le 30 novembre

FSF 2D - Merci to our guest speaker!!! We were grateful to learn about what a new beginning in Canada means (as well as how things happen and why) and more about the Middle East and its French connections. Merci beaucoup! Journals and cootie catchers should be in tomorrow!

FSF 1D - review of our film, and mini quiz tomorrow (on the rules of passé composé). Be sure to review activities on elearning for reinforcement if you would like revision (and try your assessment/quiz preview) to be sure you are on the right track! We will do one warm up activity before our quiz tomorrow. 

lundi, le 28 novembre

FSF 2D - Aujourd'hui, nous avons discuté nos prédictions pour l'avenir. Here were some topics;
On fera des predictions! 
Qu’est-ce qui se passera? 

des 'sentence starters' 
Dans 10 années ou plus… 
Il y aura…

des 'sujets'  
La téchnologie – 
La santé – Les docteurs pourront parler au FaceTime avec leurs clients qui sont trop loins / malades
Le monde politique – Donald Trump changera…
Le monde géographiques -  Les icebergs fondront, Cuba deviendra plus démocratique?
La francophonie – (le monde francophone) 

Les personnages de Petit Nicolas
Qui… 

- Sera le plus réussit? (successful)
- Aura beaucoup d’enfants?
- Sera en bonne forme? En bonne santé?
- Sera au prison?  Ira au prison? Ira à l’hopital psychologique
- Deviendra un docteur? 

PUIS, nous avons regardé une épisode de Petit Nicolas. We will watch two this week and answer questions for marks and you can choose the best mark to be recorded! If you were away, you can watch one at lunch, please see Mme for details.

LES JOURNAUX - due Wednesday now.   Here is how you will be evaluated and what is should be about. It is also on elearning.

Journa1                                                                             /20

            Des idées claires          /  4                           Des idées bien dévélopées         /4

            Phrases complètes       / 2                            Grammaire                                 / 6

            Utilisation des nouveaux mots    / 4         

        

Qu’est-ce qui se passera dans l’avenir?  What will happen in the future?

Vous employerez le futur simple pour décrire le futur   (le tien, du monde, même du Petit Nicolas si vous voudriez (if you would like!))

Vous expliquerez au moins 3 de vos idées.

FSF 1D - we had a listening activity (for marks) today in the lab. All details are found on elearning. QUIZ mercredi! Quiz WEDNESDAY on passé composé!

jeudi le 24 novembre

FSF 2d - Today, students were made aware that we are having a FIESTA catch-up on expressions day! Due to our technical difficulties, we have missed three weeks of 1-2 minute presentations so we will catch up tomorrow! Bring your snacks, your attention and your creative thinking caps. 

Today, we talked about our futures. Students read and listened to what I will do, and then we deduced the rules of Le Futur Simple
Students looked at the rules, made their own note, and then had choices;
-read the predictions and guess who
- create a cootie catcher to provide predictions for other student's futures
- start their journal (due TUESDAY - at least 10 futur simple uses) 
or all of the above. 

We had a good time practicing le futur simple in different ways. The irregulars are on the board and ready to be used tomorrow. 

CLICK HERE FOR A NOTE AND AN ACTIVITY TO PRACTISE!



FSF 1D - morning - - students watched some episodes (choice of Mme and their choice) of Là où je dors. We talked about how we can rehearse and 'train our ears', and we identified strategies to determine what can best help us understand spoken French. Students completed a chart for assessment as to how well they can gather evidence about people (and their lifestyles) while listening.

Here is the link to the video: Click here to choose and watch what you would like! 

Then, we did an act/look/remember game to introduce how we will talk about things that happened in the past. The goal; to do one activity for 2 minutes, watch the classmates and then list who did what en français!!! We will continue this tomorrow! 

afternoon - today we talked about passé composé, we filled in a sheet to have a note, and played some kahoots! 

want to try this kahoot?!?! 

Would you like to (voudrais-tu) try this one?

le 23 novembre

FSF 2D -  L'activité de compréhension (for marks) ! If you were not in class, you can complete the task at lunch tomorrow. We did a warm up activity in the caf and had time to prepare before completing the reading comprehension activity and handing it in. Students were also given some predictions to read and were to guess whose future was being described (and seeing the uses of futur simple at the same time!)

Here were the warm up questions; be sure to have read the chapter and ask Mme questions in the morning if you have them! 

1. Qu’est-ce que c’est …

Un mouchoir?

Un sifflet?

2. Qui…

Se battaient? Pourquoi?

Était attaché à l’arbre?

3. Pourquoi …

La mère les a appelé?

Le papa restait dehors après le gouter? 

FSF 1D - morning - Students completed their speaking tasks today, demonstrating their knowledge of buildings, the verbe aller, the ability to describe why people go to those buildings, and direction words. GREAT JOB! There were many creative conversations!!!  =) Excellent work. 

FSF 1D - afternoon - students watched some episodes (choice of Mme and their choice) of Là où je dors. We talked about how we can rehearse and 'train our ears', and we identified strategies to determine what can best help us understand spoken French. Students completed a chart for assessment as to how well they can gather evidence about people (and their lifestyles) while listening.

Here is the link to the video: Click here to choose and watch what you would like!

Then, we did an act/look/remember game to introduce how we will talk about things that happened in the past. The goal; to do one activity for 2 minutes, watch the classmates and then list who did what en français!!! We will continue this tomorrow! 



Quelle bonne journée!! What a nice day! Thanks for your participation, everyone. ☺

mardi, le 22 novembre

FSF 2D --   

         WINK WINK CLIN D'OEIL CLIN D'OEIL   - - - - - We will be having an evaulation task tomorrow on the chapter Les Cowboys. Please be sure you have read the chapter!!!! It is a reading marks task. Here is the kahoot that was posted and that we played some questions from today. PLAY THIS TO HELP YOU SUCCEED tomorrow!

Today we also;  practiced some virelangues to get speaking, read some sentences that introduced us to le futur simple, played a kahoot about Le Petit Nicolas and the futur simple, and (we should have) finished Les Cowboys. 

This task will be approximately 30 written marks of vrai/faux, compare in short sentences, identify the characters (based on all of our previous knowledge of the characters so far - you may use your notes) and reading comprehension questions. 

Voici l'autre Kahoot que nous avons joué aujourd'hui.

Here is a photo that elaborates on the sentences we were reading and describing today:

We will be diving deeper into this later this week! 


FSF 1D - morning - Today we discussed directions and by the end of the class, we listened to clues, gave partners directions and were the most successful at doing all of this EVER!! Great work! you will have a listening mark based on a similar activity to what we did this morning when we are in the lab on MONDAY! We also had time to work on our "I know where I am going" speaking task that students will complete tomorrow for marks. 

- afternoon- Students completed their "I know where I am going" speaking task today for marks. Bravo!

le 21 novembre

FSF 2D - Today, we started the next term by speaking more often. Students are encouraged to speak (and will be able to keep their 100 euros - that's 10   10 euro bills) and were given a list of expressions to introduce how they feel about something (selon moi, à mon avis... je suis d'accord) and were to discuss the answers given to our first chapter's questions in le Petit Nicolas. Some students are expected to catch up on what they missed on Thursday - check elearning for your necessary documents. We then were introduced to another form to make ourselves accountable for speaking... we were given a list of questions to discuss to get into the habit of speaking en français and tracked the journey of our discussion in the Harkness method (a circle with lines that are indicate how each participant contributed to the discussion). 
Students will be speaking and applying what we are learning in class more in spoken form (and homework on paper will be done at the end of class or at home with links for reinforcement here. 

FSF 1D- morning - we prepared for our speaking task. Students completed a dialogue applying forms of aller, à, explanations of and direction words about places. They were given feedback and will create a larger dialogue for speaking marks on WEDNESDAY.

FSF 1D - afternoon - Today we started talking about directions to use when finding your way around a city. Students participated in a listening activity to determine if they could follow directions, we took note of important direction word phrases and then students directed each other around the classroom blindfolded. We completed a listening activity by watching this video and answering a few questions - we also got to see many words we saw today in action - Click here to see the video.   MOST IMPORTANTLY - we started talking about what  strategies we can apply to improve our listening skills and be prepared for our listening exam. 

le 17 novembre

FSF 2D -  Lab day! Please check elearning for details. There are questions for the reading, and questions for the video as well. Have them ready for Monday!! 

FSF 1D - morning - we took up and practiced work from yesterday, and learned direction words. We played some fun games to apply those words. 

              afternoon - we did our rough draft practice for our next speaking task. Students created a conversation to accompany a manipulative (action figure or car) around their city. They had to discuss where they were going, why there were going there, and where the building was in conjunction with another. The real 'dramatisation' for marks will happen Tuesday. 

mercredi le 16 novembre

FSF 2D - Aujourd'hui, vous allez me donner vos réponses pour le film, répondre aux questions du premier chapitre de Petit Nicolas, et commencer a lire a propres de l'écrivain et le dessinateur du Petit Nicolas.


FSF 1D - I hope you felt good about your practice session yesterday!! Read these instructions carefully. 

morning class - Please use your notes and the visuals in the class to hand in 2 completed worksheets on the verb ALLER and the different forms of TO THE (remember they change depending on if the place one is going to is masculine, feminine, starts with a vowel or the letter h and if the place is plural (s, x) ) . Read the notes and examples I left for you on the page to help as well please. 
If you are finding this difficult, here is a quick lesson;

Click here to see more about how that preposition works


afternoon class - You have a sheet to complete and hand in for reading marks called Ou vont-ils? Complete this and then you can watch the film. 

AND THEN FOR BOTH CLASSES, 

You may watch the really well known and interesting film called LIFE IN A DAY. It is a collaboration of thousands of YouTube videos to convey different lifestyles around the world. 

Please remind the teacher that there are scenes to be skipped. They are written on their instructions.

morning class starts from the beginning 
afternoon class starts from 20:00

Click here to watch the video!! Cliquez ici pour le regarder!

There is no activity to go along with this video, and I ask for your respect and attention while you watch the film. 

YOUR DISCUSSION TOPIC THAT YOU will reflect on 

for marks tomorrow (Monday for the morning class) is;

What do you believe was the intention of the director and producer of this film? Were they successful in what you feel they were trying to achieve? 

Example: I feel that they wanted to explore the world and use YouTube in an educational way. They were successful because I learned that... 

Do not hesitate to take notes to use as reference for tomorrow (talk about Tai-Chan, Oakwan Yoon, or the girl who speaks at the end of the film).

Bonne journée et a demain !
(please excuse the lack of accents!)

le 14 novembre

FSF 2D - Nous allons commencer avec des virelangues. Nous avons completé nos tâches de petit Nicolas, et nous avons continué à voir le film. Remember your listening comprehension questions will be due after the video tomorrow. We also received our Petit Nicolas readers and each book is assigned to a student. 

Click here to listen to the CHAPTER DJODJO and you can read along with your reader!!

Want to practice how sounds sound? Click here- we will do a virelangue activity that this reinforces!





FSF 1D - Morning- we finished our maps! Be ready to use them later this week! 
               Afternoon - we completed two activity sheets reinforcing the verb aller, the preposition à and it's different forms, and understanding where things happen in our city. We played two kahoots to practice. Here is the kahoot #1
Here is the kahoot #2

vendredi le 11 novembre - le jour du souvenir

FSF 2D - Nous avons commencé le film Le petit Nicolas, and we have two different activities from which to choose for a listening task.  students also handed in their summaries today, and all students now have their speaking marks back! 

Assembly

FSF 1D - We completed a quick listening activity and know the uses of à, à la, au, aux, and à l' and completed our cartes/maps. 

There will be a link with a slideshow on elearning to help if you were away this weekend... you know who you are! 

Bon weekend à tous and à toutes! Let's be grateful and thankful for what we have au Canada! 

mercredi le 9 novembre

FSF 2D - Merci pour ta participation aujourd'hui! The students and the teachers had very nice things to say. You are leaders in the making et déjà sur la route!!! Tomorrow you will have your summary task based on the story you read this past week (and know well hopefully after the reading comprehension questions). 

Here will be your criteria; 

Sommaire :   A.  Identifiez au moins 6 événements importantes de l'intrigue (the plot) et décrivez-le en ordre chronologique.  B. Employez 4 pronoms différents (introduced, correct order, correct pronoun). C. Employez le vocabulaire nouveau du texte. 



You will also complete your speaking activities tomorrow. 



FSF 1D - morning - Aujourd'hui, we discussed the amenities and knowledge we would need in order to live successfully in a city in a different culture and language. We are starting our unit about knowing our city and being able to help and direct one another.  We are 'en route' to creating a map in groups, and have completed a reading activity that resulted in a vocab list of buildings to know en anglais et en français. Tomorrow, we will do a speaking activity and work on our carte! 

   afternoon-  We are 'en route' to creating a map in groups, and have completed a reading activity that resulted in a vocab list of buildings to know en anglais et en français. Today we also spoke as tourists in need of help and our peers listened to us and identified where we needed to go. People told us where to go today by saying Il faut aller ________________.    

GREAT JOB TODAY! vous avez bien travaillé!!! A demain! 

lundi le 7 novembre... novembre... c'est vrai?!

Bonjour!

FSF 2D - Today students read aloud for a speaking mark. We are perfecting intonation, use of punctuation and identifying when people speak in written French. There are other sounds and words students are being marked on, all posted on elearning.  We will continue this tomorrow and in-class students will have a summary to prepare (can be video or written) where they will recount the story we have been reading and applying grammar concepts we have learned for a reading mark. 

FSF 1D -    The pronom Y - we can identify it, use it in a sentence and say it out loud! We can use it in sentences now instead of repeating places. 

Morning class - we completed our charts and our questions for our cinéma project. Tomorrow we complete our invitations and we hand it all in for marks!! 

Afternoon class - we completed our questions and invitations and have 15 min at the beginning of class to put it all together to hand it ALL IN ON TIME. =) 

There will be late marks for late work, as students had ample time to complete these tasks. Come see Mme at lunch if you need some help completing your work. 

vendredi le 4 novembre

C'est presque le weekend!! 

FSF 2D - Students today assessed each other's speaking aloud skills in order to perfect our reading FOR MARKS lundi.  Students received reading comprehension activities that will be handed in at the end of class on Monday as well. They are accessible on D2L. There are also photos of what Mme will be listening for to be sure you are improving your reading en français; c'est ce que nous avons practiqué aujourd'hui.  This is all work that will benefit us when we begin reading our novel Le petit nicolas. 


FSF 1D - morning - J'y suis allé(e) !!! I went there!!!
Students learned the purpose of Y, completed a listening activity where they listened to reasons why I go there, and identified where 'there' was. They completed a geographical task that applies the word 'there' Y en français.  Students also told me aloud where I put my keys (hypothetical speaking activity) and a place that they had been!  BRAVO!

FSF 1D - both classes - This helps;

Going through these slides will help as well.

FSF 1D afternoon - We continued our work on our soirée à Montreal. Students created invitations today, identifying what is GOING (using aller) to be done on their voyage, when, and where in the city. They created an HORAIRE, scheduling one day of their trip.

IF YOU HAVE NOT HANDED IN YOUR MOVIE BOOKLET COMPARISONS YOU MUST DO THAT BY MONDAY.

le 3 novembre

FSF 2D  - Nous avons lu aujourd'hui!!! 
Please check elearning to see how you will be evaluated on Monday for your first reading aloud task! 
Students have vocab sheets and were guided as to how to implement them (because the next stories they read will be even more in depth and vocabulary building is important), and tomorrow we will practice and complete some comprehension activities to accompany these stories. 

FSF 1D - morning - labo - check D2L - students were also shown updated marks. New marks will be available next week.

FSF 1D - afternoon - today, we discovered what we know about other places in the world. Once students identified these places they read clues about (in French and in English), they wrote whether; they are going there
they want to go there
they don't want to go there 
they like to go there  and / or 
if they have been there.

We also did a listening task identify what places I was describing (buildings in the city) by listening to what I do there, why I go there. 

Students who had completed their work had a chance to see their marks. 

mardi, le 1 novembre

FSF 2D - Students are perfecting their knowledge of pronouns. They are doing a major review of all of them and had real paper homework to prepare for tomorrow. 
For our Quelle heure est-il activité, students answered the following sentences using des pronoms. 

Aimais-tu aller au labo pour la classe de français? 

Est-ce que tu as mangé beaucoup de bonbons hier?

Est-ce que tu as vu les films de Will Ferrell ?

Combien d'étudiants y a-t-il dans cette classe? 

Students will learn how to use 2 pronoms in one sentence!  Here is a little note and activity to get you started!

FSF 1D - We had lab days! Check e-learning for all the details. 

See you tomorrow visitors!