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 she wrote it. Obviously it is not in final form but I wanted to share it bc it is the one I used when I found out one minute before class that I was being observed yesterday, which I talked about it in a comment here this morning.
Whenever I get observed, I grab a Matava script. It never fails me. It is always the purest best form of TPRS. It works because Anne crafts humor in. Humor is the guiding factor in her work, not a set of targeted vocabulary.
I have been wanting to say this for a long time. Few agree with me, even in this group. When you target vocabulary from some larger (thematic) unit or chapter, you absolutely sacrifice humor and spontaneity. Good. Do it. Be organized. Plan.
Or, like Leigh Anne and others who are more rooted in stories, just hand in a curriculum map of Matava stories. I have one question. Which is more aligned with Krashen’s Natural Order of Acquisition Hypothesis? OK mini- rant over.
I know one thing – this (incomplete) script is pure Matava gold. I know there are four structures. You may not want to do it with a first year class. But if you ever want to make certain that your kids acquire “must not” then this is the script for that hard to teach expression:
In Your Face
assis(e) en face de – seated across from
ressemble à – looks like, resembles
essaye de – tries to
il ne faut pas – you must not, one must not
Bob est dans le train. il est assis en face d’un homme qui ressemble à une girafe. Bob essaye de ne pas regarder, mais c’est impossible, parce qu’il est assis en face de lui. <<Faut pas regarder!>> dit l’homme. Bob essaye de ne pas regarder. En fin il se lève et va dans un autre wagon.
In the second wagon it’s a girl who resembles George Bush, or a baby who resembles a skunk or whatever.
3rd wagon same thing, except novel ending.