In this activity, students listen to messages left on an answering machine in the target language and take notes. This activity is created for listening comprehension but extensions are included to make this a speaking assignment, also. This activity can be utlized at many different proficiency levels and for any spoken language. Included are ‘message’ templates for English, German and Spanish.

Students will learn about the French republic, the French flag, the national motto, the symbol of the republic, and their national hymn.

In this activity, students will learn to form affirmative and negative formal commands using regular verbs. Forming formal commands for stem-changing and irregular verbs is also covered. This activity will enable students to generate simple responses to commands in various classes across the disciplines.

The following lesson is optional.These are two Skype lessons that were planned with a 2nd grade teacher from Guatemala, for our students to connect and meet one another via a virtual form of communication using Skype. I was connected with a class in Guatemala with the help of Teachers 2 Teachers Global (For more information see Digital Resource for Skype Project in the Instructional Unit). The purpose of this activity was so that my 2nd grade Dual Language students could communicate in Spanish with a 2nd grade class in Guatemala who was learning English at their school. This lesson was developed by Gabriela Bermingham as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Students will recognize Francophone perspectives regarding transportation and the environment. They will apply what they have discovered through their research and respond to a prompt using readily available technology tools. Students will present and culminate this unit by illustrating how they can take action in the realm of teen travel.This lesson was developed by Emily Burrus as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

This is the official website of the German National Soccer League. It provides current information about the first and second league, competitions, statistics, photo series, video clips, etc. The language can be switched from German to English, Polish, and Japanese.

This module focuses on how to interact in Spanish, both linguisitically and culturally, when one person (e.g., a vendor, office clerk, travel agent) asks and answers questions to provide a service or good (e.g., a product, an appointment, airline tickets) to another person. Dialectal differences are addressed. Included are exemplary videoclips in Spanish, transcripts and a step-by-step, interactive study guide: Encountering the Communicative Act, Learning and Performance Strategies, Identifiying Important Social Factors, Perceiving Dialectal Variances and a Summary of Key Points. The language samples are in Spanish but the study of this pragmatic act is in English.

This video set created for UT Austin features native speakers describing other peoples' physical appearances. English and Spanish transcripts are available.

In this lesson plan for novice high second language students, students will negotiate, in pairs, a time to meet. They will communicate about their daily schedule, appointments and events. The language structures include present tense verbs and expressions for telling time. Culturally, students will compare their daily life and school schedules in the US with schedules in the target culture. The modalities include interpersonal communication, writing and reading. This four-page lesson plan is applicable for any world language course. Included are suggestions for adapting and extending this performance task.