Bonjour, classe!
Listening to french spoken, reading familiar stories and listening to familiar songs in french are fabulous ways to build your vocabulary and to improve your accent and ability to understand french.
I'll be posting resources here that I have created or found online that I think will be helpful to you. Profites-en! (Enjoy them!)
Listening to french spoken, reading familiar stories and listening to familiar songs in french are fabulous ways to build your vocabulary and to improve your accent and ability to understand french.
I'll be posting resources here that I have created or found online that I think will be helpful to you. Profites-en! (Enjoy them!)
I am so excited about the text we are using this year. I think you will love it. The pictures, the activities, the descriptions of french culture, even the grammar charts all these will really help you solidify your french and gain confidence. I think you'll use it as a resource for years to come. We are using Bien Dit 1 from Holt McDougall.
I encourage you to take a look at some of the resources at at the bottom of the page to brush up on your french (and have fun with it) before classes begin in the fall:
You can also find your weekly assignments here.
I encourage you to take a look at some of the resources at at the bottom of the page to brush up on your french (and have fun with it) before classes begin in the fall:
You can also find your weekly assignments here.
Les Devoirs
Lundi, 14, Mai
Next week is our last class. Mme. DeFoy will be joining us. I'll bring some simple French treats and we'll enjoy talking with her.
You've got two final assignments:
1. Prepare for the conversation with Mme. DeFoy by doing two things:
Lundi, 7, Mai
Chaptitre 8, no new assignments, but make sure you are caught up on the previous ones.
Also, you can be thinking about your three final assignments, due on the last Monday of classes:
Lundi 30, Avril
Lundi 23, Avril
Lundi 16, Avril
Lundi 9, Avril
Lundi 2, Avril
Lundi 12, Fevrier
Chapitre 6
Projet Finale:
In place of a chapter 6 test, you are going to create a video of yourself and a friend going to a restaurant and ordering food.
Before you create your video, I want you to create a script and email it to me by Thursday for editing. I will return it to you with an audio file to help you with your pronunciation. You can make the video with a partner, or you can play both the part of yourself and the part of the waiter.
You will be scored on the completeness of the assignment and the accuracy of your final script.
You will turn in your edited transcript with your video. Please email videos to me by Sunday evening at 8 pm or bring them on a flash drive.
Include the following in your script:
Lundi, 19 Fevrier
I have great news which will require we adjust our plan for this coming Monday. The french family I told you about accepted my invitation to join us for a picnic (un pique-nique) and can only come thiscoming Monday, February 26.
So, saisissons le moment (Let's sieze the moment. Notice, saisir is another -ir verbe)! We'll abandon our set homework plans (we can do them for next week) and do this to prepare, instead:
1. If you are able to bring some food item to share for the picnic. The more french it is, the better. This blog has some great suggestions. Please would you reply to all when you know what you want to bring so that we don't end up with 5 baguettes?
2. Use the audio files attached (or the ones I send in a separate email) to practice up on the following:
Lundi 12, Fevrier (du Lundi 19 Fevrier)
Lundi 5, Fevrier (du Lundi 12 Fevrier)
Lundi 29, Janvier (du Lundi 5 Fevrier)
Lundi 22, Janvier (du Lundi 29, Janvier)
Lundi, 8, Janvier (Deuxième Semestre, la premiere semaine) (du Lundi 22, Janvier) No class on January 15
Lundi, 11, Decembre (La seizième semaine)
Lundi, 4, Decembre (La quanzième semaine)
Lundi, 27, Novembre (La quatorzième semaine) Notez: This is for the week after Thanksgiving.
Lundi, 13, Novembre (La deuxième semaine)
Lundi, 6, Novembre (La onzième semaine)
Lundi, 30 Octobre (La dixième semaine: dû Lundi le 6 November)
Excellent job, Emma, Lily, and Cameron, on your presentations!
Lundi, 23 Octobre (La neuvième semaine: dû Lundi le 30 Octobre)
Lundi, 16 Octobre (La huitième semaine: dû Lundi le 16 Octobre)
Lundi, 9 Octobre (La septième semaine: dû Lundi le 16 Octobre)
Lundi, 2 Octobre (La sixième semaine: dû lundi le 9 Octobre)
Lundi, 25, Septembre (La cinquième semaine: dû lundi le premier d'Octobre)
Prepare for the chapitre 1 examen:
Lundi 18, Septembre (La quatrième semaine: dû lundi vingt-cinq, Septembre)
1. Study pages 22-29 in the textbook.
2. Answer the following exercises on a separate sheet of paper:
4. Complete page 8 from the Cahier d'Activites (Mme. Tang emailed this)
Lundi, 11, Septembre (La troisième semaine; dû lundi, dix-huit Septembre, 9/18)
La première (et deuxième) semaine (dû lundi, onze Septembre, 9/11):
Next week is our last class. Mme. DeFoy will be joining us. I'll bring some simple French treats and we'll enjoy talking with her.
You've got two final assignments:
1. Prepare for the conversation with Mme. DeFoy by doing two things:
- First, prepare (in writing) an introduction of yourself. Tell her how old you are, what you like to do in your free time, what school subjects you enjoy. Tell her what you hope to do next year or after high school. Tell her about your family and where you live. And share what foods you like. Try to include different verb tenses. Use the past, present, and near future. Don't just use Google Translate. Try to work out these phrases using what you have learned this year. Use your book as a reference.
- Second, prepare two or three questions for Mme. DeFoy. Try to choose questions that you think you would understand the answer to. In other words, ask about topics that we have learned about (family, home, food, hobbies, sports, etc.)
Lundi, 7, Mai
Chaptitre 8, no new assignments, but make sure you are caught up on the previous ones.
Also, you can be thinking about your three final assignments, due on the last Monday of classes:
- Create and label a floor plan for your home. Label rooms, furniture, and the yard. Next to it, describe your favorite room. Tell what it is, where it is located (ex. - across from what room? next to what rooms? on which floor?), what is in it, what colors are in it, and what you like to do in that room.
- Write an introduction of yourself. Tell your name, age, where you live, what you like to do, what you don't like to do, what sports or activities you participate in, what you like to do with your free time, who is your family, and what you would like to do when with your life. Make sure to use the present, past, and near future tenses of verbs (use them appropriately. For example: {present tense} J'habite a Sierra Madre. {past tense) J'ai fini etudier le science, alors,{future} Je ne vais plus prendre des cours de sciences.
- Come up with 2-3 interesting questions that you could ask our french visitor (Mme. DeFoy) who will attend our last day of classes.
Lundi 30, Avril
- Chapitre 8 Grammaire 1, Application 1, Vocabulaire 2
Lundi 23, Avril
- Chapitre 8 Vocabulaire 1
Lundi 16, Avril
- Complete the Chapitre 7 Examen. This is an open book test
Lundi 9, Avril
- Complete Vocabulaire 2, Grammaire 2 and Application 2 in Cahier
Lundi 2, Avril
- Study Vocab 1 and Grammaire 1 of Chapitre 7 in the text.
- Complete exercises for Vocab, Grammaire, and Application 1 in Cahier
- Using the questions and answers from the Exprimons nous sections from Vocabulaire 1, make a question/answer cheat sheet, like the others we have made.
Lundi 12, Fevrier
Chapitre 6
Projet Finale:
In place of a chapter 6 test, you are going to create a video of yourself and a friend going to a restaurant and ordering food.
Before you create your video, I want you to create a script and email it to me by Thursday for editing. I will return it to you with an audio file to help you with your pronunciation. You can make the video with a partner, or you can play both the part of yourself and the part of the waiter.
You will be scored on the completeness of the assignment and the accuracy of your final script.
You will turn in your edited transcript with your video. Please email videos to me by Sunday evening at 8 pm or bring them on a flash drive.
Include the following in your script:
- Greet the waiter and ask for a menu
- Ask for recommendations about what is good
- Order a drink, entree, main dish and dessert
- Have the waiter ask you if you would like more of anything
- Have the waiter ask how you liked the food/drink and answer him/her
- Ask about prices
- Ask for and pay the check
- Good manners (say “Please” and “Thank you”)
- Use the following verbs: vouloir (to want), prendre (to take), and boire and an -ir verb
- Study pages 190-199 in the text. Do listening exercises 14, 18, 19, and 23, using Bien dit online.
- In the Cahier de Vocabulaire et Grammaire, do Grammaire 1 and Application 1
Lundi, 19 Fevrier
I have great news which will require we adjust our plan for this coming Monday. The french family I told you about accepted my invitation to join us for a picnic (un pique-nique) and can only come thiscoming Monday, February 26.
So, saisissons le moment (Let's sieze the moment. Notice, saisir is another -ir verbe)! We'll abandon our set homework plans (we can do them for next week) and do this to prepare, instead:
1. If you are able to bring some food item to share for the picnic. The more french it is, the better. This blog has some great suggestions. Please would you reply to all when you know what you want to bring so that we don't end up with 5 baguettes?
2. Use the audio files attached (or the ones I send in a separate email) to practice up on the following:
- your greetings
- introductions (also attached)
- French food vocabulaire (use pages 185-187 and 196-197 and the audio file
- how to offer, accept, and ask for food (see the Exprimons nous sections on pages 185 and 187) and the audio file attached. Make sure you know what the food you are bringing is in french. (audio file coming in separate email)
- Making small talk in french: See this blog post and listen to the audio file of the phrases which I have made for you. (audio file coming in separate email).
Lundi 12, Fevrier (du Lundi 19 Fevrier)
- Study chapitre 6 Vocabulaire 1 et Grammaire 1
- Complete in your Cahier: Vocabulaire 1 et Grammaire 1 (up to the point where they use finir, which we have not yet covered)
- Create a place mat with a picture of a table setting and meal. You may draw this, take a picture of it, or make a collage. Label en francais all the items in your picture.
- Bonus: This is not assigned, but I encourage you to look over this new resource that will help your french pronunciation.
- Check back here later this week for audio files to help you pronounce the vocabulary and expressions for chapitre 6
Lundi 5, Fevrier (du Lundi 12 Fevrier)
- Study for the Chapitre 5 Examen (I've emailed it to you). Use the Preparer Pour L'Examen section of your text and the study sheet we did in class (If you missed class, simply study the Four Exprimons Nous sections throughout the chapter)
- Take the Chapitre 5 Examen
Lundi 29, Janvier (du Lundi 5 Fevrier)
- Keep a weather journal for 3 days this week. Write the day of the week and describe the weather
- Finish Grammaire 2 and Application 2 in Le Cahier de Vocabulaire et Grammaire
- Watch Tele Roman from pages 172-173. Read the pages in the book and then listen/watch the show on Bien Dit
Lundi 22, Janvier (du Lundi 29, Janvier)
- Study pages 158-167 in the text
- Do Vacabulaire 2 and Grammaire 2 in the Le Cahier de Vocabulaire et Grammaire
- Study for verb quiz on faire and etre
Lundi, 8, Janvier (Deuxième Semestre, la premiere semaine) (du Lundi 22, Janvier) No class on January 15
- Look over Geoculture: L'Ouest de la France (p. 144-147)
- Study page 150-157 in your text. Do exercises 1, 12 (They require listening to the audio on Bien Dit online)
- In your Cahier de Vocabulaire et Grammaire, do the exercises for Vocabulaire 1 and Grammaire 1.
Lundi, 11, Decembre (La seizième semaine)
- a-g option:Complete the Préparer pour l'examin pages in the textbook in preparation for the chapter 4 test in class.
- Non a-g option: Study the Vocab 1 and 2 sections from the text book. Attached is a page with the words.
- Bring a french treat to eat, preferably a Christmas treat. Be ready to share what it is and a little about when the french eat it or why they love it.
- Note: Mme. Tang will be absent again this Monday (Je suis suis désolée) and so Mme. Welch will be in charge.
Lundi, 4, Decembre (La quanzième semaine)
- a-g option: Study pages 124-131. Complete pages 42-46 in Cahier de Vocabulaire et Grammaire, If Mrs. Baer had you do exercise 15 in the book, please complete that.
- Non a-g option: Practice vocabulaire #2 audio here (I'll post this later today)
Lundi, 27, Novembre (La quatorzième semaine) Notez: This is for the week after Thanksgiving.
- A-g option: Complete calendar, study pages 112-121. Complete pages 37-41 in Cahier de Vocabulaire et Grammaire (I will collect this)
- Non-a-g option (Graham and Savannah?): Complete your calendar, practice vocab 1 words (listen to audio)
- No homework for the Thanksgiving Holiday, but I encourage you to listen to the audio files for the vocabulary and expression of the week.
Lundi, 13, Novembre (La deuxième semaine)
- Use the end of chapter reivew (Prepare toi pour l'examen, pages 104 to 106) to study
- take the chapter 3 test, which I will email to you by Friday morning.
Lundi, 6, Novembre (La onzième semaine)
- Study pages 83-92 in text
- Complete pages 30-33 in the Cahier
- Create a family tree with the names of your family members and their relationship to you. You can create this on a poster with pictures or you can create a digital version and email it to me.
Lundi, 30 Octobre (La dixième semaine: dû Lundi le 6 November)
Excellent job, Emma, Lily, and Cameron, on your presentations!
- Study pages 78-83 in your textbook
- Complete pages 25-29 in the cahier de Vocabulaire (you'll need to print this out from the Bien Dit page. See instructions below if you are not sure how to do this)
Lundi, 23 Octobre (La neuvième semaine: dû Lundi le 30 Octobre)
- Project - choose one of the projects from the projects page that I handed out last week and prepare to present in class.
- Study the Prépares-toi pour l'examen (pages 66-68) section
- Take the Chapter 2 test.
Lundi, 16 Octobre (La huitième semaine: dû Lundi le 16 Octobre)
- Complete pages 22 and 23 in the Cahier de Vocabulaire et Grammaire (I did not mail this. You can access it through the Bien Dit page. To do this, go into Bien Dit. Go to the online text. Select Chaptre 2 Grammaire 2 from the drop down menu and hit "Go." From there, click on the "Premium" tab. There, you will find the Cahier de Vocabulaire et Grammaire. You can print it out. If you are unsure of an answer, you can complete the section online and check your answer.
- Do the listening exercises #22 and #33.
- Study pages 52-59
- Choose which project you will do for next Monday.
Lundi, 9 Octobre (La septième semaine: dû Lundi le 16 Octobre)
- Do any of the make up assignments from last week that you need to do to feel comfortable moving forward
- Study pages 52-54 in online text and do Exercises 22 and 23 on a separate sheet of paper (from pages 54
- In the Cahier de Vocabulaire et Grammaire, complete Vocabulaire 2 pp. 19–21. Note: To do this, go to the online textbook, select Chapitre 2 from the drop down menu. Then click on the "Premium" tab (on the right). This will take you to the online cahier. If you have the hard copy, you may write your answers there.
Lundi, 2 Octobre (La sixième semaine: dû lundi le 9 Octobre)
- Finish the Chapitre 1 examen. (You may scan and send it to me or just bring to class next week)
- Study pages 40-49 in the textbook and do the exercises in the online textbook. (I won't collect these and there is no pen and paper work, just entering answers online. Doing these exercises will help you see how well you understand what you are studying. It should be fun). You all should be able to login now, with your own account. Your username is your first and last name, no spaces or caps and your password is bonjour. Email me if you need the link again.
- Complete pages 13-18 in the Cahier de Vocabulaire et Grammaire.
Lundi, 25, Septembre (La cinquième semaine: dû lundi le premier d'Octobre)
Prepare for the chapitre 1 examen:
- Use the study sheet I gave you. Review it, making sure you can do/say what is on the sheet and reviewing the sections in the text, as needed.
- Make use of the resources in the online text. Use the audio files to help you with your listening skills.
- Review your flashcards and class notes.
- Study the section at the end of the chapter titled, "Prepare toi pour l'examen."
- Do the online assessment accessible on page 33 (link on the top right hand corner). This is a short assessment and you can correct it online.
- Take the Chapitre 1 Examen, which I will email you on Friday.
Lundi 18, Septembre (La quatrième semaine: dû lundi vingt-cinq, Septembre)
1. Study pages 22-29 in the textbook.
2. Answer the following exercises on a separate sheet of paper:
- Exercise 34 (p. 21)
- Exercise 36 (p. 23)
- Exercise 37 (p. 23) (You will need to login to Bien Dit online and listen to the audio file)
- Exercise 40 (p. 24) (You will need to login to Bien Dit online and listen to the audio file)
- Exercise 45 (p. 26) (You will need to login to Bien Dit online and listen to the audio file)
4. Complete page 8 from the Cahier d'Activites (Mme. Tang emailed this)
Lundi, 11, Septembre (La troisième semaine; dû lundi, dix-huit Septembre, 9/18)
- Complete pages 4-10 in the Cahier de Vocabulaire et Grammaire
- Study pages 10-21 in the text and listen to the audio resources that go with it online
- Make flash cards for the classroom vocabulary on page 18 of your text. Also listen to the audio recording I made for you.
La première (et deuxième) semaine (dû lundi, onze Septembre, 9/11):
- Study the vocabulary page I gave you. We'll have a short quiz on that next Monday.
- Read these pages from the text book: pages xvi-xvix, 1-3, and the tops of pages 6, 8, and 10
- Complete the exercises from the Cahier de Vocabulaire et Grammaire that I emailed to you.
- Subscribe to the YouTube channel, Comme une Française I would like you to watch to her weekly videos, which she will email to you on Tuesdays.
This is my favorite Youtube site for French videos: Comme une Française. Subscribe to receive weekly emails that will help you sound french, even to the french.
Children's Stories:
This site has classic children's stories en français with English translations. It's awesome. They've got Goldilocks (Boucles d'or et les Trois Ours), Little Red Riding Hood (Le Petit Chaperon Rouge), and more.
You can listen to the story read aloud (at a nice, slow pace) while you follow along. Make sure to click "open in new window" when you click "Play audio" so that you can read and listen at the same time.
This site has classic children's stories en français with English translations. It's awesome. They've got Goldilocks (Boucles d'or et les Trois Ours), Little Red Riding Hood (Le Petit Chaperon Rouge), and more.
You can listen to the story read aloud (at a nice, slow pace) while you follow along. Make sure to click "open in new window" when you click "Play audio" so that you can read and listen at the same time.