Recipes for Success in Foreign Language Teaching
Ready-Made Activities for the L2 Classroom
Katharine N. Harrington & Tina Ware (eds.)
University of Maine, Oklahoma Christian University
Much like a collaborative cookbook is a collection of best-loved recipes, “Recipes for Success in Foreign Language Teaching: Ready-made Activities for the L2 Classroom” is a collective volume of fifty teaching strategies, activities and ready-made lessons from language educators from all over the world. The lessons, both traditional and contemporary, are teachers’ personally developed and road tested second language classroom activities that will benefit all French and Spanish instructors. An eclectic mix of instructional approaches, the “recipes” address common beginnerlevel lessons such as the teaching of verb tenses and other common grammar points, and essential target language vocabulary. It includes three categories of lessons and activities: those designed specifically for French classes, for Spanish classes or those that can easily apply to either language. Each “recipe” includes an introduction to the activity and an explanation of how to implement it in a classroom context. The activities are clearly described and user-friendly with step-by-step instructions written in a straightforward manner. In many cases, teachers are even able to photocopy flashcards, handouts, games, and images directly out of the book for their own classroom use. This volume is designed as an everyday tool to complement any language teachers’ lesson planning.
Contents:
Introduction
Recipes for French
Les apéritifs: Essential vocabulary activities for getting started
An Immersion Course in Beginning French: The First Crucial Days
Richard Durán
Quel temps fait-il aujourd’hui?
Soodeh Eghtesad
Faisons de l’exercice ?
Kelly L. Kidder
Concentration game : Questions
Alison J. Murray Levine
Café français group project
B. Layton Isaacs
Dans un restaurant / Les fromages français
Soodeh Eghtesad
Les plats principaux: Hearty Grammar activities
Parlons, chantons, écrivons…pratiquons la conjugaison!
Carole Bergin
Le Tarot
Alison J. Murray Levine
Qu’est-ce qui t’est arrivé ?
Alison J. Murray Levine
Qu’est-ce que t’as fait ?
Alison J. Murray Levine
A kenisthethic reinforcement of passé composé formation
Sybil Jackson Carter
Practicing the passé composé in context
Sinda K. Vanderpool
Je suis malade
Soodeh Eghtesad
Qu’est-ce qui s’est passé ?
Soodeh Eghtesad
Le dîner des cons : Une discussion très drôle
Kendall B. Tarte
Discutons la classe de français / Discutons les médias
Kendall B. Tarte
Ideas for Teaching the Subjunctive in Intermediate French
Leanna Bridge Rezvani
Pour terminer: Activities for Fine-Tuning Beginning Language Skills
Teaching Adjective Placement through the PACE model
Alison Vort Halász
A game for giving directions
Soodeh Eghtesad
Bienvenue à l’O.N.U.: Teaching prepositions with place names
Katharine N. Harrington
Syntax through reading comprehension of familiar surroundings
M. Thérèse Casey Tseng
Recipes for Spanish
Los aperitivos: Essential vocabulary activities for getting started
Identifying foods based on spoken descriptions
Dennis Bricault
Present Tense Verbs: A Collaborative Reading Activity
Jennifer D. Ewald
Creative learning strategies in Spanish: Exploiting the ludic aspect of language strategies to learn the gender of words, grammar and vocabulary
Javier Muñoz-Basols
¿De dónde eres?
Maria C. Riegger
¿Quién lo tiene?
Maria C. Riegger
¿Quién lleva…?
Dennis Bricault
Los segundos platos: Hearty grammar activities
La Cenicienta: Preterit and imperfect
María-Elvira Luna-Escudero-Alie
Postcards from the Edge: A preterit and imperfect activity
Rachel Payne-Hall
Pretérito e imperfecto
Michael K. Cartmill
Mnemonic devices
Michael D. Thomas
Mock wedding/Grammar lesson
Tina Ware
Mi mundo ideal: Present tense of the subjunctive mode
María-Elvira Luna-Escudero-Alie
Use of subjunctive with doubt/denial
Susan M. Knight
¿Qué me aconsejas?
Aracely H. Esparza
Los postres: Activities for fine-tuning beginning language skills
¡Búscalo! A conversational game for learning direct object pronouns
Belinda Suaret
Successful project work
Andrea Cecilia Menegetto
Charades as a lead-in to interview using preterit and imperfect tenses
Belinda Suaret
Les presento a mis amigos Frida y Diego
Carol Eiber
Mnemonic devices for learning in a playful way
Javier Muñoz-Basols
Recipes for All Modern Languages
Appetizers: Essential vocabulary activities for getting started
Conversación telefónica/Telephone conversation
Dennis Bricault
Writing about family
Linda Lassiter
Fiesta/Party
Michael D. Thomas
Main Courses: Hearty grammar activities
Verb conjugation
Violeta Mack-Donovan
All things discovered
Carla R. Monroe
Audra L. Merfeld-Langston
Round Robin Storytelling
Reading as a springboard to other L2 skills
Stuart Stewart
ISBN 9783895860638. LINCOM Studies in Second Language Teaching 05.180pp. 2007.
