1. Northeast Georgia Foreign Language Teachers’ Inaugural Conference
Workshop: Strategies
Danny Waxter, Flowery Branch HS

2. Puzzle Game
Objective: Students will comprehend and connect meanings of words in the target language through their meanings in their native language.
Materials: Puzzle template, scissors, envelopes
Directions:
Fill out the puzzle template to your class’s needs based on what vocabulary is being covered.
Cut the squares on the black lines and place them in the envelope.
Divide the class into groups of three or four. Working together, students will piece the puzzle together, matching the meanings in corresponding languages.
Other ideas: Students could match verb conjugations, numbers, cultural points or phrases.
Template:

3. Scrambled Sentences
Objective: Students will understand grammatical syntax through familiar vocabulary.
Materials: Computer paper, scissors, sentences
Directions:
Type 15 – 20 sentences implementing current vocabulary with common adjectives. This can help students understand adjective placement in a sentence.
Cut each sentence up by each word and place each sentence in a numbered envelope..
Divide the class into groups of two or three.
Each group will have a sheet of paper numbered 1 – 20 (Depending how many envelopes are available)
Working together, students will unscramble each sentence and write their final product on their sheet of paper that corresponds to the number on the envelope.
Place all envelopes at a certain location so that students can get and leave the envelopes at the same location. (Or you could set the envelopes up at centers.
Other Ideas: Distinguish between past tenses, ser and estar, and other grammar points.

4. Slap Game
Objective: Students will comprehend and connect meanings of words in the target language through their meanings in their native language
Materials: Pencil, slap game template, washable markers
Directions:
Prepare a SLAP paper by writing as many vocabulary words in the target language. Try to write the words in different directions so that students have to really look for the word.
Divide students in groups of two or three.
Each group has a Slap paper with the vocabulary words.
Teacher says a word in English and the student looks for the word in the target language.
Students point to the word with their pencil.
Whoever gets to the word first gets to write a point on the desk with a WASHABLE (Vis-à-vis)marker. .

5. Verb Dice Game
Objective: Students will practice conjugating verbs by randomly selecting a subject through rolling the dice.
Materials: Dice, verb template
Directions:
Students are divided into groups of two or three.
Each student has a copy of the dice template.
Each group rolls the dice. Then, the student writes down the number that he or she rolls.
Then, the students conjugate the verb based on what number they have rolled and the subject that corresponds to the number.
Template: