French 3: Tuesday November 6 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Each students writes four questions (en français, bien sûr!) about the article we focused on, plus four answers in complete sentences!

• Full citation: "Bras d'honneur : Longuet assure avoir voulu s'opposer au 'procès de la colonisation' en Algérie," Le Monde, 2012.11.01

[25 minutes] Q&A over the Longuet article!

• In large group, students ask each other their questions from the homework.

[25 minutes] Finish reading and translating "Chronique" p. 81, "Les jobs d'été" et "Les stages en entreprise"

[25 minutes] Begin reading pp. 82–83, "Le système scolaire français"

Les Devoirs: Répondez aux questions de l'article "Le système scolaire français":

1. À quelles âges est l'école obligatoire?
2. Nous avons deux ou trois ans de "middle school/junior high" et quatre ans de "high school." Et en France...?
3. Comment on appelle les quatre ans du collège?
4. Comment on appelle les trois ans du lycée?
5. Quelles notes françaises sont les équivalents de notre "A", "B", et "C"?
6. Le bac: qu'est-ce que c'est?
7. Qu'est-ce qu'on fait, si on rate le bac?
8. Quelles options ont les élèves qui ont leur bac?
9. L'université, combien ça coûte?

French Headline Features False Cognate

False cognate: a French word that looks like an English word but has a different meaning.

Here's a stellar example from tonight's (actually Monday morning's) Le Monde article on the American election:

"J-2: des meetings devant des foules toujours plus grandes"

Translation: "T-minus 2 days: rallies before still larger fools... er, crowds" 

Somewhere, Le Monde's Washington bureau chief is winking at us.

French 2: Monday November 5 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: rien! Mais vous avez travaillez le sketch d'aventure épicerienne, oui?

[10 minutes] Oral Vocab Practice: Students ask each other "Où est-ce que on peut acheter...?"

[30 minutes] Verb Conjugation Practice! One of the struggles on the last grammar quiz was remembering the verbs. Let's review:

1. Students copy this chart, write the je and nous forms of the given verbs. 
2. Do as many as possible from own knowledge, then consult textbook and WordReference.com Verb Conjugator for help. 
3. You get points for this chart! Students must show CAH this completed chart for points before starting grocery skit practice!

	meaning	je	nous
adorer
aimer
ajouter
aller
attendre
avoir
boire
bouillir
chanter
choisir
commencer
couper
détester
devoir
donner
dormir
écouter
entendre
être
étudier
faire
finir
jouer
lire
manger
mélanger
nager
parler
partir
regarder
rester
sortir
voir

[50 minutes] work on...

Les Devoirs: Grocery Adventure Skit! Present Wednesday, Nov. 7

• In trios, write original conversations relating to a shopping trip.
• First, two people at home decide they need some groceries. Tell us why, and tell us what!
• Minimum five items! That allows the shopkeepers (see below) to give four different directions, then to say "We're out!" of a fifth item.
• Head out to at least two different shops!
• Each shopper meets a shopkeeper; they greet each other.
• Shopper must say, "I need X amount of grocery Y. Where is/are Y?"
• Shopkeeper must give different directions (see direction words, p. 97) for four of the groceries.
• Shopkeeper must say that he/she doesn't have any or is out of one of the items (use the partitive! "Nous n'avons pas de..." or "Il n'y a pas de..."). And be sure to express regret!
• Shoppers come home, say what they got!
• Vocabulary should focus on terms from Chap. 3 and previous!
• If you rely heavily on terms not learned so far, please provide a glossary of key terms on the board (maximum five!)

French 3: Friday November 2 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: lisez p. 80: "Chronique: Travailler pour vivre ou vivre pour travailler?" les premiers deux paragraphes. 

[10 minutes] Grammar Practice! Students translate past, imperfect, future sentences on Shared Google Doc!

[30 minutes] Reading/Pronunciation Practice: Chroniques pp. 80–81.

• Students read aloud, first the title and intro, then Les loisirs et la vie de famille and la protection sociale.
• Work on translation on the fly: what do we understand? What can we divine from context?
• Proceed to p. 81, Les jobs d'été and Les stages en enterprise if time allows.
• As time allows, answer (in French!) les questions de p. 81.

[40 minutes] French News! We read Le Monde! Students choose headline (CAH may recommend U.S. election news or reports on l'ouragan/la tempête Sandy), we read and translate together

Les Devoirs: Each students writes four questions (en français, bien sûr!) about the article we focused on, plus four answers in complete sentences!

Full citation: "Bras d'honneur : Longuet assure avoir voulu s'opposer au 'procès de la colonisation' en Algérie," Le Monde, 2012.11.01

French 1: Mon/Tue November 5/6 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs:

1. p. 95 Ex. 28 (yes, write the whole dialogue).
2. Write ten original sentences using the possessive pronouns listed on p. 94. You must use each of the six basic forms at least once; in other words:
   
   1. At least one sentence must have mon, ma, or mes.
   2. At least one sentence must have ton, ta, or tes.
   3. At least one sentence must have son, sa, or ses.
   4. At least one sentence must have notre or nos.
   5. At least one sentence must have votre or vos.
   6. At least one sentence must have leur or leurs.

[25 minutes] Vocabulary Practice!

• Students work on p. 92 Exercises 22 & 23 together: One student says question, other student gives answer.
• CAH checks homework during this time.
• Students then read answers in full group.
• CAH leads students in listen/response practice with Ex. 21

[15 minutes] Vocabulary Conversation Practice: Drill Exprimons-nous p. 93; CAH leads, then students circulate. Note: These are really good questions for an oral quiz!

[15 minutes] Grammar Practice: Possessives!

• Review homework au tableau.

[15 minutes] New Grammar: showing possession with de! p. 96

• The French have no apostrophe + s! To say "John's dog," they must say, "the dog of John": le chien de Jean!
• de combines with le and les, just as à does!
  • the teacher's chair: la chaise *de + *le prof = le livre du prof
  • the computer's screen: l'ecran de l'ordinateur (no contraction!)
  • the girl's book: le livre de la fille (no contraction!)
  • the boys' cards: les cartes *de + *les garçons = les cartes des garçons

Les Devoirs: Translate the following phrases into French! (pronouns in parenthesis indicate whether you are talking to tu or vous, singular/familiar or plural/formal.)

1. her half-sister	21. your (tu) aunts
2. your (vous) grandson	22. my wife
3. Claude's grandson	23. your (vous) nieces
4. my grandpa	24. his children
5. the boy's grandpa	25. their brother
6. his grandparents	26. the student's brother
7. her cousin (f)	27. your (tu) grandma
8. their husband	28. your (vous) grandchildren
9. our cat	29. his dogs
10. the girls' cat	30. the girl's dogs
11. your (vous) stepmother	31. her sisters
12. her uncle	32. the boy's sisters
13. Marie's uncle	33. their parents
14. our daughters	34. my father
15. my son	35. the girl's father
16. the teacher's son	36. our stepfather
17. your (tu) cousins (m)	37. our nephew
18. their granddaughter	38. your (tu) family
19. his mother	39. the boys' family
20. the child's mother	40. the girls' family

French 1: Thu/Fri November 1/2 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Vocab 3.2 writing practice: Write all vocab words and phrases on pp. 90–93, including Exprimons-nous and Entre copains, four times.

[10 minutes] Pronunciation Practice: read and repeat new vocabulary

[10 minutes] Make up Oral Quizzes! Anyone who didn't go last time finishes Oral Quiz aujourd'hui! (Kendra, Seth, Zach K.)

• While CAH conducts quizzes, students pair up, practice vocab.

[30 minutes] Oral Vocab Practice!

• Tu as un frère, une sœur, un oncle, une tante, des cousins, des cousines?
• Comment il/elle s'appelle?
• Il/elle est comment?
• Note that questions and answers will use mon/ma/mes, ton/ta/tes, etc.

[20 minutes] New Grammar Practice: Possessive Pronouns! p. 94

• Point to use of masculine, feminine, and plural forms of possessives in the oral practice we just did.
• Show complete forms for all six grammatical persons.
• Emphasize distinction between English his/her and French son/sa/ses: in English, we pick the possessive pronoun based on who owns the thing; in French we pick the possessive pronoun based on the thing possessed:
  
  • Bob a son livre.
  • Marie a son livre.
  • Bob écoute sa mère.
  • Marie écoute sa mère.
• Practice with p. 94 Ex. 26.

Les Devoirs:

1. p. 95 Ex. 28 (yes, write the whole dialogue).
2. Write ten original sentences using the possessive pronouns listed on p. 94. You must use each of the six basic forms at least once; in other words:
   
   1. At least one sentence must have mon, ma, or mes.
   2. At least one sentence must have ton, ta, or tes.
   3. At least one sentence must have son, sa, or ses.
   4. At least one sentence must have notre or nos.
   5. At least one sentence must have votre or vos.
   6. At least one sentence must have leur or leurs.

French 2: Thursday November 1 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Vocab 3.2 Writing and Drawing!

1. Write all vocab words and phrases on pp. 94–97, including Exprimons-nous and Déjà vu direction expressions, four times.
2. Make five shop signs representing five of the shops included in this list! Signs should include the word for the shop and at least one image clearly representing what the shop sells.

[40 minutes] Pronunciation Practice/Vocab Practice!

• First listen and repeat! [WS!]
• Then students pair up, read to each other, CAH/WS circulate and correct.
• Practice "Où est-ce que on peut acheter..." and "Qui vend les...."
• Practice directions: devant, derrière, entre, à côté de, à gauche de, à droite de with movements and physical responses.
• Do Exs. 24 & 26 together.

[20 minutes] y as a "pronoun" p. 88

• Note that y isn't really a pronoun; it's not standing for a noun, but a prepositional phrase.
• Do Ex. 13 together.

[30 minutes] work time for next great skit!

Les Devoirs: Grocery Adventure Skit! Present Wednesday, Nov. 7 (time available to work on this skit during second half of class Monday)!

• In trios, write original conversations relating to a shopping trip.
• First, two people at home decide they need some groceries. Tell us why, and tell us what!
• Minimum five items! That allows the shopkeepers (see below) to give four different directions, then to say "We're out!" of a fifth item.
• Head out to at least two different shops!
• Each shopper meets a shopkeeper; they greet each other.
• Shopper must say, "I need X amount of grocery Y. Where is/are Y?"
• Shopkeeper must give different directions (see direction words, p. 97) for four of the groceries.
• Shopkeeper must say that he/she doesn't have any or is out of one of the items (use the partitive! "Nous n'avons pas de..." or "Il n'y a pas de..."). And be sure to express regret!
• Shoppers come home, say what they got!
• Vocabulary should focus on terms from Chap. 3 and previous!
• If you rely heavily on terms not learned so far, please provide a glossary of key terms on the board (maximum five!)