Friday, January 30, 2009

French Culture

  • Cognate quiz today.
  • Worked on travel to Paris/France dream vacations!
  • Homework: Bring in French articles and artifacts. Work on the Francophone Projects. 2nd period - presentations are on Wednesday-Friday (2/4 - 2/6)

French II

En classe:
  • Daily review questions and conversations in French about weekend plans, etc.
  • Discussed and corrected Thursday's homework (Leçon 21 double-sided worksheet).
  • Played Pictionary on the board using the Leçon 21 vocabulary.
  • Played Leçon 21 boardgames with a partner.
Les devoirs:
  • Complete book page 190 activity 2 and page 192 activity 3.
  • Articles and artifacts.
  • Bring a dry erase marker to class on Monday.

French I

En classe:
  • Daily review questions and conversations in French about weekend plans, etc.
  • Discussed and corrected Thursday's homework (book page 61 activity 3).
  • Played Pictionary on the board using the Leçon 9 vocabulary.
  • Played Leçon 9 boardgames with a partner.
Les devoirs:
  • Complete book page 61 activity 4.
  • Articles and artifacts.
  • Family photo album project is due Thursday 2/5/09.
  • Bring a dry erase marker to class on Monday.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

French II

En classe:
  • Daily review questions and conversations in French.
  • Respond to questions in French based on city of Oak Park, your apartment/house, etc.
  • Played Charades using the Leçon 21 vocabulary as students wrote down the correct word in French on the individual white boards.
  • Reviewed and corrected Wednesday's homework (activity 1 page 190).
Les devoirs:
  • Complete the double-sided Leçon 21 worksheet.

French Culture

In class:
  • Reviewed the cognates (borrowed words) with a partner in preparation for tomorrow's quiz on this material.
  • Worked in small groups to read French cookbooks to chose a recipe for our French party and travel books to begin planning an ideal week-long dream vacation to any city/cities in France.
Homework:
  • Study for Friday's cognate quiz.

French I

En classe:
  • Daily review questions and conversations in French.
  • Discussed and corrected Wednesday's homework (Leçon 9 double-sided worksheet).
  • Acted out mini-skits using the plastic food and Leçon 9 vocabulary.
  • Peer-edited family photo album rough drafts.
Les devoirs:
  • Complete activity 3 on page 61 in your textbook.
  • Make the corrections to your family photo album rough draft and be ready to hand in a second rough draft on Friday.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

French II

En classe:
  • Daily review questions and conversations in French.
  • Discussed city/town locations based on page 189 in the textbook.
  • Reviewed the Leçon 21 vocabulary worksheet.
  • Played "Frappeur" in order to review this vocabulary.
  • Read and discussed the Note Culturelle on page 190.
Les devoirs:
  • Complete activity 1 on page 190 in the textbook. Write your responses in complete answers in French on a separate sheet of paper.