This manual is designed to offer teachers ideas that appeal to middle school students (ages 10-11 to 14-15) and give them short-term successful experiences in the foreign language classroom. The activities described here provide ideas for learning that involve the four basic skills of foreign language learning - listening, speaking, reading, writing - and are attuned to the middle school student's learning characteristics. The activities can be used in individual and small group work, or they can be practiced with teacher, aide or machine. They especially fit a learning center, a place which, although a part of the same content area, is apart from the more formal classroom. This manual is intended to augment the text. The learning activities should be adjusted to supplement each chapter of the textbook, since they are designed to extend the practice of material introduced in the text. (Author/AM)