This game can help students learn vocabulary. The teacher must prepare tags labeling items around the room in Spanish. Do half the tags in one color and the other half in another color. Gives students several days to look around the room and use the vocabulary in the course of the school day. After two or three days, remove the tags, and divide the children into teams. Each team receives half the tags and must work together to return the labels to their proper places. Give the first team to place all its tags 5 points. Allow the second team to finish placing tags. Then give each team a point for each correctly placed tag. The team with the most points wins.
Students stand in two lines facing each other. Each line is a team. Give everyone on each team a verb. Tell students to perform an action in English, and the students holding that verb in Spanish must perform the action. The first team member who reacts properly gets a point for his team. Teachers may call more than one verb at a time if they choose.
Teachers can purchase pre-made Spanish Bingo cards or make their own. Bingo cards can focus on verbs, nouns, or short phrases. The teachers says the word or phrase in English, and students must cover the corresponding Spanish words on their cards. Spanish Bingo provides an excellent way to review before a test.
Spanish crossword puzzles are an activity that students can work on independently or in groups. Teachers can use them as a main classroom activity or as a fast finisher activity. There are online resources that enable teachers to generate crosswords to cover a subject matter in a particular chapter or to review a particular part of speech. Teachers can choose to provide clues in Spanish or English and require answers to be in the opposite language or create a crossword puzzle entirely in Spanish.
Children review features of the human body and actions they can do. The teacher then names different body features, and students stand up when they have them. For example, if the teacher says "blue eyes" in Spanish, all students with blue eyes stand up. Sometimes the feature could involve all students. For example, "Students with a waving hand stand up." Every student starts with 10 points, but a point is lost if they do not stand up when they had the correct feature or could have reacted to conform to the requirement.