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A program to let teachers listen to students verbal responses to questions. I use this program quite a bit to let students speak and be assessed without using too much class time!

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Focusing dialogue on questions. 100% Free.

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A fun drill game using flashcards! We love playing 'Jewels'. The challenge is to beat Madame!

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A way to use videos for listening comprehension and cultural knowledge.

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Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

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Find someone who...
Down time- no cell phones, make small talk in TL
Role playing

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Student communication
Surveys
Topics
Question of the day
Engaging with convo
Bell ringer
Seating
Pen pals -local schools

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1. engagement -- change structure of room... seat set-up

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1. engagement -- change structure of room... seat set-up

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2.  turn a quick grammar lesson into a communication exercise

3.  reference wall, we like Olaf"s painted on idea

4. speaking placemat taped onto each student's desk.  Common expressions, phrases-- placement was found on Facebook French teachers in America Page

5.   Switch up Posters/Visuals on the walls during the year to engage kids visually

6.  Switch up seating during year
7.  Euros as tokens during quarter
8. Use Eggspert buzzer game

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Random Name Chooser

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--"Paying" students to speak with paper Euros. Earn more for speaking, better informal speaking grade.
--Requests must be in TL
--Interviews/surveys between students (or even parents)
--Games (familiar like Clue or Apples to Apples) played in TL

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Each make their own version then group decides the best
Google docs-draft back (add-on)
Build portion of rubric of peer assessment

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Group work
Google docs
Dialogue-in rows, continue through row of students
Write a sentence , next person draws, alternate

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Google Docs and Slides
Pen pals with neighboring district
Partner journal writing
Hands-on easel paper gives a break from technology

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Headbanz
interviews/surveys
pay students to speak with paper currency of the target country/language
puppet theater
Movie talk- music video with no sound, that the teacher narrates in and asks students questions in the target language.  Students write story boards.
https://www.studiobinder.com/.../top-10-storyboard-software-of-2016-free-storyboard-t...

https://www.teachthought.com ›

Short films by Disney Pixar work well, such as Wildebeest from Bird Box.  Martina Bex has a website about the Comprehensible Classroom.  You can purchase Movie Talk links and activities on Teachers Pay Teachers.
On the Road by Steve Hartman is a good resource to create a story in the target language.
Annabelle Allen - brain breaks
Non-target comprehensible input - Ben Slavic

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Guessing game
Guess Who?
Have answer come up with question
Follow up questions to info given
Questions about a picture
Inteviews

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Participation points
fly swatter game
cross words on the smart board
20 questions inTL
show and tell

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Games-quizlet live
Kahoot
White boards
Directions -get out of seat
Basketball relay Voc reviews
Picture talk -stand until you talk or switch seats after you speak

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Koosh ball
incorporate RWSL daily
Show and tell (listeners ask questions about the object)
Pop corn charla/ chat (responding to what the person in front of you said {react first then respond}
end each lesson with self expression using the topic of the day (like an exit ticket)

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Going backwards... figure out what question to ask
What else could you ask from this question

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good voice recorder that does not pick up background sounds  or

Vocaroo for Chromebooks

30Hands for iPad  Sound and Photos

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group activities
games (competition)
Hokey Pokey game
Hello-world.com is good for games

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Students become the expert on a particular culture (each individual student has their own culture to become the expert on for the year) and share their findings/ project

Integrate movies and art into each unit (dove commercial)

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In class work-no hw

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Gallery learning
Kinesthetic movement with vocabulary
Quizlet live

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quizlet live

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Current events French Newspapers for upper levels

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Current events French Newspapers for upper levels

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Newsinslow Paid online subscription, updated each week, change the speed, discussion, scroll over to see definitions etc.

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Have kids contribute info
Word reference.com

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Newspaper in French for French Children actu.com

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Newspaper in French for French Children actu.com

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Field trips
Foreign trips
Hyde Museum Glens Falls NYFrench and Spanish Art

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Articles translated with student interests in mind.

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Just a French teacher passionate about growing alongside her students.

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Google expeditions app
V reality goggles
Tour cultural sights
Trips abroad

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Composition books
Google docs diary/portfolio

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Lake Placid Center for the Arts

Spanish language films

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engagement/ speaking skills/ communication- bravos, currency rewards, store bargaining, seating charts, using technology to record instead of in class, after school time

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engagement/ speaking skills/ communication- bravos, currency rewards, store bargaining, seating charts, using technology to record instead of in class, after school time

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Strategies-  stories, role playing stories

Sources:
Comprehensible Classroom
Lyricstraining.com
edpuzzle.com

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Time count
Stand in silence waiting

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Develop a library in the TL with "how to" instructional books, theme books, series books (like Harry Potter)
Using children's books in the TL
Using prediction as a reading strategy (draw and present an alternative book cover, use speech bubbles to say what the people in the cover would say, use comic strips- draw and predict the next one)
Find the main idea in each paragraph
Using an infograph or venn diagram
Make brochures
Senor Wooly

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French landmark project  10 slides in French about a landmark in French

Me PowerPoint    7th grade
basic me facts

My future life project-- use the future tense Powerpoint

Age my face App PowerPoint using future tense

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Let the kids choose the units and topics
Survival day at the end of the unit- all speaking and using what you learned. Unscripted and organic.

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Quizlet live
Duo lingo
Recap

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Superhero project
Picture, their face 250 words about superpowers, conditional tense

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Netflix series "el internado" - a series from Spain about teenagers attending a boarding school. Good for upper level classes, free resources available through Google search

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Netflix series "el internado" - a series from Spain about teenagers attending a boarding school. Good for upper level classes, free resources available through Google search

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High Frequency words Regents French quizlet search for RAEjenkins1

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High Frequency words Regents French quizlet search for RAEjenkins1

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Hello-world.com
movie talk
ver-taal.com
duo lingo
quizlet
kahoot
story board that
studyspanish.com
ed puzzle
chatter pix
fluent u

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museum project
they reproduced on of their favorites living tableau Like giving yourself the unibrow of Frida, create your own museum -- how would you get them to do speaking on this?

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Learn Languages with Music Videos, Lyrics and Karaoke!

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Enjoy learning languages for free playing with the music videos and filling in the lyrics of your favorite songs: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and more.

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MovieTalks
Comprehensible Input
Brain breaks

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Use of digital textbook

Group work-sentence starters

Bravos-students turn in a coupon when speak in TL. Need to turn in 5 per week for participation grade

Euro system earn $ for various tasks. Must pay teacher if caught speaking in English during class period.

TPR Storytelling

Comprehensible input/circling

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Pen pals in Quebec and the students meet each other at the end of the year to talk face to face.

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Pen pals in Quebec and the students meet each other at the end of the year to talk face to face.

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We watch movies from Quebec and write to the actors

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We watch movies from Quebec and write to the actors

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ver-taal.com
veinte mundos
youtube videos
mi vida loca
destinos
news in slow
newsela
Connect quinceanera with the movie sweet 15

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Internado-7 seasons on Netflix-upper level Spanish

Basho and Friends

Billy la Bufanda

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Flyswatter
Tingo Tingo Tango
Go fish
Memory
Pictionary

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Pod

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digital text
group work,sentence starters
Bravos-students turn in coupons when speaking in TL

Euro system students earn money for varios reasons, student pay teacher when caught speaking English

TPR Storytelling

Comprehensible input/circling

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Food; instead of the menu project, use a waiter's apron to draw and write the menu

Art: study the movements and artists using web quests but also create a piece in the style of a movement the student connects with and a reproduction from the students' favorite artiist

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Adirondack Foreign Language Teachers
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Here's the app smackdown Google Slides presentation in PDF format for non-Google users!

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http://iphonefaketext.com/

Create conversations that look like text conversations to engage students in reading comprehension in a format that is relevant to them

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Here are photos of each of the boards from the table discussions.

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Here are photos of each of the boards from the table discussions.

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Take a look at each of these photos to see what strategies and information the round table discussions came up with