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《💿【13】Huey Is Sitting at the TableUsing the lyrics of "I Love English" and the corresponding content of "BOOK 2" as seeds, we will cultivate the seeds of learning "English at Home" 📝🌱
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This time, we will use the lyrics of the song "Huey Is Sitting at the Table" featured in DWE Blue and the contents of the corresponding book "Book 2" to cultivate the seeds of learning "English at Home"📝🌱
1 Introduction of the venue
The song depicts triplets Huey, Dewey, and Louie sitting at a desk, each holding a balloon they have blown up.
For children, sitting at a desk is a familiar activity, as it allows them to eat, draw, and more!
The song is sung many times, changing the pronouns, so you can intuitively understand the pronouns.
2 Learn grammar
🌸present tense🌸
Example 1)
Huey is sitting at the table.
🌸Participial construction "while" expressing a secondary situation🌸
Example 2)
Huey is sitting at the table, holding his balloon.
(DWE - Quote from "Sing Along")
3 Column: What is a participial construction?
This song looks simple because it uses the colours and shapes of balloons and simple prepositions such as on and at, but the key point is that it uses the participial construction (while) which expresses a secondary situation.
Example) Huey is sitting at the table, holding his balloon.
(Huey is sitting at a table holding a balloon.)
(DWE - Quote from "Sing Along")
What is a participial construction?
Participial constructions use verbs in the "-ing" form (present participle) or "-ed" form (past participle),It acts like an adverb, adding various information to a sentence.I will do it.
For this reason, it is sometimes described as a type of "adverb with the meaning of a verb."
When you use the participial construction,
1. Time (when)
2. Condition (if)
3. Cause (because)
4. Concession
5. Incidental circumstances (while)
6. As a result (and...)
You can add meaning to a sentence like this.
However, when a sentence uses a participial construction, it is often difficult to determine what additional meaning is being expressed.
for example,
Seeing a human, the monkey ran away.
(When the monkeys saw the humans, they ran away.)
From this sentence alone, we cannot tell whether the monkey ran away "when" it saw the human, or whether it ran away "because" it saw the human. Or perhaps the sentence is intended to convey the additional circumstance that "it ran away while looking."
In a sense, suchThe ability to express ambiguity in meaning is a feature of participial constructionsIt is also true.
Participial constructions can even be interpreted differently depending on the reader, so it is said that some writers deliberately use participial constructions in novels and other works in order to take advantage of this.
For this reason, participial constructions tend to be avoided in sentences where clarity of meaning and logic are important.
"Although participial constructions are intended to add some meaning to a sentence, their intention is not always clear." Please keep this in mind.
Reference site ("Participial constructions" are the key to embracing "Englishness"! An easy-to-understand explanation of their meaning and usage)
Now, in this songParticipial constructions in incidental situations ("while").will appear.
Huey is sitting at the table, holding his balloon.
(Huey is sitting at the table, holding a balloon)
(DWE - Quote from "Sing Along")
When a participial construction appears, its meaning must be determined from the context.
In school exams, questions are often asked that ask you to think of conjunctions that have similar meanings.
When you come across a participial construction, it's a good idea to use one of the following conjunctions and think about which one fits the context best.
1. Time (when) ：when
2. Condition (if): if
3. Cause (because)
4. Concessions (though/although)
5. Concomitant situation (while): while (simultaneously)
6. Result (and did): and (often used with expressions that show results, such as cause, lead to, result in, etc.)
DWE also covers expressions using these conjunctions, so you will naturally be able to use participial constructions and also learn to rephrase things using conjunctions.
What I find interesting about studying DWE is that participial constructions like the example I gave earlier, "Huey is sitting at the table, holding his balloon," appear at the blue level, while expressions using the conjunction while only appear at the rhyme level.
In a typical Japanese school, students first learn various conjunctions, then they learn participial constructions as an application, and then they learn, "This is how participial constructions can be rephrased using conjunctions."
On the other hand, in the native language method of learning English, where you understand English as it is, there is no need for such logic.Input begins with things that are intuitively easy to understand and apply.The teaching materials are designed to help students understand the process.
I think it's very interesting how it overlaps with the difference between the left-brained, theoretical way of learning, where you build things up one by one, and the right-brained, intuitive way of learning, which can be applied in a wide range of ways.
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✅ The breakdown of on and at
Let's use "on" and "at" to describe the locations of various things in the house.
If you have a kids' chair or desk, we recommend placing a stuffed animal on it and using the stuffed animal (third person) as the subject, in order to recreate the concepts of "on" and "at" in conjunction with previous efforts.
When eating a snack or meal, try singing "○○ is sitting at the table🎵" to your child.
It won't be enough to get it down in just one or two tries.
If you repeat this to the point where your child can predict what you're going to say, then they'll soon be able to produce output.
It would be a shame to stop because you don't see a reaction from your child.It is important to continue providing inputKeep that in mind.
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