Saturday 5 December 2009

Grammar and range of language

With the students I'm tutoring I'm preparing them in the subjunctive, the passive and the present participle to help improve their range of language.  To this end I'm doing a set of PowerPoints (groan) taking the student right through what the concepts mean, how to form them and then when and where to use them.   The difference is I'm putting in a page each for the main topics for AS with three or four examples on each.   The idea of this is to put in something reasonably controversial which can lead to to discussion where active/indicative sentences can be contrasted with the examples.  At the moment they are a bit powerpointy but I'm hoping to add graphics to give visual learners a  better lead in and to make it more attractive.  So like all A level French resources at www.alevelfrench.com these tools are work in progress.  There is a sample PowerPoint on the passive to kick off with.    For each of the films of the WJEC syllabus I've produced an A factor worksheet with each of the subjunctive, passive and present participle represented.   I'm now thinking of all the other things that would benefit too...pronouns, si clauses...it goes on and on!

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