What is Weekend Chat? It’s just what it sounds like. You can use it as a party of your class routine and lesson plans for Mondays. How does that sound? Ready lesson plans for every Monday? Sign me up!
Weekend chat is a great way to build relationships with students and to have students build relationships with each other. It is also the perfect way to reinforce structures that will help students express themselves about real life in the target language.
Check out these weekend chat activities for Spanish class to give your students more variety in your Monday lesson plans.
Ways to Weekend Chat:
- Pairs
- Small groups
- Whole Class
Spanish Weekend Plans Fortune Teller | Cootie Catcher
Who played with fortune tellers are a kid? 🙋🏽♀️ I definitely did! I used to make them with all types of questions. This resource is a great way to get students chatting in Spanish about their weekend plans. All the questions use the student ¿Vas a…?, ¿Quieres?, and ¿Qué planes tienes? to talk about plans for the weekend. Each questions has an illustration to help students make connections. Great activity for a Friday. Fortune tellers are great for student working in pairs.
Included:
- Version with questions
- Version with questions and sentence starters
Weekend Chat Spanish Class Fortune Teller | Cootie Catcher
Students will follow up with their classmates about what they did over the weekend. Questions are written in the past tense and have an illustration to give students vocabulary support.
Included:
- Version with questions
- Version with questions and sentence starters
Verb forms:
- estudiaste
- fuiste
- hiciste
- comiste
- hablaste
- dormiste
- saliste
Weekend Chat Speaking Activity Special Person Interviews
Have you done a special person interview? This weekend chat activity is great to just chat as a whole class about weekend activities or to choose a persona especial. Focus on what your special person volunteer did over the weekend. Use these 30 questions to guide students through a special person interview. The presentation is a PDF and Google Slides. There are 3 editable slides for you to add your own questions.
Use the write and discuss activity form as a way to review what students learned about the persona especial.
The Venn diagram activity is great to have students compare themselves with the persona especial.
Use the entire presentation as conversations cards as a station activity or review for fast finishers. Print 4-6 to a page and laminate.
Preterite Tense Spanish Last Weekend Activity Running Dictation
Looking for a high energy and fun activity? – Students will race to read running dictation sentence strips. Each sentence strip has a sentence written in the past tense. This a great activity for students to work in groups of 2-4. Read more about how to do running dictation here!
Included:
- 15 Running Dictation Strips
- 5 Running Dictation Templates
- Record sentence.
- Record the sentence and translate.
- Record the sentence and draw the image.
- Record the sentence and match the numbered image. Numbers match strips.
- Record the sentence and match the image.
Verb Forms Used:
- fui
- fuiste
- fue
- fueron
- vio
- estudié
- limpió
- salí
- leyó
- habló
- dormí
- comió
- trabajó
- visité
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