Monday, December 12, 2016

Mardi/Mercredi

7TH PERIOD: WE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TODAY TO DISCUSS THE 1ST SEMESTER FINAL PROJECT.  SOME OF YOU MIGHT WANT TO WORK ON IT OVER WINTER BREAK, AND I FEAR THAT WE WILL NOT HAVE SCHOOL THURSDAY OR FRIDAY (wishful thinking), AND IF THIS IS THE CASE, I WOULD LIKE YOU TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE PROJECT EXPECTATIONS HERE. IN SHORT, FOR THE PROJECT YOU TELL THE CLASS ALL ABOUT YOURSELF, YOUR FAMILY, AND FRIENDS USING ONE OF THE FOLLOWING CREATIVE FORMATS:
VIDEO
COLLAGE
POWERPOINT
PHOTO ALBUM
POSTER
(REMEMBER, "C" WORK IS COMMON WORK, SO DON'T JUST PICK SOMETHING THAT YOU THINK WILL BE EASY (SLOPPY POSTER). YOU MAY WORK WITH PARTNERS. CONSIDER HAVING A GROUP CONVERSATION AT, SAY, DINNER :)

THE PROJECT:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1chr_4Uamx5K7KETKvetm_ileOaP05AA_VqjSpIDqHaQ/edit
PROJET: TOUT SUR MOI!!!                                                                                                           DUE 10 janvier, 2017
  • Now that we know how to talk about the things that we do (things and activities), and you know how to conjugate –er verbs.  You are going to make a collage (or some other representation) of yourself. 
  • I will ask you to present something about yourself when we turn this project in, but it does not have to be a drawn out presentation for the entire class.
  • You can complete this project in most any format as long as it is complete and has visual representations.
    • Poster, powerpoint, Prezi, video biography, album, song, etc. (check with M. Zenk 1st on the etc. part)
  • Use wordreference.com for new vocabulary (you should limit your use of too much new vocabulary as you want to show off YOUR French.  If you search ‘BAT’ on wordreference you will find the following, often with example sentences:
o        bat (n) ß meaning it’s a noun                      (a nocturnal flying mammal)
o        chauve souris (nf) ßshowing it’s a feminine noun, so UNE chauve souris
o        bat (n) (sport: club or paddle)
o        batte (nf)
o        bat (hit[sth]) (vtr) ß meaning it’s a verb
o        frapper (vtr) ß notice this is an –er verb so you know how to conjugate it: Je ne frappe pas mon ami!
o        bats (adj) ß meaning it’s an adjective          slang (crazy)
o        timbré ß the masculine form is shown but here one would add an ‘e’ to make it feminine timbrée                                                                                  fou, folle  ß here an irregular adjective is shown
o        go to bat for (expr) ß meaning this is an expression
o        intervenir en faveur de… ß notice that this is not an –er verb but you can say that you LIKE or DON’T LIKE this activity

PROJET: TOUT SUR MOI!!!                                                                                                           DUE 10 janvier, 2017
  • Now that we know how to talk about the things that we do (things and activities), and you know how to conjugate –er verbs.  You are going to make a collage (or some other representation) of yourself. 
  • I will ask you to present something about yourself when we turn this project in, but it does not have to be a drawn out presentation for the entire class.
  • You can complete this project in most any format as long as it is complete and has visual representations.
    • Poster, powerpoint, Prezi, video biography, album, song, etc. (check with M. Zenk 1st on the etc. part)
  • Use wordreference.com for new vocabulary (you should limit your use of too much new vocabulary as you want to show off YOUR French.  If you search ‘BAT’ on wordreference you will find the following, often with example sentences:
o        bat (n) ß meaning it’s a noun                      (a nocturnal flying mammal)
o        chauve souris (nf) ßshowing it’s a feminine noun, so UNE chauve souris
o        bat (n) (sport: club or paddle)
o        batte (nf)
o        bat (hit[sth]) (vtr) ß meaning it’s a verb
o        frapper (vtr) ß notice this is an –er verb so you know how to conjugate it: Je ne frappe pas mon ami!
o        bats (adj) ß meaning it’s an adjective          slang (crazy)
o        timbré ß the masculine form is shown but here one would add an ‘e’ to make it feminine timbrée                                                                                  fou, folle  ß here an irregular adjective is shown
o        go to bat for (expr) ß meaning this is an expression
o        intervenir en faveur de… ß notice that this is not an –er verb but you can say that you LIKE or DON’T LIKE this activity


YOU SHOULD HAVE A MINIMUM OF THE FOLLOWING IN/ON YOUR PROJECT:
·    An introduction to yourself (things from the cercle de moi)
·    A brief description of your appearance & personality
·    5 activities you do- include vocabulary from pages 89 & 100 (including one verb that has not been learned in class)
·    2-3 activities that you do not do.
·    Original sentence using a conjugated –er verb (a dictionary, wordreference.com, or M. Zenk can help)
·    A short bio of someone in your family (cercle de moi info & 2-3 things they do/don’t do)


C’est super (A)
C’est bien (B)
C’est pas mal (C)
Je travaille encore (D)
Présentation
(16 points)
My project looks awesome, organized, colorful, who wouldn’t want to be my friend!?!
My project looks good, it has some variety and is colorful and organized.
My project’s not bad, it has some color and detail but might look a little sloppy.
I sort of slapped this together and it’s lacking in organization, creativity, and cleanliness.
Contenus (content)
(12 points)
I exceeded the required parts to the project.
I have all of the required parts to the project.
I am missing just a few parts to the project.
What!?! I didn’t do that part, I guess I’m missing some.
Grammaire
(22 points)
I have checked my French and everything is right on.  I also used some new vocab.
My French is mostly accurate and I included a little new vocab.
I have a few errors in French but it’s still understandable.
I sort of guessed whether or not these words were French or if that’s how you write them.

YOU SHOULD HAVE A MINIMUM OF THE FOLLOWING IN/ON YOUR PROJECT:
·    An introduction to yourself (things from the cercle de moi)
·    A brief description of your appearance & personality
·    5 activities you do- include vocabulary from pages 89 & 100 (including one verb that has not been learned in class)
·    2-3 activities that you do not do.
·    Original sentence using a conjugated –er verb (a dictionary, wordreference.com, or M. Zenk can help)
·    A short bio of someone in your family (cercle de moi info & 2-3 things they do/don’t do)


C’est super (A)
C’est bien (B)
C’est pas mal (C)
Je travaille encore (D)
Présentation
(16 points)
My project looks awesome, organized, colorful, who wouldn’t want to be my friend!?!
My project looks good, it has some variety and is colorful and organized.
My project’s not bad, it has some color and detail but might look a little sloppy.
I sort of slapped this together and it’s lacking in organization, creativity, and cleanliness.
Contenus (content)
(12 points)
I exceeded the required parts to the project.
I have all of the required parts to the project.
I am missing just a few parts to the project.
What!?! I didn’t do that part, I guess I’m missing some.
Grammaire
(22 points)
I have checked my French and everything is right on.  I also used some new vocab.
My French is mostly accurate and I included a little new vocab.
I have a few errors in French but it’s still understandable.
I sort of guessed whether or not these words were French or if that’s how you write them.




Review vocabulary, lessons 6, 7
(Revisons/pratiquons le vocabulaire des leçons 6 et 7)
Quizlet--leçon 7
Quizlet--leçon 6
Translate sentences for --er verbs. See pages 95, 98; 89, 100
1. We sing with my nice friend a little.
Nous chantons un peu avec mon ami sympathique.
2. Y'all (you plural) listen to the iPod or the radio often, right?
Vous écoutez souvent à l'iPod et à la radio, n'est-ce pas?
3. Do Jack and Jill like to sing a lot?
Est-ce que Jack et Jill aiment chanter beaucoup/souvent?
4. What do they (girls) eat now?/What are they eating now?
Qu'est-ce qu'elles mangent maintenant?
5. Y'all study for (in order to) speak French well.
6. Marie and her family live in Dakar, Senegal where they swim often.
7. Of course not! We don't want to play there!
8. Don't (y'all) look at the dog; maybe he doesn't like you. 
9.  I am evil/mean/nasty; I am always rather bad (165)
10. It's too bad that you don't play tennis.
11. The dog is not cute, and it is very timid. 
12. Maybe. But I like my dog and it is not stupid. All my dogs are nice and funny.
Bonus: Write your own sentence using some of the most difficult words and phrases we have studied this year. 
(Ecrivez les phrases pour les verbs en -er)
Play conjugation game with balls
(Tout le monde, joue le jeu de conjugaison avec les balles)
  Note: there are three words for "ball": Une balle de tennis; Un ballon de foot; Une boule (the game)

HOMEWORK: 71-74 (20 MINUTES)
HOMEWORK: LA PAGE 99: 9; 11
MONDAY NIGHT  YOUR HOMEWORK WILL BE TO MEMORIZE THE SPELLING AND MEANINGS OF ALL 10 WORDS ON PAGE 100. YOU MIGHT WANT TO START NOW };^}

HOMEWORK: Ecrivez des phrases ("des" is "some"--plural for "un") avec les mots suivants:
(Write some sentences with (using) the following words:)
voyager, travailler, manger, étudier, habiter, inviter, aimer, donner (to give), penser (to think) embrasser (to kiss). You must also use the following ten words from page 86 in those sentences:
Oui, mais oui, bien sûr, peut-être, non, mais non, and avec, pour, and mais from page 89
10 points.
NO SENTENCES CAN HAVE FIRST PERSON PRONOUNS (no je, tu, il/elle). See page 98 in the text, if needs be. 

La musique: Top 100 French songs of 2016

2. Common verbs. This list is optional, but recommended

Great List of ER Verbs (most verbs end in the letters "er"; some end in "ir" or "re" (study in May)

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Jeudi/Vendredi


Review vocabulary, lessons 6, 7
(Revisons/pratiquons le vocabulaire des leçons 6 et 7)
Quizlet--leçon 7
Quizlet--leçon 6
Translate sentences for --er verbs. See pages 95, 98; 89, 100
1. We sing with my nice friend a little.
Nous chantons  un peu avec mon ami sympathique.
2. Y'all (you plural) listen to the iPod or the radio often, right?
Vous écoutezà l'iPod et à la radio souvent, n'est-ce pas?
3. Do Jack and Jill like to sing a lot?
Est-ce que Jack et Jill aiment chanter beaucoup/souvent?
4. What do they (girls) eat now?/What are they eating now?
Qu'est-ce qu'elles mangent maintenant?
5. Y'all study for (in order to) speak French well.
6. Marie and her family live in Dakar, Senegal where they swim often.
7. Of course not! We don't want to play there!
8. Don't (y'all) look at the dog; maybe he doesn't like you. (Guess on the "you" part)
9.  I am evil/mean/nasty; I am always rather bad (165)
10. It's too bad that you don't play tennis.

11. The dog is not cute, and it is very timid. 
12. Maybe. But I like my dog and it is not stupid. All my dogs are nice and funny.
Bonus: Write your own sentence using some of the most difficult words and phrases we have studied this year. 
(Ecrivez les phrases pour les verbs en -er)
Play conjugation game with balls
(Tout le monde, joue le jeu de conjugaison avec les balles)
  Note: there are three words for "ball": Une balle de tennis; Un ballon de foot; Une boule (the game)

HOMEWORK: 71-74 (20 MINUTES)
HOMEWORK: LA PAGE 99: 9; 11
MONDAY NIGHT  YOUR HOMEWORK WILL BE TO MEMORIZE THE SPELLING AND MEANINGS OF ALL 10 WORDS ON PAGE 100. YOU MIGHT WANT TO START NOW };^}

HOMEWORK: Ecrivez des phrases ("des" is "some"--plural for "un") avec les mots suivants:
(Write some sentences with (using) the following words:)
voyager, travailler, manger, étudier, habiter, inviter, aimer, donner (to give), penser (to think) embrasser (to kiss). You must also use the following ten words from page 86 in those sentences:
Oui, mais oui, bien sûr, peut-être, non, mais non, and avec, pour, and mais from page 89
10 points.
NO SENTENCES CAN HAVE FIRST PERSON PRONOUNS (no je, tu, il/elle). See page 98 in the text, if needs be. 

La musique: Top 100 French songs of 2016

2. Common verbs. This list is optional, but recommended

Great List of ER Verbs (most verbs end in the letters "er"; some end in "ir" or "re" (study in May)

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Aujourd'hui, c'est mardi, le six decembre

Quiz: la page cent (100)
Review vocabulary, lessons 6, 7
(Revisons/pratiquons le vocabulaire des leçons 6 et 7)
Quizlet--leçon 7
Quizlet--leçon 6
Write sentences for --er verbs
(Ecrivez les phrases pour les verbs en -er)
Play conjugation game with balls
(Tout le monde, joue le jeu de conjugaison avec les balles)
  Note: there are three words for "ball": Une balle de tennis; Un ballon de foot; Une boule (the game)

HOMEWORK: 71-74 (20 MINUTES)
HOMEWORK: LA PAGE 99: 9; 11
MONDAY NIGHT  YOUR HOMEWORK WILL BE TO MEMORIZE THE SPELLING AND MEANINGS OF ALL 10 WORDS ON PAGE 100. YOU MIGHT WANT TO START NOW };^}

HOMEWORK: Ecrivez des phrases ("des" is "some"--plural for "un") avec les mots suivants:
(Write some sentences with (using) the following words:)
voyager, travailler, manger, étudier, habiter, inviter, aimer, donner (to give), penser (to think) embrasser (to kiss). You must also use the following ten words from page 86 in those sentences:
Oui, mais oui, bien sûr, peut-être, non, mais non, and avec, pour, and mais from page 89
10 points.
NO SENTENCES CAN HAVE FIRST PERSON PRONOUNS (no je, tu, il/elle). See page 98 in the text, if needs be. 

La musique: Top 100 French songs of 2016

2. Common verbs. This list is optional, but recommended

Great List of ER Verbs (most verbs end in the letters "er"; some end in "ir" or "re")

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

1/12/16

ges.  Caillou is fun for listening points
Aladdin , Aladdin 2Lion King. For Listening points, it must be French audio 
French and English. Sometimes you have to search for "lyrics English French." 

In your class notebooks, answer the following question:
"Classe, quel jour est-ce?"
Copy the question (found at the top of page 61) and then use the words and phrases on pages 61 and 62 to answer the question.

New seating chart

LISTENING, SPEAKING, READING, WRITING POINTS!!!!!!
Students will come to the front one at a time while writing sentences with a partner
Les verbes à la page 95
CONTEST: WRITE LONGEST SENTENCE POSSIBLE. Use words from page 89 (Utilisez les mots à la page 89). Also try "qui" (who. Mon frère, qui parle français, est un imbécile),
 "que" (that. Je connais le garçon que tu connais)   Don't use "avec" and "et" repeatedly. Long sentences need to be sophisticated.
Je donne l'argent pour les phrases longues, intéressant, et sophistiqués   :^}  

EXERCICES: 95:2; 96:4; 97:6; 7; 8 (SPEAKING ONLY/PARLER SEULEMENT)



HOMEWORK: 71-74 (20 MINUTES)
HOMEWORK: LA PAGE 99: 9; 11
MONDAY NIGHT  YOUR HOMEWORK WILL BE TO MEMORIZE THE SPELLING AND MEANINGS OF ALL 10 WORDS ON PAGE 100. YOU MIGHT WANT TO START NOW };^}

If you feel like multi-tasking at some point during the period, make a list of phrases for the types of things that students really talk about (in English) before class starts. 
WORD AND PHRASE OF THE DAY:
Nov 29:assez de: enough of/sufficient
 Il a assez d'agitation pour aujourd'hui
He has enough excitement for one day/today

Dec 1: longtemps: a long time
Elle n'a pas cessé d'y penser pendant longtemps
She hadn't ceased of to it/there thinking during long time 
(For a long time, she couldn't get it out of her head)


Do dialogue, page 82

FINAL EXAM
19, 27, 35, 37, 40, 45, 49, 53, 57, 61, 65, 75, 78, 89, 95, *98, 100, 106, 110
116, 117

CHRISTMAS/HANUKKAH/ETC. GIFT IDEAS:
365 French Words a Year
Babar et le Père Noel
Boucle d'Oreille et les Trois Ours
Harry Potter in French
Beginning French Reader (awesome!)

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

START CLASS BY SPEAKING IN FRENCH WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS FOR "Isom euros"
Consider discussing: page 78, 85,87 and, as a challenge, page 89.
If you feel like multi-tasking at some point during the period, make a list of phrases for the types of things that students really talk about (in English) before class starts. 

In your class notebooks, answer the following question:
"Classe, quel jour est-ce?"
Copy the question (found at the top of page 61) and then use the words and phrases on pages 61 and 62 to answer the question.

Quizlet--leçon 6

Les petits tableux blancs, pages 84 - 89

Cahiers, la page 65.
Dans ton cahier de la classes, ecris (write) # 1 et #2 pour (for) les exercices A., B., C., D., E.
Students with grades of C or lower must write out #1-8 for all five exercises. You have extra homework so that you can bring your grades up and continue in French next semester. All C students are required to attend tutoring on Mondays (library) or Fridays (room 101, M. Zenk) or to come to lunchtime French conversation or after school conversation today, Thur, or Fri.

Do dialogue, page 82

FINAL EXAM
19, 27, 35, 37, 40, 45, 49, 53, 57, 61, 65, 75, 78, 89, 95, *98, 100, 106, 110
116, 117





Over Thanksgiving, memorize lesson 6 vocabulary found on pages 85 , 87, and 89
Write exercise 1, page 85, ex. 3, page 86, ex 8, page 88
Then learn the seven "useful words" (mots utiles) on page 89.
Exercice 10, la page 89
SPEAKING, READING, WRITING, LISTENING LOGS DUE THUR/FRIDAY
Word of the day from "365 French Words a Year":
29/11/16--assez de: enough of, sufficient. 
"Il a assez d'agitation pour aujourd'hui" = He has enough agitation for the day
27/11/16--saisir: to grab, to understand
Elle a encore beaucoup de mal à saisir la situation= She's still struggling to understand the situation
Over Thanksgiving you should do your Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing assignments. 1 hour each.
Due Thur/Friday December 1 or 2.

Monday, November 28, 2016

In your class notebooks, write the following sentence in French:
"Today is Monday the twenty-eighth of November."

START CLASS BY SPEAKING IN FRENCH WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS FOR "Isom euros"

Over Thanksgiving, memorize lesson 6 vocabulary found on pages 85 , 87, and 89
Write exercise 1, page 85, ex. 3, page 86, ex 8, page 88
Then learn the seven "useful words" (mots utiles) on page 89.
Exercice 10, la page 89
SPEAKING, READING, WRITING, LISTENING LOGS DUE THUR/FRIDAY

Then write a sentence for each of those seven words (7 sentences). Try writing a paragraph!
Here is the Quizlet deck for lesson 6:
Quizlet--leçon 6 (Decks for all other lessons can be found under the Resources tab)

Over Thanksgiving you should do your Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing assignments. 1 hour each.
Due Thur/Friday December 1 or 2.