Pupils participate in a role play with a partner in which they practice interviewing for a job. In the scenario, they must ask or answer questions regarding three different careers in a foreign language. A great instructional activity on...

Students study prerequisites for a career. After they explore a selected career, students create a tri-fold flyer describing the positive aspects of the job. Students include job description, skills, education, salary and work...

Now that you've taught your French speakers vocabulary related to jobs and professions, give them this quiz to assess their learning. There are three exercises included. The first exercise requires test takers to fill in the blanks to...

Aligned with the Common Core State Standards for writing, this resource has Spanish language learners take on the role of an astronomer. After they use the graphic organizer to list names, verbs, and adjectives related to astronomy, they...

Find out your conversation partner's name, job, place of origin, and current residence with a straightforward Spanish practice guide. Learners click on audio icons to hear the proper pronunciation of ¿Como te llamas? and ¿De...

Students use the internet to research careers that use foreign languages. Focusing on one career, they discover which jobs play an important role in society. They complete a worksheet on the careers they find and share their...

Students explore the opportunities for bilingual workers. In this bilingual skills lesson, students select a foreign language to research and list ways their languages can be used in a work setting. Students explore career opportunities...

Students create classified ads for jobs. They discuss careers where their target language can be used and review background information about careers. They prepare want ads to describe preparation for and activities for three different...

Teach your class how to meet and greet in Spanish. The presentation prompts language learners to say buenos dias to five classmates and then to exchange names with five classmates. After the conversation activity, pupils learn the...

Students work in groups to write and perform a role play in the target language. They prepare an outline or notes on index cards. Each person in the group will pretend to have a job in the target country. They will describe their...

This is your basic recall quiz, but it's a great way to assess your class's currently vocabulary level! After teaching vocabulary related to jobs and professions, give them this two-page document. They complete four exercises, two of...

Work a few of these activities into your unit on jobs and professions for beginning French speakers. This teacher's guide focuses on feminine and masculine word endings, and introduces the teacher to different opportunities for oral...

The easiest way to learn how to use adjectives is through practice, practice, practice! Print out pictures of people and various objects, and have pairs attempt to describe the items together. This plan suggests providing laminated index...

Are your advanced learners reading authentic Latin this year? Whether you're teaching Caesar, Cicero or Virgil, use some of these strategies to map out your unit. What do you focus on? Consider taking small passages and making that the...

How many people immigrate to Spain illegally each year? Both the United States and Spain see a lot of illegal immigration. Advanced learners will read various articles, compare and contrast the situation in both countries, and discuss...

"Why do we have to learn a foreign language?" Have you ever heard that question before? Give your novices this project, and have them research different jobs that require the use of a foreign language. They create a PowerPoint...

Eleventh and twelfth graders research and create language-immersion Web-based presentations. They choose a particular theme (family, travel, etc.) to create a webpage on the Internet. They are given a rubric to check their grammar and...

How many words do you have to know to be able to select the correct sentence translation? Beginning and Intermediate Spanish speakers read Spanish sentences and identify their correct translation from a list of options. Although some of...

Second graders complete a KWL chart about libraries. They create a book using writing patterns of a particular author. Students decide criteria for awarding the Second Grade Librarian Award to books in the classroom library, and use a...

Students communicate more competently in the language they are studying during oral presentation. They translate movies from their language of study to English. They evaluate correct and incorrect pronunciations and conversations.

In this counting to ten mini book, students cut out and color a book that shows the numbers from 1-10 and the words for the numbers. The languages in this book are: English, Spanish, French, Swedish, Japanese and Swahili. Pronunciation...

For this sign language worksheet, students review, discuss, practice and color the sign language alphabet sheet. Students practice with a partner signing their own names.

In this ESL worksheet, students read an excerpt about Anthony Hopkins, the actor. They complete a crossword puzzle by responding to the 12 statements related to the excerpt. Then, students respond to seven questions also related to the...

Students research authentic Mexican food recipes on the Internet and translate them into English noting any new vocabulary. They present their recipes and vocabulary to the class.