Brainpop en français

NT: Watch at least two videos per week, and watch each of them two or three times.

https://fr.brainpop.com

NT: devoirs from 3/2

1.  Paris map activity

2.  vocabulary chart (cut and paste)

3.  written directions (Paris or Lafayette)

4.  "mot du jour" worksheets

5.  Rommel book

GR & NT: giving and following directions

1.  Practice the vocabulary for giving directions by reading and repeating the phrases in this video:

2.  Practice the vocabulary with this interactive exercise, "Comment se repérer ?"

3.  Look back over what we did in class: "Dans la rue" Activité 1 (listening & following along with the map), and then try Activité 4 (identifying in which arrondissement certain monuments are found).

NT & GR: vidéos de Paris

This 15-minute video in English provides a good overview of some of the major attractions of Paris:

NT: devoirs from 12/15

1.  Continue working on your story (try one more paragraph), type it up, and email it to me.

2.  Make a list of four activities that you do (or don't do) according to each season/weather.  Use the activity vocab and weather:

En hiver, il neige, mais je ne fais pas de ski.

3.  Christmas vocab: read the words aloud (I will email the pronunciation), practice singing the two songs, and try some of the word games in the packet.

4.  If you have time: "Chercher l'intrus." Write five "find the one that doesn't match" lists for me to guess (any vocabulary--food, weather, activities, etc.).

5.  If you have time: Continue illustrating the food vocabulary.

NT: devoirs from 12/1

1.  Adverbs: Use the worksheet to rewrite the sentences from your rough draft that have adverbs.

2.  Food vocab: Finish the drawings for each category.

3.  Devinettes: Write four riddles describing various foods.

4.  Continue developing the Rommel story.

5.  Visit one of the following French restaurants online and complete the webquest worksheet:

http://www.lepuitsdelegumesbio.fr  (organic & vegetarian restaurant in Paris)

http://www.restaurantlagrange.com/accueil_La_Grange.html (Savoyard specialties, such as raclette)

http://www.l-imprevu.com/ (fancy restaurant in Nîmes in the south of France)

GR: devoirs from 11/30

1.  Continue developing your story inspired by La chenille qui fait des trous.
2.  Keep track of each day's weather, using the calendar page and vocab handout.
3.  Reread the Quel temps fait-il aloud.
4.  Write some cherchez l'intrus games for me to figure out (use any vocabulary, not just food, if you want).
5.  Practice Vive le vent:

This is a much longer version (I only taught you the chorus), but the lyrics are onscreen.  Also, there a different line: "Boules de neige" (snowballs) and "Jour de l'an" (New Year's Day).  Below is a live-action version of the song from a Québecois television show.

NT: devoirs from 11/17

1.  Continue developing the Rommel story.

2.  Write four devinettes about the food vocab.

3.  Complete the chercher l'intrus worksheet.

4.  Practice the virelangues.

TA: devoirs from 11/3

1.  Keep reviewing the alphabet, using these videos: http://boulderfunfrench.blogspot.com/2016/10/ta-ressources-pour-commencer-beginning_28.html

2.  Teach "Dans la forêt lointaine" to your kids!

TA: ressources pour commencer (beginning resources)

Bienvenue (welcome) to my new students!  Since there's no point trying to pronounce words in any language if you don't know what the letters sound like, let's start with the alphabet....

"Military-style French Alphabet": An English-speaking French teacher walks you through her version of the alphabet, set to the rhythm of a familiar military cadence ("I don't know but I've been told…").  This ten-minute video is very thorough and offers opportunities to practice single lines at a time slowly and then build up to saying the whole chant more quickly:

Want someone to walk you through the alphabet ? Tom from easytolearnfrench.com is a young Frenchman who earnestly teaches Anglophone viewers.  Do watch this at least once so that you hear a native speaker pronouncing the letter names: