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Reflexive Verbs Lesson Plan

By: Heidi Clark Note: This lesson plan was a little hard for me to do because in Portuguese you never use reflexives. It exists as part of the language, but it’s been dropped and no one uses it anymore. (No wonder I had a hard time thinking about when it’s used…) Even for verbs that have different meanings, whether it’s being used in the reflexive or not, now the meaning is just understood by the context of the conversation. (Ponto de Encontro, pg. 208, “Portuguese often tends to use reflexive verbs as non-reflexives or to use another construction to avoid the reflexive form altogether.” Pg. 316, “All of the verbs may be used non-reflexively without any change in meaning. Context will determine the meaning.”) But, it is still taught in this textbook, (even though the students will never use it,) and so I’ll have to teach it. __Objective__: Students will be able to discuss their daily routines and actions they do throughout the day to themselves. They will be able to have conversations with others about how a typical day in their life would be like and give others a glimpse of what life is like for them. This will strengthen conversations and relationships as they share a bit about themselves. By the end of the day, hopefully, 70% of the students will be able to distinguish the difference between a non-reflexive and reflexive verb and the students should be able to place the correct pronoun before it and conjugate it accordingly. They also should be able to have a simple conversation with simple phrases about their daily routine. 5- Attendance Quiz. Yesterday’s lesson was on saber/conhecer. There will be a slide show of different people and they will have to form sentences saying whether know that person or whether they //know// that person. 5- Post-it Yourself! Activity. There will be several sentences around the room on post-it notes. They will be either reflexive sentences like, “I dressed myself today” or “She cried herself to sleep,” in English; or non-flexive sentences like “John ate spaghetti” or “Stephanie went for a walk.” The students will be told to group the post-its into two groups. Hopefully the students will realize the two categories, the –self sentences and the other sentences. 5- Watch a reflexive verb rap video. Very funny and informative! (Dance with Me: Reflexive verbs version) 10- Learning the reflexive verbs. //Garfield Reflects//. This will be a powerpoint show where we introduce new material. The students will have already gotten a gist of the reflexive and how it’s expressed in English from the prior activity. Garfield is sitting on the floor napping and he starts thinking about his life. He isn’t really happy about what he sees. He decides that he’s really selfish. He never does anything by himself! Either John or the dog always helps him. He decides to turn a new leaf and become more self reliant. We will see a pattern of sentences that have pictures showing who the **doer** of the sentence is and whom the **receiver** of the sentence is. At first when Garfield is selfish we notice that all the pictures are different. The doer is always John or the dog, or something else and the receiver is always Garfield. But after a little help from Dr. Phil, Garfield becomes self-reliant. Now the sentences change. Now both the **doer** and the **receiver** of the action are Garfield. These are reflexive verbs. With reflexive verbs because you are doing it to yourself you need to establish that by showing that with a reflexive pronoun. Here we’ll teach the pronouns and where to place them. We will reteach the material using hand puppets. Left hand will be the **doer** and right hand will be the **receiver**, when they are the same they are reflexive! (I just hope the students will be doing hand puppet actions in the testing center.) 5- Say a little prayer for you. We will watch the clip with lyrics. This song has a lot of verbs that are reflexive. (This morning I wake, before I put on my makeup…etc). Students will need to circle the verbs that are reflexive in the song. (of course it’s the Portuguese translation) 5- Devotional. Scripture on being self-reliant 5- Reflexive/Non reflexive verbs double meaning. Some verbs have a different meaning when they are placed in the reflexive. Present the verbs and their different meanings. Next I’ll say different sentences and the students will write down which meaning they think it is. (This is very important because in reality, context is what will tell you the meaning since we don’t really use the reflexive). Check answers and discuss why they were the right answers. 10- Daily Routines. Students will find a partner and have a conversation about their typical day using reflexive verbs…(I get up…I get dressed…etc). If they have finished they can find another partner and have another conversation. Homework: 10 sentences (only 5 verbs!) 5 sentences with reflexive verbs and the other 5 with those same verbs except with the double meaning. Tomorrow’s Attendance Quiz: Matching Activity. 2 lists. List A has the English definitions and List B has the Portuguese verbs twice (once reflexive and once non-reflexive). Students have to match the meaning with the right verb.

reflexive template thing

[|My best friend's wedding with lyrics]

Amazing reflexive verbs song!!! oh so funny!

lyrics to the song [|Reflexive song]