French 2 Day 18 Lesson Plan (Oct 14-17)

DUE: Les Devoirs: p. 60 ex. 32

Notice: Maroon meeting October 14 is only 60 minutes! Plan to condense as necessary!

{30 minutes} Warm-up: Practice the upcoming oral interview quiz questions!

• We will do this quiz in class next meeting (Oct. 18-19).

1. Ça va?
2. Quelle est ta fête préférée? (Holiday)
3. Pourquoi est-ce que tu aimes mieux ___ (response from #2)?
4. Qu'est-ce que je pourrais offrir à ma femme pour sa anniversaire?
5. Tu souvent aides tes parents à ranger la maison?

• Also practice student questions for CAH!

{30 minutes} More past tense work!

• Students put some être past tense forms from les devoirs on the board.
• Check subject-participle agreement! Emphasize this only happens with the être forms!
• Go over the irregular forms on p. 58
• Work in pairs to translate the following sentences:
1. I knew the teacher.
2. The girls came to the party.
   
3. Did you want a cookie?
4. We took a photo.
   
5. Bob went to the store.
6. Julie waited.
   
7. It rained.
8. The boys stayed at school.
   
9. Marie sang.
10. The dog died!

• Review these sentences out loud!
  

Les Devoirs: Write ten original sentences in the past tense, each using a different verb. Five should come from the list of irregular verbs on p. 58 (each takes avoir to form the passé composé); five should come from the verbs listed on p. 60 (each one takes être to form the passé composé!):

use être (p. 60)	use avoir... but irregular (p. 58)
aller	boire
arriver	connaître
descendre	pleuvoir
devenir	pouvoir
entrer	savoir
monter	voir
mourir	vouloir
naître	dire
partir	écrire
rentrer	faire
rester	avoir
retourner	être
sortir	mettre
venir	prendre
	offrir

French 2 Day 17 Lesson Plan (Oct 12-13)

DUE: Party conversation script submitted on Moodle!

{20 minutes} Vocab Quiz 2.2!

• Standard format: CAH gives French terms out loud, students write accurate English translations.
• 30 terms from pp. 56 ("Entre copains") and pp. 73 (Vocabulaire 2)
• Grade in class!

{30 minutes} Party conversation presentations! Must run at least one minute!

{10 minutes} Preview oral interview quiz!

• Days 19-20 (Oct 18-21)
• This is new! We have not done this yet!
• I will start calling students out to the hall on Day 19 in an order assigned by me. Students must be prepared to respond in French to the following five questions:

1. Ça va?
2. Quelle est ta fête préférée? (Holiday)
3. Pourquoi est-ce que tu aimes mieux ___ (response from #2)?
4. Qu'est-ce que je pourrais offrir à ma femme pour sa anniversaire?
5. Tu souvent aides tes parents à ranger la maison?

• You must then ask me one comprehensible question in French! (You cannot use Ça va?!)

{20 minutes} Passé composé avec être: Past tense using être!

• Note verb forms on p. 60 that use être instead of avoir to form the past tense.
• Note that most of these verbs are verbs of motion!
• Note also that we have to make them agree with the subject

Les Devoirs: Do p. 60, exercise 32

French 1: Day 17 Lesson Plan (Oct 12-13)

DUE: Les Devoirs: Write ten original sentences: four using mais, four using et, and two using ou.

{10 minutes} Warm-up in pairs! Read and translate each others' conjunction sentences!

{10 minutes} Students read homework sentences aloud, CAH asks each one question pertaining to what they've said.

{10 minutes} Preview Chapter Grammar Quiz

• Day 19 (Oct 18-19)
• [Updated Oct 13!] definite articles: le, la, l', and les (p. 44)
  
• verb conjugation (p. 46)
• contractions with à (au, à la, a l'..., aux) (p. 56)
  
• conjunctions et, mais, ou (p. 58)
• quiz will be on Moodle!

{10 minutes} Preview Oral Interview Quiz!

• Days 19-20 (Oct 18-21)
• This is new! We have not done this yet!
• I will start calling students out to the hall on Day 19 in an order assigned by me. Students must be prepared to respond in French to the following five questions:

1. Ça va?
2. Qu'est-ce que tu aimes faire?
3. Est-ce que tu ____ régulièrement? (based on response to #2)
   
4. Tu préfères lire, regarder la télé, ou faire du sport?
5. Tu parles bien français?

• You must then ask me one comprehensible question in French! (You cannot use Ça va?!)

Les Devoirs due next time: Star Interviews!

• Students work in pairs or trios.
• One student plays a journalist; other student plays a famous person of some sort (une vedette, une personne célèbrée/fameuse)
• In trios, one journalist and two famous people.
• Journalist introduces star to us and asks five questions about activities the famous person enjoys; famous person responds appropriately with complete sentences (not just oui or non)
• In trio, journalist asks each star five questions; may turn to the second star and simply ask, "Et vous?"
• Script must include the words régulièrement, souvent, de temps en temps, rarement, and jamais.
  
• Present in class next time!
• Also submit presentation script via Moodle!
  

Remainder of class time: write up and practice star interviews!

French 1: Day 16 Lesson Plan (Oct 7-11)

DUE: pas de devoirs (no homework assigned!)

{20 minutes} Vocab Quiz 2.2!

• Same format as past quizzes: CAH says French vocab, students write English translation.
• Grade in class!

{15 minutes} Conjunctions: et, mais, and ou (p. 58)

• Note meanings.
• Do pp. 58-59 exs. 32 and 34 together

{30 minutes} Practice Exprimons-Nous p. 55

• First CAH demos "Tu préfères/aimes mieux..." et "Quelles sont tes activités préférées?" Emphasize conjunctions ou, mais, and et.
  
• Students pair up, ask each other these questions, and prepare dialogues using each:
1. Student A: "Tu préfères/aimes mieux...?"
2. Student B: "J'aime... mais je préfère/aime mieux.... Et quelle sont tes activités préférées?"
3. Student A: "J'aime/Je préfère...."
• Students present at front!

Les Devoirs: Write ten original sentences: four using mais, four using et, and two using ou.

French 2: Day 16 Lesson Plan (Oct 7-11)

DUE: Pas de devoirs! (No homework!)

{20 minutes} More practice with the passé composé (past tense)!

• Focus on avoir forms (p. 58).
  
• First activity: in pairs, translate the following sentences:
1. We are choosing the music.
2. We chose the music yesterday.
3. Are you decorating the room?
4. Did you decorate the room?
5. I am wrapping the presents.
6. I wrapped the presents Monday.
7. Louise is sending the invitations.
8. Louise sent the invitations Tuesday.
• Second set:
1. Mom and Dad are grocery shopping.
2. Mom and Dad did the grocery shopping yesterday.
3. Mr. H., are you organizing a party?
4. Mr. H., did you organize a party last year?
5. We are tidying up the house.
6. We tidied up the house.
7. Robert is doing the housework.
8. Robert did the housework.
   
• Write on board, read aloud.

{30 minutes} Autour du monde! Vocabulary review!

• CAH displays flash cards on screen, students compete to respond first
• Perhaps try one round showing French and asking for the English, then flipping to show English and ask for French.
• Include some vocabulary from the first half of the chapter!
• Flash cards available on Moodle in Microsoft Ink Flash Card format!
• Reminder: Vocab Quiz 2.2 happens next meeting (Oct 12-13)!
  

{40 minutes} Time to work on Party Skit

• DUE next meeting (Oct 12-13): submit script via Moodle; prepare 1-minute skit to present in class.
• In pairs: Discuss a party! It can be a great party, a bad party, real party, imaginary party, whatever way you want to take it.
• Use the vocabulary in Chapter 2! Use this skit to review and reinforce current vocab.
• You are welcome but not required to use the past tense. Whether you recount a past event or plan a future event, be consistent in tense.
• Skits must run at least one minute long.
  

French 2: Day 15 Lesson Plan

Bordeaux/Maroon: mercredi 5 octobre; Blanc/White: jeudi 6 octobre

DUE: Les Devoirs Write each vocab term/phrase (p. 56 "Entre Copains" and p. 73 Vocab 2) as part of a complete sentence. Then write each word/phrase again three times.

{15 minutes} Review vocab: Students read original sentences aloud!

• First in pairs: read to each other, try to translate! (CAH checks homework during this time!)
  
• Then read sentences aloud to class, CAH follows up with questions.
• Reminder: Vocab Quiz on Day 17 (Oct 12-13)!
  

{30 minutes} Past/Present (pp. 58-60)

• Change of plan! It turns out the passé composé structure (conjugate avoir + past participle) is not so familiar as we might have thought!
  
• Emphasize regular forms first:
• -er >>> -é
• -ir >>> -i
• -re >>> -u
  
• Note irregular forms on p. 58
• Save the être forms for next time!

Les Devoirs: Party Discussion Skit!

• In pairs: Discuss a party! It can be a great party, a bad party, whatever way you want to take it.
• Use the vocabulary in Chapter 2! Use this skit to review and reinforce current vocab.
• The party under discussion can be an actual party you threw or attended. Feel free to change names to protect the innocent. The party under discussion can also be a product of your imagination.
  
• You are welcome but not required to use the past tense. Whether you recount a past event or plan a future event, be consistent in tense.
• Skits must run at least one minute long.
  
• Students present skits in class on Day 17 (Oct 12-13).
• Students also submit written scripts via Moodle on day of presentation.
  

French 1: Day 15 Lesson Plan

Bordeaux/Maroon: mercredi 5 octobre; Blanc/White: jeudi 6 octobre

DUE: Les Devoirs: pp. 56-57 exs. 28, 29 & 30

{10 minutes}: Review Les Devoirs! Students read exs 28-30 aloud, emphasizing proper preposition+article combos!

{30 minutes} Practice Exprimons-Nous p. 55

• First CAH asks each individual "Tu parles bien français?" Students respond using (très) bien ou (très) mal.
• Then CAH demos "Tu préfères/aimes mieux..." et "Quelles sont tes activités préférées?" Emphasize conjunctions ou, mais, and et.
  
• Students pair up, ask each other these questions, and prepare dialogues using each:
1. Student A: "Tu préfères/aimes mieux...?"
2. Student B: "J'aime... mais je préfère/aime mieux.... Et quelle sont tes activités préférées?"
3. Student A: "J'aime/Je préfère...."
• Students present at front!

{30 minutes} Autour du monde -- Exerceons-nous au vocabulaire!

• CAH displays flash cards on screen, students compete to respond first
• Perhaps try one round showing French and asking for the English, then flipping to show English and ask for French.
• Include some vocabulary from the first half of the chapter!
• Flash cards available on Moodle in Microsoft Ink Flash Card format!
  

{20 minutes}: study for Vocab Quiz 2.2 at next meeting!

• p. 54: six "Entre Copains" informal terms
• p. 69: Vocabulaire 2 (bottom portion of page)