Japanese: Who is the criminal?

Hi all, Junko here. Here is an activity using a grammar "something, somebody, someday, anything, anybody" etc. This activity is effective

Useful Sites: 200 Words A Day

Hello all, Chris here. I have another site I would like to share. Take a look at 200 Words A Day! They feature several activities and featu

Useful Sites: ESL Sites

Hello all, Chris here. Today I have a selection of excellent ESL sites to share! Take a look at the following: http://www.readwritethink.o

Useful Sites: The Language Menu

Hello all, Chris here. Today I have a very cool website to share with you! Check out The Language Menu! The site features a wide variety o

Describe and Draw

Welcome to another post by Danielle!The following activity can be used in any language classroom or in your living room as a party game, de

Spanish: Newsbites

Hello all, Claudia here,I would like to share a great site with you today. It's a site designed for Spanish learners of all levels and it's

Useful Sites: Wordle

Hello all, Jason here.Here's something you might not have seen yet: Wordle. This is an image I created with Wordle using vocabulary from a

French: Marseille, 2006 Upper Intermediate & Advanced Learners

Hi everyone, Aurore here! This is a very nice video of most of the nice things you can visit at Marseille, southern France. From a cultural

French: Tourism & Vacation Vocabulary (Inter.-Adv.)

Hi everyone, Aurore here. Here is a list of useful vocabulary related to tourism and vacation abroad. It is designed for all levels. I

French: How to express a judgement of value (Inter.-Adv.)

Hi everyone, Aurore here!! Here is a list of useful vocabulary to express a value judgement. It comes with colloquial expressions too.

French: Vocabulary - Expressing your feelings (intermediate and advanced)

Hi everyone, Aurore here. Below you will find a useful list of words and expressions your feelings and colloquial expressions: Comment exp

French: Role-Plays for Advanced Levels

Hi everyone, Aurore here! Here are very funny role plays that I have designed for my students!! They enjoyed creating crazy situations and

French: Role-Plays for Elementary Levels (beginners to intermediate)

Hi all, Aurore here. Students love to work in pairs or small groups, this way they get to know each other and this makes a better overall a

Local Events: Don Quixote Film Screening

Hello all, Chris here. Just a quick newsflash regarding a film premiere here in the Lafayette (Purdue) area! Please take a look at the post

Useful Sites: Mindzeit

Hello all, Chris here. Today I would like to share a useful site with the community called Mindzeit! This site will primarily be of interes

Group Activities: Planning a Birthday Party.

Hi all, Junko here. Since my birthday is coming soon, I had my students plan my birthday party, haha. Here are the instructions. Plan

Advanced French: Baalbek & Heliopolis Documentary (with questions)

Hi everyone, Aurore here! Since it's very cold at the moment, let's watch some beautiful temples located both in the desert and near the se

Advanced French: Documentary and Worksheet on China

Hi everyone, Aurore here!! I wanted to share this documentary about China. Your students are going to love it!! It is a very good way to tr

Advanced French: Video "Les Petits Bilingues" sur l'apprentissage de l'anglais des tous petits with Questions

Hi everyone, Aurore here. Here is a very cute video I wanted to share with you today. It's about French children learning English at a very

Geman: Das Oktoberfest

Hello all,Chris here. Today I would like to share some information regarding Oktoberfest which can be used either to provide students with

News: Banner Added!

Hello all, Chris here. Just a quick update regarding the site. As you can see, we finally have our banner (and site logo) up and running. Y

Group Activities: Story Chains

Hello all, Chris here. Today I would like to share an activity I like to do in conjunction with practicing past tenses. In German this woul

Teaching Strategies: Organizing Groups

Hello all, Chris here. Today I would like to share a few tips with regard to organizing your students into groups. It may seem pretty easy

Spanish: Estereotipos

Hello everybody, Claudia here,When teaching about stereotypes I have found this guessing game quite fun. What you need to do is get your st

German: Rheinheitsgebot & Bierbraugesetze

Hello all, Chris here. When teaching a unit on Munich and Bavaria one part of German culture that virtually all students tend to be aware o

News: Purdue Linguistics Association Symposium 2010

Purdue Linguistics Association Symposium 2010   Saturday, April 17, 2010 Special Session: Language Diversity Guest Speak

Marketplace Speed Date Shopping

Hello from Danielle!The activity I'm using in my inaugural post is designed to practice the subjunctive in Spanish adjectival clauses. Thes

Spanish: Trabalenguas 1

Hi everyone, Claudia here,I would like to share a few Spanish tongue twisters for you to use in your classes. Students have lots of fun wit

News: TPR Book Release

Hello all, Chris here. If you have ever tried Total Physical Response (TPR for short) in your language classes, never heard of it, or just

German: Munich Links

Hello all, Chris here. Today I would like to share a set of links which will be useful for anyone teaching a unit on Munich. The links cove

Games: Verb Battleship Template

Hello all, Chris here. Today I am adding the blank template for Verb Battleship. Check it out below. You can save the picture and print of

Spanish: Calentamiento Global Video

Hello everybody, Claudia here,I would like to share a video on global warming I have used in the past when talking about this topic in my c

German: Step Into German Website

Hey all, Chris here. Today I would like to share an amazing website that German teachers will find especially useful! Check out Step Into

News: Goethe Institut Sommerschule in Elmhurst

Hello all, Chris here. For anyone interested, the Goethe Institut runs a Sommerschule in Elmhurst, Illinois. You can find more info on the

German: Verb Battleship

Hello all, Chris here. Today I would like to share a fun activity I created back in 2003 to help my students with conjugation. Almost every

German: Zungenbrecher 2

Hello all, Chris here. Today I will share a second set of common German tongue twisters for use in your German courses: Wenn dein Dackel