Summer is a great time to develop new skills, especially new language skills. This summer if you are offering Spanish tutoring services or if you are being tutored in Spanish, then consider working with immersion activities. These activities will help the student to pick up accents, vocabulary and conversation skills that are hard to learn during isolated tutoring sessions.
The first immersion exercise that your tutoring services can use to teach Spanish this summer is a Spanish language field trip. Consider going to Hispanic neighborhoods and community centers where the student can hear Spanish being spoken by native speakers of this language. You can also take museum tours and ask for a Spanish language tour guide.
Another immersion activity that language tutoring and tutors can use to help their students develop language skills is to rent or buy popular movies and utilize the Spanish language settings. There are two different settings that you can work with. To start with try the Spanish subtitles. This will provide your students with the opportunity to read Spanish. Next, utilize the Spanish language dubbing setting. This will play the movie in Spanish. You may want to keep the subtitles on at the bottom of the screen to help students understand what is being said. The final option is to turn the sound off and have them read the Spanish subtitles. You can assign parts to each of your students and have fun acting out the movie.
Do you have ideas for tutoring services or students to use to learn new languages this summer? Post your ideas below.
