- le 22 décembre -

FSF 2D -  Aujourd'hui, we completed a little listening activity about le météo. Students received an activity and a note and spoke and listened with partners to practice reading a weather report / saying one with prompts. They can listen to basic weather descriptions and draw what they heard on a map. On their note is an exemplar, and students will be completing an activity on a real weather report for marks when they return. Students will see on elearning THEIR SPEAKING EXAM QUESTIONS THAT WE DISCUSSED IN CLASS (and students can send me answers for feedback to be as prepared as possible) AND ACTIVITES TO PRACTICE knowing and understanding le météo. 

FSF 1D - LAB DAY and SPEAKING EXAM PROJECTS assigned. All détails (and questions that students can answer ahead of time and send to me for feedback) are on elearning. 

le 21 décembre

FSF 2D - Aujourd'hui, nous avons practiqué le vocabulaire du météo. We played a speaking Bingo game, completed this matching activity Click here to play what we played!
We started a heartwarming film to celebrate the holiday! There will be more in the next few days! 


FSF 1D - morning - journée au labo and students worked so well! Great focus today!
afternoon- we peer assessed a crossword done on Monday, and checked our answers, and completed some Christmas activities and a film. 

le 20 décembre

FSF 2D - Today, students started preparing for their speaking and listening task that will occur after the holiday break. They are researching about a francophone country and will be sharing their information with others complètement en français after the break. Students were working in groups to divide up the responsibilities, detailing their findings on visual organisers in Google docs. We will learn more about our 'dramatisation' to come in the next few days. 

FSF 1D - morning - le film de noël et travail pour nos tâches (un voyage inoubliable)

FSF 1D afternoon - travail au labo! Students have access to the evaluation, the outline of the task (un voyage inoubliable), a checklist to be sure they are on the right track, and the examplar slideshow all on elearning. 

le 19 décembre - la dernière semaine!!!

FSF 2D - Students had 10 minutes to look over previous activities from Petit Nicolas and ask questions before beginning the test, and then wrote the test! Tomorrow is a lab day!  

FSF 1D  morning- Today we rehearsed le vocabulaire de noël and how to say things in passé composé using être. We played our board game speaking out loud en français, talked about our project and began watching our holiday classic. 


HERE ARE YOUR INSTRUCTIONS, FSF 1D afternoon class:

1. Attendance. 
2. Please get out your notes for passé composé with être.
3. Complete the crossword while the teacher sets up the film. This classic will be en français with English subtitles. 
IF YOU CANNOT WORK QUIETLY, THE TEACHER HAS MY PERMISSION TO SHUT OFF THE FILM and I have attached additional work for you to do instead. 
4. Hand in the crossword when it is completed. 
5. Don't hesitate to grab something to colour from the front of the room if you would like to keep your hands busy during the film. 
6. Lab day tomorrow for your projects! 

le 16 décembre - c'est vendredi!!

FSF 2D  -  Today, students listened to and watched catchy (entrainant) Oreo commercials and completed a listening activity (identifying what WOULD (le conditionnel) happen if one had an oreo).   All of our activities are on elearning and should be reviewed if students were absent. 
We were introduced to some new vocab about weather (that will be used in our final discussion after the holiday break) and there were games to reinforce terms that identify new weather terms (sleet, drizzle, freezing rain, fog, for examples). 
Le Petit Nicolas test de compréhension is LUNDI  / MONDAY. The outline is available on today's elearning post.  Please be sure you have read the chapters that we read in class to be prepared and to use time as effectively as possible. 




FSF 1D - Today, students listened to an additional conversation that is AFTER the one we saw yesterday --- Hit the forward button twice on this site to access. This time, students tried it without a script to read along to in order to self - assess the amount of practice we will require to be successful on our listening exam. We listened to it a few times, discussed helpful strategies when completing a listening task, and then listened with the script - during which we used a different colour to make any corrections that we could find with our additional visual clues.  Students had instant feedback and should be more aware of how our listening exams will take place, as well as useful strategies to do one's best!
In addition, this activity discussed the events of one's past weekend (and students described Bernard as a drageur parce qu'il était occupé) that students could understand well. 
Bien fait! 
Morning class = We also had time to work on our projects and saw and analysed an exemplar (with a listening activity)
Afternoon class = We had a friendly challenge where the winners were allowed to use the SMARTboard dice instead - It was a reading activity where we had to read the story, identify it, and count how many actions happened. Well done ! Also, we reinforced our knowledge of the passé composé by actually playing our board game with die!! 

Here is a game for reinforcement ALL GRADE 9s - Choose whether or not this verb requires AVOIR or ETRE !


Bon weekend! 

jeudi le 15 décembre

FSF 2D - journée au labo! We completed and submitted our projets du Petit Nicolas, we practiced a bit of conditionnel by watching an oreo commercial, we were introduced to our new lesson with interactive geography quizzes en français and we have a lab day tomorrow as well!!! 

Remember, we have a petit Nicolas test LUNDI 

FSF 1D -  We listened to this conversation and tried talking about it as best we could entirely en français with our elbow partners. We were assigned our next (and last) project and had time to brainstorm. Students will be exploring a French speaking country that they may not be familiar with and will present their information as if they had traveled to their country.  There are many options and choices for students for each to be as successful and as comfortable as possible. 

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mercredi, le 13 decembre

FSF 2D - We spoke and spoke and spoke today! We have practiced talking about things that would be and could be possible, and identified many polite ways to ask and say things using the conditionnel.
Remember, presentations are due tomorrow!!! 

FSF 1D - Today, we watched and responded to questions about a lost group of filmmakers. Students did a great job! We started to brainstorm about our final project, and created a list of places we will discover more about. We had some time to catch up on missed work and played some geography trivia as a group to introduce our final activity for the year!!! 
Afternoon class - we enjoyed the beautiful concert this afternoon. 

le 12 décembre - le 2ième jour de noël ☺

 FSF 2D -  Nous avons discuté ce que nous dirions aux camarades s'ils avaient des problèmes! We gave advice using sentence starters "Si j'étais toi " and using le conditionnel. Nous avons parlé 'au téléphone' aussi and are warming up for our last task and for our exams.  We spent the rest of class wrapping up our Petit Nicolas présentation and Mme is always available to look over brouillons (rough copies) and to give feedback. Congrats to the students who have already taken advantage of this opportunity. Bien fait!!!

FSF 1D - Today, we wrote our critiques for a written mark out of 25. Students explained what happened at their building of choice that they critiqued and used recommendations to explain and justify their sentiments. They had 15 minutes to prepare and look over exemplars and wrote for approximately 20 minutes. Students then played a kahoot to reinforce our new passé composé endeavour with the verb être  - Voici le jeu!!! Here is the game!!!
They will be assigned their final project tomorrow and it will be available on D2L (elearning) by the end of the week for viewing. 

ALSO UPCOMING FOR ALL CLASSES : students will receive their QUESTIONS FOR THEIR SPEAKING EXAMS in order to begin preparing in advance (and over the holidays)!!!

le 12 décembre

FSF 2D -  Today, we started to talk about what you would do if something else was happening. Si je pouvais être un animal, je serais...    si j'étais riche, je voyagerais...   and nous avons joué au téléphone pour proactiquer. Today students also  had a lab day and typed up their scripts. Their presentations are due on Thursday! Vous serez prêts pour jeudi, j'en suis sûr!!

FSF 1D - Today students talked for 30 minutes en français au passé composé. They answered questions, played a game by describing past events, and matched sentences with photos on the SMARTboard. We are rehearsing for our final speaking exam (and for our critique). The final half of class was dedicated to preparing for our critiques that we will write in class for marks tomorrow. Examplars are on elearning. 

le 9 décembre

FSF 2D - Quizzes were written by students who were absent yesterday, students worked on their présentations de Petit Nicolas, and quizzes were handed back. Lab day Monday! 

FSF 1D - Today we completed our speaking tasks 1 on 1 with Mme! Well done!! We worked on our Alamo D'Etres and some were handed in! All others are due Monday at the beginning of class. 

Bon weekend à tous et à toutes! ☺

le 8 décembre

FSF 2D - Today students had 5 minutes to look over their notes and asks questions for the quiz, wrote the quiz, listened to the examplar, and worked on their petit Nicolas presentation. If you were away today, you will write the quiz in class tomorrow. The exemplar is posted on elearning if you'd like to take a look  (and check out the colour categorizing!!)  

FSF 1D - Lab day; students were divided into groups, practiced their authentic speaking tasks (REAL SPEAKING TASK TOMORROW FOR MARKS), worked on their Alamo D'Etre (due at the end of class Friday) and played reinforcement activities on elearning.

mercredi le 7 décembre

FSF 2D - QUIZ  TOMORROW      Students completed an activity to review for their quiz.  It is important to know the rules, similarities and how the futur simple et le conditionnel end. The notes and activity are on elearning. They were assigned their Petit Nicolas activity and it is due le 15 décembre.  Students were given a reading activity as well as a written activity to apply le conditionnel that Mme will check on Friday. 
Here is one review that we did today as a class

Feeling like a challenge? Read the sentences and complete with either futur simple (if the sentence starts with si... présent), or with conditionnel (if the sentence starts with Si... imparfait). 

Ex. If you drive (conduis) too fast, you WILL HAVE (auras) un accident. 
Click here to try this self correcting activity

FSF 1D - Today students worked on their Alamo D'Etres (due Friday) and wrote a dialogue to prepare for tomorrow's speaking activity. They will be earning marks on Friday for their speaking activity. 

le 6 décembre - on se souvient - we remember -

FSF 2D - Today, we completed our last listening activity for marks on Petit Nicolas. Students will receive their marks tomorrow and will choose the best mark of the two for entry. 
Students are assigned their speaking task for Petit Nicolas in which they will recreate and reminisce scenarios and characters they have come to know. They will receive marks for speaking about details, advice, expressions and shared thoughts. Tomorrow they will receive their specific criteria and marking scheme /30. 
 Remember that your grammar quiz will be on Thursday. We will do a few quick activities to remember le conditionnel et le futur simple. Please review the activities on the blog for reinforcement. 

FSF 1D - Today we read about the life of Homer Simpson and what he accomplished in a day. We observed the differences between uses of the passé composé (and know the importance of DR MRS VANDERTRAMP) and can identify which verbs take ETRE. We read through and completed a dialogue that will be used for our SPEAKING ACTIVITY ON FRIDAY FOR MARKS.  Some of us even started our own dialogues for practice. 
ALAMO D'ETRE will also be due FRIDAY FOR MARKS. There are examplars on elearning. 

choose your game for passé composé avec être

Try this pink panther game!

Try this one - être ou avoir ? Click on the correct answer!

Can you type in how the response should look? C'est criminel!! ☺

C'est lundi, le 5 décembre -

Bonjour tout le monde!!

FSF2D - C'est de l'ironie ; nous avons lu Je suis malade pour les devoirs et maintenanent, je suis chez moi et très malade.  J'espère que tout va bien avec vous!

Here are your instructions today;

    1. Be sure to have read Je suis malade from Petit Nicolas if you haven't already. We will complete our listening activity on that tomorrow. Complete the reading comprehension questions at the back of that chapter. We will have a test on the novel next Monday. If there are chapters you need to review please do that today, once your work is completed.

2. You have a handout that futher explains the uses of the conditionnel. Please complete activities 1,2 and 4.  Remember this for #1: we use the conditionnel to express a doubt (une doute), a condition (une condition), a wish (un souhait) or a form of politeness (la politesse). In exercise 1, you must identify what circumstance it is (a wish, a doubt, a condition or politeness). 

3. Our grammar quiz will be on Thursday at the beginning of class. You will fill in the blanks about rules and complete some conjugations (regular and irregular). You will read and complete the sentences with a logical answer as well. You are now able to complete the backside of your futur simple irregulars (which is the conditionnel irregulars). There is one mistake. Can you find it? 

  There are holiday colouring mandelas (and a review sheet for futur simple) if you have completed everything! They are at the front desk under the smart board.


Be sure to use your time wisely please! We will start our final projects on Petit Nicolas tomorrow after our listening activity. 

Aaron: I am sending you an email regarding tomorrow's announcements. 

Bonne journée!!


FSF 1D morning and afternoon

Bonjour! 

Today you will prepare yourselves further for our speaking task later this week and you will be familiarizing yourselves with some holiday vocabulary. 

1. You will receive a small handout with situations that will look familiar to ones you will be hearing during your speaking task. Please read each situation with a partner (out loud to practice pronunciation) and then identify and discuss a) who is speaking    b) what their problem is   and c) where they need to go .   You can write this down on a sheet of paper if you wish to help you remember as we review tomorrow. Then, you need to choose a place you would send that person and justify it (ex. I would send Grover to Food Basics because he needs a supermarket and Food Basics has the best prices and nicest service). 

2.  There is a booklet to begin that we will be using to discover more about French holiday traditions. Please complete as much as you can today. The first page is the vocab page and it is a little blurry so here is the real photo. 

Have a great day and I will see you tomorrow. =) 

vendredi le 2 décembre

FSF 2D - Today, students were challenged to read answers that students had written and were to guess what was the question . The question was "Qu'est-ce que tu ferais si tu avais 1 000 000 euros?" We then watched some presentations on expressions like "made up like a stolen truck" and "se mord la langue".  We watched a music video to the song "Mourir demain' as well. 
We are going to make 'bucket lists' next week and students were encouraged to read and understand Mme's examples. 

FOR HOMEWORK - We are going to read chapter 9 to prepare for our next listening activity on Monday (for marks- remember you get to pick the best mark out of the two).  Je suis malade is a cute and fun chapter and once we watch the video, we can start our project!!! 

Please also complete these online games to reinforce your knowledge so far on le conditionnel;

Cliquez ici pour un exercice! It is self correcting!

Cliquez ici pour une note du conditionnel et une activité (en bas - at the bottom of the page)


FSF 1D - we played a kahoot (or two), we caught up on missed quizzes, and students completed and handed in a listening task for marks today based on the film Les Choristes. 

le premier jour de décembre!

FSF 2D -  Today, we completed a speaking activity asking students about their futures. Then, we read the chapter Les carnets de Petit Nicolas with the question "Qu'est-ce que tu ferais?" . 
As we read, we identified things that would happen, and then learned the conditional tense. We took a brief note to summarize our findings - it is le futur simple with imparfait endings! It's like déjà vu!!
WE ALSO HANDED IN OUR JOURNALS (and took a second glance at some if we needed - advice was given at the beginning of class on how to improve et les erreurs communes).

Le conditionnel  -    

Click here to read when and why we use le conditionnel

Click here for a note with how it is made   (at the bottom there are exercices to try for reinforcement as well!) 

click here to play a game to see how well you can apply what you've learned about le conditionnel


Please watch this video to prepare for tomorrow's lesson
and this video as well!

FSF 1D - Today, we took 5 minutes to prepare for our quiz on passé composé, completed our quiz successfully and then completed the film! Nous avons aimé ce film! 
We worked well on identifying the characters in the film who performed the actions described in our list and are writing them in order et au passé composé for a listening mark. Students will have some time to complete their work and it will be handed in before leaving class tomorrow. Bravo!!