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| Title | Songs to Teach 'Aller' |
| Body | To the tune of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow: Je ne vais pas a la maison Tu ne vas pas a la maison Il ne va pas a la maison Jusqu'a la pointe du jour. Jusqu'a la pointe du jour, Jusqu'a la pointe du jour, Nous n'allons pas a la maison Vous n'allez pas a la maison Ils ne vont pas a la maison Jusqu'a la pointe du jour. We (college students in France) actually used to sing a version of this on the bus on the way to ski. It was only Nous n'allons pas a la maison each time. I adapted it to practice all the forms of aller. We use gestures -- je (point at self), tu (point at friend), il (point at boy), nous (circular gesture to include self and those sitting nearby), vous (point at kids across from them with both hands to show it's the plural "you"), ils (point out in the hall, toward the rest of the school). Blaz, D. Re: song to teach aller?? Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (23 Feb. 2006). ---- I've been using a song this year for aller. Its roughly to the tune of Particle Man by They Might Be Giants. We sing,"Je vais au cafe, Tu vas au cafe, Il va au cafe, Elle va au cafe, Nous allons au cafe... You get the idea. There is a little connecting tune with no words to which we stick our fingers in the air and do "finger exercises". Bend your fingers, stick them out to the side, then bend them and stick them out to the other side, while singing "Dou dou dou dou..." Here's a link to the tune: www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/461 We replace "au cafe" with different places and even different means of transportation. "En toboggan" is the fave of one of my classes. That is how they go anywhere they need to go in any given story. That song sneaks into stories all the time when we are going somewhere. This whole thing sounds very complicated, but really it's not. I make up little ditties all the time. This is the fave this year. Mollard, C. Re: song to teach aller?? Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (26 Feb. 2006). |
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