French 1: Nov. 8-9 Lesson Plan

DUE: rien! nada! nothing! ...because you had to study for...

{25 minutes} Vocab Quiz 3.1! p. 107 Vocabulaire 1

{40 minutes} New Vocabulary Listening/Speaking Practice: La Famille

• pp. 90-91: Students listen to and repeat family vocab.
• Qui = who
• CAH asks "Qui est la mère, le grand-père..." etc., students respond by pointing to person in book and saying name. (Putting the page up on the screen would be cool!)
  
• "Qui c'est, ça?" Who is that?
  
• "Ça, c'est..." or "Ça, ce sont..."
• After practice in text, turn questions to students: "Qui a un frère? Deux frères? Trois frères?..."
  

Les Devoirs: New Vocab Writing Practice!

• Write each new vocab word/phrase four times.
• p. 93 "Entre Copains" (branché/branchée, chouette, un gamin/une gamine, un frangin/une frangine, mes vieux, mamie, papi)
• p. 107 Vocabulaire 2
  

French 2: Nov. 8-9 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: p. 87 exs. 9 & 10

• Ex. 9: rewrite the complete recipe, highlight the words you add to complete it.
• Ex. 10: write complete sentences! "Pour faire ___, on a besoin de/du/d'/des ____."

{25 minutes} Vocab Quiz 3.1!

• Slang terms on p. 85 "Entre Copains" (la bouffe, bouffer, la flotte, les nouilles, les patates)
• p. 113 Vocabulaire 1 (top half of page)

{10 minutes} Review Partitive homework!

{30 minutes} Practice the partitive with Exprimons-nous (p. 85)!

• Practice pronunciation of phrases/requests/responses on p. 85:
• J'ai besoin du bœuf/de l'ail/des œufs.
• Il me faut du sucre/de la laitue/des épices/des cerises.
  
• Tu veux bien aller m'acheter des poires?
  
• Oui, j'y vais tout de suite.
• Non, je regrette mais je n'ai pas le temps.
• Désolé(e), je suis trop occupé(e).
• Rapporte-moi de la farine, s'il te plaît.
• Oui, d'accord. Tu n'as besoin de rien d'autre?
• N'oublie pas d'acheter des cerises.
• Bon. Il te faut autre chose?
• Practice in round, then having students send each other to get things from the grocery store!

Les Devoirs: New Vocab Writing Practice! Vocab 3.2, pp. 94-95

• Write every vocab word/phrase on pp. 94-95 three times, including the sentences in Exprimons-nous on p. 95.
• Write sentences for every word in the pictures.
  
• Sentences should tell us where people work (e.g., Le boucher travaille... où? La cassière travaille... où?), what they sell (e.g., La boulangère vend... quoi? Le poissonier vend... quoi?), and/or what you buy where (e.g., Au supermarché j'achète un litre de... quoi? Au crémerie on achète... quoi?).
• "J'aime..." is not allowed for this assignment!
• You may use a maximum of five vocab words in a single sentence.
  

French 1: Nov. 4-7 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs: p. 85 ex. 14 (as always, write complete sentences!)

{20 minutes} Review Adjective Agreement!

• Students write sentences from ex. 14 on board!
• Practice pronunciation en masse.

{5 minutes} Listening Practice: p. 86 ex. 16

{25 minutes} More Adjective Practice

• Practice irregular forms for beau, nouveau, and vieux!
• Note these adjectives go before the noun: le nouvel élève; la belle fille, les vieux profs.
• Do pp. 86-87 exs. 17 & 18 together

{30 minutes} Speaking Practice

• Students prepare self-descriptions using terms on p. 87 ex. 19 and other p. 107 vocab.
• Must use at least six adjectives in six sentences (yes, must repeat je suis)
  

Les Devoirs: nothing new, but study for un quiz de vocabulaire le 8-9 novembre! Vocab Quiz 3.1 Nov. 8-9!

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French 1: Nov. 2-3 Lesson Plans

DUE: Les Devoirs: p. 83 ex. 8 & 9

• Write complete sentences! (This should go without saying now. :-) )

{10 minutes} Check Homework!

• Read sentences aloud.
• Ex. 8: first read the nice Florence sentences, then practice negation! Read them as if Terence Le Terrible were saying them! He never says anything nice! (In other words, go through the exercise putting all of Florence's affirmative sentences in the negative and vice versa.)
• Ex. 9: Everyone reads sentences for one picture.

{25 minutes} être practice!

• Students have six minutes to write six sentences on paper, one for each conjugated form of être:
  
• suis
• es
• est
• sommes
• êtes
• sont
• Keep sentences short!
• After writing six sentences, students place papers in pile at center of room.
• Students then draw papers at random to read and translate aloud.

{35 minutes} Adjective Agreement, p. 84

• Slow and steady, please! Watch these rules!

1. Feminine: in general, add -e (unless there already is an unaccented one!)
   
2. -eux → -euse; -if → -ive
3. long → longue, blanc → blanche, bon → bonne, gros → grosse, gentil → gentille, mignon → mignonne
4. Adjectives usually go after noun except adjectives describing beauty, age, goodness, or size.
5. Plural: add -s (unless there already is one!)

• Do pp. 84-85 exs. 11, 12, & 13 together.

Les Devoirs: p. 85 ex. 14 (as always, write complete sentences!)

• And remember: vous passez (et, j'éspère, réussissez!) un quiz de vocabulaire le 8-9 novembre! Vocab Quiz 3.1 Nov. 8-9!
  

French 2: Nov. 4-7 Lesson Plans

DUE: rien! nada! nothing!

{20 minutes} Finish Recipe Presentations

• take five minutes to retrieve groceries and refresh memory on actions for skit
• then remaining pairs present the recipes they wrote: one students reads in French, second student translates recipe into action, showing ingredients involved, demonstrating what to do
  

{20 minutes} The Partitive! de ≈ some

• Cover grammar on p. 86
• Practice: "Pour faire ____, on a besoin de/du/d'/des ____" (une salade, un gâteau, une pizza, un croque monsieur, une tarte, un sandwich, une omelette, le petit dejeuner, le dîner...).
  
• Do p. 86 exs. 7 and 8 together

{30 minutes} Practice the partitive with Exprimons-nous (p. 85)!

• Practice pronunciation of phrases/requests/responses on p. 85:
• J'ai besoin du bœuf/de l'ail/des œufs.
• Il me faut du sucre/de la laitue/des épices/des cerises.
  
• Tu veux bien aller m'acheter des poires?
  
• Oui, j'y vais tout de suite.
• Non, je regrette mais je n'ai pas le temps.
• Désolé(e), je suis trop occupé(e).
• Rapporte-moi de la farine, s'il te plaît.
• Oui, d'accord. Tu n'as besoin de rien d'autre?
• N'oublie pas d'acheter des cerises.
• Bon. Il te faut autre chose?
• Practice in round, then having students send each other to get things from the grocery store!
  

Les Devoirs: p. 87 exs. 9 & 10

• Ex. 9: rewrite the complete recipe, highlight the words you add to complete it.
• Ex. 10: write complete sentences! "Pour faire ___, on a besoin de/du/d'/des ____."
• And remember: vous passez (et, j'éspère, réussissez!) un quiz de vocabulaire le 8-9 novembre! That's next time!

French 2: Nov. 2-3 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les devoirs! Les recettes!

• Each student should have a written recipe for a favorite dish to present.
• La recette must have at least five ingredients.
• La recette should also tell us how to make the dish, using vocab from Vocab List 3.1 (p. 113: couper, ajouter, mélanger, bouillir, faire cuire) and from the sample recipe on p. 84 Ex. 2!

{20 minutes} Wake-up reading and translation exercise: p. 84 ex. 2!

• Students pair up, read recipe in Ex. 2 to each other, figure out which words from the word bank go in the six blanks in the recipe.
• Also figure out what the recipe says!
• Take volunteers in pairs: students stand, one reads the French, the other translates into English looking just at the French on the page, not at notes or GT!

{60 minutes} Pronunciation and Translation of Student Recipes!

• Same activity as above, but now students do their own recipes from the homework for today.
• However, instead of the second student translating the recipe into English, the second student acts out the recipe, showing the ingredients (retrieve from grocery store!), carrying out the actions indicated in the recipe.
• First student: read recipe slowly, give partner time to show food and actions.
• presentations will likely carry over into next class period!
  

Pas de devoirs! No homework!