LOS JUEGOS DE CHARLAR

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LAS CHARADAS
Complete Unit -
35 Vocabulary Themes


Airport, Transportation, Travel, Professions and Weather

Animals, Nature and Holidays

Clothing, Materials, Classroom,
Body and Health


Family, House, Food and Drinks

Sports, Prepostions
and Daily Routine
Charadas is an interactive game with two teams.  Divide the students into two teams and give each team one minute to guess, draw, or act out as many vocabulary expressions as possible in that one minute.   
$100,000 PYRAMID
To teach students circumlocution, the Spanish $100,000 Pyramid Game is the perfect interactive way to review and reinforce vocabulary expressions related to school, sports, foods, house, travel, clothing, body parts, fruits and vegetables, health, verbs, animals, colors, weather expressions, beach, professions, objects, countries and capitals of the Spanish-speaking world, and more.  The teacher divides the students into two teams who have to guess the words or expressions for the images that appear behind them on the screen.


LENGUAS RÁPIDAS
Lenguas Rápidas is another fun and crazy fast-paced vocabulary game that reviews tons of topics.  To play, divide the class into two teams and have three or four students from Team 1 stand next to the screen in front of the class to guess vocabulary terms while the rest of Team 1 gives clues in the target language.  Each picture in this free Power Point game has an expression or a word that the team is trying to guess.  The team that is giving the clues may not say the words that are on the screen for that picture or they lose that point.  Here are the game instructions.

WOULD YOU RATHER?
Would You Rather? Spanish Version is a game for all levels of Spanish students or Spanish speakers. This game includes simple questions as well as more complex questions to make people think and to get to know each other while having fun and communicating. There are 75 Would You Rather? questions in Spanish for your students to ponder and use as ice breakers at the beginning of the year or at the beginning of class each day. Teachers may play this game as a way to start class in a creative way and to get students speaking Spanish right away.

SPEED DATING IN SPANISH
Speed Dating in Spanish is an excellent 40 page packet to teach Valentine's Day in your beginning, intermediate or advanced Spanish classes! Not only are you able to introduce Valentine's Day but it is a great way to get your students chatting in Spanish!

VAMOS A CHARLAR - COMMUNICATION PACKET
Vamos a Charlar is a 98 page Spanish Communication Packet that includes tons of speaking and writing activities for beginning through advanced level classes. Explore all aspects of communication in Spanish with this helpful activity guide. Your students will learn tele-communications, telephone and post office vocabulary and then practice communicating with e-mail, postcards, text messaging, speaking, and interviewing activities. This book is filled with a variety of activities and games to encourage and promote speaking practice including scavenger hunts, a board game, interactive commands game, matamoscas, the fly swatter game, and more. This packet will add variety to your classroom games and will make it easier for students to express themselves in Spanish.