Spanish One:
Introducción
Los Colores y Las Formas * Colors & Shapes
El Contenido * Contents
1. Spanish Colors * Los Colores Españoles
2. Shapes * Las Formas
3. Spanish Colors Word Search
4. Activities- Card games and other games
5. Creative Mini-projects
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Los Colores - Colors
Los Colores * The Colors
El Color
The Color
rojo
red
azul
blue
verde
green
blanco
white
negro
black
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Más Colores * More Colors
El Color
The Color
amarillo
yellow
anaranjado
orange
morado
purple
café
brown
gris
grey
rosado
pink
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Las Formas - Shapes
el círculo
el cuadrado
el triángulo
el rectángulo
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Spanish Colors Word Search
Spanish Colors Word Search
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Circle these Spanish color words:
AZUL! !
AMARILLO!
BLANCO!
MORADO!
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ROJO!!
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ANARANJADO!
GRIS! !
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Flash-Card Activities & Games
Use Flash-cards of Colored Shapes
Touch, Point, Hit
THE POINT: Listening Comprehension
Materials: Identical picture visuals, flash cards, or student created TL flashcards for each player or
group
1. Each student is to have or make a set of TL flashcards with either pictures, or the TL.
(vocabulary, pronouns, articles, conjugations)
2. The teacher calls out in the TL: point to . . . . . for all cards, then touch . . . . for all cards, then
hit . . . for all cards.
3. Mix up the commands for fast-paced listening comprehension fun.
Partners or Groups:
1. Student partners or groups use only 1 set of cards.
2. Teacher then says 1, 2, 3, + point in the TL. The first person to point to the correct card wins the
point, and takes up the card.
3. Teacher then goes through the same 1, 2, 3, process with Point and then Hit, or groups are
allowed to do this independently
4. The player with the most cards wins.
1*2*3
THE POINT: vocabulary recall and pronunciation
Materials: One regular deck of playing cards
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Deal the entire deck of cards.
The object is to get rid of all of your cards. Hold your cards face down in a pile.
Choose a category such as Colors, Animals, Furniture, or Fruit.
Each person in the group chooses a vocabulary word within that topic and tells it to the other
players. For example, if the topic is Fruit, one player might be an apple, another a banana,
orange or melon.
5. Together, everyone says, « ¡1, 2, 3, Fruit ! » in the TL
6. On fruit everyone will turn over their first card. If there is a duplicate, be the first person to name
the other personʼs fruit. If you are successful, the other person must take all of your cards that
have been played. If not, you must take theirs.
7. Whenever you run out of cards, pick up the cards you already played, turn them over, and begin
again. The first person to run out of all of their cards wins.
8. After the first game, change the categories
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Play It!
Card Games
SMALL GROUP BINGO
THE POINT: Listening comprehension, memory, & recognition
Materials: TL content or pictures or symbols or numbers, Bingo boards or tables: student
created by folding up notebook paper, or teacher created on handouts, pencils with erasers to
write check marks on squares, markers: beans, buttons, etc.
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Each student has a bingo table or board that has the TL content in different squares.
Each student has a pencil or markers.
Teacher or leader calls out or describes TL content.
Students are to mark the appropriate square.
The first student with the designated amount in a consecutive row wins.
The winner must say the TL answers on each square correctly to receive points or a
prize.
I Have It!
THE POINT: Listening comprehension & practice saying lo tengo.
Materials: identical set of flash-cards for each student. Students can make their own.
1. Students create, & then arrange their vocabulary picture cards, verb conjugation cards,
etc. face up on their desks.
2. Teacher calls out vocabulary, conjugations, fill in the blank sentences or descriptions,
and even questions or answers. Visuals can also be shown to class as prompts for
answers.
3. The first student to hold up the correct card and call out I have it or Yo lo tengo, or Je lʼai
wins a point individually, or for the team.
Hit it!
THE POINT: TL recall, pronunciation, and speaking
Materials: One set of picture flash cards for each group
1. Arrange students into small group circles on the floor.
2. Each group arranges their set of picture flash cards in the middle of the circle.
3. The teacher calls out a word, phrase, or description. The first student to tap or hit
the correct card wins the point and takes the card.
4. The player with the most cards at the end of the game wins.
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Colores y Formas * Colors and Shapes
Escuhar, Dibujar, y Colorear * Listen, Draw, Color
Listen & Draw/Escuchar y Dibujar
The point: Listening comprehension and color and shape visualization
Materials: drawing and coloring materials or mini white boards and different colored dry
erase markers
1. Partners sit back to back.
2. The first partner says a Spanish shape and color or two or three. No English allowed!
3. The other partner is to draw and color them.
4. Check to see if your partner got it right.
Design/ La Diseña:
The point: Use Spanish colors and shapes to design and create basic, everyday
objects.
Materials: Drawing and coloring supplies
1. The teacher will give you a thing or a place to draw and color using shapes. You will
be told both the English and Spanish name.
2. Create,draw, and color with shapes!
Art Study/ Art Study
The point: Practice and see shape and colors in the masterpieces of Latino art.
Materials: Slide or photos of paintings or sculpture from Spanish speaking countries;
well-known masterpieces work best.
1. The teacher will show the class a slide of a Latino masterpiece, or photo-copies will
be passed out to pairs, groups, or individuals.
2. You need to say “yo veo/ I see . . . “ followed by the Spanish shapes and colors that
you see.
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