Gouin Downloads
We’ve prepared a few Gouin Series (GS) and follow-up activities for purchase on TeachersPayTeachers.com. Follow-up activities might include simple reading, sequencing strips, CLOZE, grammar, and/or extension writing. Click on the links to find out more.
SPANISH:
Spanish Mother’s Day GS PowerPoint
Spanish Mother’s Day GS Flash Cards & Activities
Spanish Making a Fruit Smoothie- un Licuado GS
Spanish Doctor and Pharmacy Visit GS
Spanish Martin Luther King Jr. GS
Spanish Winter Olympics 2010 GS
ENGLISH:
ESL Mother’s Day GS PowerPoint
ESL Mother’s Day GS Flash Cards & Activities
FRENCH:
French Mother’s Day GS PowerPoint
French Mother’s Day GS Flash Cards & Activities
How can we aplly the Series method in our English class?
For teaching English as a second language, the Gouin Series can be used to introduce new grammatical patterns, language chunks, cultural information, etc. It’s simply the vehicle for tying language together in context. Even if your goal is to practice a particular tense, you can introduce and drill a Gouin Series in simple present tense to get students comfortable speaking. The gestures are an amazing memory aid! Then the lesson can focus on transforming those phrases already in the learner’s minds into a particular tense. Makes the lesson more meaningful. I hope that answers your question. If you can tell us a particular topic you’d like to teach, we can give you a more meaningful example of how to do so with a Gouin Series. Thanks for stopping by
How can we use the Gouin method in teaching literary texts?
I have used Gouins in the past to preview a literary text. For example, a GS about Petit Prince (main characters, ideas, etc.) performed orally as a pre-reading activity. A sort of “kick-off” to reading a book. I have taken short picture books and taught them orally following the Gouin method. Then my novice-level students were ready to read with confidence. (School by John Burningham is one example that’s perfect for elementary.) Non-fiction readings–science for example–can be performed as a Gouin before reading. Great way to establish some prior knowledge. You could also use a Gouin Series as a post-reading activity by having students write and perform their own based on a text. They can either summarize or figure out a way to take exact lines of text and bring them alive through props/visuals/gestures. Hope this gives you a few ideas!
that was inspired me….thank you
it seems to me that this technique fits for junior high school…