You and your Level 1 students are already halfway through their first-year journey into learning a new language. Through stories, conversations, and shared classroom experiences, your students have grown in community and language in ways that they probably can’t even recognize. As their teacher, you understand that proficiency takes time and that all of these gains—no matter how small they seem—are huge victories in the broader scheme of language acquisition.
But your students work on a different timeline.
Despite their tremendous growth in language learning, this is the time that first-year students can become easily frustrated. Fueled by a culture of instant gratification, they expect their World Language class to bring equally instantaneous results. There is so much more that they want to say and do in the target language, but their limited vocabulary has them feeling stuck. Your students want to use their new language to communicate about everything that matters to them, but they lack the words to do so. And this perceived lack of fluency risks overshadowing everything your students have accomplished so far and undermining their future progress.
How can you give your students the results they want in the little time you have left this school year?
The Super 7 Spanish Verbs give your students the key vocabulary they need to engage in real, meaningful communication—right away. These essential verbs—expressing location, existence, possession, identity, preference, motion, and volition—are the most frequently-used words in everyday language and fit easily into any World Language curriculum. The Super 7 Verbs give your students a strong linguistic foundation to investigate and express the ideas that they care most about, all in the target language. With the Super 7 Verbs, your first-year students can finally learn about, think about, and talk about virtually any topic in simple, accessible language.
Use the Super 7 verbs to build even more personalization into your World Language curriculum. As you speed toward the new semester and the impending “winter blahs,” the Super 7 Verbs are your solution to turbo charge student engagement, motivation, and satisfaction. Make the start of the new semester feel like a clean slate with an “All About Me” activity that helps you and your students get to know more about one another—while discovering meaningful and relevant ways to use the target language. You will start the second half of the year strong with personal conversations that build your classroom community and boost your students’ language skills.
The Super 7 verbs unlock compelling class discussions without the need for cumbersome vocabulary lists. Keep posters of the Super 7 Verbs for your target language (like this one for Spanish and this one for French) at the front of your classroom and refer to them often as you lead your students in conversations in the target language. With the Super 7 verbs as part of your essential classroom décor, your students will quickly feel like experienced language learners when they see how much they can talk about with just a few high-frequency terms.
Once your students have internalized the Super 7 verbs through your whole-class activities, give them the independence they crave to make the language their own. The Super 7 verbs are an excellent companion for your students’ introduction to World Language readers because they are the foundation of virtually every narrative. Give students Super 7 bookmarks (available for Spanish and French) to mark their place and support their comprehension as they dive into each new reading adventure.
Your World Language class is a special agreement between you and your students: They show up and put in the effort, and you give them the language they need to open doors to new and exciting experiences. Start delivering on your end of that bargain in a way that feels faster and more tangible to students when you build the Super 7 verbs into your World Language curriculum.
