Activities for Teaching Spanish Grammar
Spanish is taught at all levels of education in classrooms across America. Spanish teachers bear the often cumbersome task of teaching native English speaking students a new language. If you are one of these teachers or are just trying to teach a friend or relative, there are activities that you can use to make the teaching and learning processes easier.
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Learning Through Song
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Songs are good mnemonic devices for developing language skills. There are hundreds of Spanish songs that can be used to reinforce grammar skills. Give each student a Spanish song to learn accompanied by the English translation or you could assign the students to translate the song themselves. Pick songs that have a lot of varied sentence structure and preferably use multiple tenses (present, past and future). Additionally, you could assign your students create their own songs.
Role Playing
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A role playing activity teaches grammar skills by having students act out various scenes entirely in Spanish. The students could pretend to order food at a restaurant and act out the scene in front of the class, pronouncing every sentence in Spanish without assistance. The teacher could evaluate each student's language "performance" by telling the student where he was correct and incorrect.
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Spanish Grammar Quiz Game
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Host a Spanish grammar quiz game in class. Split the students into groups or allow each student to go head-to-head with another student in answering Spanish grammar questions quickly and correctly. Each student or team could receive a bell or buzzer to press when the question is asked. The student or team who answers the most questions correctly would win a prize.
Spanish Storytelling
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Tell the class a short story entirely in Spanish, using visual aids to accompany the story. Have a student volunteer to summarize the story in English. Additionally, assign the students to write their own stories entirely in Spanish and have each student present her story to the class.
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