Whichever partner reads the correct statement out loud in Spanish faster wins the round and records a point on their whiteboard. Student A looks at the illustration, looks at her reading sheet and has to figure out which statement Student B illustrated faster than Student B figures out which statement Student A illustrated. When the teacher gets to 1, both students show their illustration to each other and the race begins. While students are illustrating, the teacher is counting down backwards in Spanish, from 20. Then the game begins: silently both students select a statement to illustrate and begin drawing it on their whiteboard. Before the game begins, I ask them to read and translate it with their partner, to make sure that both partners understand everything that is written. ( We have animal partners so I tell them to sit with their Monkey partner or whomever.) Both partners need a mini whiteboard, marker, eraser and the reading you prepared. Then have them use their Write and Discuss to play.

If you’re short on time, rather than copying the sheets, just create a slideshow and project the statements there.Īnd if you’re really short on time, or you need a last minute lesson plan, do a Write and Discuss together, but rather than writing it in paragraphs, write each sentence alone and have them skip lines between each sentences. Cut the copies in half so each student will have identical half sheets.

Format it so that each sentence is on its own line (So not written in paragraph form) and copy it below so you have the same list of sentences on the top and bottom. Or here’s a Quick Draw that my Spanish 1s play when we’re talking about food and restaurants. Here’s one I’m preparing for my Spanish 4s, who are watching and discussing the telenovela Gran Hotel and I want them to read lots of past subjunctive with conditional. Or if you’re trying to give them lots of input on a specific grammar point, go with that. Even better, use a story you’ve already read or created as a class. To prep: Type up a story or list of sentences in your target language. Shhhhh….really they’re reading and rereading and rereading, with a little drawing and yelling thrown in for fun). Here’s another comprehensible input game (that the Little Darlings really think is a drawing game.

Draw a story game