French 3: Thursday February 28 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Write all vocab words pp. 198–201 four times, including Exprimons-nous and Entre copains!

[10 minutes] Last skits! Trevor, Justice, Madisen!

[15 minutes] New Vocab Practice: CAH asks questions, students answer!

[20 minutes] New Verbs: apporter/emporter, amener/emmener

• The a- verbs are "bring"; the e- verbs are "take."
• The -men verbs are people; the -port verbs are things.
• Practice with pp. 202–203 Exs. 31, 30 and 32

[30 minutes] Reading Practice!

• Read poems on pp. 209–210

Les Devoirs: Write twelve sentences using apporter, amener, emporter, and emener (three for each verb)

French 2: Thursday February 28 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Skit! Live promo for a television program!

• Work in pairs or trios.
• Prepare an ad for any kind of TV program (a series, soap opera, documentary, news program, whatever!).
• Tell viewers what the show is about, why they must watch!
• Include "clips" or "scenes" from the show.
• Props are welcome but not required.
• At least five sentences from each player are required! 
• Use this chapter's vocab!
• Present live in class during second half of period Thursday!

[15 minutes] Verb/Grammar Practice:

• Each student picks a verb and conjugates it in the present tense and in the past tense!
• Also translate each of the following sentences:
1. I am going to the library.
   
2. I went to the library.
3. We have five books.
4. Did y'all have a book?
5. We are brushing our teeth.
6. The girls brushed their teeth.
• After ten minutes, we put these verbs and sentences au tableau!

[15 minutes] Prep Time for TV promo skits!

• Practice out loud!

[15 minutes] TV Promo Skits!

• Students present (notes allowed)
• After each presentation, students in previous skit pose questions en français to the present skitters! (Last skit asks first skitters questions.)

[15 minutes] Vocab Practice: Drill face à face!

[30 minutes] Grammar Practice: Traduisez les phrases suivantes:

1. J'ai raté l'émission que j'adore.
2. Tu as raté l'émission qui joue à sept heures.
3. Nous avons raté l'émission dont Jean-Claude a parlé si passionnement.
4. Vous regardez le feuilleton dont la vedette est français?
5. Mes amis regardent le feuilleton qui ne m'interesse pas.
6. Papa a regardé un feuilleton que les enfants détestent.
7. The news program has a newscaster (m) whom we adore.
8. The sports program has a host (f) who is red-haired and smart.
9. The documentary has a host (m) whose elephants are famous.
10. I listened to a rap artist whose car cost a million euros.
11. We listened to a blues singer who lives in Louisiana.
12. Bob found the techno CD that his parents bought in Bordeaux.

Les Devoirs: rien! Mais étudiez beaucoup et sans cesser pour l'examen de Vocabulaire 9.2! pp. 322–325

French 1: Friday March 1 2013 Lesson Plan

Note: CAH at State Debate! Mme. Durst runs the show! Tenez-vous bien! Soyez sages!

DUE:  Vocab 6.1 Writing and Drawing Practice!

• Write all vocab phrases in Exprimons-nous p. 185, Exprimons-nous p. 187, and Entre copains p. 189 four times.
• Write all vocab words and phrases in the pictures on pp. 184–185 three times.
• Include la crêpe! French students must know the word crêpe!
• Alongside all of the nouns for foods and table things, draw or paste a picture that clearly depicts each noun!
• Do all words and phrases in the order presented on pp. 185–189, not the incomplete alphabetical list on p. 213! 

[15 minutes] Oral Warm-Up!

• Mme. Durst leads students in reading and repeating of all vocab words and phrases on pp. 185–189.
• Then students pair up, quiz each other over all words on Vocab List 6.1.
• Mme Durst checks homework for completion at this time. There should be around 59 separate entries! (TA may do this check in White 3 and White 4, allowing Mme Durst to focus on individual pronunciation assistance.)

[45 minutes] Mega-Conversation Practice 

• Mme Durst begins by asking each student what he she likes to eat for breakfast. Students should be ready for follow-up questions! (Alternate between teacher and TA in White 3 and White 4.)
• Then Mme Durst reviews past oral questions from Semester Oral Exam and our recent Chapter 5 oral quiz.

[30 minutes] Introduce New Grammar: the partitive! p. 188

• We know that de can be used as a preposition meaning "of" or "from."
• New: we can also use de to express the idea of "some":
1. Je prends du café: "I'm having some coffee."
   
2. Mireille prend de la confiture: "Mireille is having some jam."
3. Nous prenons des crêpes!: "We're having some crepes!"
• Note that if you're not having any 
• Practice in class with pp. 189–190 Exs. 8 and 9.

Les Devoirs: Write ten original sentences using the partitive and terms from Vocab 6.1.

1. Each sentence should have a different subject (i.e., a different person eating or having or wanting something) and a different direct object (a different food being eaten or had or wanted).
2. Pay attention to whether you need du, de la, or des.
3. Write two sentences in the negative, saying the subject doesn't want any of whatever you're talking about.

French 1: Wednesday February 27 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: rien! Mais vous avez étudiez comme fou pour...

[25 minutes] Examen de six verbes: donner, prendre, suivre, laisser, penser, croire!

• Know how to conjugate each of these six verbs.
• Know how to translate sentences, English to French, using these six verbs.

[10 minutes] Practice Vocab 6.1 Vocab pronunciation! pp. 184–185, 187, 189

• Add la crêpe! French students must know the word crêpe!

[40 minutes] Oral Vocab practice!

• Focus on Exprimons-nous p. 185, esp. manger et boire.
• Get students to say what they like and don't like for breakfast.
• Do follow-ups: if students say they like le pain or le toast or le croissant, ask if they like those things avec la confiture, le beurre, le café, etc.

Les Devoirs: Vocab 6.1 Writing and Picture Practice!

• Write all vocab phrases in Exprimons-nous p. 185, Exprimons-nous p. 187, and Entre copains p. 189 four times.
• Write all vocab words and phrases in the pictures on pp. 184–185 three times. 
• Include la crêpe! French students must know the word crêpe!
• Alongside all of the nouns for foods and table things, draw or paste a picture that clearly depicts each noun!
• Do all words and phrases in the order presented on pp. 185–189, not the incomplete alphabetical list on p. 213! 
• You should have about 59 separate vocab entries.

French 2: Tuesday February 26 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Write all vocab words in Section 9.2 four times!

• Words depicted and listed on pp. 322–323
• Exprimons-nous pp. 323 & 325
• Entre copains p. 325

[15 minutes] Brain Grammar Warm-up! Students write full conjugation of a chosen verb, then write three relative pronoun sentences: one using qui, on using que, and one using dont.

• CAH takes points for vocab at this time.
• Each student puts one conjugation and one sentence on board.

[25 minutes] Listening and Speaking Practice: CAH asks students about favorite TV programs and music genres.

[5 minutes] Listening Practice: Do p. 324 Ex. 20

[15 minutes] Writing and Speaking Practice: Do p. 324 Ex. 21

• Students write answers.
• We check answers together.
• Then students pair up, practice going through the dialogue together.

 Les Devoirs: Skit! Live promo for a television program!

• Work in pairs or trios.
• Prepare an ad for any kind of TV program (a series, soap opera, documentary, news program, whatever!).
• Tell viewers what the show is about, why they must watch!
• Include "clips" or "scenes" from the show.
• Props are welcome but not required.
• At least five sentences from each player are required! 
• Use this chapter's vocab!
• Present live in class during second half of period Thursday!

French 3: Tuesday February 26 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs!

1. Study like crazy for Vocab Quiz 5.1 Tuesday, Feb. 26 (aujourd'hui)!
2. Compose ten sentences using the elements on p. 153 Ex 32 and p. 191 Ex. 10. Highlight the subjunctive verb in each sentence!

[25 minutes] Vocab Quiz 5.1

[20 minutes] Grammar Practice: Subjunctive!

• Students write homework sentences on board, circling subjunctive forms!
• CAH checks homework and records quiz grades while students hit the board.
• Rewrite sentences by changing subjects in the subjunctive clauses!

[25 minutes] Reading and Translation Practice pp. 196–197

• Read "Les Oies Voyageuses" and "Les parcs publics en France" aloud, once in large group, once in pairs to each other, then again in large group.
• Translate! Respond to given questions!

[20 minutes] Introduce new vocab: List 5.2! pp. 198–201

• Écoutez et répétez!

Les Devoirs: Write all vocab words pp. 198–201 four times, including Exprimons-nous and Entre copains!

French 1: Monday February 25 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Six New Verbs!

1. Write out conjugations for these six verbs (taken from the top 100 common French words list we've previously reviewed):
   1. suivre = "to follow; to take (a course)"
   2. prendre = "to take; to have (something to eat)"
   3. croire = "to believe"
   4. penser = "to think"
   5. laisser = "to leave" (as in "I am leaving a book on the table," not "I am leaving for New York!")
   6. donner = "to give"
2. Translate the following sentences from English into French:
1. Our teachers give lots of homework.
2. We believe our brother's story [the French use the same word for story and history].
3. The dog is following the cat to the beach.
4. Hey! That girl is taking my bicycle!
5. I think that (que) you have a great idea.
6. We are giving bike helmets to the children.
7. Do you believe the teacher?
8. We're going to leave our skis in the car.
9. Mom is going to have/take some coffee.
10. The students just thought of the answer.
11. We just left our guitars at the lake.
12. I am taking (suivre!) a biology class.

[15 minutes] Oral Warm-up: Qu'est-ce que tu penses de....

• Students circulate, ask each other what they think of a specific person or think. Students respond with "Je pense que...."
• Students write the adjectives they use in responses on the board!
• Ask at least six different students!
• CAH checks homework during the circulation!
• Then in large group, CAH asks each student Qu'est-ce que tu penses de....

[15 minutes] Conjugation Practice

• Students put conjugations of these six verbs on board.
• Students then practice conjugations orally: once able to look at examples, then a second pass with eyes closed! Memorize!

[20 minutes] Translation Practice

• Students put today's homework sentences on board.
• Then students go to sentences they didn't write and change subjects!

[40 minutes] In-Class Work Time!

• By the end of the period, students must write 12 original sentences using the six verbs we are practicing here! donner, prendre, suivre, laisser, penser, croire!
• Six of the sentences must start as follows:
1. My uncles + donner....
2. My brother and I + prendre....
3. My sister and I + laisser....
4. My aunts + suivre
5. We + penser....
6. You (pl) + croire....
• To make the next six sentences, change the subject of each of the preceding sentences to a singular subject (i.e., just one person) and conjugate the verb appropriately.
• Show CAH these sentences by the end of the period for points!

Finish all Chapter 5 oral quizzes!

• White 2: Jordan
• White 3: Seth, Zeph, Hanna, Skye, Corey
• White 4: Cortny
• Note that Spartan Time Tuesday is taken up with Advisory activities. You should plan to come in and make up your grammar quiz either today or Wednesday after school or during lunch today, Tuesday, or Wednesday!

Les Devoirs: rien! But study like crazy for a quiz Wednesday over the six verbs we worked on today: donner, prendre, suivre, laisser, penser, croire!

French 2: Friday February 22 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: rien! Mais bien sûr, vous avez étudi´ fort pour l'examen de vocabulaire!

[30 minutes] Vocab Quiz 9.1!

[30 minutes] More Relative Pronoun Practice: Turn the following pairs of sentences into single sentences using pronoms relatifs: qui, que, dont!

Example 1: J'ai le roman. Tu veux le roman. >>> J'ai le roman que tu veux.
Example 2: Luke is the hero. The hero saved the turtle. >>> Luc est le héros qui a sauvé la tortue.
Example 3: I spoke with the teacher. You ate his croque-monsiuer. >>> J'ai parlé avec le prof dont le croque-monsiuer tu as mangé.

1. Elle adore le roman fantastique. Je lui ai acheté le roman fantastique.
2. L'acteur parle trop. Nous n'aimons pas l'acteur.
3. Jean et Jeanne ont vu un film classique. Le metteur en scène du film classique est polonais.
4. La pièce est drôle. Nous allons regarder la pièce. 
5. Je vais aider les élèves. Les élèves vont écrire un recueil de poésie. 
6. Je vais regarder le film étranger. Tu as parlé du film étranger.
7. The actress is writing an autobiography. Many people are going to read the autobiography.
8. A student made a cartoon. The student studies at the university.
9. Guillaume read a love novel. The love novel's adaptation is coming to the theater next week.

Students work on these sentences individually, then write versions on board.

[30 minutes] Oral Practice: Écoutez et répétez la nouvelle vocabulaire 9.2, les émissions télé et les genres de musique! pp. 322–325

Les Devoirs: Write all vocab words covered today four times! 

• Words depicted and listed on pp. 322–323
• Exprimons-nous pp. 323 & 325
• Entre copains p. 325 

French 3: Friday February 22 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Theatre des animaux sauvages!

• In pairs or trios, prepare a skit discussing some sort of safari or outdoor adventure.
• Each skit should include at least five wild creatures from our vocab list, as well as phrases from the Exprimons-nous.
• Each speaker should say at least four sentences.
• Notes allowed!

[15 minutes] Students present skits!

• During each skit, have listeners check off vocab words/phrases used!

[10 minutes] Vocab 5.1 Practice: Face-to-Face drill!

[45 minutes] Grammar Practice: Subjunctive!

• Practice with Ex. 27 p. 150, p. 190–191 Exs. 8, 9.
• Check out necessity, desire, and emotion phrases requiring subjunctive on p. 152!
• Do p. 152 Ex. 31 together.

Les Devoirs:

1. Study like crazy for Vocab Quiz 5.1 Tuesday, Feb. 26!
2. Compose ten sentences using the elements on p. 153 Ex 32 and p. 191 Ex. 10. Highlight the subjunctive verb in each sentence!

French 2: Wednesday February 20 2013 Lesson Plan

Les Devoirs:

1. Translate 15 relative pronoun sentences, five using qui, five using que, five using dont. See below!
2. Create movie poster! Review rules on Friday lesson plan... and remember that you must prepare a few words (at least three sentences!) to say to the class in French about the movie you choose to posterize!
3. Study for Vocab Quiz 9.1, which we will do on Friday!

Les phrases à traduire pour mercredi! Translate the following sentences, using the relative pronouns qui, que, and dont.

1. The actor who plays the hero is handsome.
2. The actress who plays the heroine is magnificent.
3. The movie that I saw Saturday is exciting.
4. The book that Jeanne read has many twists.
5. The director who made Star Wars is rich!
6. The drama that is playing at the cinema is depressing.
7. The comedy that is coming Friday is funny.
8. I like the same actor whom you like!
9. Our parents hate the horror movies that we adore.
10. Anne-Marie likes the mystery novel I gave her.
11. I saw the actor whose last movie was a flop.
12. They saw the director whose last spy movie a hit.
13. That's the movie whose actors are all French.
14. That's the romance novel whose author lives in Paris.
15. We watched a cartoon whose story we couldn't understand.

[25 minutes] Present Movie Posters!

• 5 minutes to practice!
• CAH checks written homework and posters first!
• Each student presents movie poster to class, must say at least three sentences about the chosen film.

[45 minutes] Grammar Practice: qui, que, dont! Relative Pronouns!

• Put homework on board!
• Practice the following sentences (sources here and here).
1. Je vais aller voir le film ______ tu m'as parlé.
2. J'adore le cadeau ______ tu m'as donné.
3. Le parc ______ j'habite est idéal pour promener mon chien.
4. La personne ______ je peux compter est ma meilleure amie.
5. Je connais une femme ______ parle cinq langues.
6. Il parle tout le temps, ______ me rend folle.
7. Voilà le bon livre de grammaire ______ j'ai besoin.
8. Le stylo ______ je veux acheter coûte dix euros.
9. Je n'ai pas compris la question ____ il a posée.
10. Je n'aime pas la chanson _____ a gagné le meilleur prix au concours.
11. Où est le livre _______ contient les questions?
12. Quel est le restaurant ____ ils nous ont recommandé?

[20 minutes] Vocabulary Practice: Face-to-face drill!

Les Devoirs: rien! Mais étudiez fort pour l'examen de vocabulaire 9.1 vendredi!

French 3: Wednesday February 20 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Vocab Practice pp. 188–189, Exs. 3, 4, and 5!

[5 minutes] Vocab Warm-Up! Students pair up, drill each other on Vocab List 5.1: One student says name of animal in French, other student must act out that creature!

[20 minutes] Vocab Practice: Go over Exs. 3, 4, and 5 au tableau!

[35 minutes] New Grammar: Subjunctive!

• See pp. 150 for subjunctive endings
• See this website for usage (need, desire, emotion...)
• See p. 190 for use with craindre and avoir peur
• Practice with Ex. 27 p. 150, p. 190–191 Exs. 8, 9

Les Devoirs: Theatre des animaux sauvages!

• In pairs or trios, prepare a skit discussing some sort of safari or outdoor adventure.
• Each skit should include at least five wild creatures from our vocab list, as well as phrases from the Exprimons-nous.
• Each speaker should say at least four sentences.
• Prepare to present Friday!

French 1: Thursday February 21 Lesson Plan

DUE: rien!... parce que vous avez étudié fort pour les examens!

[30 minutes] Chapter 5 Grammar Quiz!

[60 minutes] Chapter 5 Oral Quiz!

While CAH gives oral quizzes one on one in hallway, students work on the new verb homework!

Les Devoirs: Six New Verbs!

1. Write out conjugations for these six verbs (taken from the top 100 common French words list we've previously reviewed):
   1. suivre = "to follow; to take (a course)"
   2. prendre = "to take; to have (something to eat)"
   3. croire = "to believe"
   4. penser = "to think"
   5. laisser = "to leave" (as in "I am leaving a book on the table," not "I am leaving for New York!")
   6. donner = "to give"
2. Translate the following sentences from English into French:
   
   1. Our teachers give lots of homework.
   2. We believe our brother's story [the French use the same word for story and history].
   3. The dog is following the cat to the beach.
   4. Hey! That girl is taking my bicycle!
   5. I think that (que) you have a great idea.
   6. We are giving bike helmets to the children.
   7. Do you believe the teacher?
   8. We're going to leave our skis in the car.
   9. Mom is going to have/take some coffee.
   10. The students just thought of the answer.
   11. We just left our guitars at the lake.
   12. I am taking (suivre!) a biology class.

French 1: Tuesday February 19 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: rien! Mais vous avez beaucoup étudié pour...

[25 minutes] Vocab Quiz 5.2!

[35 minutes] Oral Quiz Practice! Drill these questions, in large group and in pairs:

1. Quel temps fait-il?
2. Quel temps va-t-il faire demain?
3. Quand est ton anniversaire?
4. Qu'est-ce que tu vas faire samedi?
5. Qu'est-ce que tu vas faire en été?
6. Qu'est-ce que tu fais (en/au autre saison)?
7. Avec qui? (I'll ask this question after either #4, #5, or #6!)
8. Don't forget: practice questions for CAH as well!

[30 minutes] Grammar Practice for Chapter 5 Grammar Quiz 

• Conjugate savoir, pouvoir, vouloir, voir, devoir, faire, aller, and venir.
• Practice using aller to express future (p. 166). (Notice that we do this in the oral quiz practice!)
• Practice using venir to express immediate past (p. 168).
• Practice question words: est-ce que, qu'est-ce que, qui, quand, où, pourqoui, and comment (p. 156) 

Les Devoirs: rien... mais étudiez fort pour l'examen grammatique et l'examen orale jeudi!

French 2: Monday February 18 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: text of your affiche/poster de film!

[30 minutes] Vocabulary Practice!

• Vocab Warm-up! Students trio up, one student gives vocab word from 310–311, other students give their examples. e.g.: Élève 1 dit, "Un film de science-fiction"; les autres deux disent, "The Wrath of Khan! The Matrix!"
• CAH checks homework for points during this time!
• Do p. 312 Exs. 1, 2, & 3 together

[30 minutes] New Grammar: Relative Pronouns! qui, que, dont, p. 314

• Read rules on 314
• See also this website on relative pronouns!
• Practice w. Ex. 5

Les Devoirs:

1. Translate 15 relative pronoun sentences, five using qui, five using que, five using dont. See below!
2. Create movie poster! Review rules on Friday lesson plan... and remember that you must prepare a few words (at least three sentences!) to say to the class in French about the movie you choose to posterize!
3. Study for Vocab Quiz 9.1, which we will do on Friday!

Les phrases à traduire pour mercredi!
Translate the following sentences, using the relative pronouns qui, que, and dont.

1. The actor who plays the hero is handsome.
2. The actress who plays the heroine is magnificent.
3. The movie that I saw Saturday is exciting.
4. The book that Jeanne read has many twists.
5. The director who made Star Wars is rich!
6. The drama that is playing at the cinema is depressing.
7. The comedy that is coming Friday is funny.
8. I like the same actor whom you like!
9. Our parents hate the horror movies that we adore.
10. Anne-Marie likes the mystery novel I gave her.
11. I saw the actor whose last movie was a flop.
12. They saw the director whose last spy movie a hit.
13. That's the movie whose actors are all French.
14. That's the romance novel whose author lives in Paris.
15. We watched a cartoon whose story we couldn't understand.

French 3: Monday February 18 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs! Write words and expressions from Vocab List 5.1, including both Exprimons-nous sections, four times.

[30 minutes] Vocabulary Practice!

• Dangereux ou non? 
• Pick your favorite animal from this list and describe it.
• Each student uses Exprimons-nous from p. 189 to say something about the animals!

[30 minutes] Grammar Review: The Verb Quiz!

• Do charts again! present, past, imperfect, future, conditional.
• Students translate sentences both directions.

Les Devoirs: pp. 188–189, Exs. 3, 4, and 5!

French 2: Friday February 15 2013 Lesson Plan

Classes courtes!

DUE: Write Vocab List 9.1 four times! Don't forget Exprimons-nous and Entre copains!

[30 minutes] Vocabulary Practice! Écoutez et répétez!

{60 minutes} Work time for movie posters!

Les Devoirs: Les posters de film! Each student creates a poster including the following (all entirely in French!):

1. Title
2. Names of actors/actresses,
3. Name of director
4. "Critics' comments" (you can make these up!) that would entice people to see this movie
5. Appropriate images.

See some classic French movie posters by Hervé Morvan!

Students should have the text for their posters ready to show me on Monday. Students should have their complete posters ready for Wednesday, Feb. 20, as well as a few words to say about those films!

French 3: Friday February 15 2013 Lesson Plan

Classes courtes! Une heure!

DUE: rien!

[30 minutes] Grammar Quiz: 5 Verb Tenses!

• Students should be able to conjugate verbs in five tenses: present, past, imperfect, future, and conditional.
• Students should be able to translate sentences using these five tenses from French to English and English to French.

[10 minutes] Finish reading and translating pp. 170–179 aloud!

[20 minutes] Introduce New Vocab: 5.1! pp. 186–189

Les Devoirs: Write words and expressions from Vocab List 5.1, including both Exprimons-nous sections, four times

French 1: Thursday February 14 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs:

1. Finish your travel slideshows, be prepared to present Thursday
2. Write 8 French mini-dialogues of this form:
• "Are you going to do X?" (use aller + infinitive for futur proche!)
• "I just did X." (use venir de + infinitive for passé récent!)
• Each dialogue must use a different verb for "X" (chanter, étudier..., faire...).

Let's review those slideshow criteria:

Present a slideshow depicting your ideal travel itinerary for the year... tout en français!. Minimum six slides:

1. First slide: Your name, plus a title.
2. Second slide: Spring destination, weather, and two activities
3. Third slide: Summer destination, weather, and two activities
4. Fourth slide: Fall destination, weather, and two activities
5. Fifth slide: Winter destination, weather, and two activities
6. Sixth slide: Summary of trip

• All slides must have images and French text (at least five words, but no more than ten)!
• When you talk about talk about the weather and the activities you are going to do, phrase them in the futur proche (p. 166): e.g., for your summer trip, you may say, Il va faire beau. Nous allons aller à la plage (allons aller means "we're going to go"). For your winter trip, you may say Il va neiger (note use of infinitive form neiger instead of conjugated for neige). Nous allons faire du snowboard.
• DUE today, Feb. 12: text of slides.
• DUE next time, Feb. 14: slides to present in class!

And in quiz news:

1. Vocab Quiz 5.2: Tuesday, Feb. 19
2. Chapter 5 Grammar Quiz: Thursday, Feb. 21
3. Chapter 5 Oral Quiz: Thursday, Feb. 21

[25 minutes] Student slideshows: Les vacances super! En français!

• CAH grades on meeting the above criteria (no English on slides or out of mouth!), plus pronunciation and preparation (knowing what you are going to say, being able to talk to us instead of staring at your own slides).

[25 minutes] Grammar Practice: venir! p. 168

• Students pair up: Student 1 asks one of the questions that Student 1 wrote in the future (using aller + infinitive!) for the homework; Student 2 answers with a sentence like the homework asked for saying so-and-so just did the action Student 1 asked about (venir de + infinitive!). Go back and forth this way through as many of the 8 questions on each student's homework as time allows.
• CAH checks homework during this time.
• Then each student writes one of her/his mini-dialogues au tableau! Review together!

[25 minutes] Oral Quiz Practice!

• CAH leads large-group drill on Chapter 5 Oral Quiz questions.

[15 minutes] Vocabulary Review! Vocab 5.2, pp. 162–165 & 170

• Students drill each other face à face!
• Don't forget the avoir idioms on p. 170!

Les Devoirs: rien! But study hard for Vocab Quiz 5.2 on Tuesday and the Grammar and Oral Quizzes on Thursday!

French 2: Wednesday February 13 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: rien!... parce que vous vous occupiez avec les préparations à....

[30 minutes] L'examen de grammaire du Chapitre 5!

• Know how to translate sentences into French using reflexive verbs (present tense, past tense, and commands).
• Know how to use tout, toute, tous, and toutes.

[5 minutes] Absurdist Skit make-up time!

[55 minutes] Chapter 5 Oral Quiz

• one-on-one in the hallway with CAH
• while not quizzing, students study the new vocab list, 9.1, as chosen by the student vocab survey!

Les Devoirs: Write all vocab words and phrases from List 9.1 (pp. 322–325) four times

• Don't forget both Exprimons-nous and the Entre copains.

French 3: Wednesday February 13 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Write 15 original sentences using the verbs savoir, pouvoir, devoir, vouloir, and voir. Write the sentences in this order:

• 3 in present
• 3 in passé composé
• 3 in imperfect
• 3 in future
• 3 in conditional

[40 minutes] Verb Practice: au tableau! 

• We'll go in five rounds: first savoir sentences, then pouvoir, devoir, vouloir, and voir. 
• Divide board into five columns, one for each of the tenses!
• CAH checks homework for completion during first round on board .
• Then, practice quiz! CAH dictates five sentences in English, students translate into French, then five sentences in French into English.

[50 minutes] Reading aloud! Students read their pages aloud, then their translations.

DUE: rien! mais étudiez comme fou pour l'examen de grammaire:

1. Be able to conjugate any verb I give you in the five tenses: préesent, passé composé inparfait, futur simple, et conditionnel!
2. Be able to translate sentences from English to French and French to English, recognizing proper verb tense.

French 1: Tuesday February 12 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Text of slides for Travel slideshow!

Let's review those slideshow criteria:

Present a slideshow depicting your ideal travel itinerary for the year... tout en français!. Minimum six slides:

1. First slide: Your name, plus a title.
2. Second slide: Spring destination, weather, and two activities
3. Third slide: Summer destination, weather, and two activities
4. Fourth slide: Fall destination, weather, and two activities
5. Fifth slide: Winter destination, weather, and two activities
6. Sixth slide: Summary of trip

• All slides must have images and French text (at least five words, but no more than ten)!
• When you talk about talk about the weather and the activities you are going to do, phrase them in the futur proche (p. 166): e.g., for your summer trip, you may say, Il va faire beau. Nous allons aller à la plage (allons aller means "we're going to go"). For your winter trip, you may say Il va neiger (note use of infinitive form neiger instead of conjugated for neige). Nous allons faire du snowboard.
• DUE today, Feb. 12: text of slides.
• DUE next time, Feb. 14: slides to present in class!

And in quiz news:

1. Vocab Quiz 5.2: Tuesday, Feb. 19
2. Chapter 5 Grammar Quiz: Thursday, Feb. 21
3. Chapter 5 Oral Quiz: Thursday, Feb. 21

[15 minutes] Practice Chapter 5 Oral Quiz

[20 minutes] Grammar Practice: aller as motion and future tense!

• Each student goes to board to write two sentences: tell us that we are going somewhere and that we are going to do something there (en français).
• CAH checks homework during this time.
• Then CAH shows how to put the weather phrases in future tense.

[20 minutes] New Verb: venir!

1. venir can be used to mean "to come":
   • Robert vient à la fête. = Robert coming to the party.
   • Vous venez à la plage? = Are you coming to the beach?
2. venir can also be used in a grammatical way to mean "something just happened": 
• Je viens de jouer au foot = I just played soccer. 
• Les viennent de finir leurs devoirs. = The girls just finished their homework.

[30 minutes] Lots of work time so CAH can help with slideshow text and homework

Les Devoirs:

1. Finish your travel slideshows, be prepared to present Thursday
2. Write 8 French mini-dialogues of this form:
• "Are you going to do X?" (use aller + infinitive for futur proche!)
• "I just did X." (use venir de + infinitive for passé récent!)
• Each dialogue must use a different verb for "X" (chanter, étudier..., faire...).

Results of French 2 and French 3 Vocab Surveys

Here the Chapter Vocab lists we will cover in French 3 and in French 2, as determined by student vote in our Vocab Surveys:

French 3:

1. Chapter 5: wild animals and extreme sports
2. Chapter 9: visual and performing arts
3. Chapter 7: natural disasters and environmental issues
4. Chapter 10: traveling by airplane and automobile
5. Chapter 6: French news/newspapers
6. Chapter 8: elections and public services

French 2:

1. Chapter 9: Movies, TV, books, music 
2. Chapter 7: Camping, fishing, the outdoors
3. Chapter 10: Vacations, traveling
4. Chapter 8: Body parts + exercise and health
5. Chapter 6: Things you did in your childhood + Life in the country

In both French 3 and French 2, we will very likely be able to cover the top three chapters chosen. It is possible that we will reach the fourth chapter on each list, but nothing beyond. So French 3, you are safe from news and elections, and French 2, you will be spared the angst of revisiting your childhood.

Note that CAH will pick and chose grammar lessons from all appropriate chapters, independent of the rankings above, to ensure your smooth progress in learning French grammar. 

Here are the results of the French 3 Vocab Survey:

French 3	1	2	3	4	5	6	cumulative rank score	order
Chapter 5: wild animals and extreme sports	4	5	1	0	0	0	17	1
Chapter 6: French news/newspapers	0	0	3	3	3	1	42	5
Chapter 7: natural disasters and environmental issues	2	1	1	4	2	0	33	3
Chapter 8: elections and public services	0	0	0	0	1	9	59	6
Chapter 9: visual and performing arts	4	3	0	1	2	0	24	2
Chapter 10: traveling by airplane and automobile	0	1	5	2	2	0	35	4

And for French 2:

French 2	1	2	3	4	5
Chapter 6: Things you did in your childhood + Life in the country	5	2	4	4	14	107	5
Chapter 7: Camping, fishing, the outdoors	8	6	5	7	2	73	2
Chapter 8: Body parts + exercise and health	3	6	5	6	7	89	4
Chapter 9: Movies, TV, books, music	7	9	6	5	1	68	1
Chapter 10: Vacations, traveling	5	5	8	6	4	83	3

French 2: Monday February 11 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: 

1. Write out sentences responding to each of the oral commands on the Chapter 5 Oral Quiz by saying (in French), "I already did that."
2. Théâtre de l'imperatif réflexif absurde! Do it/Don't do it skits!

• Compose a brief absurdist skit using reflexive commands:
  • 1: "Do A!"
  • 3: "Don't do A; do B!"
  • 1: "Don't do B; do C!"
  • 3: "Don't do C: do D!"
  • 1: "Don't do D; do E!"
  • 3: "Don't do E; do F!"
  • 1: "Don't do F!"
  • 2: "Hey, let's do G!"
  • 1 & 3: "O.K.!"
• #2 acts out all of the commands given by #1 and #3.
• #1 and #3 join #2 in doing what #2 suggests at the end.
• You conduct this conversation in French, of course.
• Prepare this skit to present in class next time!
• No notes!

[5 minutes] Warm up for Skits!

• CAH checks homework during this time.

[15 minutes] Absurdist skits!

• CAH grades on alignment of commands and actions, pronunciation.

[30 minutes] Oral Quiz Practice!

• First, students practice oral quiz questions face to face: students move around room, first five minutes asking each other what they did last night/this morning; then second five minutes giving the commands and responding physically.
• Then CAH drills the entire room on the commands, then asks students individually the last night/this morning questions.
• Then students ask CAH questions!

[40 minutes] Grammar Review! (pp. 162, 164, 174, 176)

• First drill the tout/toute/tous/toutes forms in written drill.
• Then practice reflexive verbs au tableau!

Les Devoirs: rien... but come prepared to ace both the Chapter 5 Grammar Quiz (reflexive verbs in present, past, and imperative; forms of tout) and the Chapter 5 Oral Quiz on Wednesday!

French 3: Monday February 11 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs! Complete translation of one randomly assigned page (pp. 170–179)

1. Students must read, transcribe, and translate their given page... in that order! First read it twice, silently then aloud. Then transcribe the French on the left half of a blank document. Then work up a translation of that text on the right half, trying to keep French-English translations side by side.
2. Translate the words you know first; leave blanks for what you don't know, grind through that material with the dictionary after doing as much as you can with your own brain first.
3. For Pete's sake, don't use Google Translate! Use the glossary, Larousse, WordReference.com, but no service where you type in entire sentences or paragraphs and get machine translations.

[20 minutes] Reading and Translating in pairs!

• Students pair up, read each other their pages in French, then their translations, check each other's work!
• CAH checks homework, answers questions during this time.

[40 minutes] Reading aloud! Students read their pages aloud, then their translations.

[10 minutes] Verb Practice: au tableau! Students practice our five verb tenses (present, past, imperfect, future, and conditional) with verbs of their choosing.

Les Devoirs: Write 15 original sentences using the verbs savoir, pouvoir, devoir, vouloir, and voir. Write the sentences in this order:

• 3 in present
• 3 in passé composé
• 3 in imperfect
• 3 in future
• 3 in conditional

French 1: Friday February 8 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Vocab Writing Practice! Write all 5.2 vocab listed above four times.

[5 minutes] Oral Warm-up! Weather Conversations!

• Students go around room asking everyone else, "Quel temps fait-il?"
• Each student responds with one of the weather phrases on p. 163.
• The student who asks must respond by acting out that weather (shivering for froid, blowing away for du vent, etc.)
• CAH checks homework during this time.

[15 minutes] More Oral Practice: Where are you going?

• CAH/TA lead by asking "Où vas-tu?"
• Students respond with one of the destinations in our vocab.
• Each student must give a destination different from previous student's response.
• After one round, we circulate again, asking same question, same answer allowed. But now we follow up with "Et s'il fait..." some weather condition that might hinder that plan.
• Students then must follow-up with a back-up plan.

[10 minutes] Writing Practice: Do p. 164 Exs. 21 and 22 au tableau.

[10 minutes] Avoir idioms (p. 170)

• CAH/TA ask "Ça va?"
• Students respond with avoir idioms (p. 170) and act them out!

[35 minutes] aller and the futur proche (future tense!) p. 166

• Review aller conjugation
• Flesh out futur proche as quick and dirty future tense!
• Show parallel to English "I'm going to do something."
• Practice with pp. 166–167 Exs. 27, 28, and 29 writing at desks, then writing answers au tableau.

Les Devoirs: Travel slideshow! Present a slideshow depicting your ideal travel itinerary for the year... tout en français!. Minimum six slides:

1. First slide: Your name, plus a title.
2. Second slide: Spring destination, weather, and two activities
3. Third slide: Summer destination, weather, and two activities
4. Fourth slide: Fall destination, weather, and two activities
5. Fifth slide: Winter destination, weather, and two activities
6. Sixth slide: Summary of trip

• All slides must have images and French text (at least five words, but no more than ten)!
• When you talk about talk about the weather and the activities you are going to do, phrase them in the futur proche (p. 166): e.g., for your summer trip, you may say, Il va faire beau. Nous allons aller à la plage (allons aller means "we're going to go"). For your winter trip, you may say Il va neiger (note use of infinitive form neiger instead of conjugated for neige). Nous allons faire du snowboard.
• DUE next time, Feb. 12: text of slides.
• DUE time after that, Feb. 14: slides to present in class!

And in quiz news:

1. Vocab Quiz 5.2: Tuesday, Feb. 19
2. Chapter 5 Grammar Quiz: Thursday, Feb. 21
3. Chapter 5 Oral Quiz: Thursday, Feb. 21

French 2 Vocab Survey

French 2 students, please complete the following survey to help me pick the sequence of chapters and vocab lists we will cover during the rest of the semester. Vote early, but vote once. I will ignore duplicate submissions.

Take the survey by clicking this link or by filling out the form below. Be sure to hit "Done" after doing the rankings on the second page to submit your vote! Survey remains open until Monday, February 11, 15:30 MST.

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French 2: Thursday February 7 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: rien!

[5 minutes] Semester 2 Vocab Survey!

• Democracy breaks out! CAH takes votes on which chapters we should cover next!
• Students may vote for the chapters they want to do this semester and the order in which they want to do them by voting in this survey!
• CAH takes votes through the end of the school day Monday, February 11.
• CAH will choose the sequence of chapters we do for the rest of the semester based on the cumulative rank scores from this survey.

[20 minutes] Practice Oral Quiz!

• Reflexive Passé Composé: What did you do last night/this morning?
• Reflexive Imperative: commands! 
• CAH practices with large group, then students circulate to practice with each other.

[35 minutes] Grammar Practice: Reflexive Imperatives/Commands (p. 176)

• Practice rules for affirmative and negative reflexive commands.
• Do pp. 176–177 in class, read sentences aloud.

[30 minutes] Du temps à travailler...

Les Devoirs: 

1. Respond to each of the oral commands on the Chapter 5 Oral Quiz by saying (in French), "I already did that."
2. Théâtre de l'imperatif réflexif absurde! Do it/Don't do it skits!

• Compose a brief absurdist skit using reflexive commands:
  • 1: "Do A!"
  • 3: "Don't do A; do B!"
  • 1: "Don't do B; do C!"
  • 3: "Don't do C: do D!"
  • 1: "Don't do D; do E!"
  • 3: "Don't do E; do F!"
  • 1: "Don't do F!"
  • 2: "Hey, let's do G!"
  • 1 & 3: "O.K.!"
• #2 acts out all of the commands given by #1 and #3.
• #1 and #3 join #2 in doing what #2 suggests at the end.
• You conduct this conversation in French, of course.
• Prepare this skit to present in class next time!
• No notes!

French 3: Thursday February 7 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: rien!

[25 minutes] l'examen de vocabulaire 4.2 pp. 146–149

[5 minutes] Semester 2 Vocab Survey!

• Democracy breaks out! CAH takes votes on which chapters we should cover next!
• Students may vote for the chapters they want to do this semester and the order in which they want to do them by voting in this survey!
• CAH takes votes through the end of the school day Monday, February 11.
• CAH will choose the sequence of chapters we do for the rest of the semester based on the cumulative rank scores from this survey.

[60 minutes] Reading Practice!

• CAH randomly assigns each student one page from pp. 170–179.
• Students must read, transcribe, and translate their given page... in that order! First read it twice, silently then aloud. Then transcribe the French on the left half of a blank document. Then work up a translation of that text on the right half, trying to keep French-English translations side by side.
• Translate the words you know first; leave blanks for what you don't know, grind through that material with the dictionary after doing as much as you can with your own brain first.
• For Pete's sake, don't use Google Translate! Use the glossary, Larousse, WordReference.com, but no service where you type in entire sentences or paragraphs and get machine translations.

Les Devoirs:

1. By the end of this period (aujourd'hui!), show CAH your transcription.
2. By the beginning of next period, show CAH your complete translation.

French 3 Chapter/Vocab Sequence Survey

French 3 students, please complete the following survey to help me pick the sequence of chapters and vocab lists we will cover during the rest of the semester. Vote early, but vote once. I will ignore duplicate submissions.

Take the survey by clicking this link or by filling out the form below. Be sure to hit "Done" after doing the rankings on the second page to submit your vote! Survey remains open until Monday, February 11, 15:30 MST.

Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world's leading questionnaire tool.

French 2: Chapter 5 Oral Quiz

Chapter 5 Oral Quiz! Wednesday, February 13!

On Wednesday, February 13, I will ask you one of these two questions:

• Qu'est-ce que tu as fait hier soir? OR
• Qu'est-ce que tu as fait ce matin?

You will answer by stating three things that you did, using vocab from Chapter 5. I will then ask a follow-up question to your response. I may ask whether you did another activity; I may ask what you did before or after what you mentioned; I may ask pourquoi? about the activities you mentioned. You need to answer in a complete sentence, not just oui or non.

I will then give you four commands based on the verbs in Chapter 5. You will respond not by speaking but by acting out the action commanded. Possible commands:

1. lève-toi
2. réveille-toi
3. couche-toi
4. endors-toi
5. brosse-toi les dents
6. brosse-toi les cheveux
7. peigne-toi
8. coiffe-toi
9. habille-toi
10. déshabille-toi (remember, mime it, don't actually do it!)
11. lave-toi les mains
12. lave-toi la figure
13. lave-toi les cheveux
14. sèche-toi
15. sèche-toi les mains
16. sèche-toi les cheveux
17. sèche-toi les yeux*
18. maquille-toi avec le rouge à levres
19. rase-toi
20. dépêche-toi

*Think about what I'm asking here!

You then ask me two questions—not ça va or comment tu t'appelles or anything else to which you already know the answer, but preferably questions related to Chapter 5 vocabulary. I will respond en français; you will prove you understand my response (probably by translating my statement back into English).

French 2: Tuesday February 5 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs! Reflexive Verbs in Past Tense, p. 175 Exs. 28, 29, & 30.

Also happening today: Vocab Quiz 5.2!

[5 minutes] Finish Presentations remaining from last time.

[50 minutes] Go over Reflexive Verb Homework au tableau!

[30 minutes] Vocab Quiz 5.2!

Les Devoirs: rien! But be studying the oral quiz questions for February 13 (that's next week Wednesday, three times from now!)

French 3: Tuesday February 5 2013 Lesson Plan

Les Devoirs: Write a brief (at least five sentences) history of your life (including your future death!) using at least ten terms from Vocab 4.2!

• Highlight the vocab you use.
• Be prepared to read these stories aloud for others to listen and translate.

[10 minutes] Verb Tense Practice!

• Everyone to the board; each students does present, past, imperfect, future, and conditional of the "we" form of one of the verbs from Vocab List 5.2 (note the fine assortment of regular, -cer/-ger, verbs of motion, and reflexive verbs to make the past tense exciting!).

[30 minutes] Reading/Listening Practice

• Students read future life histories out loud.
• Fellow students ask questions about each story

[10 minutes] Vocab 4.2 Face-to-face drill!

[40 minutes] Théâtre de vocabulaire!

• Students pair up to compose and perform skits combining their life-story vocab with the polite expressions on p. 149
• When presenting (scripts allowed!), students should say with great emphasis the words on this vocab list.
• Present this class period! For points!

Les Devoirs: rien! mais étudiez fort pour l'examen de vocabulaire 4.2 pp. 146–149

French 1: Wednesday February 6 2013 Lesson Plan

Early Release: Short Periods!

DUE: rien!... parce que tout le monde étudiait pour...

[30 minutes] Vocab Quiz 5.1! pp. 150–153 plus the five -oir verbs and the seven question words/phrases!

[30 minutes] Introduce Vocab 5.2!

• Places and weather (pp. 162-163)
• Exprimons-nous! p. 163
• Exprimons-nous! p. 165
• Avoir idioms p. 170
• Listen and repeat in class

Les Devoirs: Vocab Writing Practice! Write all 5.2 vocab listed above four times.

French 1: Monday February 4 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: Two things!

1. Write questions and your answers to p. 157 Ex. 13.
2. Write a question for each of the above seven question forms that you could logically ask another student in class. Be ready to use those questions in oral practice next time!

[5 minutes] -oir Verb Practice

• Randomly assign savoir, pouvoir, vouloir, voir, and devoir.
• Throw in faire to shake up brains!
• Students put conjugation up on board!
• CAH checks homework during this time

[15 minutes] Review last grammar quiz, on the -oir verbs

[30 minutes] Question Word Practice: qui, qu'est-ce que, est-ce qu, quand, comment, pourquoi, and où

• Students read p157 Ex13 aloud, check for right question words!
• Students read me their original questions, I offer answers.
• Then students pair up, ask each other their questions, offer answers; CAH/TA circulate, guide, correct.

[40 minutes] Vocab Practice

• First CAH/TA ask, "Tu aimes..." plus one of the activities, one of the seasons, or one of them months. Students respond with, "Oui, j'aime... mais je préfère..." and another activity/season/month... or "Non, je n'aime pas.... Je préfère...."
• Then face-to-face drill of all Vocab 5.1 and the -oir verbs!

Les Devoirs: rien... mais étudiez pour l'examen de vocabulaire 5.1!

• Quiz qill include all activities, seasons, months, and other terms on pp. 150–153!
• Quiz will include the five -oir verbs!
• Quiz will also include the seven question words (p. 156)

French 3: Friday February 1 2013 Lesson Plan

DUE: Vocab 4.2 writing (each word/phrase four times!)

[25 minutes] Vocabulary Practice!

• First, quiz the words orally with Q&A.
• Next, do pp. 148–149 Exs. 23, 24, and 25 in pairs and out loud.
• Think vocab quiz not next time, but time after!

[15 minutes] Grammar Check! Verb Practice!

• Each student picks a verb, writes the ils/elles form of five tenses—present, past, imperfect, future, and conditional—on board!

[35 minutes] Reading/Translation Practice!

• Individually or in pairs, students work on translating this Le Monde article on a shooting in Marseilles!
• Compare translations in large group

[5 minutes] Lacey does presentation!

Les Devoirs: Write a brief (at least five sentences) history of your life (including your future death!) using at least ten terms from Vocab 4.2! 

• Highlight the vocab you use.
• Be prepared to read these stories aloud for others to listen and translate.