French 1: Dec. 20-21 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs! p. 116 Ex. 8: write out sentences, complete with proper conjugated form of given verb!

{10 minutes} -re conjugation practice!

• Place the verbs attendre, entendre, perdre, répondre, vendre, rendre on the board, with space for conjugations below.
• Each student must come to the board and fill in two of the blanks with properly conjugated verb forms.

	attendre	entendre	perdre	répondre	vendre	rendre
je
tu
il/elle/on
nous
vous
ils/elles

{10 minutes} Review p. 116 Exercise 8

{5 minutes} Listening Practice! Do p. 116 Exercise 7 together!

{15 minutes} Do p. 117 Exercise 9 in pairs

• Some students get odds, some get evens!
• 8 minutes to compose logical sentences using the -re verbs on p. 116.
• 7 minutes to write sentences on the board under columns for each picture (each pair writes all three sentences!).

{15 minutes} -ger/-cer verbs!

• Note that these verbs revisit the -er conjugation pattern (see p. 46)
• The only difference is that to preserve the soft -g- and -c- before the -ons of the nous form, we need a couple spelling tricks!
• To keep the -g- soft, we add an -e- before the -ons:
  • mangeons
  • changeons
  • échangeons
  • corrigeons
  • dérangeons
  • encourageons
  • voyageons
    
• To keep the -c- soft, we tack a cedilla on the c:
  • commençons
  • plaçons
  • prononçons
  • remplaçons
  • avançons
  • lançons
• Note that commencer takes à before the infinitive for the activity we are starting:
  • Nous commençons à travailler.
  • Je commence à faire mes devoirs.
  • Vous commencez à corriger nos interros de vocabulaire?

{15 minutes} Practice -ger/-cer verbs!

• Do p. 118, Ex. 12 together

Les Devoirs:

1. -re verbs: p. 117 Ex. 10
2. -ger/cer verbs: p. 119 Exs. 13 & 14