than that. How about a game of Vocabulary Pictionary?
You don’t need to even SAY the words. Get out their textbook, go to a page with a list of vocabulary — say in a chapter review — and let the kids go at it. You can POINT to a word. The student can draw clues on the board and teams can guess the word. Higher level classes would probably do this in the target language. It would probably be more stimulating than making a set of flashcards. I certainly would not instruct kids to work ahead in a workbook if I weren’t left specific instructions to do so by the classroom teacher. I wouldn’t attempt to try to carry on a conversation with a French class, having had no French. But I would trust if I were covering a French class taught by one of my colleagues that I could do a simple activity like Pictionary with them. The main thing a sub needs to be able to do is continue with classroom control so that the kids can do something meaningful until their regular teacher returns. When someone substitutes for me, I ask mostly that they maintain cla
