kimmitt Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4950 days ago 33 posts - 38 votes Studies: French
| Message 1 of 7 25 June 2011 at 9:47pm | IP Logged |
The exercises that accompany the lessons and are at the end of each audio lesson - what
are they actually for?
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Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5564 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin
| Message 2 of 7 25 June 2011 at 10:23pm | IP Logged |
For seeing if you have learned what is in the lesson you have just done, have done a few days or weeks ago and for giving you sentences set out in model grammar.
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kimmitt Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4950 days ago 33 posts - 38 votes Studies: French
| Message 3 of 7 26 June 2011 at 12:25am | IP Logged |
Are we talking about the same thing? I'm talking about the set of phrases with no
instructions. It's not remotely clear what you're supposed to do with them ..
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Tezza Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5677 days ago 41 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 4 of 7 26 June 2011 at 12:36am | IP Logged |
I think they're for reinforcing what you've learned. They don't fit in with the dialogue so they're just showing you how the grammar and words can be used in other ways without having to artifically create a weird dialogue to show the different aspects of the words that are being used. That's my understanding of it anyway.
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Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5668 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin
| Message 5 of 7 26 June 2011 at 9:07am | IP Logged |
kimmitt wrote:
Are we talking about the same thing? I'm talking about the set of
phrases with no
instructions. It's not remotely clear what you're supposed to do with them .. |
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Do you have only the audio and not the book? If you have the book it should be clear what
the exercises are for, since they match exercises in the book.
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dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5021 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 6 of 7 26 June 2011 at 9:22am | IP Logged |
Personally, I just treat theses "excercises" in the same way as I do the dialogue, i.e listen, repeat, translate from L1 to l2 etc.
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Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5564 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin
| Message 7 of 7 26 June 2011 at 11:55am | IP Logged |
Have you read the instructions at the start of the book? You are supposed in the passive wave to translate them from French to English and in the active wave from English to French.
Personally I translate them from English to the target language (e.g. French) from the start to get some active production early on.
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