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Tools for creating communicative lessons

Tips

• Setting the stage
• Student incentives
• How to check oral comprehension
• Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS)
• Basic Principles of Foreign Language Learning
• Selected books on how to teach languages

Tools to download

For organizing a group of students

• Four Corners
  Instructions for playing Four Corners, a game that organizes the students into discussion groups.
  
• Line-ups
  Instructions for playing Line-Ups, a game for breaking the ice and for guided practice activities.
  
• Circle-within-a-circle
  Instructions for playing Circle-within-a-circle, a method for efficient, low-stress oral presentation.
  
• Carousel or assembly line
  Instructions for variations on Circle-within-a-circle.
  

Instructions for games and activities

• To Tell the Truth
  An activity for the first day of class, level 3-4.
• Diamond Poem, a simple writing assignment
• Blufferama
  A team question-and-answer game.
• Team Pictionary
  How to play Pictionary as a team relay race.
  

Forms for games and activities

• A/B calendar
  Two calendars with complementary schedules, for an A/B activity.
  
• Bingo card
  An empty Bingo card.
  
• Bravos
  Print a sheet of reward tickets.
  
• Crossword puzzle grid
  A grid for creating a crossword puzzle.
  
• Monthly planner
  A blank one-month calendar for students to fill out.
• Pyramid of the Story
  A blank form for describing a story.
• Venn diagram
  A blank Venn diagram.
  

How to

• How to make a mini-book -- Word document.
  Instructions for folding a 6-page book from a sheet of paper.
  
• How to make a mini-book -- PowerPoint
  Instructions for folding a 6-page book from a sheet of paper.
  This file will open more quickly if you save it before opening it.
  
• How to make a mini-triptych -- Word document.
  Instructions for folding a triptych-style book from a sheet of paper.
  
• How to make a mini-triptych -- PowerPoint
  Instructions for folding a triptych-style book from a sheet of paper.
  This file will open more quickly if you save it before opening it.
  

For behind the scenes

• Lesson-Plan Form
  Print this form and fill it out to create your own lesson plans.
  
• Oral Production rubric
  Factors for evaluating students' oral performance.
  
• Royalty-Free Clip Art for Foreign Language Instruction
  From the Purdue University Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
  
• Royalty-Free Clip Art for Foreign Language Instruction
  Google search for free clip art.
  

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