How to encourage students to produce comprehensible output on sports

 

 

 

 

 

 

My grade 7 students (12-13 years old) did comprehensible presentations about some popular sports in Hispanic countries. First, I wanted to model a presentation because whenever my students produce Spanish output,

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Street view to broaden horizons

I am hooked on Google+ at the moment and yesterday I read this short post from Yonatan Zunger: "This game is remarkably fun: You get five random images from Street View, and you have to try to figure out where in the world you are.

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