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!