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:

NT: devoirs from 10/27

1.  Webquest: Visit this Savoyard restaurant to complete the worksheet about its menu.  (Click entrée to get to l'accueil, the home page.

2.  Write one or two more journal entries about your trip to la Croatie.

3.  Write a rough draft or outline of the new Rommel story.

4.  Make a shape poem about the food of your choice.  (Here are some examples in English: shape poems.)

5.  Watch several French Brain Pop episodes on nonfiction topics that interest you: https://fr.brainpop.com.  I'd suggest any of the films gratuits (the free ones--for access to all of the videos, you have to pay to subscribe) and the à la une videos (the film of the day, which changes each day).  There is also a free French Brain Pop app that you could download for a smartphone or tablet: https://enseignants.brainpop.com/film-du-jour/.

NT: devoirs from 10/13

1.  Review "La chenille qui fait des trous" with this charming video of French children reading the story aloud:

NT: devoirs from 10/6

1.  Copy your autoportrait (the about-the-author paragraph) into your Septimus book.

2.  Write another journal entry about Croatia.

3.  Review the à table vocabulary by repeating the expressions out loud (using the audio file).

4.  Make a liste des courses (grocery list) for an imaginary meal (and be prepared to tell which magasins you would visit to buy the ingredients.

5.  Read the "Eating in France" handout.

6.  Watch several French Brain Pop episodes on nonfiction topics that interest you: https://fr.brainpop.com.  I'd suggest any of the films gratuits (the free ones--to access all of the videos you have to subscribe) and the à la une videos (the film of the day, which changes each day).  There is also a free French Brain Pop app that you could download for a smartphone or tablet: https://enseignants.brainpop.com/film-du-jour/.