| If you are really looking for fun ways to | | | | than they can just plain vocabulary, |
| learn Spanish, visit a Spanish speaking | | | | soteaching through music makes perfect sense. |
| countrywhere you can truly immerse yourself | | | | For example, you can teach basic |
| in the culture. However, most people want to | | | | Spanishvocabulary by teaching students a song |
| learn | | | | and showing pictures of each object or |
| | | | number. |
| Spanish before they visit because chances are | | | | |
| they are only going to be there for a | | | | Using a Bingo game is a fun way to reinforce |
| shortwhile for a vacation. They may want to | | | | numbers by having students cover thenumbers |
| learn some essential Spanish phrases before | | | | on their cards that you call out in Spanish. |
| theygo. Most children now study Spanish in | | | | Of course, everyone will want a turnto be the |
| school and teachers try to incorporate | | | | caller, so you can get to see who is having |
| funactivities into the lesson plans so that | | | | trouble with the correctpronunciation. By |
| the students will be eager to learn and not | | | | using games and songs, you can teach farm |
| becomebored. | | | | animals, the alphabet,colors, the members of |
| | | | the family - just about any vocabulary words |
| There are so many fun things you can do when | | | | you need to teach. |
| teaching Spanish that you may have ahard time | | | | |
| deciding just which one to choose for each | | | | Young students become actively involved in |
| lesson. There are many books and | | | | the songs, especially ones where they haveto |
| | | | do actions. Movement helps them get involved |
| CD's you can buy that contain the music and | | | | as well, so you can teach a Spanishdance as |
| lyrics to Spanish songs. Young students | | | | part of one or more of your lessons. |
| caneasily remember the words of a song better | | | | |