Enjoy your time with friends and family this holiday!  Don’t forget that the days after the break will be filled with assessments of your knowledge and skills in most of your classes. Come back well-rested and ready to work hard to finish your semester 🙂

There is no assigned homework … because it’s a holiday!

If you are looking for ways to review or practice your French during the break, I have provided some listening & viewing options below…

 

French 9

Here are 3 French stories related to Christmas (Noël)

 

• Click on the arrow to the right for the Season 1 play list of stories or episodes (not Christmas-related)

• You can also check out some of the cartoons included below for French 10

French 10

• Click on the arrow at the right for the play list of  episodes

French 9

• Finish writing your personal paragraph & questions for class tomorrow, please!
• Please let me know at the beginning of class tomorrow if you would like to take out a book to read over the break 🙂

French 10

• Please let me know at the beginning of class if you would like to take out a book to read over the break
• Continue to work through & develop understanding of the articles needed when talking about food  p 33- 37
  • Ask yourself if you can explain or teach it to someone else….what would you say? Make notes for yourself on the page.

 

 

French 9

• Study family vocabulary …  interpretive learning check-in tomorrow
• Here are some French Christmas songs (with lyrics) for those who are interested

French 10

• Here is the song we listened to in class today
• Here’s some info (in English) about the origins of la tourtière  https://www.foodnetwork.ca/shows/great-canadian-cookbook/blog/the-meaty-history-of-quebecois-tourtiere/
• Here is the episode of Alice in Paris Submergée au Marché.  https://www.tastemade.fr/emissions/alice-in-paris/submergee-au-marche
• Please complete Activities 1 & 2 on p6-7 of your unit package for class tomorrow

 

 

 

French 9

• Study family vocabulary …  learning check-in next week!
• Re-read p 18-19 of  ‘Les Familles”
• Complete the vocab questions from the story on p 22
• Bon weekend les amis 🙂

 

French 10

• Great work with your conversations! I’m super proud of the progress you showed 🙂
• Bon weekend. Dormez bien. Il reste une autre semaine de travail avant les vacances!

 

 

 

French 9

• Review the family vocabulary on p 6 of your unit
• Read the 5 sample questions at the top of the page and the answers provided
  • Write your own answer to each of the questions
  • You will practice asking/answering questions with a partner tomorrow

 

French 10

Block 2: students:  Tomorrow is the last day to bring a food item or some spare change to donate to the food drive! Please donate if you can.

• Partner conversations will continue tomorrow.
• Review your unit vocabulary & structures and think about how you will describe and explain your choices/dreams
  • ‘structures’ = remembering the correct placement and agreement of describing words  such as  “J’adore les murs roses dans cette chambre.”
  • ‘structures’ also = shows knowledge & use of basic foundations of the language which allows others to understand/make sense of what you are saying
  • ‘connecting words’ = parce que, à cause de, en raison de, car     BUT also words like “donc, alors, malgré que, tandis que, ensuite, et puis, ainsi, aussi ….”
  • ‘unit vocabulary’ = words for rooms and items in our homes, words to describe, words to show where things are (position & placement in a space) & chunks of language/phrases learned throughout the unit

 

 

 

French 9

• Learning check-in tomorrow:   using être & avoir in simple sentences  🙂
• Re-read the ‘Ma famille’ text on p 4
  • Circle or highlight all the words that are new & impede your understanding of the message. Write them in a list so that we can create a quick word bank together in class tomorrow
• Add your Pictionary-style drawing to the circle on p 5 to show the members of your family
• Review the examples of ways to use ‘avoir’ and ‘être’ in sentences p 2
  • As optional extra practice, try writing a personal paragraph that includes one sentence of each example (7 sentences total)

 

French 10

Block 2 & 3 students:  Please bring a food item or some spare change to donate to the food drive tomorrow!

• Prepare for your interpersonal assessment tomorrow by saving screen shots to your phone to talk about your ‘ideal house’ or ‘future dream home’ with partners
• Review your unit vocabulary & structures and think about how you will describe and explain your choices/dreams
  • ‘structures’ = remembering the correct placement and agreement of describing words  such as  “J’adore les murs roses dans cette chambre.”
  • ‘structures’ also = shows knowledge & use of basic foundations of the language which allows others to understand/make sense of what you are saying
  • ‘connecting words’ = parce que, à cause de, en raison de, car     BUT also words like “donc, alors, malgré que, tandis que, ensuite, et puis, ainsi, aussi ….”
  • ‘unit vocabulary’ = words for rooms and items in our homes, words to describe, words to show where things are (position & placement in a space) & chunks of language/phrases learned thoughout the unit

 

 

 

French 9

• Here is the Petit Jean Qui Danse video we listened to in class today
• New unit on describing ourselves, family, friends & what we do in our free time starts tomorrow!  Bonne soirée, les amis 🙂

 

French 10

Block 2 & 3 students:  Please consider donating to the food drive on Monday! Non-perishable food items and money will be accepted.

• Prepare for your interpretive listening assessment tomorrow by reviewing the unit (If you handed it in with your paragraph, please see the digital copy of the unit under French 10 resources)
• Pay attention to specific vocabulary and phrases on the following pages
  • p 1-4
  • p 10
  • p 12
  • p 20

 

 

 

French 9

• Spend some time reviewing your French basics from Unité 1 today
• Do you still know all the weather phrases & seasons? Words to indicate time? Useful classroom expressions? Numbers?
• Think about the areas that you outlined as needing improvement in your written work
  • Vocabulary? Patterns for actions words? Using le, la, les  vs.  un, une, des?

 

French 10

Block 2 & 3 students:  Please consider donating to the food drive on Monday! Non-perishable food items and money will be accepted.

• Make sure you have your paragraph describing your home in class tomorrow
• If you didn’t complete it on the weekend, consider this extra time a gift 🙂

 

 

 

French 9

• Bonne fin de semaine, tout le monde! Amusez-vous bien!
• Can you rewrite/add to your paragraph describing yourself?
  • Try adding some new words to describe and some of the words or structures you learned from the latest song
  • Don’t forget to change the endings on your describing words for ‘feminin’ 🙂

 

French 10

Block 2 students:  Please consider donating to the food drive on Monday! Non-perishable food items and money will be accepted.

• Finish writing your paragraph to describe your home
  • Challenge yourself to use new words from the unit, connecting words and lots of voluntary details!
• Complete the activities on page 20  “La maison – généralités”
  • There are lots of great words to help us communicate in more detail on the topic of where we live
• Watch the following short video clips about houses in different parts of the world
  • Take notes about what you understand to share in conversations with others on Monday
  • https://www.idello.org/fr/ressource/2646-Ma-Maison-En-Cote-DIvoire
  • https://www.idello.org/fr/ressource/2631-Ma-Maison-Sur-Pilotis-En-Thailande
  • https://www.idello.org/fr/ressource/5169-La-Ou-Je-Dors-Jamal?n avcontext=

 

 

 

French 9

Here’s a new song for you

• • What words do you recognize? Make a list. We’ll listen to it again in class tomorrow.
• Review the paragraph that you wrote about yourself in class today
  • Make a list (in English) of other things you would like to be able to say that you don’t yet have the vocabulary for

 

French 10

Block 2 students:  Please consider donating to the food drive tomorrow!

• To be prepared for class tomorrow, please finish the fill in the blank exercise on p 23 of your unit package ” Pierre –  Ma maison idéale”
• Continue to review the vocabulary needed to describe and discuss houses. We’re going to have end of unit partner conversations next week 🙂