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Greetings:

I have acquired enough experience to understand very well the reasonings of how textbooks are put together, where the highly structured and sequence of grammar of USA textbooks may hinder language aquistion. The times and theories have changed.

I reccommend two deviations from your Year II textbook's grammar sequence. First, have you noticed how teachers over use the "futur proche". Therefore, I sugggest that you teach the simple future in the fall, before fall break or Halloween. This need be only a one week lesson. There after, speach becomes more natural. The added natural use of the simple future provides students extra time to assimilate this tense. Then, when they are taught the conditional, they will already know the stems.

The second departure from the plan is to teach a 5-day lesson on the "imparfait" not too long after having finised the "passé composé" in level II. I use Discovering French Blanc in year II. We finish unit 03 on foods b...See More
Madame Wulfe Salut James!!! Thanks so much for all or your posts and advice. Your contributions have been so valuable to me as I prepare for my first year as a French teacher, starting in September. Take Care!

On 12/17/11, James in Belgium wrote: > Greetings: > > I have acquired enough experience to understand very well > the reasonings of...See More
May 28, 2014


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