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MLTAV

4th Dec 2023

Scenario Practice:

The missing link?

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staylor@doscel.catholic.edu.au

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What is the end goal???

Students acquire communication skills in….(Victorian Curriculum

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Victorian Curriculum Rationale

Students acquire communication skills in Italian. They develop understanding about the role of language and culture in communication.

Their reflections on language use and language learning are applied in other learning contexts. Learning languages broadens students’ horizons about the personal, social, cultural and employment opportunities that are available in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world. The interdependence of countries and communities requires people to negotiate experiences and meanings across languages and cultures. A bilingual or plurilingual capability is the norm in most parts of the world.

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  • Spontaneous - unscripted, unscheduled, in context.

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repeat it

memorise it

build it

scenario practice

spontaneous use

chop it

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All segments are important.

repeat it

memorise it

build it

scenario practice

spontaneous use

chop it

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Repeat and memorise

How much is enough?

Know thy impact- create your own data.

How many repetitions do my students need before it rolls off the tongue?

repeat it

memorise it

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Chop and build

How much do you do where students are making saying and memorising their own sentences?

Sentence builders

Word cards

Flower design (or other)

build it

chop it

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repeat it

memorise it

build it

scenario practice

spontaneous use

chop it

Set phrases.

Creative use

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repeat it

memorise it

build it

scenario practice

spontaneous use

chop it

‘Scenario practice’ the missing link?

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Scenario practice

why, how, try.

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‘Set phrases’ force learners to find the scenario in their lives that fits.

Set phrases.

scenario practice

spontaneous use

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Set phrases.

This is what it feels like in my brain when I have lots of set phrases.

scenario practice

spontaneous use

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How to respond to ANY scenario?

scenario practice

spontaneous use

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  • Dig around in your brain.

  • What words can you think of?

  • What could you put together?

scenario practice

spontaneous use

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scenario

scenario practice

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Broccoli, cake, like, no.

Haha, funny.

Oh my gosh! Grandma, seriously! What are you doing?

Please don’t put broccoli in the cake mix!

No Grandma!

scenario practice

spontaneous use

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but it will be wrong….

scenario practice

Create a space to be experimental,

Then choose one thing to fix or extend…

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Thinking

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All segments are important.

repeat it

memorise it

build it

scenario practice

spontaneous use

chop it

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repeat it

memorise it

build it

scenario practice

spontaneous use

chop it

‘Scenario practice’ the missing link?

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Scenario practice

why, how, try.

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How I do it….

  1. Front load with the flower
  2. Create a ‘safe’ mistake making bubble.
  3. Have the flower visible and 3 dots for 3 new words
  4. Generate a scenario.
  5. Students create 3-20 responses on whiteboards in pairs

Circulate and help make things more accurate as you can - do not expect to make it all correct.

  1. Pair students to say what they wrote to each other
  2. Turn the boards over and see how much you can say before turning the boards back up
  3. Write some of the sentences on the board - whole group correct
  4. Use these correct sentences in games. (sentence stealer etc)

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  1. Front load with the flower.

Asking to sit on a chair.

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2. Create a ‘safe’ mistake making bubble

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We are going to make mistakes and that is OK.

Check in with someone who can correct and explain for SOME of it (not all).

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3. Have the flower visible

and 3 dots for 3 new words

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This is where you can give the class 3 new words.

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4. Generate a scenario

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Pictures

Photos

Student ideas

Real objects

Video clips

Books

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Talking about the day.

You are going to the beach.

Inviting someone to do something.

You have your lunch box.

The next class.

Asking for free time.

Someone is annoying you.

You are going horseriding.

Talking about the weekend.

You need a key.

You don’t know the answer.

STUDENT GENERATED

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A chicken just jumped onto your shoulder

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5. Students create 3-20 responses on whiteboards.

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5. Students create 3-20 responses on whiteboards.

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5. Students create 3-20 responses on whiteboards.

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6. Pair students to say what they wrote to each other.

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7. Flip the whiteboard.

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8. Whole group correct some sentences (NOT ALL).

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Scenario practice

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Role play.

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On the spot scenarios

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Could scenario practice be the missing link?

repeat it

memorise it

build it

scenario practice

spontaneous use

chop it

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Scenario practice

why, how, try.

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scenario

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staylor@doscel.catholic.edu.au

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THANK YOU

Merci

Grazie

ありがとうございます

谢谢

Gracias

Danke