¡Ay, vocabulario! As I'm going into next year, I have a dilemma. How do I teach vocabulary? We use ¡Exprésate! 1 in our district. We break it up into 2 years, chapters 1-4 in Intro. to Spanish and chapters 5-8 in Advanced Spanish. I want their vocabulary to be authentic, but I need to make sure that my Advanced 8th grade students are ready for their high school placement exam (Scantron & writing) that determines if they will start high school in Spanish 2 as well. At this time, I give students a vocabulary list, and we review it together. I'd like to have a better way to present their vocabulary. I do like how I start out my clothing unit. I begin by having them do this activity I got from TPT. I love it! Students enjoy it! It's always fun for them to see how much clothing items cost, and we can review the currency exchange between U.S. Dollars and Euros. Plus, I incorporate pictures of my own of El Corte Inglés that I took while studying abroad in Spain. On
Lessons, ideas, and thoughts from a junior high Spanish teacher.