Sticky Grammar! #3: Walking Backwards

The example I set out in this series of posts comes from a Year 10 unit in January lasting four weeks on three lessons per week, in which pupils will, at the end of it, write a letter to a shop to complain about some faulty goods they were given as Christmas presents and the [...]

Where’s the dog? Stage 4

Stage 4: Powerpoint for this stage (Powerpoint 2011): Dónde está el perro 4 Surely it’s over now?!  Well, nearly.  You can tag this on to the last stage if you want, but be careful of overload – you’ll end up talking more than the class, and that’s not the idea. Here, the game is exactly the [...]

Where’s the dog? Stage 3

Stage 3: Powerpoint for this version (Powerpoint 2011): Dónde está el perro 3 We’re not done yet.  As pupils get used to the game and how it’s played, and their appreciation of how lessons run and what they are allowed / not allowed to do, the rate of progression which I introduce picks up quite quickly.  [...]

Where’s the dog? Stage 2

Stage 2: And here’s the powerpoint for this second version of the game (Powerpoint 2011) Dónde está el perro 2 I save this stage for the first time a pupil pipes up, “Can we play that game with the dog?”  They only get to do anything if they ask in the target language, of course, and [...]

Where’s the dog? Stage 1

As promised to those who attended my second session at this Saturday’s day of workshops at the Instituto Cañada Blanch in London, organised by the Consejería de Educación, here goes with the powerpoints for the activity, ¿Dónde está el perro?  For French teachers, it will be a pretty straightforward matter to use this powerpoint as [...]