‘i hear and i forget. i see and i remember. i do and i understand.’ chinese proverb

‘I hear and I forget.I see and I remember.I do and I understand.’

Chinese proverb

Active Learning Examples

Dressing up for role-plays

Dressing up for a game miming and guessing the words mamá, hermano, etc.

Talking about the weather ‘on the phone’! Who can say more kinds of weather in 1 min?

Playing with giant foam speaking dices

We made ‘spidergrams’ by sorting and organising words

from a topic

Matching image and word

Playing with interactive fairy tales in Spanish

Game ‘writing’ on somebody’s back and guessing the Spanish words

Class survey about likes and dislikes in relation to food

We made our own ID cards for the Spanish Class!

We made an origami fortune teller game, all through Spanish!

We “walked” around the city of Santiago de Compostela using Street View 3D Google Maps

We drew monsters by dictation to practise the parts of the body.

Outdoor games

Juegos tradicionales en español: Rey, rey, cuántos años viviré, 25, no lo sé:

1,2,3,4...

Indoor games

We have classroom jobs and wepractise our Spanish classroom language everyday

We colour one petal of this “flor” every time we learn a topic

In our “buzón de sugerencias” (Suggestion letter box) we have our suggestions for activities.

Here are

some of them!

Cooking through Spanish!

We cooked “Chocolate con churros”

We baked “Tarta de Santiago”

‘Escucho y me olvido.Veo y recuerdo.

Hago y entiendo.’

Proverbio chino