Friday, May 31st, 2019

French 10

  • https://enseigner.tv5monde.com/fiches-pedagogiques-fle/quest-ce-que-tu-portes-616
  • Watch the above video and make a list of clothing vocabulary and phrases that you understand
  • Read Les courses à Paris on pages 28-29 of your unit package and answer the questions
  • End of Unit Evaluation on Monday:  Be ready to talk about whether you like fashion, what you like/don’t like to wear, whether brand names matter, etc.

 

French 11

  • Next week we will begin the final evaluations for the travel unit
  • Continue to review travel vocabulary, structures, and tenses needed

 

French 12

  • Please read up to the end of chapter 20
  • How would you retell the story up to this point ? What words and phrases do you need to summarize the story? Make a list.
  • Guided conversations on chapters 18-20 will be on Monday. Be prepared to contribute 🙂

Thursday, May 30th, 2019

French 10

 

French 11

  • To practise more complex structures such as “I would have liked to visit, but…” and “If I had more time, I would have gone…”, go to the following site  https://www.tolearnfrench.com/exercises/exercise-french-2/exercise-french-33081.php
  • 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 🙂
  • For conditional (present) practice, go here   https://www.tolearnfrench.com/french_lessons/conditionnel
  • Review the vocabulary and structures we have been practising throughout the travel unit
    • prepositions we use when traveling to and from cities, countries & continents
    • vocabulary needed to discuss travel by plane, car or train
    • vocabulary & prepositions we use to give & understand directions
    • pronouns ‘y’ and ‘en’

French 12

Wednesday, May 29th, 2019

French 10

  • Review vocabulary & expressions learned in this unit
  • Practise your dialogue so that you are ready to share aloud in class tomorrow
  • Read the info graphic on pages 26-27 & write 5 questions to ask a partner about the information you have learned
  • Here are the pages so that you can zoom in and see them better     page 26-1i8vzqe       page 27-220fp0m

 

French 11

  • Watch the following tv5monde video and answer the questions about the children’s vacation plans
  • https://enseigner.tv5monde.com/fiches-pedagogiques-fle/voyages-816
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  • 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

 

French 12

  • 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 🙂

Tuesday, May 28th, 2019

French 10

  • Study the new vocabulary. Review the dialogue & expressions on pages 20-21.
  • Read through pages 22-23 & answer the questions.

 

French 11

 

French 12

  • 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.
    • Chapter 15  –  Ashley, Lucia, Hanie, Erica L, Hannah
    • Chapter 16  –  Maria, Erica G, Rachel, Sam
    • Chapter 17  –  Michael, Perla, Amy, Mazen
    • Chapter 18  –  Aaron, River
    • Chapter 19  –  Grace, Ryan, Nigel
    • Chapter 20  –  Jack, Angelo, Garry, William

Monday, May 27th, 2019

French 10

  • Continue to review the vocabulary and structures practised so far
  • Read the dialogue on page 20 of your unit package

 

French 11

  • Review travel prepositions & pronoun use that we have been practising (refer to your learning check-ins & pages 18-23 in your unit package)

 

French 12

  • Please review the vocabulary for chapter 14. We will closely read the chapter tomorrow in class with partners
  • We will also spend some time discussing the ‘citation clé’ of Chapter 13 along with Chapter 14

Friday, May 24th, 2019

French 10

 

French 11

  • 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.

 

French 12

  • 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

Thursday, May 23rd, 2019

French 10

  • 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.

 

French 11

  • Read page 32
  • Highlight & determine meaning of new words

 

French 12

  • 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.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019

French 10

French 11

  • Work through the structures on your handout
  • Be prepared to share your answers in class tomorrow

 

French 12

  • 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
  • You can practise using it in sentences at the following site. Choose ‘college’ under ‘exercices’ for an appropriate level  https://la-conjugaison.nouvelobs.com/regles/conjugaison/plus-que-parfait-de-l-indicatif-36.php

Tuesday, May 21st, 2019

French 10

  • Review the new vocabulary on pages 4 – 5 of your unit package
  • On page 6, write the correct article to go along with the clothing & accessory vocabulary

French 11

  • Learning check in tomorrow:  review the prepositions that we use when discussing travel to and from countries and cities
  • Review the structures we learned today to compare people & things on pages 27-28
  • Write 5 sentences to practise using the structure in a personal context

 

French 12

  • Finish reading to the end of Chapter 8 and answer the questions
  • Review the discussion questions from chapter 7 (#1-13) and be prepared to participate in partner conversations tomorrow

Thursday, May 16th, 2019

French 10

  • Review vocabulary and structures from the units we have completed so far this semester
  • Watch Alice Ayel talk about Le weekend here

  • Be prepared to discuss how you spent your 4 day weekend en français
  • We will be starting a new unit on Tuesday 🙂

 

French 11

  • Finish “Qu’est-ce que tu as fait pendant les vacances?” on pages 52-53
  • Read and answer the questions for Les grandes vacances on page 49
  • Review pronoun use on page 22 + your learning check in AND practise writing some sentences using the pronouns y, leur, lui, le, la, les
  • You can do an online quiz here, but it includes a wider variety of pronouns (that you have already seen)

    Double Pronouns Quiz

  • The following online quiz tests for ‘en’ and ‘y’ only  http://softschools.com/quizzes/french/en_and_y_pronouns_les_pronoms_en_et_y/quiz10730.html

 

French 12

  • Finish reading up to the end of Chapter 7 and complete the questions
  • Send me your info graphic if you haven’t already. I will be printing them after school tomorrow!