Reinforce the imperfect and conditional tenses with "Chinese portraits"
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| Un portrait chinois |
A Chinese Portrait (portrait chinois)
is a metaphorical description of yourself through a comparison with animals,
objects, places, people, characters, foods... the list goes on!
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The portrait is based on the imperfect/conditional formula:
“If I were a(n) X, I would be….”
e.g. If I were a writer, I would be Charles Dickens If I were a plant, I would be a cactus |
Ø Using the target
language teachers could brainstorm categories and/or possible items within
those categories
Ø Teachers could
provide a template such as the one below to support learners
Ø Using completed
poems, learners could take part in a guessing game where anonymous poems are
read at random and the object is to listen and guess the writer of the poem.
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| Portrait chinois template |
