French 3: Monday October 1 2012 Lesson Plan

[Rescheduled from last time!]

DUE: Presentations on French document/map!

[10 minutes] Tech Prep: everyone try Smart Board dock, see if your computer talks to Smart Board!

[60 minutes] Présentations! Find an interesting French-language document that includes a map of Paris or some part of Paris.

1. Possibilities: guides to Le Metro, parks, museums, government buildings, train stations, public facilities...
2. Save a copy on your computer that you can mark up, zoom in and out on, and include in a presentation. (One option: paste screen shots into a Word/OneNote/PowerPoint document.) 
3. Highlight at least ten sentences that you can translate from French into English without much help from the dictionary.
4. Present your document and map on the Smart Board!
5. Presentation should include your reading those ten sentences in French, then explaining the text in French and/or English, as suitable.

Les Devoirs: New Vocab! List 2.1, p. 75 (also shown on pp. 44-46)

• Write each job once; then write a sentence (en français!!!) about a person who does that job. 
• Par exemple: "Un professeur de français: il aime les élèves et les verbes!"
• Write other verbs/phrases in vocab list four times. 
• Don't forget the jobs listed on p. 46!

French 2: Thursday September 27 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: write all vocab words and phrases on pp. 42, 43, and 45 four times.

[10 minutes] Vocabulary Practice! Students pair up, quiz each other on Vocab List 2.1

• CAH checks homework during this time

[20 minutes] More Vocab Practice! 

1. Do p. 44 Exs. 1, 2, & 3 together.
2. Students pair up, prepare mini-dialogue based on parts given on p. 45, Ex. 4, present to class.

[30 minutes] Direct Object Pronouns! p. 46

• Recall "I love you"?
• Practice forms: me, te, le/la, nous, vous, les (no change with us and y'all!)
• Emphasize placement before the verb. Je la regarde = "I her am watching"!
• Note possible elision/apostrophization in all singular forms (again, "I love you"!).
• Practice together with pp. 46-47 Exs. 6 & 7

Les Devoirs: Translate the following sentences. Et faites attention: you do not have to translate the helping verbs! They are included in the normal French present tense: e.g., "I am reading" translates as "Je lis," not "Je suis* lire*" or some other un-French compounded verb monstrosity! 

1. I'm eating a sandwich. I like it.
2. Are you eating an ice cream? Do you like it?
3. That's Bob. Élise is watching him.
4. That's Élise. Bob is watching her.
5. We are waiting for y'all.
6. Are y'all waiting for us?
7. Where are Bob and Élise? I am waiting for them.
8. Where are Élise and Émilie? Jean is waiting for them.
9. My mom loves me. 
10. I love her.
11. We love you, Sébastien!
12. Victor loves you, Julienne!
13. My friends! The teacher is listening to y'all!

French 3: Wednesday September 26 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Presentations on French document/map!

[but we changed plans, since a good majority of students appeared not to be ready. ]

Les Devoirs: Présentations! Find an interesting French-language document that includes a map of Paris or some part of Paris.

1. Possibilities: guides to Le Metro, parks, museums, government buildings, train stations, public facilities...
2. Save a copy on your computer that you can mark up, zoom in and out on, and include in a presentation. (One option: paste screen shots into a Word/OneNote/PowerPoint document.) 
3. Highlight at least ten sentences that you can translate from French into English without much help from the dictionary.
4. Present your document and map on the Smart Board!
5. Presentation should include your reading those ten sentences in French, then explaining the text in French and/or English, as suitable.
6. PREPARE! Know what you are going to say, in both French and English.
7. PREPARE! Practice delivering your text in a loud, clear, confident voice.
8. PREPARE! Practice using your computer and moving around among whatever documents/windows you are including in your presentation.
9. PREPARE! Make us think you know what you are talking about.

French 1: Thu/Mon Sept. 27/Oct. 1 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Écrivez les mots du vocabulaire (pp. 40-42) quatre fois!

[15 minutes] Vocabulary Practice by Speed Dating! Students move around the room, conduct brief conversations. Each person asks the other, "Tu aimes ... ?" about some vocab term (noun or verb!). Each student responds with either "J'aime ..." or "Je n'aime pas ...." Go to as many different people as possible!

• CAH checks homework during this time.

[15 minutes] Add Homegrown Vocab! Eight words from student list:

1. la famille
2. la mère
3. le père 
4. la sœur
5. le frère
6. les amis/les amies
7. le chien
8. le chat

• CAH will include these words on the next vocab quiz, which will take place jeudi/vendredi, le 4/5 octobre!
• CAH asks students questions using the above eight words!

[15 minutes] Textbook Vocabulary Practice pp. 42-43

• Listening: Ex. 1
• Associations: Ex. 2
• Conversation: Ex. 4

[25 minutes] Grammar Practice: Definite Articles! (p. 44)

• Recall indefinite articles: un, une, des.
• Recall gender! (How can we forget?)
• Recall difference from definite articles: le, la, les.
• Recall elision/apostrophization! l'ordinateur, l'école, l'ami
• Practice with p. 44-45 Exs. 7, 8, and 9.

Les Devoirs:

1. p. 43 Ex. 5: write a response to Noémie!
2. p. 45 Ex. 10: write complete sentences!

French 1: Tue/Wed September 26-27 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: rien, mais vous avez révisé pour... 

[30 minutes] L'examen de grammaire! Today's grammar quiz will cover the following items from Chapter 1:

1. Subject pronouns: je, tu, il, elle, on, nous, vous, ils, elles (p. 14)
2. Masculine, feminine, and plural indefinite articles: un, une, des (p. 24)
3. Conjugation: avoir (p. 26)
4. (See all of these items on mega-review page 34)

[40 minutes] Le nouveau vocabulaire! Chapitre 2.1! pp. 40-42

• Écoutez et répétez!
• CAH pose des questions de vocabulaire.

Les Devoirs: Écrivez les mots du vocabulaire (pp. 40-42) quatre fois!

French 2: Tuesday September 25 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Écrivez Questions et Réponses à "As-tu compris" p. 29

Mais d'abord...

[30 minutes] L'examen de conjugaison des verbes!

• -er verbs, -ir verbs, -re verbs, plus avoir, être, dormir, partir, sortir.

[15 minutes] Télé-roman Review!

1. Watch video on my.hrw.com one more time.
2. Check answers to p. 29 questions.

[30 minutes] La nouvelle vocabulaire! Chapitre 2!

• Les fêtes en France: pp. 42, 43, 45
• Practice pronunciation first.
• Then practice some questions, like "Quelle est ta fête préférée?"

Les Devoirs: write all vocab words and phrases on pp. 42, 43, and 45 four times.

French 3: Monday September 24 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Students show me the French-language map and document they plan to use in their Wednesday presentations.

[40 minutes] Verb Quiz! Présent, Passé Composé, Imparfait!

• Quiz will be on paper!

[50 minutes] Students work on Wednesday presentations

Les Devoirs: Présentations! Find an interesting French-language document that includes a map of Paris or some part of Paris.

1. Possibilities: guides to Le Metro, parks, museums, government buildings, train stations, public facilities...
2. Save a copy on your computer that you can mark up, zoom in and out on, and include in a presentation. (One option: paste screen shots into a Word/OneNote/PowerPoint document.) You should be able to transfer this document to CAH's flash drive.
3. Highlight at least ten sentences that you can translate from French into English without much help from the dictionary.
4. Prepare to make a presentation on this document and map mercredi, le 26 septembre!
5. Presentation should include your reading those ten sentences in French, then explaining the text in French and/or English, as suitable.

French 1: Fri/Mon September 21-24 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: 

• Articles: p. 25 Ex. 42
• avoir: p. 26 Exs. 46 & 47

[5 minutes] Textbook structure: CAH shows review pages at end of Chapter 1 (and all chapters)

[20 minutes] Homework review: Students write sentences from all three exercises on board.

[10 minutes] article review: CAH quizzes students orally on which articles (masculine, feminine, plural) go with which nouns

[15 minutes] pronoun review: oral practice using age! Ask about all sorts of people's ages!

[20 minutes] avoir practice: Students write sentences in class for p. 27, Exercises 48 and 49

Extra Practice, depending on time available: pp. 32-33 Exs. 2 & 4

Les Devoirs: rien, mais révisez pour l'examen de grammaire la prochaine fois:

• Subject pronouns: je, tu, il, elle, on, nous, vous, ils, elles (p. 14)
• Masculine, feminine, and plural indefinite articles: un, une, des (p. 24)
• Conjugation: avoir (p. 26)
• See all of these items on mega-review page 34.

French 2: Friday September 21 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs!

• p. 27 Ex. 39: practice dormir, partir, sortir
• p. 34 Ex. 2 avoir ou être!

[30 minutes] Grammar Review!

• Review homework, prepare for grammar quiz Tuesday September 25

[25 minutes] Télé-roman: Le Secret de la Statuette! pp. 28-29

• Watch video on my.hrw.com; students can follow along with text in book.
• Watch second time; students say lines along with characters!

Les Devoirs: 

1. Écrivez Questions et Réponses á "As-tu compris" p. 29
2. Révisez pour l'examen de grammaire (mardi!): Verb conjugation!  -er verbs, -ir verbs, -re verbs, plus avoir, être, dormir, partir, sortir.

French 3: Thursday September 20 2012

DUE: Les Devoirs: Expand the in-class verb grammar practice by writing five present-past-imperfect triplets. Par exemple:

• Je détruis l'Étoile de la Mort.
• J'ai détruit l'Étoile de la Mort.
• Je détruisais l'Étoile de la Mort.

[30 minutes] Reading Practice: Paris bike map!

• Open this downloadable PDF map and guide to bicycling in Paris.
• Students take five minutes to read map, circle words/expressions of interest.
• CAH checks homework at this time!
• Discuss highlights
• Read and translate guidelines on page 2!

[30 minutes] Present/Past/Imperfect practice!

• Students type triplets on Google Doodle Page!
• Do pp. 24-25, Exs. 34 & 35 together.

Les Devoirs:

• Révisez pour un petit examen des verbes: présent, passé composé, et imparfait. L'examen sera lundi, le 24 septembre. 
• Find an interesting French-language document that includes a map of Paris or some part of Paris.
  1. Possibilities: guides to Le Metro, parks, museums, government buildings, train stations, public facilities...
  2. Save a copy on your computer that you can mark up, zoom in and out on, and include in a presentation. (One option: paste screen shots into a Word/OneNote/PowerPoint document.) You should be able to transfer this document to CAH's flash drive.
  3. Highlight at least ten sentences that you can translate from French into English without much help from the dictionary.
  4. Show CAH this document and map with your highlighting lundi, le 24 septembre.
  5. Prepare to make a presentation on this document and map mercredi, le 26 septembre!

Faire du vélo... à Paris!

Here's a great website about bicycling in and around Paris. It includes a link to this downloadable PDF map of bike routes in the French capital. The map offers some useful tips for biking in the big city:

• Vérifier le bon état de marche des éléments de sécurité du vélo: éclairage, freins, pneus...
• Respecter la signalisation routiére
• Ne pas dépasser les véhicules lourds par la droite (risque d'angle mort)

...and my favorite:

• Ne pas téléphoner ou utiliser un baladeur!

Raccrochez et roulez!

Mika, "Grace Kelly" en en français!

Remember Mika's "Elle me dit"? Here's Mika going French again, this time singing a live version of his "Grace Kelly" in French translation. First, audio with written lyrics:



Now the live video from Paris, 2008:

French 1: Wed/Thu September 19-20 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: rien! But I'm sure you studied diligently for...

[25 minutes] Vocab Quiz 1.2!

[25 mintues] More on gender and indefinite articles!

• Practice with p. 24 Ex. 41

[25 minutes] avoir!

• By the way, avoir is a really bad verb to start with, due to the elision with nous, vous, and ils/elles and the elision with je.
• Practice with "Qu'est-ce que tu as? Qu'est-ce qu'elle a?"

Les Devoirs: Articles: p. 25 Ex. 42; avoir: p. 26 Exs. 46 & 47

• Look for Grammar/Translation Chapter 1 Quiz time after next!

French 2: Wednesday September 19 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs!

• pp. 24-25 Exs. 32 & 33. Écrivez chaque question ou phrase complètement avant de vos réponses!

[25 minutes] L'examen de vocabulaire 1.2! Tous mots pp. 18–21, incluant...

• Exprimons-nous!
• Entre copains!
• jours de la semaine
• mois de l'année

[20 minutes] Révisez les devoirs!

• Students write sentences from Exs. 32 and 33 au tableau.
• CAH checks homework at this time.

[20 minutes] dormir, partir, sortir p. 26

• Exceptions to -ir rules!

  	dormir	partir	sortir
  je	dors	pars	sors
  tu	dors	pars	sors
  il/elle/on	dort	part	sort
  nous	dormons	partons	sortons
  vous	dormez	partez	sortez
  ils/elles	dorment	partent	sortent

• Practice with pp. 26-27, Exs. 38: students take ten minutes to write out, then share answers aloud.

[25 minutes] Télé-roman: Le Secret de la Statuette!

• Watch video on my.hrw.com; students can follow along with text in book.
• Watch second time; students say lines along with characters!

Les Devoirs:

1. p. 27 Ex. 39: practice dormir, partir, sortir
2. p. 34 Ex. 2 avoir ou être!

French 1: Mon/Tue September 17-18 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Write pp. 20-21 Exs. 31, 32, 33, and 34

[10 minutes] Command practice! Students form quartets and trios; each student gets to give the others three commands from the list on p. 20; students must follow the command, showing clearly that they understand what was being said.

• CAH checks homework during this practice time.

[20 minutes] Review homework!

• Students write sentences on the board

[20 minutes] Grammar: Masculine, feminine, plural indefinite articles: un, une, des, de (p. 24)

• Discuss grammatical gender (not just about guys and gals, birds -- les oiseaux, m. -- and bees -- les abeilles, f.!)
• Bonus! General rules on distinguishing masculine and feminine nouns.
• Discuss un and une as a/an, des/de as some/any
• Practice together with p. 24 Exs. 40 & 41

[20 minutes] CAH conducts Alphabet Quiz in hall!

• Each student comes out to hall, recites French alphabet to CAH
• Students in classroom study vocabulary

Les Devoirs: rien... but study hard for Vocab Quiz 1.2!

French 3: Tuesday September 18 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs! (Originally assigned for last meeting, 9/14; carried over to today after change of plan!)

1. Écrivez des phrases pour p. 31, Ex. 31.
2. Écrivez 10 phrases originaux: 5 qui dit ce que vous faites aujourd'hui (en présent!), et 5 qui dit, que vous avez fait les mêmes choses hier (passé composé!).

[20 minutes] Vocab Quiz 1.2: pp. 18–21, incluant Exprimons-nous, D'autres mots utiles, et Entre copains!

[10 minutes] Reading and listening practice!

1. Students pair up, read each other their original sentences. Readers, speak clearly, because...
2. ...listeners translate the sentences into English without looking at the papers!
3. CAH checks homework at this time.

[10 minutes] Passé Composé Practice

• Students each pick one present/past pair of sentences from their writing to write on Smart Board.
• Compare present and past conjugations
• Watch for avoir vs. être as helping verb
• Watch for irregular participles
• Watch for placement of reflexive pronouns

[40 minutes] Grammar Review: l'imparfait! p. 24

• Remember this? The imperfect is that verb form that says you used to do something, or that you were doing something.
• The formation is easy: take the present nous form of the verb, drop -ons, and add the proper imperfect ending (-ais, -ais, -ait, -ions, -iez, -aient).
• The only exception: être, whose imperfect stem is ét- (because the nous form of the verb, sommes, doesn't have an -ons to cut off!).
• CAH shows uses of imperfect on board.
• Do pp. 24-25, Exs. 34 & 35 together.
• Every student writes three sentence triplets: three sentences in present, then versions of those three sentences in in passé composé and in imperfect. Put triplets on Smart Board!

Les Devoirs: Expand the in-class verb grammar practice by writing five present-past-imperfect triplets. Par exemple:

• Je détruis l'Étoile de la Mort.
• J'ai détruit l'Étoile de la Mort.
• Je détruisais l'Étoile de la Mort.

French 2: Monday September 17 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: pp. 22-23, Exs. 27 & 28

[10 minutes] Review -er verbs

• Students trio up: one student reads sentence from Ex. 27 or Ex. 28, second student translates into English, third student listens and corrects if necessary. Rotate reading, allowing each student chance to read each of his/her sentences aloud and to translate others' sentences.
• CAH checks homework at this time.

[25 minutes] Oral Vocab and Grammar Review

• p. 23, Ex. 29: Do it live!
• Imaginez: Vous apprenez à connaître un nouveau correspondant français. Dites-lui un peu de vous-même, vos activités préférées, et quand vous faites ces activités.
• Work in groups of five; CAH/TA circulate, listen, help!
• One student speaks; others in groups take turns translating sentences.
• Each student must say at least five sentences.
• Try to use this week's vocab in each sentence (especially with the quand phrases, like how many times a week you do something, or on what days, or in which seasons!).

[30 minutes] More Verb conjugation review! -re and -ir verbs! p. 24

• -re verb endings: j'attends, tu attends, elle attend, nous attendons, vous attendez, elles attendent
• -re verbs really aren't much different from -er verbs: the je and elle forms differ, but the other forms (the 2, 4, 5, & 6) drop the infinitive ending and add the same suffixes.
• -ir verbs get freaky in the plural: je finis, tu finis, elle finit, nous finissons, vous finissez, elles finissent
• Note that in all of these conjugations, the third-person plural (the 6, the elles form) uses the silent -ent. Don't say the -ent! Ever!!!
• Practice online with Tex! Do -re verb practice and -ir verb practice.

Les Devoirs: 

• pp. 24-25 Exs. 32 & 33. Écrivez chaque question ou phrase complètement avant de vos réponses!
• Révisez pour l'examen de vocabulaire 1.2!

French 1: Thu/Fri September 13-14 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Write all vocab on pp. 18 and 20 (including Exprimons-nous!) three times.

[15 minutes] Practice French Alphabet

• Correct pronunciation of e! More like in le, de, and je!

• Students practice in pairs, CAH hears each student do alphabet
• Alphabet oral quiz next class period!

[30 minutes] Practice New Vocab!

• CAH reads, students repeat
• Practice with touchez et montrez!
• Students practice pronunciation in pairs; CAH checks homework for completeness.
• Students practice commands: each student picks and gives a command, everyone else acts it out.

[20 minutes] Accent marks!

• aigu: é
• grave: à
• circonflex: ô
• trema: ë
• cedille: ç

Les Devoirs! 

1. Write pp. 20-21 Exs. 31, 32, 33, and 34
2. Study for alphabet quiz!

French 2: Thursday September 13 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Write all Vocab 1.2 words, including pix, D'autres mots utiles, Exprimons-nous, and Entre copains, four times!

[15 minutes] Practice Pronunciation!

• Students drill each other on vocab pronunciation
• CAH checks homework for completion

[25 minutes] Vocab Practice!

• Do p. 20 Exs. 23, 22 and 24 together: start with Ex. 23 listening exercise first, then have students write out Exs. 22 and 24.
• Each student takes a crack at p. 21 Ex. 25: compose one logical sentence using the phrases given in the columns.

[25 minutes] Review -er verbs! p. 22

• Recall the basic endings: -e, -es, -e, -ons, -ez, -ent
• Remember the rather unexciting fact that the 1, 2, 3, and 6 (the je, tu, il, and ils forms) are all pronounced the same.
• Each student finds three -er verbs, writes conjugation.
• Each student says conjugation out loud! If preceding student says your verb, you have to find another one!

Les Devoirs: pp. 22-23, Exs. 27 & 28

French 3: Friday September 14 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: assignment moved to mardi, le 19 septembre! We totally changed the plan!

[80 minutes] Real French News!

• Objectives: 
  1. practice translation (use of cognates and context)
  2. develop vocabulary
  3. reinforce grammar (suffixes, roots)
  4. discuss geography, culture and history (French and world!)
• Text: "Jour de colère dans le monde musulman," Le Monde, 14 septembre 2012
• Feature article on Smart Board.
• Students collaborate to translate article paragraph by paragraph.
• If this lesson works, we may do it more frequently with other articles!

Les Devoirs: Rien! Mais étudiez fort pour l'examen de vocabulaire!

French 3: Wednesday September 12 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs!

• Read, write out in French, and translate la carte postale de Damien (p. 18). Write the translation side-by-side with the French transcript.
• Write the vocab words on p. 19, 20, and 21 three times (including D'autres mots utiles, Entre copains, and Exprimons-nous).

[20 minutes] Practice Reading and Listening

• Students practice reading "Une carte postale de Damien" out loud in pairs! Read as if really speaking to someone, not just reciting book text (CAH models at start!); listen closely to partner.
• CAH checks vocab homework during this time.
• Students then read postcard aloud in class

[30 minutes] Vocab Practice

• CAH leads read-and-repeat of highlighted terms
• CAH highlights la cambrousse (the sticks!), prendre un pot (vs. avoir du pot!) and se rappeler ("recall")
• Do p. Exs 24, 25, and 26 together (complete Ex. 26 on shared Google Doc on Tableau Intelligent!)

[30 minutes] Grammar Review: passé composé! p. 22

• Remember the rules!

1. Most of the time, form past tense by conjugating avoir as helping verb, then using past participle of main verb.
• j'ai mangé
• tu as fini
• elle a attendu...
2. With verbs of motion/transition (online practice here!) and reflexive verbs, conjugate être as helping, and make the past participle agree in number and gender with the subject.
• nous sommes allés
• vous êtes arrivés
• elles sont sorties
• je me suis brossé les dents
• tu t'es couchée
• il s'est lavé
3. Watch for irregular past participles! (see table on p. 22, or this really big list... or, if in doubt, punch your verb into WordReference.com's mighty verb conjugator)

• Do pp. 22-23 Exs. 29 & 30 together (Ex. 30 on white board)

Les Devoirs:

1. Écrivez des phrases pour p. 23, Ex. 31.
2. Écrivez 10 phrases originaux: 5 qui dit ce que vous faites aujourd'hui (en présent!), et 5 qui dit, que vous avez fait les mêmes choses hier (passé composé!).

French 1: Tue/Wed September 11-12 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Rien! Mais j'éspère que vous avez étudiez fort pour...

[30 minutes] L'examen de vocabulaire 1.1!

• CAH will say 30 French words and phrases from the numbers and conversations that we have practiced in this first chapter so far.
• Students write down English translations of each word/phrase.
• Changez, corrigez, et notez! (Trade 'em and grade 'em!)

[20 minutes] Alphabet practice! Sing!

[30 minutes] New Classroom Vocabulary: Practice pronunciation of vocab in pix on p. 18 and commands on p. 20!

Les Devoirs: Write all vocab on pp. 18 and 20 (including Exprimons-nous!) three times.

French 2: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Translate to English p. 17 "La famille au Maroc"

• Write out the entire paragraph in French (yes, transcribe!).
• Below that transcription, write a reasonable English translation of the paragraph. Don't use Google Translate! First, translate as much as you can just from your brain. Listen for cognates (French words that look like their English counterparts). Leave blanks for what you don't know. Then turn to your textbook glossary, the dictionary, etc. to translate the rest.

But first...

[20 minutes] Vocab Quiz 1.1!

• CAH reads 30 French words/phrases, students write reasonable English translations
• Changez, corrigez, et notez!

[30 minutes] Practice Reading and Translation!

• Students pair up, practice reading "La famille au Maroc" as smoothly as possible.
• CAH checks homework and records quiz scores during this time.
• Hear a couple of student translations.

[20 minutes] Practice New Vocab pp. 18-21

• CAH/TA leads pronunciation of vocab in pix, D'autres mots utiles, Exprimons-nous, and Entre copains

Les Devoirs: Write all Vocab 1.2 words, including pix, D'autres mots utiles, Exprimons-nous, and Entre copains, four times!

French 3: Monday, September 10, 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs! 

1. Write out pp. 12-13 Exs. 13 & 15 (irregular verb conjugation!). Write out the complete sentences, including the questions for Ex. 15, Abby (and everyone else)!
2. Étudiez pour l'examen de vocabulaire lundi, le 10 septembre!

[20 minutes] Vocab Quiz 1.1!

• The normal drill: CAH reads words in French, students write English translation.
• Grade in class.

[30 minutes] Irregular Verb Practice (pp. 12-13)

• First, CAH checks quiz score and homework while students pair up and compare answers.
• Then students write sentences from Exs. 13 and 15 on board for review.
• Students pair up, practice avoir, être, aller, faire, prendre, venir by making sentences using each pronoun form (je, tu, il/elle, nous, vous, ils/elles) and saying that so-and-so has, is, goes, does/makes, takes, and comes.
• CAH calls on students to give examples of proper use of each verb.

[10 minutes] Reading a class schedule!

• Students read L'emploi du temps de Laura on p. 15
• In pairs, write answers to the 6 questions in Exercise 20 in class
• Share answers with class!

Les Devoirs: 

• Read, write out in French, and translate la carte postale de Damien (p. 18). Write the translation side-by-side with the French transcript.
• Write the vocab words on p. 19, 20, and 21 three times (including D'autres mots utiles, Entre copains, and Exprimons-nous).

French 1: Fri-Mon, September 7-10, 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs!

• Interview six classmates in French, find out their age, write down how old they are (in complete sentences, writing out the numbers as words!
• [added Sept 6! Maroon 2 students may complete this task by Tues., Sept 11] Add your ten words from the first vocab lookup assignment to the Homegrown Vocab list on Google Docs. Include English word, French word (with special characters!), your name and section (M2, W2, W4), and any useful notes.

[25 minutes] Make sure the Homegrown Vocab list on Google Docs is working for everyone! Everyone will have access before leaving this classroom!

[20 minutes] Practice Quel âge as-tu?

• Students pair up, switch papers, read each others age reports out loud.
• CAH checks homework during this time. 
• Then extend: CAH asks students how old others are: Quel âge a Bob/Marie? Il a ___ ans. Elle a ___ ans

[15 minutes] Practice basic conversations!

• Bonjour!
• Comment tu t'appelles? Je m'appelle ___.
• Enchanté(e)!
• Ça va/Comment ça va?/Ça va bien?/Comment allez-vous?
• Bien/Mal/Très.../Comme ci comme ça.
• Au revoir/À plus tard/À bientôt/À tout à l'heure....

[20 minutes] Practice numbers 1-30 (include 40!)

Les Devoirs: étudiez pour l'examen de vocabulaire la prochaine fois!

French 2: Fri/Mon, September 7-10, 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs! Write out p. 13, Exs. 13-14

[20 minutes] Vocab review!

• [10 minutes] Students line up face to face, ask each other vocab words.
• [10 minutes] CAH/TA drills students
• Remember: Vocab Quiz next time!

[15 minutes] Review homework!

• First, students in pairs read each other their responses.
• CAH checks papers during this time.
• Then students write sentences on board, we correct them together!

[25 minutes] beau, nouveau, vieux

• Note the exceptional -l in the masculing form before vowels!
• Practice with Exs. 17-18 
• Each student writes six sentences, two for each of these adjectives. Try to come up with masculine/feminine pairs!
• Students share sentences out loud

Les Devoirs: Translate to English p. 17 "La famille au Maroc"

• Write out the entire paragraph in French (yes, transcribe!).
• Below that transcription, write a reasonable English translation of the paragraph. Don't use Google Translate! First, translate as much as you can just from your brain. Listen for cognates (French words that look like their English counterparts). Leave blanks for what you don't know. Then turn to your textbook glossary, the dictionary, etc. to translate the rest.

French 3: Thursday, September 6, 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Write three times...

• all vocab words in List #1, p. 37
• Exprimons-nous phrases on pp. 7 & 9
• the word foirer (p. 8... and note diff Québecois meaning!)

[10 minutes] Quiz en pairs! Students pair up, quiz each other on the vocab words

• CAH checks homework and enters points during this time.

[10 minutes] Vocab practice with CAH

• CAH says vocab aloud, students give translation. 
• Do some French to English, some English to French
• Don't forget foirer (and note it's not polite in France)!
• Vocab Quiz 1.1 will happen Monday, Sept. 10! Étudiez!

[20 minutes] Vocab Practice: Do pp. 8-9, Exs. 1, 3, 4, 5 together in class (quiet time to write, then respond aloud)

[10 minutes] Regular Verb Conjugation Practice: Do pp. 10-11 Exs. 8 & 10 together

[20 minutes] Common Irregular Verb Practice: p. 12

• avoir, être, aller, faire, prendre, venir
• CAH gives each student a sentence to translate from English to French on board!

Les Devoirs:

1. Write out pp. 12-13 Exs. 13 & 15 (irregular verb conjugation!). Write out the complete sentences, including the questions for Ex. 15, Abby (and everyone else)!
2. Étudiez pour l'examen de vocabulaire lundi, le 10 septembre!

Mika: "Elle me dit"

A student played this song for me on his phone yesterday: "Elle me dit," by Mika, 2011:
Pourquoi tu gâches ta vie?
Pourquoi tu gâches ta vie?
Danse, danse, danse!

French 1: Wed/Thu September 5-6 Lesson Plan

DUE: pp. 6-8: Write each phrase in each dialogue bubble in French, then in English, then again in French.

[10 minutes] Review numbers and greetings.

[10 minutes] Students practice reading Vocab bubbles to each other; practice with at least three different partners, doing each side of the conversation in each pairing.

• CAH checks homework during this time
• Note Vocab Quiz coming meeting after next, over greetings and numbers

[15 minutes] Connect students to Google Docs Vocab Sheets!

• Students type e-mail username on shared sheet; CAH uses this text document to generate invites and open Google Doc Homegrown Vocab spreadsheet to students.

[20 minutes] More numbers!

• p. 10: add 13-30 to our counting
• Do Ex. 11 together -- write numbers down!
• Do Exs. 12-13 together

[15 minutes] Age! p.11!

• CAH leads examples, then students practice with each other.
• Note pronouns: j'ai, tu as, il a, elle a

Les Devoirs: Quel âge as-tu?

• Interview six classmates in French, find out their age, write down how old they are (in complete sentences, writing out the numbers as words!
• [added Sept 6! Maroon 2 students may complete this task by Tues., Sept 11] Add your ten words from the first vocab lookup assignment to the Homegrown Vocab list on Google Docs. Include English word, French word (with special characters!), your name and section (M2, W2, W4), and any useful notes.

French 2: Wednesday, September 5 Lesson Plan

DUE: Write all words in Vocab List 1.1 four times!

[15 minutes]: Vocab practice! Tell each other about your families!

• Students pair up, tell each other about family members.
• Pay attention! Take notes!

[15 minutes] Oral Presentation: Students tell the class about their partners' families; listeners recount details!

[15 minutes] Grammar Practice: avoir and être

• Quick oral practice: do Exercise 7 together out loud
• Students write out Exercises 6 & 8; read answers together in class

[20 minutes] Adjective Agreement (p. 12)

• Recall the basic rules: masculine form is the base; feminine usually adds -e; plural usually adds -s
• Do Exs. 11 and 12 together

Les Devoirs: Write out complete sentences and answers for p. 13, Exs. 13 and 14.

French 3: Tuesday, September 4 Lesson Plan

DUE: First presentation!

• Prepare to speak to the class in French for 60 seconds.
• Tell us what you did this summer.
• Speak without notes.
• Your time does not include pauses, whether vocalized (um... uh... I don't know what to say!) or not.

[15 minutes] Practice... and get textbooks!

• Students trio up, deliver their one-minute presentations to each other twice.
• Students establish a speaking order on board.
• During this practice, students should check out French 3 textbooks.

[25 minutes] Presentations: Ce que j'ai fait en été!

• Students speak!
• After each presentation students answers one question from next speaker and one question from le prof. 

[20 minutes] Grammar Review: Regular Verbs! (pp. 10-11)

• Review conjugation chart on p. 10
• Write conjugations for étudier, finir, perdre
• Do Exs. 8, 9, and 10 together in class

[15 minutes] New Vocabulary (mostly review!) 1.1

• Students read pp. 6-7 aloud to themselves first.
• Then we read and repeat for pronunciation practice.
• Note use of on for one or we.

Les Devoirs: Write three times...

• all vocab words in List #1, p. 37
• Exprimons-nous phrases on pp. 7 & 9
• the word foirer (p. 8... and note diff Québecois meaning!)