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| Title | Teaching -ER Verbs |
| Body | I am currently teaching -er verbs to my 7th graders. I started out with a list of simple (fairly guessable) -er verbs and asked them to try to hypothesize their meaning in pairs. They were right about nearly all of them. Then we talked about the -er at the end and what it could mean. Students verbalized fairly quickly that it was the "to" form of the verb. We played charades with the verbs on cards, placed in my "boîte magique," which is a Quaker oatmeal box covered with wrapping paper. They loved trying to guess the verb from the gestures. Something I did last year was write a number of -er verbs on story strips, those colorful 24" strips they have at the teacher's store. I brought students up to arrange the subject pronouns in conjugation order on a pocket chart, then invited others to tear or cut off the -er before we used them to conjugate the verb (I had five additional strips to put up next to the subject pronouns without the -er). Students then had to place the verb endings, also on pieces of story strip, in the right places. They seemed to get a real kick out of ripping off the -er ending, and it made kinesthetic sense to them that the verb was now conjugated without it. Twedt, L. Re: Teaching -ER verbs. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (24 Sept. 2006). |
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| Inputdate | 2006-03-26 15:09:00 |
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| Publishdate | 2006-03-27 00:00:00 |
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