teaching phrasal verbs / prepositioins

[Jenny Miller]

Hi all, and happy new year!!
My new year's resolution is to help my students with the troublesome "little words", but I'm struggling with the best way to do it. How in the world do you tackle phrasal verbs when there are so many? Do you do it in literary context, by topic (i.e phrasal verbs having to do with food, relationships, whatever), by particle, by verb? Where do I begin? Is anyone willing to share lesson plans, ideas with me?

Perhaps there have been posts in the past?

Thank you and thank you too to all of you who have answered my questions in the past.

Jenny

[Superhal]

I use chunking. Don't teach phrasal verbs as discrete parts, but as single ideas. This technique is not perfect in that there does appear to be a relatively strong rule with separable phrasal verbs with pronouns, but this will prevent you from making up rules on the fly and being proven wrong by the next phrasal verb that comes up.