Crystal Said:

Italian as a foreign language lesson plans...?

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I am sure you already know this, but talk, listen and speak as much as possible with Italians. Ask questions and don't be afraid to appear stupid. If you are learning grammar, you are doing great.

I have no idea if the list of websites on the link below are any good or not, but perhaps worth a try. Since you are probably somewhat fluent already, I would try to find a list of idioms and work through many of those. Ask people for expressions and learn them. The book Language Logic by Robyn Matthew (Word Nerd) suggests actually going through a pocket dictionary and studying the words page by page. Find a tutor, or a teacher for a friend. Read a book of rhythmic poetry aloud to get some fluency.

Antonio Said:

preschool language lesson plans?

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I don't know of any books off the top of my head - but I used to teach and was an assistant teaching director at a language school, so I hope I can pass along some ideas. I apologize if some of them seem obvious! :P

(1) Pick broad weekly topics (i.e. My Family) then each day of the week, teach about 3-8 new vocaulary words (depending on their level).

(2) do different activities involving the topic (i.e making a family portrait)

(3) Create 2-3 easy simple sentence patterns for them to recite. (Who is this? This is my mother; Is this your sister? No, this is my brother; etc. you get the idea).

I don't know what other things you have in your school's curriculum? But I think it is also a great idea to incorporate a weekly rhyme. The kids love rhymes and it does help them with their speaking and I am sure you already have story time incorporated within the school's plan as well.

Another thing that we used to do at my school are word families - each week we word learn a new word family:
for example: -ar
then we would go through some words in the -ar family such as bar, car, jar, tar...you can show them pictures associated with these. In my school, after every word group, we would hang them up on the walls so the kids could see them daily.

We also had a math program once a week.

I hope that these ideas help or can at least give you a jump start on some different ideas!

Lee Said:

Can anyone help me with lesson plans over the German language?

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We use the word kaputt when we say things aren't working. That is a German word and it means broken.

Here are some more I found when I googled.

http://www.daube.ch/opinions/sprache06.h…