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Author Watts, Catherine, author

Title Jumpstart! Spanish and Italian : engaging activities for ages 7-12 / Catherine Watts and Hilary Phillips
Published London : Routledge, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 211 pages)
Series Jumpstart!
Jumpstart! (London, England)
Contents Machine generated contents note: Adding Language to Existing Classroom Routines -- How to Turn Your School into a Bilingual Area -- Language Work Displays -- Cultural Interest Displays -- Using Other People Around You -- Playground Clapping Games -- Exploring the School Grounds -- Yourself -- Flashcard Games -- Memory Games -- More Complicated Games -- Standing Up Games -- Sitting Down Games -- Moving Around the Room Games -- Beginners' Games -- Number Games -- More Simple Counting Games -- Team Games 6o -- Thinking Games -- Grammar Games -- Make an Aquarium -- Making a Mobile -- Using Stick Drawings -- Rubber Glove People -- Language Quizzes -- You Are What You Wear! -- ¡Buen Provecho! Buon Appetito! -- Make a Wall Frieze -- Word Games -- Word Spinners -- Bingo or Lotto! -- Word Wheels -- Word Searches -- Chinese Whispers -- Word Fans -- What Are You? -- Authentic Songs -- Purpose-made Commercial CDs -- Home-made Songs -- Themed Songs -- Adding Actions to Songs -- Action Rhymes -- Choosing a Text -- Introducing the Story -- Phonics -- Moving On -- Suitable Texts -- Telling Stories -- Playscript of Las Mariposas verdes -- Further Ideas and Games to Use with a Text -- Reading Poems -- Poems and Key Word Identification -- Poems and Cultural Information -- Dealing with Non-fiction Texts -- Survey Your School Community -- Involving Parents -- Taking Home a Language Story -- Mini-Events -- Assemblies -- Labels and Captions -- Making Lists -- Designing Menus -- Likes and Dislikes -- My Shopping -- Who Am I? -- Speech Bubbles -- Mini Diary -- More Complex Writing -- Communicating -- Simple Poems -- In the Magic Mirror -- Simple Stories -- Quick Games -- The Memory Tray -- Hangman -- Traffic Lights -- Weather Mime Game -- Simon Says ... -- Animal Charades -- Tongue-twisters -- Finger Rhymes -- Mystery Object -- The Box of Surprises -- Language Whispers -- Guess the Word -- Unscramble the Word -- Jumbled Words -- Pass the Object -- Closing the Class and Saying Goodbye -- A Farewell Song
Summary "Jumpstart Spanish and Italian presents a collection of simple to use, multi-sensory games and activities will jumpstart students' understanding of modern languages in action. If you are one of the thousands of teachers looking for a range of practical and fun ideas to teach languages engagingly, then this is also the perfect book for you. A range of innovative ideas to help you set the scene in your language classroom are presented first. These are followed by a feast of short and simple activities designed to help you make quick starts with your students and hold their attention. The focus throughout is on communicative action, bringing languages alive with all activities presented in two languages: Spanish and Italian"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Ages 7-12
Text in English, Spanish and Italian
Print version record
Subject Language and languages -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Spanish language -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Italian language -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Interdisciplinary approach in education.
Multilingual education.
EDUCATION -- General.
EDUCATION -- Elementary.
Interdisciplinary approach in education
Italian language -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Language and languages -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Multilingual education
Spanish language -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Form Electronic book
Author Phillips, Hilary, author
ISBN 9781317687078
1317687078
9781317687061
131768706X