At the end of class on Friday, one of my students paused before leaving and commented on the activity we had just done "That was fun."
He was referring to an online activity that had students tracing directions along a map of Old San Juan. They were given a starting point and then had to pick the correct final destination. If they were right, they advanced. If wrong, the activity kicked them out and they had to start over again.
I created the game using Sporcle (which if you use it to make something for your own classroom, I recommend mentioning that in the directions since it can be made available to the general public). I have ten questions on it right now but one or two of them are trickier than I would like and I may be editing over the summer.
I was excited to hear that my student had enjoyed the game, not just because he had a good time but because I knew he had been using our new vocabulary (how to give directions) in a more-meaningful context that also incorporated realia.

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