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5 thoughts on “A Good Idea/Teaching HF Verbs”
Great idea, Eric.
I did a story based on irregular preterite song a few years ago. The irregular preterites tend to be HF verbs, although some of the HF are probably used more often in their imperfect forms (tenía, quería, podía, sabía).
What you are proposing is a lot more useful than what I did because 1) putting in the past time frame we will choose the aspect (pret or imperfect) which is most appropriate, rather than constraining ourselves with an all pret straitjacket, and 2) you have divided the words in to microstories.
Another great idea. Thanks.
(TCI Maine in less than a month.)
I appreciate anything to help teach high-frequency verbs. This looks like fun! I have written “trilogy” mini-stories where each day was told from the viewpoint of a different character, but I’ve never highlighted the high-frequency verbs. Nice!
“Same mini-story where each day was told from the viewpoint of a different character.” Lori, that’s a great way to get more reps on the same structures and supporting vocabulary. Thanks.
Update: This is working. I am on #7.
1) I establish a gesture.
2) I use the “Visualization Verb” cards created a while back.
https://benslavic.com/blog/using-visualization-to-learn-verbs-eric-herman/
3) I create some mini-stories and PQA a number from above for about 15 minutes per class.
4) And I have a verb wall with the 50 highest frequency verbs in present tense 3rd person singular L1-L2, which I can laser at if needed to recall the written form of the word.
Devil’s advocate: There is a little of that “I teach language” feeling of “targeting,” and a few of these numbered lines are not “stories,” creating a slight artificial feeling to the activity. It may be more effective to just establish meaning of these words as is needed by communication. During this activity, I TELL one short numbered line with my details. Then, I “jump into the space” and have kids customize the line.
But on the flip side, once I complete #8 I’ll be able to provide sheltered CI that contains the 25 highest frequency words (non-targeted grammar net within bounds of these 25 words).
This is good Eric. I can tell that you are designing your own CRAFT. I am also sure that is has a rationale grounded in SLA. If you do not already have a book written, you should write one. I imagine a strategies handbook with SLA rationale embedded in it. Throw in some possible “tweak options”. It could very well have some non-CI teacher try it out.