French 9
What did we review & practise in class today?
- talking about our daily routines & when we do things p 52-58
TO DO TONIGHT:
- make sure you have completed the activities up to the end of p 58
- review asking/answering questions about your daily routine
- quiz yourself on new vocabulary for daily routine
- quiz yourself on writing ‘er’ verbs in French
- Presentational assessment on Friday
French 10
Bon mercredi les amis 🙂
Your work this afternoon is to prepare for your oral & written assessments on Thurs/Fri.
Oral assessment:
- You will participate in conversations with peers on the topic of you, your family & friends, school & leisure activities
- You are expected to fully engage in spontaneous conversation that includes voluntary details & follow up questions
- Review your intro unit package for language structures and new vocabulary you can include to ‘level up’ your language skills & move beyond the basics of French 9
- Review any vocabulary that you got stuck on during your practice conversations
- Think about question format & how to vary the types of questions you ask
- Practise saying questions, words or phrases aloud for fluency & pronunciation
- Review expressions & reactions (so that you are not simply nodding when your partners share info about themselves)
Written assessment:
- You will be given a prompt in class
- The prompt will be related to all you have reviewed in the intro unit
- Re-read the story, the paragraphs & the sentence builders in your package
- Remember what our goals are when communicating this year … including details; strings of simple, original sentences; a variety of vocabulary
- Review the types of challenges you had with your Jean-Paul et ses amis summary
- Make notes to yourself about how to avoid doing the same thing in your second piece of writing
- Make sure you have completed the re-write of your story summary & bring it to your next class