Pat’s Polemics

Initially we did some personalized stuff and I did a very poor job getting her to understand ‘son’, her. tprs says tell them what it (Continue Reading)

I had to deal with “teal”, the color of the pen she wanted to use to take notes. I had no idea what ‘teal’ looks (Continue Reading)

She taught me a lesson in tprs today. She did not recall ‘conte de fees’ = fairy tales and I tried to remind her by (Continue Reading)

I didn’t record this session but we did just one thing. I took the first chapter of the tprs book Pauvre Anne and wrote on (Continue Reading)

I gave Nyah a template for a fairy tale – conte de fees – hoping to get her to create a story. It went: Once (Continue Reading)

Today was the first time in a long time I tried classic tprs 3 sentences with 3 structures and circled everything methodically. Well, close. The (Continue Reading)

Since I’ve fallen so far behind – to be remedied tonight – in transcribing parts of the lessons, I thought it would be good to (Continue Reading)

Going over the script of Le Petit Chaperon Rouge cartoon. Started by playing the video from the beginning. An argument broke out over wearing something, (Continue Reading)

Finish cartoon Le Petit Chaperon Rouge at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9OsRljQSbw I explained that I show her these videos not to teach her French but to show her (Continue Reading)

I provided post-its with names of places on the map of the forest and she places them on the spot, e.g. la riviere goes on (Continue Reading)

Went over verb charts. When I pointed to the alternation between acute and grave accents in the conjugations, she asked what the difference was, showing (Continue Reading)

She always reminds me to write the English for the French. Comment s’appelle la femme du president? Thinking I meant Trump, she couldn’t remember. I (Continue Reading)

La porte du garage ne se leve pas, I said as an opener, se lever being a word we only used once some time ago (Continue Reading)

Looking at my map of the forest Little Red Riding Hood walks through, Nyah saw a fish in the lake and said “poisson”, the first (Continue Reading)

Today I texted Nyah about when we were going to meet. She answered with ‘oui’. So I texted back Ah! Vous parlez francais and she (Continue Reading)

As our students create their stories in the story-asking feature of tprs, we might see their productions as a kind of Rorschach test. What do (Continue Reading)

Today I tried to survey blogs on tprs again. One in particular I wanted to join in on and it is via Word Press, the (Continue Reading)

We continued today with the mermaids or sirens who can transform themselves and eat men. (???) I will continue with this post, transcribing parts of (Continue Reading)

My problem has been in asking the story, getting her to come up with “cute answers.” Today finally she did. I structured the story as (Continue Reading)

Interesting how it hit her that the ‘a’ and ‘avait’ of ‘il y a’ and ‘il y avait’ is not ‘is’ and ‘was’, like in (Continue Reading)

Qu’est-ce que c’est que les animaux disent aux princesses? She’s ugly. Before I set the recorder up I’d asked the same question and she replied, (Continue Reading)

Feel free, as always, to correct the French. Un etudiant habitait a l’universite ou il etudiait l’informatique. L’universite se trouvait aux Etats-Unis et l’etudiant s’appelait (Continue Reading)