Archive for June, 2011


Simple Games for Young Children

In this animals game, the computer says the animal, and the child simply clicks on that animals.  He is told “yes” (or “muy bien” or some varaition), or “No”.  If correct,the little guy on the left moves up the palm true. Click on the picture below to open a new window and play.

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Memory Match – with Spanish words and Audio

In the classical “memory match” game, two the student clicks on two cards, the picture is shown.  If the two items match, the cards are removed from the “table” or “web page/game”.  If they don’t match, the cards are turned back upside down, and the student picks another two.  The idea is to eventually match [...]

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Play web-based Bingo with Spanish Vocabulary

In this variation of “Bingo”, a Spanish word is shown on the screen and audibly pronounced.  The student has about 5 seconds to click that item on the “bingo card”.  If he gets it right, it counts as a square toward making a bingo (a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line of five matches). In a [...]

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Play web-based “Hangman” with Spanish Words

The classical game of hangman can be played here (click on picture):

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Online Flash Games at “Digital Dialects”

There are number of “flash” style interactive games, with sound at this site: http://www.digitaldialects.com/Spanish.htm    

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The Google Translator

The Google Translator is not a game per se, but I’m sure you could think of some games to play with it. It’s free, fairly accurate, goes from Spanish to English or English to Spanish (or to and from other languages), and it can now “speak” the Spanish translation, which is pretty amazing! Note:  Sometimes [...]

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Cacahuates – the counting games of “Sevens”

We played this silly game in my high school Spanish class in West Texas.  “Cacahuates” means “peanuts”. The game basically teaches counting skills, but with a trick.  Each student takes a turn, and turns move down each row of the classroom (or you could put the students in a circle, and as a student is [...]

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