Thursday, December 22, 2016

- 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. 


Wednesday, December 21, 2016

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. 

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

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. 

Monday, December 19, 2016

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! 

Friday, December 16, 2016

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! 

Thursday, December 15, 2016

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. 

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

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.