Five units of instruction for teaching vocabulary and higher order thinking skills in foreign language classes are presented. Introductory material considers the differences between language fluency and communication, and lists higher order thinking skills as: (1) classifying, verifying, hypothesizing; (2) making associations and generalizing; (3) seeing cause and effect relationships or determining sequence and consequence; (4) drawing conclusions, making inferences, and predicting; (5) problem solving, decision making, assessing values; (6) creating, discovering, imagining; (7) making judgments and formulating reactions based on personal experience or available facts; (8) synthesizing, comparing, and contrasting; and (9) reasoning and persuading. Next, the five instructional units cover the following topics: vacation clothing; rooms of a house; types of buildings; foods; and shapes, sizes and colors. For each unit, class activities are explained and keyed to the higher order thinking skills emphasized. (MDB)