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Crystal Barragan

Hi Ben, Here’s my bio. Sorry for the delay! Growing up, teaching language was not part of the plan. I was a smart hispanic kid in a tough, urban school district with big goals and ambitions. My parents are both from Mexico, and though I acquired English at a very young age, Spanish was the […]

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Guy Van Der Veen

I’ve known Guy through conferences for years. A class act. He doesn’t post a lot but here is what we could call a combination Bio and Report from the Field. He is in SoCal. Thanks Guy and will see you in San Diego in a few months. This is my third year of TPRS/CI. My

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On Parallel Novels

I always felt as if I didn’t have time to do a parallel novel. But now I realize that the term is misleading. We can spin out into a parallel scene while reading a novel, or we might be able to set up a parallel set of events for more than one scene, possibly up to one

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In Your Face 1

I was coming back on the train from a Denver Nuggets basketball game and saw four teenage girls huddled together and a guy was staring at them. They knew it. It was one of those things you see on trains. I wrote the idea to Matava and she created this below. I named it and

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Question on Presenting

Hi Ben, I know you are busy with updating members on the PLC.  There is no hurry on this, but I am getting increasing pleas to do an inservice for the German teachers of my province and the neighbouring one.  I keep talking about TPRS and they want to know what I am talking about. 

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Bob Patrick at UGA

Bob’s 8 hour workshop with World Language and Literacy Ed department at the University of Georgia is coming up this weekend. Bob – I kind of assume this is a closed workshop but if not let us know here in case anyone in or around Athens or Atlanta might want to attend.

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French YouTube Clip 3

Sabrina also sent this third YouTube clip for French teachers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR4mlLiyjYo She shares: If anyone needs ideas on what or how to circle with this ipad versus paper clip: here is what I did today and it worked beautifully. I first watched the clip thinking about what I’d want to circle with the kids  (same

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French YouTube Clip 2

Sabrina recently sent us this second YouTube link to the little French girl making up a story about animals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=381bv0_Gpo8 Both Sabrina and I have decided to spend a few days (at least!) on this. Sabrina was nice enough to provide the script bc other French teachers here will want it. Note that Sabrina left

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French YouTube Clip 1

For French teachers from Sabrina. Show them to your classes tomorrow: This is a very short clip ( 33 seconds) showing how texting and driving can be deadly in Canadian French (good to have them hear different accents of French). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoGw5lDAYdQ&feature=youtu.be (Publicité télévisée de la SAAQ sur les textos au volant. Ce message publicitaire vise

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