Hi, everybody.

Hi, everybody. I want to share my first experiment with the tips we had from Penny yesterday. I've found recalling to be super simple, effective and engaging. I've adapted it today for teaching prepositions of time. Allow me to explain how I did it: I usually elicit how to use prepositions from SS and give them the info they don't already have to complete my diagram on the board (the typical upsidedown triangle to teach in /on/ at). Today, I presented a slide with the completed diagram, gave them 20 seconds to memorize it, and asked them to redo it on the board. It worked really well and it was a lot of fun. After that, I just drilled the prepositions giving them "January" and waiting for them to say "in January" and so on, and so forth, until it came to the exceptions, which they did not get right, of course, and had to learn on the go. Making mistakes at this point did not hurt their confidence too much as they'd had succeeded so far. I hope you guys find this tip useful and I want to thank you for the nice tips you are sharing here!

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  1. Daniel GintingNovember 6, 2017 at 5:10 AM

    You are very creative Juliana

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  2. Penny UrNovember 6, 2017 at 6:12 AM

    Great, Juliana! Did anyone else try out anything?

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  3. Scott GrayNovember 6, 2017 at 6:43 AM

    sounds great! Looking to hear more about how it develops!

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  4. Francesca Di MambroNovember 6, 2017 at 10:43 AM

    I'm teaching prepositions tomorrow. Thanks for the tips Juliana!

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  5. Juliana MastroeniNovember 7, 2017 at 3:26 AM

    Francesca Di Mambro , I am happy to help!

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  6. Juliana MastroeniNovember 7, 2017 at 3:35 AM

    danielmachung Thanks, everyone !!! You are encouraging me! Scott, in case you are curious about how this activity developed, it became controlled practice with the same oral exercise in written form ( _ January) on their books and then speaking with some questions "e.g. "When do you usually drink coffee" "in the morning" :)
    Penny Ur Scott Gray Francesca Di Mambro

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