Language Activities For Teachers to Engage Students

Engage Your Students

All of SmartClass' curricula take advantage of the 20 different activity types that are possible within the SmartClass Teaching Platform.

Save Time Grading

Create engaging activities for your students and have the platform grade most of them for you. Not only will it save time but it will also refocus your time on providing valuable feedback to your students on their speaking and writing assignments.

Increase Speaking Time

Double your students' overall learning growth and increase their speaking time, inside and outside the classroom. With many speaking-focused templates, your students will be able to record, rerecord, listen to themselves, and master the foreign language more rapidly and with greater success.

Pronunciation

Enhance students' skills through the power of repetition with this engaging activity. Listen, record, and receive instant feedback. It empowers students to persistently practice until they master their skills.

Guided AI Conversation

This cutting-edge tool is designed to supercharge your students' language learning experience, helping them build fluency and confidence like never before. This activity is available in 3 modes: Text (read & write), Speech and Text (Listen, read, and speak), Speech only (listen and speak).

Fill-in-the-Blanks

These exercises require students to complete sentences by inserting the correct words or phrases. They help reinforce grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structure by encouraging students to apply their knowledge in context.

Letter Jumble

The jumble activities are perfect for novices and provide an enjoyable experience much like playing a game rather than taking a quiz.

Word Jumble

Students often struggle with sentence structure, but understanding the correct order can greatly improve their writing skills and increase the level of difficulty they can handle.

Sentence Jumble

The sentence jumble serves as a powerful tool for students to effectively grasp the chronological progression of the narrative within their minds.

Text Match

These exercises involve pairing words, phrases, or sentences with their correct definitions, translations, or corresponding parts. They help students build vocabulary, improve reading comprehension, and strengthen their understanding of word associations and sentence structures in context.

Image Match

Not all students possess the same level of visual acuity. Incorporating diverse stimuli not only enhances the level of challenge, but uses images can contribute to their growth.

Category Match

Students sort words or phrases into the correct categories based on meaning, grammar, or context. This activity helps improve vocabulary retention, reinforces language patterns, and enhances critical thinking by encouraging students to recognize relationships.

Multiple Choice

Create a unique and engaging activity that is just as simple to make as it is to earn a grade. Customize it to your liking, whether you prefer a straightforward true or false format or a more complex array of answers.

Fill-in-the-Chart

These exercises require students to complete a chart by organizing information into the correct columns or rows. They help develop critical thinking, reinforce vocabulary and grammar patterns, and improve comprehension by encouraging students to analyze and categorize information effectively.

Video Recording

This video open recording is great for presentations or to ask students to role play or pretend to be someone else, such as this weather person.

Open Text

These exercises allow students to freely complete sentences, paragraphs, or dialogues with their own words. They promote creativity, critical thinking, and language fluency by encouraging students to apply vocabulary and grammar rules in a meaningful, personalized way.

Question and Answer

A simple yet effective template for engaging students in thought-provoking questions and to freely express their answers. This innovative approach requires the teacher's guidance for correction and improvement.

Open Recording

This activity will capture thoughts and expressions as students record their captivating descriptions or free-flowing commentary on images, audio,
or videos.

Continuous Recording

As students watch a video, they have the opportunity to express their thoughts within a designated time frame. Teachers establish the parameters for this creative process.

Segmented Recording

Here's another engaging activity where the teacher takes the reins. The students immerse themselves in the process of listening and recording and keep going until the activity is completed.

20 Different Language Activity Templates