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| Title | 'Living Sentences' Gets Students Moving |
| Body | This activity, recently submitted to the FLTEACH listserv by a French teacher, may be useful in classes of various languages and levels with students struggling to understand word order. ---- Thank you, Todd Bowen and Paul Weil! They taught me a great activity called "Phrases vivantes" or "Living Sentences". You give the kids cards with the subjects, verb stems, verb endings, and other words in the sentence. You call out a sentence in English and then go from there. The kids form the sentence and then you can change it as you wish. The kids "push each other out of the way in order to show how the sentence changes. I love using it in French when we start conjugating verbs and when we use irregular verbs and compound tenses. This one is especially useful for passé composé with être. Its also good for direct objects, indirect objects, etc. Kids have told me that it helped them become better at writing and at knowing where to place things. Each student gets one card. One student gets "Je, then another one gets "regard". Others get "-e", "la", "télé", Tu", "-s", and Luc. Then you call out "I watch TV." The kids go up and form the sentence "Je regarde la télé." For speaking practice, have a kid in the class who is not up there read the sentence. Then say, What If I want to say "Luc is watching TV" or "Luc watches TV"? The kid with "Luc" has to go up and replace the Je. Have another kid read the sentence for speaking practice. Then say, What about "You are watching TV"? The kid with Tu and the one with the -s go up... Have the kids in the rest of the class decide if the sentence is a good one. Have another one read the cards, etc. It's a great "keep 'em on their toes" activity. Levasseur, M.A. Re: ideas for hands-on verb practice. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (27 Apr. 2006). |
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| Inputdate | 2006-04-19 18:00:00 |
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