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THE COMPREHENSIBILIBUDDY

WELCOME TO THE COMPREHENSIBILI-BUDDY

Naturally Curious

Welcome to The Comprehensibili-buddy, a buddy on your journey to comprehensibly and compellingly teach, learn, and ultimately grow in your language exploration. I'm Arianne Belzer-Carroll, a high school Latin teacher and novella writer in Georgia. I'm excited you're along for the ride. Contact me below with questions or requests, scroll down for the blog/teaching posts, or check out other pages for snippets of novellas, free materials, the web series Bene Narras, and digital licenses of my books.

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Scene Charades

Warning: some prep (though not a huge amount) involved. I love charades. It's great for discrete vocab rehearsal, it's funny, and it gets...

Jul 19, 20203 min read

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The Importance of Discretion. Also, an Activity on Preferences!

My ones are learning about family. In the course of learning about family every year, I sit down and have a conversation with my kiddos....

Jul 19, 20202 min read

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Practicing Indirect Statement

Indirect statements can be tough for the kids to get a hang of - it requires verb shifts and an interesting understanding of time...

Jul 19, 20202 min read

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You and I

One of the things my kids struggle with is you and I, particularly in the perfect tense. This year I've decided to spend a lot of time on...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Past Tense Again

I generally hold off on the past tense until the second year to give the kids some real time to get comfortable with the present. I use...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Mettius Fufetius

Mettius Fufetius is a re-do of the Spanish game Pancho Comancho. In Pancho Comancho, five or so students are called to the front of the...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Cobbled Sentences

This is an activity I love to do, but it's important to be very careful about how we do it lest it either a. make so little sense as to...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Dear Abby

One of my classes and I have been spending time on you should, also known as jussive subjunctives. They've been proposing things for each...

May 28, 20202 min read

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Imperfect and Perfect Tenses

For the last several years, I've been using a translation technique to teach the imperfect and perfect tenses. Because they have...

May 28, 20203 min read

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They Really Don't Notice (grammar)

One of the big questions that always comes up for people new to the idea of CI (and, if we're being honest, probably to the people who do...

May 28, 20203 min read

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CONTACT

Arianne Belzer-Carroll

agnesask@gmail.com

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