Guide to Middle School Foreign Language Activities: Games in French, Spanish, German, ESL and More!
Ta-da! Presenting . . . our very first Foreign Language House book– Middle School Madness: Cooking up Foreign Language Games. It contains over 50 fun and easy to use language learning games that are effective for French, Spanish, German, Chinese, ESL, and more.
My amiga, Catherine, and I have been busy preparing workshops that we’ll be presenting at various foreign language teaching conferences across the country this year. As we scoured our files and memories, we were inspired to compile all of our best stuff in a publication. One of our most successful conference presentations was called Middle School Madness. We found that not many language teachers specifically set out to teach at the middle school level, yet find themselves there with either elementary or secondary training. In fact, that’s how Catherine and I became friends. Her Spanish classroom was two doors down from my French room. Our daily visits usually started with phrases like: “What do you think about this idea?” “You’ve gotta try this new game!” “How on earth should I teach . . . ?” or “Argh!! They’re crazy today. Any ideas?”
Middle school is a unique and wonderful place that I really loved. The activities in our “recipe” book work well with any active, novice-level learner in grades 5-9. (I taught a lot of freshmen the past two years, and I can attest that many of these “Middle School Madness” games are a hit for beginning high school learners, too.)
You can purchase Middle School Madness: Cooking up Foreign Language Games at Lulu.com as either a paperback book or a digital download, and it’s available internationally. You’ll find every foreign language activity and game that you need to get your students talking, playing, and writing in the target language. Formatted like a recipe book, the directions, materials, and time durations are crystal clear. The ACTFL five C’s are covered in all sorts of communicative tasks, connections, content, and some cultural activities.
Have fun with your students in the target language. And remember–there’s always a (teaching) method to the madness!
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