This is a presentation I gave at the UFLA conference in November 2010

1. Top Ten
Tricks of the Trade

3. Tunes
Please raise
your hand when
you hear the
word for Hello
in your target
language.

5. Time

6. Time

7. Taketurns

8. Take Turns
Citas de Hablar

9. Citas de Hablar
!No eres la reina¡ Estudiantes ausentes.

10. Citas de Hablar
Teacher coordinates all.
¿Quién no tiene un compañero?

11. Take Turns
Dividing Into Groups Twakin’ in coicles

12. Take Turns
Palitos

13. Take Turns
la bienvenida, el oso, la foto, mostrando y contando

15. Pause to process
2 minutes:
When would you use these
ideas?
Signs on the door.
Students pick up
papers/supplies as they come
in.
Talking appointments.
Numbering hands.
Talking in circles.
Name sticks.
Individual student presentations.

16. Train/Procedures
empezador papeles para repartir

17. Train/Procedures
¿De quién es? Tarea para los ausentes.

18. Train/Organization
cuaderno e índice fechas importantes

19. Train/Instructions
instruction sheets

20. Train
advanced organizer lápices huérfanos

21. Pause to process
One minute:
Anything you can use?

22. Talk!
Poner – to put Poner commands

23. Talk!
decir – to say

24. Talk!
caer vs. caerse

25. Talk-a-thon
Yo (ser) dentista.
Yo (trabajar) mucho.
present: soy
imperfect: era
future: será
present: trabajo
preterite: trabajé
23 - J

26. Talk-a-thon

27. Processing Pause
Two minutes:
Choose an irregular
verb in your target
language.
What kind of talking
activity could you do
with it?
Is there a
vocabulary/verb set
you could turn into a
talk-a-thon?

28. Translation
the runner/writer game

29. Translation
$100,000 pirámide

30. things that are red

31. parts of the face

32. things you wear on
your feet

33. processing pause
2 minutes:
Choose a partner.
Discuss the two games,
how to play them and
how you could
use/adapt them for
your class.

34. Technology

35. Kerpoof.com

36. www.srathackeray.wikispaces.com

37. Test
Make a study buddy.
Poner quizzy. Use a papelito.

38. Test
At the door quizzes

39. Test
quick oral quiz snowball quiz

40. Test
oral quiz group practice

41. What do your students have to look
at when you’re giving an oral test?

42. Thoughts
A Few Favorite Resources
Todd Whitaker What Great Teachers Do
Differently
Harry Wong The First Days of School
Sharon Faber If These are the Students, Who
should the Teachers Be? AND How do we Teach
Them?
Rick Wormli Meet Me in the Middle
www.fhmsforeignlanguage.wikispaces.com
www.srathackeray.wikispaces.com