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| Title | Advice for Teaching the French Subjunctive |
| Body | Here are a couple of recent suggestions for teachers of French whose students struggle with the subjunctive. ---- My first suggestion would be that you NOT project to the students that the subjunctive is "confusing and difficult". I start introducing simple subjunctive structures in the second month of the first year, and the kids don't know that it's supposed to be "difficult", so it's no big deal. We just add new uses from time to time and they develop the sense that it's just another feature of the language to be USED and incorporated in their communicative work. If you put it off to the 3rd or 4th year and approach it with fear and trepidation, as something really "academic" that has to be faced and "conquered", they will respond accordingly. Lee, R. Re: subjunctive activities (french). Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (16 Feb. 2006). ---- I actually love teaching this. I start out by telling them that they have to be open minded about the whole concept of having moods as well as tenses. I have lots of activities that involves emotions and reality vs non reality. One that they like is imagine that it is the night before your son or daughter's wedding. Write a letter to your child expressing your emotions about the event, your hopes and dreams and fears for his or her future and those things that you are certain of (for some indicative) Bonn, J. Re: subjunctive activities (french). Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (16 Feb. 2006). |
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