Publish at December 13 2023 Updated December 13 2023
Syntax is an essential part of learning French, but it can sometimes be arid. With both regular and special needs students, it's important to find a way to get them interested. One New Brunswick teacher, Cassandre Arseneau, has potentially come up with a way of doing this, drawing on a well-known board game. Jenga is very popular with children: after building a tower with wooden blocks, each player removes one. As the construction becomes more fragile, the aim is to avoid being the one to remove the block that causes the tower to fall.
Take the same idea, but this time add an element of the sentence to each block. Madame Arseneau has affixed subjects, verbs and complements to wooden blocks. Once the students have completed a few syntactical exercises, the idea is to play a game in which each of them has to form sentences with the blocks... without letting the whole thing fall apart. It's an original way of approaching the construction of statements while having fun, alone or with others. What's more, it's possible to deal with verb tenses or other subjects in disciplines such as music, she explains in this video clip.
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