French & Spanish Speaking Activity: Shipwreck

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Your students will build their proficiency, polish their skills and create increasingly complex sentences with this dynamic and interactive speaking activity. Naufragio/Naufrage encourages strategic thinking and friendly competition.

Let’s take a look at how it works:

  • In each of the squares, there are pictures, numbers, time or subject/infinitive. Whatever the theme is that students are working on. Students play against an opponent or two and each player has a different colored pencil.
  • Player 1 begins by choosing a box and  identifies the verb form or picture and then creates a sentence, depending on the proficiency level. There are reference pages to support students in level up their language.
  • Players use a colored pencil to claim squares by forming rows as they earn points and hone speaking skills. They also try to block the other players from doing the same. That’s where it gets really fun and engaging. So fun that they forget about how much of the language that are actually using.

Students have useful and essential tools to engage in this small-group activity, including reference pages to assist in building sentences and checking their accuracy.

Each resource includes:

  1. Directions for how to do the activity
  2. A reference page with vocabulary or verb forms
  3. A reference page for building sentences 
  4. Game boards

There is absolutely no prep required. Just print out and you’re ready to go.

Spanish Naufragio Vocabulary Topics:

Spanish Naufragio Verb Form Topics:

French Naufrage Vocabulary Topics:

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