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| Title | Ideas for Teaching and Reinforcing Gender |
| Body | Recently several American Association of Teachers of German listserv users shared games and activities for reinforcing the gender of different nouns. Although all of the examples are for German, the suggestions are great for any language that has different noun genders: --- I play the fly swatter game to reinforce gender markers. I draw a red line down the middle of the whiteboard. On the left side I write the three gender markers large in three different colors. I do the same on the right side. We have two teams. One student from each team goes to the front of the room and stands in front of the red line on the board about 2 feet away from the board facing the class. Each has a fly swatter. I stand at the back of the room with my list of vocabulary to practice. I saw the word - Jacke, for instance - and the first one to touch the correct gender marker with the fly swatter gets a point for their team. This always turns out to be fun. Carol Haring. Re: [AATG-L] Gender Games. American Association of Teachers of German listserv (AATG@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU, 22 Feb 2010). --- I give each type of noun a color: der = blau, die = rosa, das = grün. (Yes I know, how sexist of me...). I write the vocab on the board in those colors when we learn them, and I will often ask "Welche Farbe hat dein/e..." and students respond with the color that matches the der/die/das. I ask students to make their flashcards with the three colors. Another trick used is word association. If we've a noun that is hard to associate with colors, like 'idea', we talk it through to the logical der/die/das, the weirder the better students remember, and I always take their ideas. Flynn, A. Re: [AATG-L] Gender Games. American Association of Teachers of German listserv (AATG@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU, 22 Feb 2010). --- Read more ideas for teaching and practicing gender in next week’s issue of InterCom. |
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