This resource provides a prompt for every school day that could be used to inspire students to express themselves in the language through speaking and/or writing
This resource provides a prompt for every school day that could be used to inspire students to express themselves in the language through speaking and/or writing
This resource provides a prompt for every school day that could be used to inspire students to express themselves in the language through speaking and/or writing
This resource provides a prompt for every school day that could be used to inspire students to express themselves in the language through speaking and/or writing
The Portuguese language lessons of ClicaBrasil highlight aspects of Brazilian culture. They are designed for intermediate to advanced students, but are accessible to everyone. Each lesson includes videos of Brazilians from all walks of life speaking naturally about their lives and their country. All lessons integrate reading, writing, listening and comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, oral communication and cultural activities with the videos. This is also available as a free PDF textbook and as print on demand.
A compilation of video scenarios of people interacting with each other in Portuguese. Conversations include dialogs, questions, turn taking exchanges, clarifications, false starts, hugs, laughter, asides. The scenarios are enhanced by transcriptions, translations, content analysis, and notes and discussion blogs.
Students participate in a grocery store activity using common vocab for shopping and math/counting money.
This information-gap card activity on Forests is based off on Jeff Zwiers’ authentic speaking and listening. This is a great activity to get the students to speak and gain a better understanding of the topic instead of just writing down notes.
Français interactif is a unique, award-winning 1st-year French curriculum used by learners all over the world. Students explore French language and culture by following the lives of real students who have participated in the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. The online curriculum includes over 320 videos, vocabulary and phonetics audio, online grammar reference with self-correcting exercises and audio dialogues, verb conjugation and practice tools, internet activities, and a textbook of classroom exercises. Franais interactif was awarded the 2009 CALICO Esperanto Access to Language Education Award and the National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment Best of Humanities on the Web award (2005)
Rockin Russian is designed to give students exposure to the Russian language and culture through the medium of Russian music videos. Students are able to perfect their grammar while rocking out to music videos from Russia's pop stars. Based on Russian music videos from MTV Russia, Rockin' Russian is supplemented with exercise materials focusing on pronunciation, vocabulary development, grammar and cultural features. Parts of the videos are embedded into exercises in each category that students can revisit, strengthening their language skills.
Students practice saying common school phrases throughout the school day.
Tá Falado includes 46 podcast lessons on the pronunciation and grammar of Portuguese, specifically designed to help those who already speak Spanish. The lessons are built around Portuguese dialogs that are repeated in Spanish, providing a direct comparison of the two languages. All lessons include downloadable PDF files with the transcripts and notes, mp3 audio files, and blog discussions. Additionally all of the dialogs present cultural scenarios that illustrate differences between North American and Brazilian culture.
This document can be used in any language class to help students brainstorm ideas for a writing or speaking assessment about the weather. They should fill out the attached document in the target language.
Students talk to each other and learn about interests. Students share using sentence stems/vocab.