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Bonnes vacances, les amis!

• Remember to bring your survey questions & results to class on Monday, January 7th
• Since we will be completing our last unit during the last 7 classes of the semester, we will be assessing your skills overall. I suggest a review of basic skills and vocabulary in the final days of your vacation!

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Bonnes vacances, les amis!

• Remember to bring your revised paragraph to orally present on Monday, January 7th
• Remember to complete your travel research (with screen shots or a few printed photos & your notes in English). Your final conversations for French 11 are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday (Jan 8 & 9)
• Take some time in the final days of your vacation to review the tenses and language structures we have been focusing on this semester. There is a very quick turn-around when we return to school!

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• Prepare for learning check in tomorrow:  les parties du corps
• You need to recognize and be able to write the words

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• If you missed class today,  we worked through a pronoun exercise on p 49 of your reference guide. Then, we reviewed the structures you may want to include in your travel conversations and work:  prepositions for cities, countries and continents; using ‘y’ to replace place names; lui/leur usage p 7, 8 & 9 of travel package
• For homework tonight:  Un voyage en Suisse p 12 (lecture et questions)

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• Prepare for ‘re-do’ of family vocabulary (if needed)  |  Block 4 students, please email if you are coming during block 1 (8:30) on Monday to redo the learning check-in.
• Both blocks:  Complete the reading and questions on housing on pages 27 & 28
• Keep practising the vocabulary for les parties du corps:  learning check in on Wednesday

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• Review the structures for ‘conditional’ and ‘subjunctive’ (See your package). You will need to use these in your conversations next week 🙂
• Continue your research on your travel destination. Your planned trip is for 5 days. You need to look at travel arrangements, lodging, ways to get around once you arrive, things to do & places to visit, food, cultural info, etc.
• Remember to keep a list of activities or things you would, could or should have done if…..
• Our last day for research will be Monday. Screen shots of attractions, landscape, etc will help to make our conversations more interesting!
• Conversations are scheduled for Wed, Thurs, Fri as needed.

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• Continue to practise the family vocabulary on page 22
• Review the words for telling what belongs to you and others on page 24 and try to make your own sentences

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• Continue to develop your personalized vocabulary for telling stories about yourself and your life

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• Practise the family vocabulary on page 22   LEARNING CHECK IN TOMORROW.
• Review the words for telling what belongs to you and others on page 24
• Complete practice exercies on page 25

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• Continue to develop your personalized vocabulary for telling stories about yourself and your life

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• Review the rules around placement of adjectives (BANGS)
• Write 5 sentences, using a different describing word in each sentence
• Want to re-watch Jean Petit qui danse ?  Voilà  ….

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• In the stories we have read, Roch Carrier shared two experiences from his childhood and adolescence.
• These experiences show us something about who Roch Carrier was at that time in his life, and the impact his experiences had on him.
• Think about an experience you would be comfortable sharing with conversations partners in class (It can be an experience that changed you in some way, a person that had an impact in your life, or anything that tells us more about you as a person.)
• Create a quick sketch (6 boxes)  & a vocab list (maximum 6 words) to aid you and your partners in your conversations tomorrow. Remember that you will mostly use the past tense in your conversations.

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• Spend some time reviewing action words (things we do) and prepositions (words to explain position & place) from your Unit 1 package. We will be using these more next week as we talk about ourselves and our families

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Le chandail de hockey is going to space!  Voici le lien à l’article dans le Globe & Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/article-an-allegory-about-canada-keeps-finding-new-life/

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• Review the use of ‘être’ to describe, talk about your nationality, where you are, and when you were born
• Practise pronouncing describing words for both genders p. 8 & 9

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• Re-read parts of Le joueur de basketball for sentence structure & verb tenses
• Finish answering questions 10-15

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• Prepare yourself for your interpersonal (speaking) assessments tomorrow! You will be asking & answering questions & retelling the Napoléon stories with partners for the whole period 🙂

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• Rewatch Le Chandail de Hockey (on YouTube or The National Film Board of Canada site)
• Finish answering the questions & be ready to discuss in small groups