[ola] RE: [ola] En mi opinión
- From: "Cathy Bird" <cathy.bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 15:44:26 -0700 (MST)
Serendipity reigns! I feel like I made huge progress with my 7th grade
French classes this week when I introduced in my opinion. Seems these
middle schoolers love to argue (I knew that, of course!). One of my
weakest traditional students wrote a simple yet completely
comprehensible opinion on whether bowling is a sport! And today, for some
odd reason, my second class went nuts comparing Nemo and Madeline and
saying which was a better character. Tons of vocab generated by kids, but
I didnt feel overwhelmed by trying to teach it to everyone. Even had the
chance to do a mini-review with one girl who kept mixing is/have
sentences. Now that we have some ground work, I am looking forward to
stressing the comparative/superlative whenever it comes up
even though it
wasnt my goal. As homework tonight, students in the Nemo class were asked
to find another pair of characters to compare and be prepared to compare
them to their partner/group in class tomorrow!
I love this stuff!
Cathy Bird
Middle School French
Colorado Academy
303-986-1501, x.2622
From: ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Stel Schmalz
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 11:16 AM
To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ola] En mi opinión
Just played this game with my 6th graders (first years) and we had great
fun with it. I may have posted this last year, but there are a lot of new
people so I thought I would share again.
The video below explains it all in English, but I was able to do it in
Spanish. I modeled first, but it didn't take long for them to jump in.
They all want to talk when an "opinion" was given, so instead of silence,
I taught them "estoy de acuerdo" and "no, no estoy de acuerdo", "me gustan
los dos" and "no tengo opinión".
http://www.senorwooly.com/blog/sr-wooly-video-tutorial-3/
After a few rounds, I had them write 5 personal opinions in their
"cuadernos" then we shared out with various partners. That got everyone
comfortable so then I went back to the circle and had each kid share one
opinion.
Great fun! In a few weeks, I plan on recycling, but using mas grande que,
mas importante que, mas asqueroso que... (they'll love this one!) etc....
For more advanced classes, the opinion can come with an explanation and
can lead to small debates.
Stel
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