For the first time (ever) in my teaching career I have a senior class of my own. Naturally I have to get them involved in creating stuff to assist their learning.
Inspired by and en hommage to Mark Pentleton's Verbcast my students have put together podcasts about regular verbs in the present tense.
Three groups, three very different attempts. What do you think of them? I think they all serve their purpose, but interestingly they reflect the different characters and personalities in the class. There's the serious one on -er verbs, a very verbcasty one on -ir verbs and a plain off the wall -re verb one.
Listen to them all.
Regular -er verbs:
Regular -ir verbs:
Regular -re verbs:
Thanks for those comments Mark. I shall be sure and ask them. i will post their comments as an addendum to this.
Posted by: Adam | Wednesday, 25 June 2008 at 08:37
Fantastic work from your students, Adam. It's great to hear three very different versions and each one shows not only that the students have thorough knowledge of what they're talking about, but that they've enjoyed making the podcasts too. I'd be interested to hear some thoughts from the students on their experience making these podcasts and about what they learned from the process, both in terms of French verbs and podcasting! Did the class have a favourite?
Posted by: Mark Pentleton | Wednesday, 25 June 2008 at 07:33