French 1: Tue/Wed January 8/9 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: rien!

[30 minutes] Practice Oral Exam!

[30 minutes] Continue Grammar Practice: Verbs!

• Students put sentences from remaining verbs on board.
• Practice changing the subject of each sentence to practice conjugation.

[30 minutes] Oral Exams in class!

Les Devoirs: To practice Chapter 4 grammar, translate the following sentences:

1. Your brother needs to study.
2. Do you need sneakers?
3. I need a pencil.
4. Are you selling your books?
5. We are waiting for Dad.
6. I often lose my homework.
7. We are throwing the pencils.
8. We are starting our homework.
9. We pronounce Spanish badly!
10. We repeat the sentences.
11. Are you lifting the chair?
12. I am buying some chocolate.
13. I like the gray sneakers, not the green ones.
14. I want the white rulers, not the purple ones.
15. Pénélope likes the little eraser, not the big one.

French 2: Tuesday January 8 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: rien!

[30 minutes] Oral Quiz Review!

[30 minutes] More Grammar Review: Verbs!

• Continue with 72 verb sentences from last time's assignment. Put remaining sentences on board.
• Then CAH assigns sentences using irregular participles and verbs of motion in past. Practice the strange forms on the board!

[30 minutes] In-Class Oral Exam Time!

Les Devoirs: Practice Chapter 4 Grammar by translating the following sentences:

1. The apples? We bought them.
2. The apple? Bob bought it.
3. The math course? The girls took it.
4. The boys? She followed them.
5. Frédérique watches only French movies.
6. Gabrielle lost only the cheese.
7. Someone has left.
8. Does the dog hear something?
9. Marie saw nobody.
10. Nobody understands.
11. Jacques knows nothing.
12. Nothing is in the backpack.
13. We are taking a German course.
14. Isabella is taking a biology course.
15. The girls are taking a computer course.
16. Louis and Lorraine are taking a physics course.
17. We've been talking for three hours.
18. Mathilde has been studying since noon.
19. That makes three weeks that we've been in Paris.

French 3: Monday January 7 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Écrivez pp. 34–35 Exs. 2, 3, et 4!

[20 minutes] Reviews verbs via Exs. 2, 3, 4 au tableau!

[15 minutes] Grammar: More verb tense practice!

• Each student picks a verb, then writes four sentences au tableau:
  1. I'm doing something
  2. I did something.
  3. I was doing something.
  4. I will do something.

[10 minutes] Note Lyrics on Final Exam!

[15 minutes] Oral Exam Practice: Historical Dates!

[30 minutes] Oral Exam Practice: other questions!

Les Devoirs: rien... but study the lyrics, dates, verb tenses, oral questions, and vocab!

French 3 Playlist: Lyrics for the Semester Written Exam

Update 2013.01.11 13:20 MST: Mes amis! Je regrette, que nous n'avons pas de classe aujourd'hui. Voici quelques informations très important! 

I have printed the final exam. On it, I include passages from the following songs:

1. Aïcha
2. Avec le vent
3. Echo
4. Elle me dit
5. La route de la paix
6. Le jour après la fin du monde

Plastic Bertrand's "Ça plane pour moi" is just too crazy and disconnected and Eiffel's "Place de mon cœur" felt just a little too abstract for this translation test.

I am taking the passages for translation from the first half or first couple verses of each song (plus the chorus, the repeated part). Note that "La route de la paix" really just has two verses along with its chorus.

Below is a YouTube playlist of the nine Francophone artists/songs French 3 students chose to present in class:



On the written final, CAH will give you passages from each song and ask you to translate those lyrics into English. Preserving meaning is important; preserving rhyme is an optional poetic challenge.

1. Cheb Khaled, "Aïcha," Sahra, 1996

2. Anggun, "Echo (You and I)" Eurovision, 2012 (lyrics also here)

You and I, you and I

J'entends l'écho de nos pas
Tous en cadence
Marche au pas
Jamais dans le même sens
On avance mais on court après quoi ?

J'entends l'écho de nos rêves,de nos envies
Au delà du jour, jusqu'à la nuit
On s'entraine et on court après quoi ?
On se perd, on s'espère
Quelque part on s'égare
Un jour au delà
On se retrouvera

In my dreams, in my dreams
In my heart, in my mind
There is you and I, there is you and I

J'entends l'écho de nos pas qui se balancent
Ça et là
Toujours sur la même danse
On avance mais on court après quoi ?

On se perd, on s'espère
Quelque part on s'égare
Un jour au delà
On se retrouvera

In my dreams, in my dreams
In my heart, in my mind
There is you and I, there is you and I
Ahh...

There is you and I, there is you and I

J'entends l'écho de ta voix s'éloigner de moi
L'écho d'un amour
Un jour reviendra, il montera
Et je cours après quoi ?

On se perd, on s'espère
Quelque part on s'égare
Un jour au delà
On se retrouvera

In my dreams, in my dreams
In my heart, in my mind
There is you and I, there is you and I

3. Plastic Bertrand, "Ça plane pour moi," écrit Yvan Yacomblez, 1977 (Try lyrics here also)

4. Anis, "Avec le vent," 2003

5. Corneille, "Le Jour après la fin du monde," Les inséparables, 2011

6. Mika, "Elle me dit," 2011

7. Alpha Blondy, "La route de la paix," Jah Victory, 2007

8. Eiffel, "Place de mon cœur," Foule monstre, 2012

9. Baaba Maal, "Baayo"... oh! trick question! It's in Wolof! CAH will not include this song on the exam.

French 2: Friday January 4 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: 72 verb present-past practice sentences, as outlined in January 2 lesson plan.

[45 minutes]: Review Past Tense!

• Students write examples from #1–6 on board; we discuss the past tense rules in particular detail.
• Save these sentences! We will likely only get through the first half today; we will spend more time reviewing these sentences next week!

[30 minutes]: Chapter 3 Vocab Practice

• Practice food words, with special attention to easily confused words like le poire, le poivron, le poivre, la fraise, la framboise, la phrase...

Les Devoirs: rien! Mais réviser beaucoup à l'examen oral, qui commence la semaine prochaine!

Video: Crash Course in French Revolution

For those who enjoyed Les Amants de la Bastille in Paris Wednesday, here's a crash course on the history of the French Revolution:

French 1: Fri/Mon January 4/7 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: 72 sentences using the verbs given in the Jan 2/3 Lesson Plan.

[40 minutes]: Practice homework sentences on board

[25 minutes]: Chapter 3 Vocab Practice

[25 minutes]: Chapter 3 Grammar Practice:

• être (p. 82)
• adjective agreement (p. 84)
• possessive pronouns (p. 94)
• contractions with de (p. 96)

Les Devoirs: rien! But be studying for oral exams, which start on Monday, January 7!