You do not have to master the ‘conditionnel passé’, but many of you have been trying to communicate complex thoughts in your conversations and some practice will help you to be clearer and more confident taking risks in class 🙂
Be prepared to participate in conversations tomorrow using the 10 questions that you created in class today and the vocabulary/activities seen in the Martinique videos
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Read up to the end of Chapter 17 & be ready to contribute to the conversations about chapter 16 – 17
Groups who are leading the discussion on these chapters must be ready at the beginning of class. You will only have 5-10 minutes to discuss with your group before we begin. Remember to bring the focus of the discussion back to the novel and the development of the story. Students who are guiding discussions are not required to use the unit package…Be creative, personalize and plan the discussion in a way that would engage YOU 🙂
For tomorrow, everyone should be prepared to contribute to the conversation about Chapter 15.
As discussed in class today, each group will be responsible for guiding the class discussion on a specific chapter of the novel. Each group must be present and prepared to participate on the day that we discuss the assigned chapter. Each one of you is also expected to continue to contribute to conversations each day.
Please finish working through the practice activities assigned today (pages 12-15). We will review them on Monday.
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Be ready to participate in conversations on Monday about past travel or vacations.
Review the info graphic about air travel from today’s class (pages 33-36) & study the vocabulary you need to talk about your own experiences on planes
Use the sentence starters from the board to create your own 4 sentences to share best tips from the reading
Read La conduite en France on pages 38-39 & answer the questions.
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Finish reading to the end of Chapter 13. Pay close attention to the new vocabulary, the conversation questions and the ‘citations clés’ so that you are prepared to discuss on Monday
PLEASE NOTE: Your participation in daily conversations is part of your oral grade for the semester. If you are not speaking out and engaging in the discussions, you will receive a ‘not meeting’ for this part of the class. As the prime minister told my grade 10 students: “Be brave!”
Earlier this week we looked at examples of sentences using “ayant” (avoir ) and “étant” (être). See the following links to the Reverso site where there are several other examples of how these are used in context
Re-read the article on page 9 for fluency, pronunciation and vocabulary
Write 3 questions in past tense — one for each student described in the article
Review the vocabulary on pages 10 – 11 of your unit package. Then, practise using the structure & vocabulary in 3 sentences of your own.
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Read page 32
Highlight & determine meaning of new words
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Finish reading to the end of Chapter 10. Pay close attention to the Citation Clé & the vocabulary you need to discuss or retell the chapter.
As discussed in class, I will not be collecting your packages at the end of this unit. The true/false questions are designed to guide your comprehension. Use your own discretion to decide if they are helpful to you. More time reading and learning new vocabulary may be more beneficial. Consider keeping a list of personal questions you have about the story and its meaning.
Be prepared to share your answers in class tomorrow
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Finish reading Chapter 9, but leave questions for tomorrow in class
As discussed in class today, Le Petit Prince exposes us to a complex variety of tenses. The story is told by the narrator in the past tense (using the literary passé simple instead of passé composé) and often tells the little prince’s story from before they met.
To tell about something that happened even earlier than the past timeline of the story, we need to use the Plus-que-parfait. You can read about how to use it here https://www.thoughtco.com/french-past-perfect-1368900
