Sample units from previous years....

Unit 1: Introductions 

The first week was great getting to know everyone. We completed the following tasks:

- title page

- Je me presente (information sheet for me to get to know your child)

- organized duo-tang (useful French phrases, mini dictionary, "cheat sheet" with useful vocabulary, continued with review)

- review for some, new vocabulary for others (i.e. review dates, months, numbers and start the verb avoir and etre)

- Google Translate Activity (Why google translate isn't good to use)

- "Selfie" Assignment with a partner

The first unit is called: Je Me Presente and by the end I hope your child will be able to:

- say their name, age, date of birth, nationality, where they live,

- describe themselves

- talk about their interests

- introduce themselves and use basic greeting and leave-taking expressions

- use basic connectors (but, because, and, etc.)

Next Unit includes describing a monster with adjectives for Halloween. Students love this project!!

Unit 2: Les invitations 

Aller + Les destinations en ville

1. Liste de vocabulaire
2. Ma ville (Powerpoint de Mme Maughan - la ville de Richmond)
3. Les lieux: Dessins et vocabulaire (Notes and description activity)
4. Les endroits: Quizlet
5. Google form: descriptions
1. useful review set: Les verbes de Français 1
6. Le verbe ALLER (à) + chanson
7. Où vont-ils?
8. Mettez la conversation en ordre (p. 208)
9. Créa-dialogue
10. Révisons le vocabulaire pour les endroits
11. 20 questions

Invitations

1. Les invitations
2. Notes
3. Trois verbes très utiles: vouloir, pouvoir, devoir
4. Quizlet: Révisons les verbes
5. Pouvez-vous comprendre ces Tweets?
6. Exemple
7. Flipgrid
8. Invitations
9. Rappel: Vocabulaire

Allons à Paris!

1. Allons à Paris!
2. Video
3. Aux Champs Elysées + paroles
4. Cartes Google
5. Ou vas-tu aller?
6. Les 20 arrondissements de Paris
7. Baguettes et boulangeries
8. Qu'est-ce qu'on va manger? 

January 

- learned present tense verbs

- learned writing strategies

- applied writing strategies to a piece of writing in the present tense

- We will continue to practice our writing throughout the rest of the year.

Unit 3: Les fêtes et les carnavals 

February/March 

- starting our new unit "Les fêtes et les Carnavals" - Festivals and Carnvals

- 8 stations centered around the 4 strands (listening, speaking, reading, writing) each with their own strategies. 

- Festivals/Carnavals with many different types of French culture include:

- La goût de la Louisiane

- Festival Acadien

- Mardi Gras

- Carnaval de Québec

- etc.

Station Handouts

Extras 

Unit 4: Les Restaurants 

Create a menu and dialogue - written

Present a restaurant skit where ordering off the menu created is accomplished. 

Unit 5: Vacationing Project 

Create an imaginary trip to a destination of your choosing. 

- present either in a scrapbook, powerpoint or a method of your choosing. 

Comme les "français" dit (Like how the French say): 

"La vie est belle." 

"Parlez-vous français?"

"C'est la vie."  

Year 2019-2020

This month:

-Introductions - getting to know you/me, diagnostics, basic skills (i.e. dictionary use, translators, etc.)

-Additional Information - Reverso, Bon Patron, Duolingo app

Prof Du Jour

Général avec les questions possibles 

Super Prof - 4 versions

Musique Mercredi 

Listening to French music enhances vocabulary.

Check out the website below to retrieve a great song to teach the class.

Musique Mercredi ppt 

 Useful tips for every French class + some extra

Without technology: 

- Dictionaries and Bescherelle (verb conjugation books) are provided. 

With technology:  

- Reverso: Translator or Dictionary

https://www.reverso.net/text_translation.aspx?lang=EN 

- Verb conjugation: 

www.the-conjugation.com/french/  

EXTRA INFORMATION

How to spend your 5+/10+/30+ minutes of French per day

• Do any homework that Mlle Thurler has assigned, including reading, work on a project, duolingo, etc.

• DuoLingo (free app - lessons - Mlle Thurler recommendation)

• Quizlet 

• Memrise (free app - lessons - student recommendation)

• Mondly (free app - in-app purchases - free daily lesson - Mlle T. recommendation)

• Tandem (free app - speak with people around the world who have been background checked - student recommendation)

• LingVist (free app - lessons - student recommendation)

• Watch YouTube videos in French

• Watch a film in French (go to the set-up menu and put subtitles in French OR audio in French)

• Speak to a parent, relative, friend (someone who also speaks French), or self in French

• Teach some French words/phrases to a parent/sibling/other relative/friend (for example, use quizlet vocab lists)

• Practice speaking to Siri/Alexa/etc. in French.

• Think in French.

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French films

*It is up to you to check the rating and read the synopsis in order to determine if a film is appropriate for you.
https://www.pinterest.com/rangerfrench/films/ 

Viewing American films for French

(American film = originally English language film)

• View an American film with French subtitles

• View an American film with French dubbing and English subtitles

• View an American film with French dubbing

*Under no circumstances should you view an American film with French subtitles AND French dubbing at the same time. Sometimes they do not match.

Developing Study Habits

Here are some important study skills that students need to acquire:

Time management:

• study at a regular time every day and week - make it a habit;

• set a daily, weekly, and semester schedule, assigning amounts of time to each subject or project;

• be sure to revise this schedule periodically;

• prioritize goals on a daily basis - priorities will change as deadlines approach;

• break long-term projects into short-term attainable steps.

Motivation:

• recognize the "real world" application of the material being learned, e.g., a poetry analysis develops not only analytical skills applicable across a spectrum of occupations, but the creativity employers emphasize and 21st century jobs require;

• define success as learning new material and working hard, not getting an A on an assessment. Praise effort.

Organization: 

• find a place free of everyday clutter to study;

• visit office supply stores to get an idea of all of the possible products available to help with organization;

• let the student select the organizational method (your method may not work for them);

• realize the first choice of organization aids may not work and another method may need to be tried. 

Studying in chunks:

• try not to study for longer than 25 minutes as studies show the brain struggles to concentrate on a specific topic for longer than that;

• break for about five minutes at a time, no longer;

• if possible, change your environment when you change subject or topic, e.g., study for the math exam in the bedroom and the literature exam in the kitchen (it will help your brain to recall and organize information);

• start with a harder subject/topic and then alternate with easier ones.

Note-taking:

• take notes when listening to a lesson. 

• develop an abbreviation and punctuation system that makes sense to you;

• use indentation and white space on the page to separate and organize information;

• consider a formal method of note-taking, e.g., Cornell notes;  (advanced)

• check your notes as soon as possible after taking them to make sure they are complete and coherent;

• re-write your notes as a way of reviewing for an assessment;

• use mnemonic devices to help recall information from notes.

Two very helpful sites for finding more information about study skills and strategies are Study Guides and Strategies and Cybrary Man's Educational Web Sites: Study Skills/Organization. Dartmouth College has some excellent videos for those who are visual learners.

Taken from https://www.educationaladvancement.org/developing-study-habits-and-the-gifted-student/