French 9

Français 9 Team

Bonnes vacances à tous! 

It would be a good idea to review some of your more recent learning before the return on January 4th! (Make sure you finished your class work up to the end of p 27 today, too!)

*Re-read some of the stories, or the sentence builders & short texts in your unit books

*On The Language Gym, you can go to Games Room, choose the type of activity and then set the parameters (level of difficulty = primary or beginner), then choose topics or themes that we have been working on in class.

• • Only the ‘assignments’ set by Madame are recorded for accuracy
  • You can play any game you would like in the Games Room without accuracy being recorded

*The Christmas program that we couldn’t watch in class today was this one

Mostly, enjoy the time at home with your families. Stay safe & come back rested and ready to learn!

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

BONNES VACANCES À TOUS!

Great job today working through your texts about your typical day! Lots of focus on progress for the last day before winter vacation. I’m so proud of you 🙂

To keep your “French brain” active during your two weeks away, please:

• read your novel
• review any new vocabulary or structures you may be struggling with
• consider talking or texting with a friend from class in French!
• watch some French cartoons or listen to French music
• complete some assignments or explore the ‘games room’ in The Language Gym

For those asking about French Christmas music, here are a few songs…

Jingle Bells

Oh Christmas Tree

Petit Papa Noël

Renne au nez rouge

 

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

What did we review & practise in class today?

• • We had a pop learning check-in to receive feedback & see how our written French is progressing
  • We reviewed yesterday’s Napoléon story & questions
  • We read the eighth story in the Napoléon series & practised asking/answering questions orally with our partner
  • We reviewed & corrected the activities related to family on p 15-18 in Moi, ma famille & mes amis unit
  • We learned more about placement of describing words (adjectives) in French p 19-20 & completed the sentence work on p 21-22

Things to do tonight:

• • Review vocabulary & structures from Napoléon est malade on p 33
  • Re-read the story here Napoléon est malade
  • Listen to the audio of the story here
  • Review books 5-8 to prepare for your interpretive learning check-in tomorrow/Friday
  • Complete any unfinished class work before your next class & review new vocabulary and structures

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

All students:

• Review the present & past tense structures in your unit package
  • There will be a quick learning check in on Thursday to see what you understand & what you can produce (write) en français on this topic.
• For a different perspective on forming the past tense in French, watch this video. They make it more fun!
• Make sure you have read the text ‘La routine des soins personnels’ for pronunciation, new vocabulary and language structures
  • Complete the questions in full sentences 
• Complete the ‘Talking About the Weekend’ activities on p 35-36 of your unit package

 

 

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

What did we review & practise in class today?

• • We reviewed yesterday’s Napoléon story & summary
  • We read the seventh story in the Napoléon series & worked through activities to develop comprehension & vocabulary & confidence to retell
  • Some students participated in a grade conference with Madame to discuss & reflect on the term 
  • We reviewed the activities related to family on p 10-14 in Moi, ma famille & mes amis unit
  • Students worked on class assignments in the Language Gym
    • Lots of new ones have been added!

Things to do tonight:

• • Review vocabulary & structures from Napoléon et le voleur on p29
  • Re-read the story here Napoléon et le voleur
  • Listen to the audio of the story here
  • Complete any unfinished class work about the story on p 30
  • Spend some time trying to retell the stories with pictures only

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

All students:

• Review the present & past tense structures in your unit package
  • There will be a quick learning check in on Thursday to see what you understand & what you can produce (write) en français on this topic.
• Check the blog tomorrow for your Wednesday work!

 

 

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

What did we review & practise in class today?

• • We reviewed last Friday’s Napoléon story & questions
  • We read the sixth story in the Napoléon series & worked through activities to develop comprehension & vocabulary & confidence to retell
  • Half of students participated in a grade conference with Madame to discuss & reflect on the term (These will continue tomorrow)
  • We worked through activities to develop vocabulary related to family p 12-18 in Moi, ma famille & mes amis unit
  • Some students worked on class assignments in the Language Gym

Things to do tonight:

• • Review vocabulary & structures from Napoléon et l’oiseau p. 25
  • Re-read the story here Book 6 Napoleon et l’oiseau
  • Listen to the audio of the story here
  • Complete any unfinished class work about the story on p 27 (Skip p 26 – wrong questions!)
  • Make sure you have completed your class work p 12-18

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

Students A-L:

• Finish reading & re-read ‘Les soins personnels’ 
• Answer the questions in complete sentences
• Review the new vocabulary circled in class
• Study the past tense structures included in your unit
  • Those that have ‘avoir’ as the helper verb
  • Those that have ‘être’ as the helper verb & need changes for feminine or plural
  • Where to put the ‘ne…pas’ in the past tense
  • And…of course…p 33 🙂 

Students M-Z:

Make sure you are prepared for class tomorrow!

• All questions and activities completed up to the end of p28

 

 

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

What did we review & practise in class today?

• • We completed the interpretive assessment (your understanding) of books 1-4
  • We reflected on all you have learned & have shown you can do so far this quarter
  • We read the fifth story in the Napoléon series & worked through activities to develop comprehension & vocabulary
  • Some students worked on class assignments in the Language Gym

Things to do tonight:

• • Review vocabulary & structures from Napoléon et le chien méchant p 21
    • Remember that there were quite a few in this story! You need to study 🙂
  • Re-read the story here Book 5 Napoléon et le chien méchant
  • Listen to the audio of the story here
  • Complete any unfinished class work about the story on p 22-23
  • Start at the beginning and, using only the pictures, practise retelling stories 1-5
  • Take some time to work on your Language Gym training activities & make note of the ones you have mastered so far

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

All students:

Before your next class, please work through the following exercises:

• All incomplete class/home work up to and including p25
• practice exercises on p 26-27 (that you didn’t finish in class)
• la carte postale on p 28
• Review the present and past structure for partir, sortir & dormir p 30
• Complete the exercises on p 30-31
• Do some Language Gym practice if you haven’t yet completed your training exercises!

 

 

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

What did we review & practise in class today?

• • We reviewed yesterday’s story & practised to retell
  • We read the third story in the Napoléon series & worked through activities to develop comprehension & vocabulary
  • Some students had time to complete p 10 (Describing hair & eyes)
  • Some students worked on class assignments in the Language Gym

Things to do tonight:

• • Review vocabulary & structures from Napoléon a faim
  • Re-read the story here Book 3 Napoléon a faim
  • Listen to the audio of the story here
  • Complete any unfinished class work about the story on p 13-15
  • Complete p 10 (Describing hair & eyes)  * rasé means shaved in English
  • Practise your IR/RE verb meanings p 44 of your first unit book 
    • Interpretive learning check in tomorrow 🙂

***I have removed some older assignments from The Language Gym, added two new assignments & extended the time for verb trainer assignments until next Wednesday. Please set aside at least 15 minutes a day until you’ve completed all of the assignments with an accuracy rate of the Fully Meeting range (80% or higher)

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

Bon mercredi tout le monde!

Today you are continuing to work on using proper structures when communicating in both present & past tenses.

• First, read the two texts on p 19 – 22 & answer the questions in complete sentences
  • Underline all of the present tense verb structures
  • Circle both parts of the past tense structures
• Then, review the structure for past tense on p 23-24 & complete exercises 1-4 on p 24-25 
  • For #2, you can change some of the words (The questions are old & we no longer use cassette tapes! You can change that word to “chansons” or “playlist”. Also, you can change la chaîne stéréo to whatever you use for storing your music)

***I have re-configured the longer Language Gym training sessions to 15 minutes (the longest available).

***The assignments posted are set to archive by next Wednesday. I only check off your name when you have completed all of the questions in a set in the Fully Meeting range. 

• • For example:  if you only complete 20/144, you have not completed the activity & I don’t check off your name. 
  • Keep working on them until you can get through all of them within the time limit 🙂

 

 

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

What did we review & practise in class today?

• • Review of question words & how to form questions p.4
  • les parties du corps p. 5
  • Jean Petit Qui Danse
  • Review of describing hair & eyes with partner p 8-9
  • Napoléon story #2

Things to do tonight:

• • Review vocabulary & structures from Chez la vieille dame
  • Re-read the story here Chez la vieille dame
  • Listen to the audio of the story here
  • Complete any unfinished class work about the story on p 8-10
  • Continue practising on The Language Gym if you have time

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

All Students:

Before your Wednesday class, make sure that you complete the following:

• Write your comparison paragraph on p5
• Write advice for your partner p10/11
• Read the dialogue on p 12 & complete exercise 11
• Complete exercises 12, 13, 14, 15 & 16 on p 14
• Review structure on p 16 & do exercise 17

Continuing challenging your skills on The Language Gym!

• I have added two more assignments to practise Daily Routine vocabulary in present & past tense

CHECK THE BLOG TOMORROW FOR YOUR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ASSIGNMENT 🙂

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

What did we review & practise in class today?

• • Le petit Napoléon story – new vocab & structures, questions & answers, practise to retell in French
  • Learning Check-in :  to show how you are doing with making simple sentences using practised,  known vocabulary
  • Practise making meaningful sentences with the action words (verbs) on p 44 of your first unit package
  • Describing hair & eyes sentence builder on p 7

Things to do tonight:

• • Review vocabulary & structures practised in class
  • Complete ‘Describing hair & eyes’ activities on p 8-9
  • Practise for your interpretive learning check-in on Thursday (p 44 of 1st unit package)
  • Continue practising on The Language Gym
    • You can keep practising until you reach 100% accuracy 🙂

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

Students A-L:

Before your Wednesday class, make sure that you complete the work from class today:

• Write your comparison paragraph on p5
• Write advice for your partner p10/11
• Read the dialogue on p 12 & complete exercise 11
• Complete exercises 12, 13, 14, 15 & 16 on p 14
• Review structure on p 16 & do exercise 19

Continuing challenging your skills on The Language Gym!

• I have added two more assignments to practise Daily Routine vocabulary in present & past tense

Students M-Z:

Check Friday’s post to ensure that you are thoroughly prepared for class tomorrow!

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

What did we review & practise in class today?

• • la bise (cultural practice) https://www.france24.com/en/france/20191009-french-kissing-culture-the-ins-and-outs-of-la-bise
  • le festival du bois  p 69-71
  • Le petit Napoléon story

Things to do tonight/over the weekend:

• • Re-read the story here Le petit Napoléon
  • Listen to the audio version here
  • Complete the activities for the story on p 2-5 in your Napoléon unit book
  • Practise retelling the story orally using pictures on p2

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

All Students:

• Before your next class, study the vocabulary & structures on p 1-4 of the new unit
• Complete the checklist & phrases for your typical day on p 5 so that you are ready to share with your partner on Monday/Tuesday
• Read 10 trucs faciles on p 7 & answer the questions on p 8
  • Note that there is an error in Question 3! Please change ‘document’ to audience 🙂
  • Complete ‘Vos réponses’ on p 9 so that you are ready to share with your partner
• Keep working through The Language Gym assignments

Bon weekend à tous!

 

 

 

French 9

Français 9 Team

What did we review & practise in class today?

• Talking about our daily routines & when we do things  p 57-58
• Interpretive reading:  benefits of walking & pedalling to school  p 59
• Quick review of combined letter sounds, weather, numbers to 100
• Self-assessment of unit objectives & personal goals p 2
• Language Gym assignments     *verb patterns
  • Also, time to explore on your own! Go to Games Room to choose activities that interest you.

TO DO TONIGHT:

• Take time to review vocabulary and language from the unit that you haven’t mastered yet
• Prepare to write your ‘ER’ verbs tomorrow
• Continue practising verb patterns on The Language Gym

 

French 10

Français 10 Team

Students M-Z:

• Bring your re-write and first draft of Jean-Paul et ses amis summary to class tomorrow
• Prepare for your oral & written assessments

Students A-L:

• Before your next class, study the vocabulary & structures on p 1-4 of the new unit
• Complete the checklist & phrases for your typical day on p 5 so that you are ready to share with your partner on Monday
• Keep working through The Language Gym assignments