Yay! Winter Break!

Finish up your skits over winter break.  They are due Thursday after we get back.  Have fun with it.

I'm worried that you might now understand how hard I will be grading these.  From what I've seen so far, we'll probably have some B's and C's, so you don't want that to happen.  Take a look at this example again to get some ideas of what you need to do to get a strong "A."

Restaurant Skit on YouTube

A Great Example Restaurant Skit

Here's a Google Doc with the vocabulary from the skit
and This Restaurant Skit is a Cartoon
Here's a video showing how an adult would order a meal in France:
Eating Out


One of your requirements is to use at least 5 vocabulary words from lessons 5-8.  Take a look at this list of words and the pages they are found on.  I think that you'll see that you will be able to fit these words into the small talk that you engage in at the dinner table (or any other place, if you've got a creative presentation, like a dinner cruise on the Willamette Queen when someone falls overboard!).

Words and Phrases from Lessons 5, 6, 7, and 8

Be sure to take your textbook home!
If it turns out that you're unable to get together with your group, you'll need to figure out a way to do a skit on your own.  Here are a couple of ways that it could be done:

• PowerPoint or Prezi presentation where you use slides
• Comic Book (there are apps on the Internet that will do it)
• Xtranormal video

December 17th

If you're doing your own presentation (without a group), you might consider doing an Xtranormal.com video.

12/12/12

December 10

To help you know whether a word is masculine (le or un) or feminine (la or une), I've given you a handy chart that summarizes the rules.  It's best just to memorize the gender when you learn the word, but this might help a bit.

Before I give you the table, here are the most basic rules (but there are many exceptions!):

le    English  words are usually masculine (un sode; un hamburger)
le    Words that end in consonnants are masculine
la    Words that end in "e" are usually feminine  (but feminine if "é")

Here's the set of rules:

        LE                  UN                            LA                       UNE

Nouns ending in: -age(exception!) -ment -il, -ail, -eil, -ueil -é (but not -té) -eau and -ou -ème, -ège -i, -at, -et and -ot -er -oir -isme(exception!) -ing -ard Words ending in other consonants (in the spelling).

Nouns ending in: -tion, -sion and -son (exception!) -ure -ude, -ade -ée -té -ière Consonant followed by -ie -euse -ance, -ence Most other endings consisting of Vowel + Consonant + e: -ine, -ise, -alle, -elle, -esse, -ette etc

And here's a complete list of rules: When to use "le" and when to use "la"

December 10th

UNIT 2 TEST  TOMORROW!

Christmas caroling Thursday, December 13th.  We will meet in Mrs. Wiltbank's room, room 271 at 5:00PM.  Should be a LOT of fun.


SUB FOR SANTA
4 YR OLD BOYWii

• Nerf Gun  
• Hungry Hippos
• Legos
• Wii game(If Wii Appe  
• Wii Controller

10 YR OLD BOY

• nerf footballs
• Comic books
• Candy
• Coupon for Pietro's Pizza 

19 YR OLD BOY

• Snap back
• V-Neck/s

Wii

10 YR OLD GIRL

• Clothes (Dress, Shirts, Scarfs, Purse)
• Games (Uno, Monopoly, Guess Who)
• Uggs generic brand)
• Toms
• 
  

MOM

• Shoes
• Gloves
• Spa Day Coupon

DAD  

Guitar from Max Normandy (Normandy Guitars)

DAD

November 29th

Here's the Google Doc with the Dictée we did.  Dictée

You will also find a homework translation assignment there.  Hand in Monday for 5 pts.

November 15th

A Great Example Restaurant Skit

Here's a Google Doc with the vocabulary from the skit
and This Restaurant Skit is a Cartoon
Here's a video showing how an adult would order a meal in France:
Eating Out


Bring your $18 Monday for sweatshirts.  You can only do this if you KNOW that you'll be ordering one.  (I'd loan you the money since we have to pay for them today)

Review #s and basic French with whiteboards.  1-100
WB listening comprehension pp 38. 42. 45. 47
WB in class exercises 1-4 on pages 53, 54

SKIT
Don't start filming your skit until winter break.  We still need to learn quite a bit before you will be able to do it right :~}

Start writing skit
Restaurant Scene--3-5 minutes

• Enter restaurant
• Discuss food
• J'ai faim.
• J'aime       Je préfère    
• Ordering from waiter
• Discuss another issue or two with your dinner partner.
• Family, ages, preferences
• Movies
• The weather
• What you like to do (sports, etc.)
• Maybe talk about age and where you're from if it's a date or something
• Maybe you could meet a friend at the restaurant
• Pay the bill

November 13th

French Club 

Sweatshirts for $18, $20 hoodie
Bring money tomorrow, Wednesday, or Thursday.  We will order the shirts Friday.
Make out check to SSHS



WB homework check, pages 40, 44, 218

Quiz Tuesday: page 366 in the textbook vocabulary
Setting the table
WB 34, 36,
Review 45, 49, and 53.

Learn how to set the table

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