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Dear Williejean

I remember a spanish class like that. We sat for what seemed like hours, but was probably an hour, while the teacher wrote a ton of words on the board. Boy was it dull, and guess what, I didn't remember any of the Spanish for asparagus, radish or whatever it was.
At least on this site you'll get loads of ideas on how to do things.

To introduce the vocab you could put pictures up either side of the board, or around the room and call out the word. The students must point at the correct picture. Do this with a fast pace, say one word every second or two, that way you will cover the same words over and over until the students learn them by heart.

If you have children then draw a line down the board and put pics to the left and the right. Call out one of the words, the children, standing in the ailes between their desks, jump to the left or to the right to indicate which side of the board the picture is.

If you don't have room for the jumping then have the kids stick out their left or right arm.

Here's a great game for teaching vocabulary fast.