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| Title | Activities for Teaching the Passe Compose |
| Body | Are you looking for some new ideas for introducing the passé composé to your classes? Here are a few recent suggestions from the FLTEACH listserv. ---- I will print copies of articles from French language newspapers and have them highlight either past participles, forms of avoir or etre, or both. When they are first learning the passe compose, I also have the kids number the 3 parts (1. Subject, 2. helping verb, 3. past participle) to stress the importance of all three. Matz, M. Re: activities on le passé composé. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (26 Mar. 2006). ---- I would start out with demonstrations about what the passé composé does and does not do. If you can do this in French, fine. If not, use many examples in French, give students a printed list of these functions and point to the examples. Tell two stories in the present tense: one with only narrative elements, one with a mixture of narrative and non-narrative elements. Convert the all-narrative paragraph into passé composé. Do a guided conversion of the second one. Now devide the room into two or more teams. Give them a third (narrative and non narrative) paragraph, but where the narrative could stand on its own. Tell the teams to convert only the appropriate sentances into passé composé, submit them to you. Count off for errors in passé composé, but also for converting an inappropriate sentence. This can all be done before they learn imperfect, and will almost guarantee that they will be sensitive to the difference when they come to it. Peckham, B. Re: activities on le passé composé. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (26 Mar. 2006). |
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