Making your toenails twinkle: creativity in the language classroom A personal view of creativity in the English language classroom Alan Marsh.
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Making your toenails twinkle: creativity in the
language classroomA personal view of creativity in the English
language classroom
Alan Marsh
What’s the rule?
•When I’m old, I will wear purple•When we’re talking about the future, after adverbs
like when, we use a ………….. tense
What’s the rule?
•When I’m old, I will wear purple•When we’re talking about the future, after adverbs
like when, we use a present tense
What’s the title? When I am an old woman I will wear purpleWith a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.And I will spend my pension on brandy and summer glovesAnd satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.I will sit down on the pavement when I'm tiredAnd gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bellsAnd run my stick along the public railingsAnd make up for the sobriety of my youth.I will go out in my slippers in the rainAnd pick flowers in other people's gardensAnd learn to spit.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dryAnd pay our rent and not swear in the streetAnd set a good example for the children.We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.But maybe I ought to practice a little now?So people who know me are not too shocked and surprisedWhen suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple. Jenny JosephWarning
What’s the rule (2)?
• I’ll definitely go• I definitely won’t go• I’ll probably stay• I probably won’t stay
• Where do definitely, possibly (adverbs) go with verbs like will (modal auxiliaries)?
Learner poems: When I’m old …
When I’m old I won’t be quiet and I’ll bother my neighbours. I might have a toy boy.
When I’m old …
When we are old we shall definitely do many crazy and dangerous things.We will wear full make-up from morning and we will spend our money for a face lift
When I’m old …
When I’m old I’ll be an honarable person.I’ll live in America and I’ll speak the good English.I’ll teach my children to honar their old country and their new country.
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