You could have is an expression that gives a lot of problems to native French speakers.  They tend to want to translate it literally, Vous pouviez avoir, which means you had the possibility to have ??? And even when they learn to recognize and understand it, they hesitate to use it.

Here is a story I saw on the internet which gives all the repetition that we look for in a TPRS story, the repetition that students need to acquire a structure.  And it's funny, which makes it compelling input.  As ..

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This semester I have been taking my first and second year German students to the foreign language computer lab (finally have one!) to work on their vocabulary.  Vocabulary learning and retention seem to be weak in both groups.  I make up flash cards on quizlet.com to accompany the unit (We are using Deutsch Aktuell).  The students go through the flash cards, learn the words, then play Scatter, matching up the meanings.  They have full-out callenges with this!  The top five scores (l..