 27__
 * Lisa -** ¡Ataque! Verb Game This is a game I took from my mentor and it's for practicing conjugation. It can be specifically used for enforcing certain tenses or, as I did, stem-changing verbs. There's quite a bit of prep ahead of time, but it's a really effective tool to get the kids to practice conjugating verbs and they get really into it!

This is a very simple review game that can be played a number of different ways. Students love to play jeopardy, but I never like that each student only answers one or two questions during the game- this is a way that each student has a chance to answer each and every review question.
 * Heather-** Musical Chairs

__April 17__ I thought it would be a good idea to swap some teaching career search resources. Especially with our upcoming Teacher Fair on April 24th and the fact that we are done in 3 weeks!!! ** These are 10 internet resources for you -- includes search engines for teaching positions, career services support, help on portfolio guidance and interview preparations.
 * Mara - [[file:Deutch_SwapShop_4:17.pdf]]

This is a great game to practice new vocabulary in any language at any level. Preparation time depends on how many words you want your students to learn and how much time you want to give them. Playing time can take between 10 and 15 minutes and can be a fun vocabulary review game.
 * Doren -** Catch Phrase

If you like using visual aids for vocabulary, here is one way to make the visual aids interactive. Choose 9 of your visual aids to tape on the board in the shape of a tic tac toe grid, and have student teams play tic tac toe -- they must say the correct word in the target language in order to make their move!
 * Lizzie -** Tic Tac Toe