Have students learn by doing! Very minimum prep needed from teachers, and guides students with rubrics for self-directed learning - with genuine motivation as at the end of the projects students throw a quinceañera in class! Spilt class into three groups: Restaurant Group: Create the menus, organize the food to bring for the party, and serve the food (all in Spanish!) Great way to create an authentic ordering and serving Spanish conversation Invitation Group: Create the invites for the party to hand out to students and adults, also the option for a second project addition of making games and decorations, Dance Group: Create a dance choreography to bachata for the quinceañera - includes a playlist of videos for your students to learn from. Example videos from my classroom. Speeches for mother and father of the quince girl. Includes: -3 group project rubrics -A Powerpoint including a video, notes, writing prompts, and an outline for your quinceañera in class -Bachata Dance videos

Fun Activity or Project, where students get a blank template included in this powerpoint of an Instagram post with a comments section. Includes directions for students to post a photo of a meal (or draw) create silly hashtags about the meal, and include comments from their peers using the IR+A (voy a comer...) structure that can easily be adapted for what you are working on in your unit. Students include the number of likes in Spanish as well, and makes for a great display in your classroom revolving around a food unit. NO PREP needed.

Simple communicative activity where students go around and ask ¿Qué vas a comer para cena? ¿Dónde vas a comer? -- students then have a model that they use to respond, write their classmates answers down in the boxes, and they write their answers in the third person (VA a comer....) practicing IR + a + infinitivo/place and food vocab

Infinitives warm up activity in Spanish, to get students thinking about what an infinitive is before working with new tenses. They organize the verbs into AR,ER, and IR - can easily be extended. Uses common verbs in Spanish

This is a catchy reggaeton song that is clean, and has a clean video that students can watch. This activity comes with lyrics students can fill in, and background information on the artist.

No prep needed! In this worksheet there is a matching warmup, where students match the vocabulary from Soy una taza (the song --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdJPY2Hf7U) Next, the students watch the video and fill in the lyrics to the song using the vocab from the warm up. Finally, I have students learn the dance and act out all the vocab. (my students are in middle school, even though the song is primary they love it!)

Includes 5 different fun activities for students to practice making questions at each level. Scaffolded by easy to more challenging to help students build to a creation level. Activities included (no prep!) -interviewing famous people worksheet -Warm up/Do Now - turning infinitives into questions -Personal interview sheet, responding to questions about their favorite things etc - Directions for a Communicative Activity between students and a partner - Project: Students will create a talk show where they interview people (famous, or friends etc), present to class

This Guided Practice Walks students through practicing Spanish cooking vocabulary used from this Quizlet. https://quizlet.com/246899237/cooking-vocabulary-flash-cards/ It goes from easy to more difficult. First students match vocabulary, then use a word bank to fill in an authentic patatas bravas recipe from Spain, then they write full sentences in spanish (translate) and then respond to a question to connect them to the vocabulary in Spanish. If they finish early there is a small drawing vocab activity and a way that students can rate themselves as an exit ticket with the vocab.

In order to get students working with responding to questions in Spanish, and in different forms (tú/yo/él/ella) this worksheet lays out an interview format for students to first respond to questions in the YO form, then ask a partner these questions in a TU form, and write down what their partner says in the ÉL/ELLA form. This is a great writing and speaking, and listening activity!

This Poster has fun images to help students remember what key question words mean, you can enlarge this at a staples/etc or give it to the students as a handout. Por qué - the letter Y/ Why? Dónde - a werewolf/ Where? Cuándo - a venn diagram/ When? (venn/when) Cómo - howling wolf/ How? Quién - an owl/ Who? Cuál - a witch/ Which? Qué - a light bulb/ What? (watt*)

This is a reading that mirrors cinderella but with a girl who wants to Salsa Dance and using present tense verbs. This provides an original text and questions for each day of the week as a "do now" or easily adapted as an in class activity.

Two Do Now or Reading Comprehension Activities. Fun stories with easy instructions. Vocab: Introductions, Adjectives, Me gusta Grammar: Present Tense

This is a DO NOW or warm up activity for Spanish class every day based on the food unit 3B from Realidades. I created memes to go with each day, and it increases in difficulty to complete each day, building up their vocabulary and written Spanish skills. Easy to modify if using a similar food unit, or a particular tense! I converted to microsoft word so you can edit it, so you might need to add one space to make it spilt exactly on two pages if you're not using pages - otherwise I've left it a pretty open template so that you don't need to change anything (kids fill in the date etc!)

Great way to review simple future with Marc Anthony's song. This worksheet includes a present tense review of who Marc Anthony is, then a fill in the blank for the lyrics (youtube video with lyrics is called Vivir mi Vida ir + a + infinitive), then allows students to translate the main parts of the song, and then create their own version about how they want to live their life. Cloze

Me Gusta and Vocab (Infinitives) Notes and guided practice. Includes an interview section where students ask each other what they like, and graph out the classes responses.

TPRS Spanish Class and School Supply Vocab supplied through a fun story with pikachu, continually forgetting things in class and asking his Pokemon friends for school supplies. In the end he forgets something extremely important! Comes with guided notes as well.

This slideshow describes what happened in Puerto Rico with easy to understand vocabulary (with a vocab sheet for students to follow along) and accompanying images. A TPRS activity, to learn about a real and current event. Students will learn about how they can help, and learn the vocab associated with helping in the community (aligns with Realidades and this Quizlet set https://quizlet.com/234082550/helping-the-community-spanish-vocabulary-flash-cards/).

This is a fun reading about a Thanksgiving feast where a dog ends up eating the turkey. There is a word bank with verbs in the past tense, and students need to fill in the blanks. After they write their own silly story. (Spanish)