French 9

Français 9 Team

What did we review & practise in class today?

• learning check in for ‘er’ verbs p 43
• saying where I live (corrections) p 65-67
• creating sentences with the verb ‘aller’ + places in the school + provinces & cities
• Où est la souris p 50 – using words of position/placement to add detail to our sentences & questions

TO DO TONIGHT:

• Review new words & structures 
• Prepare for the learning check-in tomorrow
  • Numbers to 30
  • Calendar/date
  • Presenting yourself (name, age, etc)

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

STUDENTS A-Z:

• Review the board notes to help you make corrections to your summary of Jean-Paul et ses amis
• You will have time on Wednesday to study/prepare for your oral on Thursday

STUDENTS M-Z:

• For class tomorrow, be sure you have completed your practice work up to/including p32
• Complete the full sentence, written answers for Aimez-vous l’école on p 10-11

To prepare for speaking, listening and written assessments for this intro unit:

• Review the questions on p 33 (so that you are comfortable asking/answering them in partners next week)
• Use the sentence builder on p 34 to practise talking about what you like/don’t like about school
  • An important goal for French 10 is to add more voluntary detail to your conversations. The sentence builder helps you to do this when talking about school.
• Complete the exercises on p 35 using the sentence builder 
• Review the structures & vocabulary on p 36 & 37 to talk about what you did on the weekend & what you are going to do

Need words to discuss emotions?

• I’ve included some on p 38!

Need to review some verbs in the present tense?

• Take a look at p 39!

 

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

What did we review & practise in class today?

• Est-ce que questions p33
• key words (for present, past, future) p 27
• ‘avoir’ expressions p21
• question words p34 combined with ‘est-ce que’  example: Quand est-ce que tu vas à l’école?
• action words (verbs) p 42-43

TO DO ON THE WEEKEND:

• Complete the assigned activities on The Language Gym before class on Monday
• Studythe new vocabulary & language structures from today’s class
• Prepare for your interpretive learning check-in (verbs) p43
  • Remember that this means ‘understanding’ what the words mean
  • Practise making questions & sentences with the words like we did in class. You give meaning to the words by using them to communicate your message & this helps you to remember them! 

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

ALL STUDENTS:

• For your next class, be sure you have completed your practice work up to/including p32
• Complete the full sentence, written answers for Aimez-vous l’école on p 10-11

To prepare for speaking, listening and written assessments for this intro unit:

• Review the questions on p 33 (so that you are comfortable asking/answering them in partners next week)
• Use the sentence builder on p 34 to practise talking about what you like/don’t like about school
  • An important goal for French 10 is to add more voluntary detail to your conversations. The sentence builder helps you to do this when talking about school.
• Complete the exercises on p 35 using the sentence builder 
• Review the structures & vocabulary on p 36 & 37 to talk about what you did on the weekend & what you are going to do

Need words to discuss emotions?

• I’ve included some on p 38!

Need to review some verbs in the present tense?

• Take a look at p 39!

Bon weekend à vous tous 🙂

 

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

What did we review & practise in class today?

• saying people’s ages & birthdays p 45-48 (yesterday’s homework)
• using the verb ‘alter’ in sentences & questions p 42
• the provinces & capitals of Canada & how to talk about going to or from places p 61-63

TO DO TONIGHT:

• Review the new vocabulary & language structures from today’s class
• Complete the readings & practice work for ‘Saying where I live & am from’ p 65-67
  • Make sure you are taking the time to LEARN the new vocabulary and structure & not simply trying to “get the worksheet done”
  • I suggest reading the short paragraphs once for information (and completing the questions) and AGAIN for fluency and comprehension of the paragraph as a whole

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

Students A-L

• For your next class, be sure you have completed your practice work up to/including p32
• Review the questions on p 33 (so that you are comfortable asking/answering them in partners next week)
• Complete the full sentence, written answers for Aimez-vous l’école on p 10-11

Students M-Z

• Make sure you are ready for class tomorrow
  • Complete all practice work up to the end of p28
  • Bring your tech permission form please! 

 

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

What did we review & practise in class today?

• Learning Check-in for structures & vocab from yesterday p28-32
• Question words on p34
• Words to talk about possession (my, your, his/her, our, your (pl or formal), their)  p35
• Articles and gender in French p37
• Verbs & how they function in French p41, 42 & 43

TO DO:

• Complete the readings & exercises for “Talking about my age” on pages 45-48 by tomorrow
• Review what we discussed & practised in class today 
• Review any issues you had with your learning check-in (Think about what you said you were going to work on)

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

Bon mercredi tout le monde 🙂

Good job on the story summaries completed this week!

This afternoon, you will continue to review and use some of the vocabulary and basic structures that you saw in French 9 

• Make sure that pages 12-15 are complete from last day
• Work through p 18-28 
• By the first of next week, your intro unit will be complete & we will have a basic assessment of your current skill level in speaking, writing and understanding French 

 

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

• Review the sentence builder on p 28 & practise saying
  • what there is/isn’t in the classroom or in the pencil case
  • what you have/don’t have
  • what you need/don’t need
  • what your friend has/doesn’t have
  • what your friend needs/doesn’t need
• Review the structures needed to talk about what different people have on p32
  • practise saying what age, what pet, what family, what courses & what school supplies different people have

***LEARNING CHECK-IN (interpretive) tomorrow on these structures & this vocabulary

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

All Students:

• Review school words & sentence structure on p 12 of your intro unit 
• Work through exercises on p 13-15
• You will have other work assigned to complete on Wednesday. Complete these tonight so that the Wednesday workload is manageable 🙂 

***All students need to check the blog tomorrow after lunch for the virtual Wednesday assignment

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

1. Make sure you have completed your “What’s in my schoolbag?” work for tomorrow p28-30
2. Sign up for The Language Gym classroom using the classroom code that I gave you in class
3. Study your school vocabulary by

• • Practising to say the words aloud
  • Making cue cards or a list with French word on one side & English on the other
  • Completing assigned school word activities on The Language Gym
  • Reviewing the 4 questions we practised today &  the structures for answering in complete sentences

4.  Prepare for your learning check-ins tomorrow

• • numbers 1-10
  • the alphabet
  • greetings

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

A-L Students:

• Review school words & sentence structure on p 12 of your intro unit 
• Work through exercises on p 13-15
• You will have other work assigned to complete on Wednesday. Do these tonight or tomorrow so that the Wednesday workload is manageable 🙂 

M-Z Students:

• Make sure you have finished reading the novel up to the end of Chapter 4 & have your partner questions ready for class tomorrow
• Remember to bring your pink technology permission form 

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

Learning check-ins on basic greetings, expressions, numbers and alphabet will begin next week. Spend some time reviewing your vocabulary & skills this weekend 🙂

1. Practising your numbers to 20? Here’s a children’s song to help you remember

2. Ready for numbers to 100? Here’s a longer version of the song! Play it in the background when you’re doing something else.

3. Practise some greetings here https://www.digitaldialects.com/how_do_you_say_hello_in/French.htm

4. Practise colours here https://www.digitaldialects.com/French/Colour_audio.htm

5. Practise colours & numbers together here https://www.digitaldialects.com/French/WCN1French.htm

6. Practise spelling colour words here https://www.digitaldialects.com/French_spelling/Colour.htm

7. Practise some basic phrases here https://www.digitaldialects.com/French/Phrases.htm

8. Practise days & months here https://www.digitaldialects.com/French/Daysmonths.htm

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

All students:

• The quarter system is fast-paced!
• Spend some time this weekend immersed in French 🙂
• Read & re-read your novel up to the end of the Chapter 4
  • Make sure you have written 5 questions for Chapter 3 & 5 questions for Chapter 4 to practise asking/answering with a partner on Monday/Tuesday
• Consider watching some Alice Ayel story videos to develop your French ear & pronunciation after so long away
• IF you took French 9 at Pinetree, spend some time reviewing your unit packages & refreshing your memory about the language structures and vocabulary you learned

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

Videos for class today

1. Who speaks French in the world?

2. The continents & oceans in French

http://www.estudiodefrances.com/fle-html5/continents-et-oceans/continents-et-oceans.html

3. The alphabet song & a handout to record meaning of new words l’alphabet

• Review pronunciation of the French alphabet on p 8 of your unit package with this audio
• Review pronunciation of numbers 10-20 on p 12 of your unit with this audio
• Review pronunciation when counting by 10s to 100 on p12 with this audio

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

Students A – L:

• Keep working to reactivate your French brain a little each day! 
• Read your novel up the end of Chapter 4 by Monday
• Write 5 questions for Chapitre 3 & five questions for Chapitre 4
  • Consider making a vocabulary list for new words you are learning as you read
  • Take the time to make sure you understand the sentences you are reading
• Review your course outline & expectations with your parents/guardians
• Return your signed technology permission form on Monday, please!

REMINDER FOR STUDENTS M-Z:

• Read Chapitre 1 & complete your questions before class tomorrow!

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

TO DO:

• Please review the course outline and grading policy with your parents/guardians
• Have your parent/guardian sign your pink technology permission form and return the form tomorrow
• Review your work from class
  • practise asking the questions on p 4
  • practise answering the questions on p4 with your personal vocabulary
• Re-read the text we worked through in class
  • Re-read it aloud so that you are practising your speaking voice in French
• Revisit the learning objectives on p 2 of your package
  • Make sure you have a concrete plan for achieving your goal!

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

 

Bonjour les amis!

For today, you have 3 tasks. Please complete them before the end of class at 2:55.

1. If you took French 9 at Pinetree, you were told to keep your unit packages. Please find them and put them with the binder you will use for French 10. You will find them useful as you re-activate your “French brain” 🙂
2. Go to the Questions Pour Madame channel on Teams and reply to my post (en français, bien sûr!) with a post of your own. Please include the following information in your post:

• • A greeting
  • Your name
  • Your age
  • Two things that you like
  • One thing that you dislike a lot
  • A closing/way of saying goodbye

THEN, make sure you read the posts of your classmates and reply in writing to at least one person + like/or other emoji for the rest.

EXAMPLES of appropriate replies would be:

• Moi aussi j’aime…
• Moi non plus je n’aime pas …
• A follow up question based on something they have written  

3. Lastly, please read this chapter Chapitre 1

• • Practise reading it aloud for pronunciation (we will do this again in class on Thurs/Fri)
  • Practise reading it for comprehension
  • Write 8 questions (2 for each page of text) to practise asking & answering with partners in class

BE SURE TO BRING THE APPROPRIATE SUPPLIES & CHAPTER QUESTIONS TO CLASS WITH YOU ON THURSDAY/FRIDAY !

French 9

Français 9 Team

• You can re-read today’s Napoléon story here Le Mariage de Napoléon Le vieux Napoléon
• You can listen to the audio here

REMINDERS:

• The last interpretive assessment will be on Monday, Nov 16th
  • It will include a few sentences (listening) from Napoleon books 9-12 & several sentences related to the Moi, ma famille & mes amis unit
• The last presentational assessment (writing) will also be on Monday.

 

French 11

Français 11 Team

REMINDERS FOR EVERYONE:

• Your last class on Mon/Tues will include a longer, presentational writing task as a final look at what you can produce in French
  • Think about tenses, vocabulary, connecting words that you have been working with throughout the quarter 
  • At the end of French 11, I am looking for evidence of previous & current learning, more effective use of details, well-connected sentences, more varied vocabulary & improved accuracy of tenses 
  • PLEASE REMEMBER TO RETURN YOUR NOVEL 🙂