As many teachers have pointed out on Twitter, providing comprehensible input for students right now is a struggle that we are all working through as best as possible. In terms of input as grammar, Structured Input is a great method that works to either reinforce a grammar point or introduce it through discovery. See this post about what Structured Input is. Moving this idea to an online format, I've been thinking a lot about those ridiculous quizzes you take online when you're super bored (kind of like right now). You know, the ones that are like "what kind of friend are you?" "where is your dream vacation?" "what kind of vegetable are you?" No matter how odd they are, we still find ourselves clicking away and answering the questions. This can be an awesome opportunity for Structured Input. Here's how it works. First, you'll pick a silly question related to your theme/topic that will actually engage learners. You'll also create a scale or some kind of results page for students so they know that when they finish the survey/quiz they will be learn the answer to that question. Next, you'll write out your statements. Here's where the grammar comes in to play. Choose your targeted structure and write all of your statements with that targeted grammar. Notice how the ones above are set up. If you're a Spanish speaker, you'll notice a few things:
The best part of Google Forms is that it provides you with a great set of graphs and data that you can use for further discussion. These graphs are great ways to extend the conversation so that students can then talk about their answers, analyze the class results, draw conclusions, etc.
Click here for the template I used that you can modify and create when you make a copy. Here's my step by step guide to creating one of these: 1. Create a Google Form 2. Decide on your catchy question based on the topic/theme you are working with. Also bare in mind the targeted grammar 3. Decide how you will score the results 4. Write out as many questions as you want using the targeted grammar structure •Remember to keep it simple. One verb tense. One verb form. One subject pronoun •Remember to avoid subject pronouns •Remember to avoid time markers like yesterday, tomorrow, normally 5. Make the Google Form a quiz in the settings in the upper right hand side. 6. Decide how many points each question is worth and choose the right answers
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