Learn "to like " by heart.
- Valentine's Day ! Let's conjugate the present tense of the verb "to like" in French.It will work with "to love" in French too and it works with"to love (lieben)" in German!
Pass the message on
- Take a look at the present tense conjugation of the verb as a visual disolay for the class.
- In the style of famous cartoon film characters,as a class practise the pronunciationand the conjugation of the verb .I would use characters from Shrek that added humour e.g. associated with love - Shrek and the Princess, Donkey and the Dragon, or why not superman and Lois Lane.....
- Now add actions which associate the meaning of the verb with the part of the present tense verb.The class are going touse their arms , hands and hearts to demonstrate the verb. Stand the class up and practise with them the following active conjugation of the verb. (In German you will need to add actions for It" and also consider "Sie" and you polite part of verb)
- Place a closed fist on heart :I like
- Move a closed fist from the heart toward another person: you (singular) like
- Move a closed fist from the heart and open fist and point index finger toward a male person: he likes
- Move a closed fist from the heart and open fist and point index finger toward a female person : she likes .
- Place both closed fists on heart :we like
- Move both closed fists from the heart toward two other people: you (plural) like
- Move both closed fists from the heart and open fists and point both index fingers toward two males: they like
- Move both closed fists from the heart and open fists and point both index fingers toward a male and a female: they like
- Move both closed fists from the heart and open fists and point both index fingers toward two females: they like
- Now add music such as "Where is the love?" and ask the class to listen to the beat.
- Divide the class in to groups of four - two male ,two female preferably and ask the class to create a performance linking the targte language verb, the actions above and the beat and rhythm of the song to create their own" Pass the message :Where is the love?" rap