Are you looking for a community building speaking activity for the beginning of school in which the students can get to know each other while reviewing the present tense? This is a great Back to School ice breaker activity for levels Spanish 2, 3 or 4 for the first month of school or if you want to give the students an opportunity to get out of their seats and talk to their classmates. This would be a fun social emotional activity since it promotes positive communication among the students in the class. It is also an interactive way to reinforce the present tense at the beginning of the year. Even though this is a novice activity, it would be a good review for the upper level classes who need to know the present, past and future tenses for the Seal of Biliteracy test.

ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages

• Interpersonal Communication: Learners interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.
• Interpretive Communication: Learners understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
• Presentational Communication: Learners present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers.

This seven page PDF-only resource includes different versions with various levels of support. You can decide how much prompting your students may need.

• Page 1 - Instructions on how to do the activity and several ideas for variation
• **Page 2 -**Questions in the tú form to practice interpersonal speaking
• **Page 3 -**Sheet to write sentences about their classmates for interpersonal writing (no prompting)
• Page 4 - Questions in the tú form with prompts in the yo form to practice interpersonal speaking
• Page 5 - Sheet with the verbs in the él/ella form as support to write the sentences to practice interpersonal writing
• Page 6 - Thank you and other resources
• Page 7 - Credits, terms of use and contact information