For my independent learning project, I decided to go with
the Design category. I took French in high school and found that one of the
more surprisingly difficult things to learn was the numbers 60-99. Reading/translating
French numbers is more difficult because they have more irregularity than English.
I decided to create a flash card PowerPoint game using hyperlinks. For the game
the player will just click on the answer bubble that has the correct number in
(##) form based on the written number given. I have based this game on the WL.K12.NM.2
CPalms standard about reading in foreign language (French).
The game can be accessed at the following link—just click “Present”
in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.
I think that this is a very innovative way to help students understand the concept of French numbers. If this is the first lesson I would be teaching students about French numbers, I would teach them how to count and how to identify the numbers before playing a game with them. Do you think that you can incorporate other French lessons into a Google Slides presentation? There are other games such as jeopardy that you can make out of a powerpoint to help review French numbers, but I really like your creativity!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you! I agree that it would be a really bad idea to start with these numbers right off! I decided to make a game out of these numbers because when I was learning them I needed so much more practice here than the others.
DeleteI absolutely think that other games and activities based on various French material would work great for this! Your Jeopardy suggestion would work great with the CPalms concerning French culture.
I was unaware that the French language became so strange when getting into the higher numbers. Do you know of any historical reasoning behind having the pattern change? I was also able to find this website which was designed to help students with French numbers and it specifies how different it gets from 70-99. http://www.thefrenchexperiment.com/learn-french/numbers
ReplyDeleteThanks for the website! It had a great listening feature to help with pronunciation--a really big deal, especially for some of the weird numbers like 4.
DeleteI know that not all French-speaking countries use these numbers. Many of the francophone (French-speaking nations that are not France) countries use a different, more regular structure; one word for each set of ten rather than what I learned (used in the game) one word for sets of 20.
That was difficult to learn. Soixante is seventy and sometimes sixty? I like the aspect of making it into a game. I felt pretty engaged in the material.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I agree that it is really strange. It took me a wile to get the hang of so I thought: what better material for a practice game!
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