Hi Henrik,

thank you for your very focused blog, and to Kim for his comment and questions.

I think your idea of combining the fun, imaginative aspect ( fiction) with the more mundane (grammar) sounds very good as a teaching idea.You have a very nice quoatation from Drew and Sørheim, indicating the main areas where problems are likely to occur (word order, concord, verb tenses). I would like to know more details about your teaching approach in relation to these problem areas, and want to ask you the following questions:

1. Did you do much pre-teaching in relation to the competence aim (grammar and text structure) before starting the work, or as you went aloing? . If so, what did you do ?
2. What did you do with the pupils’ written work once they had handed it in? Did you correct it or did you mark places which needed correction, indicating what kind of correction was needed? Did they re-write?
3. Did you keep a record of pupils’ errors, or ask them to keep a record so that their progress could be assessed?
4. How could you systematically test if your method was having the desired effect?
5. Is this something you could try out as a basis for your term paper in the next practice period?

James