Remember the steps to teaching vocab in TPR Storytelling ?
1. gesture/ association 2. novel commands 3. personalized Q/A 4. personalized situations That is what gives the class a sense of “fun” and “spontaneity.” Furthermore, that is what enables your students to recognize the vocab word in the middle of discourse! That is also where you need to spend your time preparing for class…the rest will work out if you REALLY NAIL those steps. It takes time and practice to do a good job here. Be sure to use student input! You know, it floors me that the other day I had my 8th grade kids tell a familiar story from various points of view. They didn’t bat an eye, and they were using direct and indirect object pronouns, reflexive verbs, irregular verbs…no big deal. It’s only a burden if you decide to TEACH GRAMMAR! My kids have not had a lesson on reflexive verbs, but they know to say “il s’ennuie” and “tu t’ennuies” and “je m’ennuie.” They know what “il lui donne” means and “il me donne.” Now 100% of my kids don’t know it, but then 100% never did when
