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| Title | Ideas for Introducing Negation |
| Body | A recent request on the FLTEACH listserv for ideas for teaching French negation received the following suggestions. ---- Bienvenue from Glencoe McGraw Hill suggests using a sandwich as a prop to teach French negation. I have done this for several years and always get a good response. I actually write "ne" and "pas" on two slices of bread with a marker, and write "suis" on a slice of American cheese for the filling. When I get to the part of the lesson where I'm introducing the negative construction, I pause and say something like, "I'm kind of hungry. Maybe if I have a snack it will help me remember this." (It helps that I have a refrigerator in the classroom.) When I take the ne...pas sandwich out of the refrigerator, every student is awake and paying attention. When students forget to put the "ne...pas" around the verb, I have heard other students remind them, "no, it's like a sandwich". Galazin, S. Re: french negation. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (24 Oct. 2005). ---- I have used the verb sandwich also. I just draw bread around the ne and pas and make the verb bologna. Then when we get to pronouns we add in lettuce and cheese. They do like it and it works well in their minds. Arbushites, W. Re: french negation. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (25 Oct. 2005). ---- Great idea! I can use that on the fake plastic play food. It looks like real bread and real cheese! Schirmer, T. Re: french negation. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (26 Oct. 2005). ---- I plan to use the same idea when I teach ne pas + infinitive. Just label a plastic container with a verb in the infinitive and a piece of cheese/meat with a conjugated verb (put this inside the container). The ne pas manger (infinitive) is before you put the sandwich together and ne mange pas is when the sandwich is put together (the verb is conjugated). Smith, B. Re: french negation. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (27 Oct. 2005). |
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