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| Title | Teaching Pétanque Logistics |
| Body | Question: I noticed that some of you teach your students pétanque...I was wondering, do you have large classes and so have to buy several sets? or do you have some other way of having everyone involved? Replies: Personally, I started out with two or three CHEAP Bocce sets (like $10-15 at Wal-mart) and each person threw one ball per round and we had score keepers at each set. Each year or so I would purchase another set (still pretty cheap, although I did get a real French boules set as a gift from my dad last time he went to Europe, so I have one group using the metal balls). I now have enough to play in pairs, each person throws two balls. And nobody is left out. I also don't use the whole class period, it gets old for the kids who aren't so into it. I generally play after we've taken a quiz or something and have 20-25 minutes to play. Rauschenberg, J. Re: Pétanque. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (1 Sep. 2004). I have 3 sets: a "kiddie" set (half the weight of regular and plastic), a wood bocce set, and then I got four 3-ball sets of the metal balls, regulation size, from Obut (boules company)...so I can have three groups going at once. We usually play "triplettes" so that's 18 kids; I enlist others to help judge who's closer, and assign each team to cheer another as we play round-robin (good opportunity to teach command forms of verbs...and some adjectives). I got the groundskeepers at school to build me a petanque court: just some timber around the edge and a mix of sand and ag lime inside. I use it primarily as either a reward for good test scores or an after school club activity, and also an icebreaker between the 8th graders and high school (we have a spring meet). I've invited area schools often to come for food & to play, but rarely get any takers... Still, it is a good recruitment tool; students see us playing and become interested in what goes on in our classes... For more info go to: http://www.petanqueamerica.com/ http://www.petanque.org/ Blaz, D. Re: Pétanque. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (1 Sep. 2004). |
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