Teaching Foreign Languages in Schools
But, while example e. would be accepted from student A, student B would describe the situation as: Esta regleta roja está aquí, esa azul está ahí, aquella negra está allí. A and B were only able to say the same thing for the blue rod, while for the red and the black ones their perceptions of the situation were different. If we can now consider students C and D, facing each other, sitting at the two other opposite sides of the table, we will realize that their description of the situation created with the rods would have to be different from those given by A and B. In our lesson, C was able to say: 1
La regleta azul está entre las regletas roja y negra;
2
La regleta azul está a la derecha de la roja y a la izquierda de la negra;
3
La regleta negra está a la derecha de la azul que está a la derecha de la roja;
4
La regleta roja está a la izquierda de la azul que está a la izquierda de la negra.
When it was D’s turn to describe what was in front of him he would reverse the order of the adjectives given by C.
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