After the pronouns minicards post the other day Joelle sent me a photo of the pronouns cards she uses. I thought they looked familiar, they were from Genki English! https://genkienglish.net/iyousheheshecards.htm
On these ones there are several characters for each card. If I changed the images to be a little more genki, which do you prefer the ones with one character per card or the ones with several characters per card?
Reaction to the song has been so positive that I’m thinking about getting it finished and making it a proper theme on the website with all the extras so it would be great to hear which style of cards you like best!
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That’s a tough call. I like both and I think the one’s you posted a few days ago are simpler and therefore easier to understand in conjunction with the how are you theme. They do need a little more explanation from the teacher though as to what each character represents (so that students don’t just come up with boy/girl) where as several characters on one card would be more ‘wakari yasui as it were.
+ It always amazes me that almost every time I check the GE site I find/ see something I’d never seen before! I bet the directory for this site must be huge!!
I also think it’s a tough call. The GE ones are fun and easily recognizable. The only problem I have with the 2nd set is that the ages of he, she, they, are distinctly different. It may just be an argument of using them in different contexts so that the meaning becomes clearer.
From a teaching standpoint, this is a BRILLIANT song!
I was thinking to maybe use the GE style graphics but have them like in the 2nd set of cards with two people talking about other people.
The problem I have is like Julian says it’s more complicated and I have a feeling you might not be able to see them too well from the back of a class….
How about something similar to the MES cards.
http://www.mes-english.com/flashcards/files/object.pdf
Or to make even more work for you, pictures of people being hungry, thirsty or happy!
I want to try and keep the pronouns separate from the hungry, thirsty etc. cards so we can flip up two cards at random to get the kids to come up with “he is sad” etc. or even better, flip up six cards to come up with “I am hungry but she is thirsty and they are tired!”
I also wish I’d videod the song in Summer!
I like the new cards and will be using them and the demo song this week with a group I introduced pronouns to before halloween. I like the seperate pronouns as individual cards with the GE characters. I know it makes more than 9 cards to have hungry etc seperate. Would it be possible to use 9 other words like hungry, thirsty, walking, swimming or other GE words from other songs for another set to use with the pronouns? I agree using the Hello, how are you? words will work well too.
I started using pronouns a couple of years ago and originally used the ones from the MES site but have to admit they got very confusing and tricky to use.
As Julian-K says it’s a tough call. When I saw the GE ones I thought they were brilliant and now you’ve pointed out the alternative set I can see the great possibilities there. I think that the combination of Aygo with the second set’s style (thinking of) would work well . The only true way would be to test both sets. Unfortunately, I’ve just done this theme to a great extent so won’t really be able to give it a never-seen-before testing experience.
I like them both Richard! I think the ones you posted recently are good for the younger kids and these for the older kids. It would be possible to link the characters to the family theme as well!
I am working on pronouns right now with my 6th grade classes. They know the song, and have acquired ‘I’, ‘you’, but ‘he’ and ‘she’ they have only tried to actively use since right before our “Halloween” vacation. This is not as easy!
I have a new plan for helping them learn he/she with regular verbs that I will post on the forum. I had already planned on using the cards that go with the song but I can test both sets of cards this coming week and let you know.
Thinking about the understanding of my students, I prefer the second set of cards.
I haven’t used the first set yet, so I can’t say clearly, but the first set will require me a lot of explanation about the difference between the pictures.
Pictures of two people talking about other people seems easier to understand /teach.
Like Julian says (‘coz we are in fact two entirely different Julians – at least, I think we are!) I am impressed at how much stuff there is in here. I’ve been too busy to check in over the long weekend we had here, and now there’s all this to catch up on.
Let’s see.
At a quick glance, I don’t much like the style of the second set. Not nearly genki enough. But, I do think it is clearer for learners. The first lot seem less clear, and, as Yumiko says, will require more explanation for my students. Explanations I will find hard to give in Japanese! Perhaps it helps if they are already familiar with Aygo, but not all of mine are.
If you can borrow the idea but crank up the genkiness without the whole thing becoming too cluttered, then go for it. Who’s that bloke who’s always saying, ‘You can do it!’ ?!!
I DEFINITELY agree with keeping ‘hungry’ etc out of it, so there is more flexibility for sentence making later.
Well, all I seem to have done is echo others’ opinions, but I guess it all helps.
(of course, what I should have done is post this in 3 separate posts – stand more chance of winning a CD!!!! 😉 )