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| Content Type | 1 |
| Title | Low tech random name generator |
| Body | Here's an idea similar to one that someone already suggested where she uses index cards. It may be useful for people who cannot rely on a computer for the random name generator. I keep mine in a pocket in the organizer that is attached to the overhead projector. I learned this from observing it in a classroom where I substitute taught a long time ago. (I can't remember the teacher's name to give her credit for the idea.) You need to buy several inexpensive identical sets of playing cards. I remove the jokers, then shuffle them so they come up randomly. Then I use a permanent ink felt pen to write a student's French name & any other info I choose (lately just their name & class hour). I keep them bundled in rubberbands, sorted by class hour. Often, when I use them I ask a student to shuffle them & a different different student to choose the one to follow. These are useful when no one will volunteer or when so many people volunteer that you can't choose one person w/ out hurting the feelings of several others. You could either keep the cards from the people who've already been called on separate or you could add them back to the stack so you keep them on their toes wondering if they'll be called again. When I ask for volunteers and no one comes through, I reach for les cartes de victimes & tell them, Pas de volontaire? Alors, ce sera des vicitimes. Editor's Translation: "No volonteers? Well, then, it will be victims." Here's an idea for using the leftover cards in the following years: I reuse the old cartes de victimes to play Loto des cartes, which I learned from Gloria TIBBETTS. It is an easy game to play & useful for motivating the students to pay attention to numbers from 2 - 10 & to listen discriminately for other French words for the card suits & values. Plus, if they win a loto, they have to use the target language to tell what they (think) they have. First, I use the overhead to review numbers & to teach them the French words for the card suits & for the Ace (they love that one !) & the face cards, plus how to put them together, trois de trefle, as de pique, etc. They also learn to say loto for bingo. (Now that we can so easily make color transparencies, I'm thinking of making transparencies of the cards for teaching this part in the beginning.) Student volunteers distribute the cards to everyone in the class. Each person is given 5 cards. It does not matter if they have duplicates, because if they have 2 or 3 identical cards, they just pull them all if they are called. The object is to have all 5 cards called & they call out LOTO when that is the case. Then they have to read back what they have, en francais, to be sure that they truly do have a bingo. Rose Bleue. Re: random name generator - non-electronic version AKA Cartes de Victimes + loto des cartes. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (10 Aug. 2004). |
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| Inputdate | 2004-08-13 10:05:00 |
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