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.