James reports in on a MovieTalk class on this Tuesday morning:
Ben,
Talk about serious minutes of intense CI: MovieTalk can take a long time.
Today in my 3/4 class we started the “Mickey Mouse in No Service” clip that was recommended a while ago. We must have spent 15-20 minutes on just the first 15 seconds to arrive at the great sentence “Mickey et Donald, per viam ambulantes, laeti cantant–Mickey and Donald, walking through the street, sang happily.”
Tons of circling. I had to stop because they couldn’t take it anymore. They were really getting full of everything, if you know what I mean. It was great. I think this might become a huge part of my third and fourth year class plans.
And what a great way to show them how USEFUL the language is that they have been learning. We have developed over the past year or so a shared vocabulary that can really be stretched a long long way.
James
