Appendix 29.     First Grammar Exercise with Matthew

I have two sentences here. Read them out please.

Ich habe Zeit. Ich gehe ins Kino.

Do you understand what they mean? Tell me.

I have time. I've gone to the film studio. (understanding the text was not part of the exercise,                                                                help was not treated as a cue.)

It's not the past tense.

I go to the movies. Cinema.

Now, look at them carefully; is there any way you can combine the two sentences to make one.

Can I use a different word to join them? Yes.

Wann? Wann? hmm!             (neutral cue)

Wenn! .....Is there a genn?

You mean dann?              (dann is optional in this exercise and was not treated as a cue)

I was going to say: Wenn ich Zeit habe, dann gehen.

So you want a dann... here you are.

Wenn ich habe Zeit, dann gehe ich ins Kino.

Is that correct?

I could make correct if I change gehe.

No, that's not it. You have to change something else. (nonspecific cue)

Read it out again and see if it's right.

Wenn ich habe Zeit, dann gehe ich ins Kino. (student cannot proceed further)

You have to swap two words.   (specific cue)

Do you know which two?

Hmm.... (student cannot proceed further)

How about these two?   (Teaching cue)

Wenn ich zeit habe, dann gehe ich ins Kino.

Is that correct now? Read it again.

Wenn ich zeit habe, dann gehe ich ins Kino.

Correct?

Yes.

Good, let's see if you can do another one.

The procedure was then repeated with a different example.

Matthew received six cues in total, four for the sentence above and two for the next.