Showing posts with label monkey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monkey. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Comprehensible Input with the MONO

Hay un mono. (from first episode)
So I have met various educators over the last year or two who have told me how much their classes have enjoyed a little story I made about a "mono" (monkey).

Backstory:
I thought it would be fun to make a super simple TPRS like story about a character that wanted something and didn't have it and so they went to the 3 locations. And as I drew one day on my iPad, suddenly I had a monkey, an island, and Antarctica. From there the first "mono" story was born!

Since then, I have had teachers who have met me at conferences (or have told me via email) how much their classes have enjoyed the story.

Monday, March 3, 2014

Monkey story #2! SNEAK PEEK!

Here's a continuation of the monkey story to help people learn Spanish in a simple, repetitive way.



I'm pretty excited.  In this storyline, I'll be using the following while reviewing the structures from the previous series...

come - s/he eats
quiere comer - s/he wants to eat
le dice - s/he says to him/her
tiene - s/he has
con - with

I also throw in some "I" and "you" forms of some of the words in conversation, but I think it will still be comprehensible... [fingers crossed]

While it seems incredibly complicated, these are things I tried to draw pictures for and always, always, always, offer subtitles for so it's not just up to the learner to figure it out.

I'm enjoying making these and hope people can find them useful in their own personal study or for teachers and their classes.

see first story here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBk-rU5Lj1Y&list=PLPD6O-TouCqQXu4LDPOnzAUGDh7r3G7TV