Pages

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

French Club Activity: Drawing Picture Sentences Game to Improve French Noun-Gender Recall by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget




French Club Activity:  Drawing Picture Sentences Game to Improve French Noun-Gender Recall by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget


Objective:

Improve Noun-Gender Recall for French Nouns using drawing to create picture sentences to help focus on gender-noun recall.

Method: 10 Tasks

Task 1 - Build a French noun (things) list using a reading teacher’s reference book, such as:

The Reading Teacher’s Book of Lists 5th Edition by Edward B. Fry and Jacqueline E. Kress

Foreign-language learners can use this book to build noun lists from lower elementary grades up through high school.

“Thing” words are words like “table” and “chairs.”

Task 2 – Look up the French translation of the words you selected, noting the gender designation that goes with the word – le, la, or l’.

Task 3 – Draw a picture of the word 5 times saying the word and the gender designation.

Task 4 – Draw a picture-word sentence using the word such as:

I see the chair.

-For I, draw a picture of your head

-For see, draw a picture of eyeballs

-For “the chair,” write “la chaise.

All together, write “Je vois la chaise” under the pictures you draw.

Task 5 – After finishing your picture sentences, read the sentences out 10 times before going to bed.

Task 6 – Test yourself by typing nouns and gender designations into an Excel sheet and alphabetize by French noun.

Heighten row lengths, so you have space to write, and test yourself on genders of nouns.

Task 7 – Score your test to see how many gender designations you got right.

Record score and date.

Task 8 – Repeat gender designation and noun test daily until, you get a perfect score.

Task 9 – Do test weekly, once you have made a 100% score

Task 10 – Keep track of scores with breakdowns on le, la, l’ to see where you need to improve memorization.

Desired Objective:

100% recall on nouns with gender designations.

Bonne Continuation!!!

By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

Click here for:  Ruth Paget's Amazon Books



Ruth Paget Selfie