This activity is designed for my eighth grade French class for our unit on irregular verbs and the past tenses (passé composé and l’imparfait). Students will switch in and out of break-out rooms (this would obviously be more ideal in-person) to ask each other questions in the past tense. This is an interactive project where students will need to collect information and use questions that employ many of the irregular verbs we have studied. I used Google Drawings to create a “Find someone who…” chart that will prompt students to:
*get to know each other better
*ask and answer questions about the past
*differentiate between using the passé composé and the imparfait
*practice agreement of gender and number
*conjugate irregular verbs in both past tenses
*interact independently of the teacher
*use the grammar structures in a relevant personal context
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1UCMoOlw7fA_I8zzEVlarstGtqEnbrl-azQOTMPmG-1M/edit?usp=sharing
Hi Rachel!
This is such a fun activity and is beautifully set up! I can’t read any French but it looks very nice. It makes me think this might change into a fun competition game if you think of it as Bingo. That would just be an alteration to maybe increase engagement but I’m not sure if that is an issue with eighth graders.
Even before I saw your comment, I thought the bingo thing as well. I also like Emma’s idea. Looks like lots of great inspirations out of this lesson.
It reminds me of a Spanish lesson I observed. Student arrived at class with very simple “puppet” figure made out of small paper bags. They got into two circles – interior circle and another around it. Then they rotated with the outer circle asking questions in Spanish to their inner circle partner about the puppet. The student had to respond with answer in the 3rd person. Rotate and repeat.
Rachel,
C’est choutte, cette idee! I think I remember doing something similar in other classes where there was a competition to get the most names/signatures. I will say this kind of activity can be hard for those who struggle communicating/conversing with a lot of other people. I know I struggled with it. Going off of Marissa’s “Bingo”, this could also be used to keep student focus during presentations. For example, each student could present something on him/herself, a character, etc. and the audience could write the name in the box that matched the description. Downside of this use is that it doesn’t practice conversation skills like your original.
Rachel,
C’est choutte, cette idee! I think I remember doing something similar in other classes where there was a competition to get the most names/signatures. I will say this kind of activity can be hard for those who struggle communicating/conversing with a lot of other people. I know I struggled with it, especially with the pressure to complete it quickly. Going off of Marissa’s “Bingo”, this could also be used to keep student focus during presentations. For example, each student could present something on him/herself, a character, etc. and the audience could write the name in the box that matched the description. Downside of this use is that it doesn’t practice conversation skills like your original, nor is it as active.
Hi Rachel! This is so fun and unique! I had a hard time thinking of an activity that wasn’t math-related. This is so fun and I know your students would have such a great time doing it. Thank you for sharing!