French 1: Friday April 13 Lesson Plan

DUE: le théâtre du restaurant— a restaurant skit!

• Students may work in pairs or trios (no quartets! no quintets! Pas de plus!).
• One student plays a serveur/serveuse; other plays client/cliente.
• Skit must include...
1. greeting
2. ordering food and beverage (with at least one recommendation from server)
3. server reading back the orders to make sure he/she has them right
4. conversation between clients while waiting for meals to arrive (if only one client, then yes, you talk to yourself, making observations about the restaurant, the server, the weather... perhaps pretending to converse with someone you recognize at another table...)
5. delivery and consumption of meals
6. handling the check

{40 minutes} Present restaurant skits!

• 5 minutes to prep, then we go to work!

{20 minutes} Imperative Review!

• Review imperative formation on p. 202.
• Do pp. 202–203 Exs. 33, 34, & 35 together.

{20 minutes} Vocabulary 6.2 Review!

• Going around the room and looking at pp. 196–198, students say a complete sentence using one of the vocab words or phrases. Each student picks another student in the room to give an English equivalent.

Les Devoirs: Nothing to hand in, but...

1. Study for Vocab 6.2 Vocab Quiz (pp. 196–198), which will take place on mardi, le 17 avril!
2. Study for Chapter 6 Grammar Quiz which will take place on jeudi, le 19 avril! Items the quiz will cover:
   
1. p. 188: partitive (de)
2. p. 190: -ir verbs
3. p. 192: conjugation of vouloir (to want)
4. p. 200: conjugation of prendre (to take)
5. p. 202: imperative (giving commands)

French 2: Thursday April 12 Lesson Plan

DUE: Les Devoirs!

1. Revise les histoires d'aventure en plein nature and prepare for presentation in front of class.
   
2. Write 20 original sentences in the future tense—i.e., saying somebody will do something!
• Ten sentences must use je as the subject (I will...).
• Ten sentences must use a different subject.
• Every sentences must use a different verb! (I would suggest starting with the Chapter 7 Vocab List on p. 265, using all the verbs there, then working backwards through our other vocab lists!)

{10 minutes} Prepare stories with translators!

• Students pair up (CAH assigns), prepare translations of each other's stories.
  
• Note that you really need to listen to each other and speak very clearly!

{40 minutes} Student present stories to class!

• Story author may read from script, but story translator must listen an translate without notes.

{30 minutes} Review future tense homework!

• Each student writes one sentence from homework on board.
• Students check each other's work for proper future form!
• Highlight irregular forms as they arise!

Les Devoirs: rien! but study for...

1. Vocab Quiz 7.2 (pp. 246–247) next time, lundi, le 16 avril!
2. Verb Quiz on the imperfect (p. 198) and future tense (p. 250) meeting after that, mercredi, le 18 avril!
   

French 1: Wednesday April 11 Lesson Plan

DUE: Practice with the verb prendre: pp. 200–201 Exs. 30 & 31. Write the prompts and your responses!

{5 minutes} Speaking Practice: Students read and translate to each other responses to Exs. 30–31. CAH checks homework for points during this time.

{15 minutes} Writing Practice: Students write answers to Exs. 30 & 31 on board for comparison and grammar check.

{5 minutes} Verb Drill!

• Each student thinks of a different French verb.
• Each student goes to board, writes that verb's infinitive form, then its tu, nous, and vous forms.

{15 minutes} New Grammar: Commands... a.k.a. The Imperative (l'imperatif: p. 202)

• In English, if we want to tell someone to do something, whether it's one person or many people, we just say the verb, without any subject or suffix: Eat! Sing! Finish your homework! Do it! Be good!
• If we want a group to which we belong to do something, we say "Let's" before the verb: Let's go! Let's eat! Let's meet at the park! Let's get out of here!
• In French, we use different forms of the verb for commands depending on whether we want tu, vous, or nous to do something:



Who's got to do it	What we say in French	English translation
tu (one person you know well, friend or child)	Écoute! Regarde! Finis! Attends! Vas! Fais les devoirs!	Listen! Look! Finish! Wait! Go! Do the homework!
vous (many people, or one person who is your boss, elder, superior, etc.)	Écoutez! Regardez! Finissez! Attendez! Allez! Faites les devoirs!	Listen! Look! Finish! Wait! Go! Do the homework!
nous (us! whatever we're doing, we're doing it together!)	Écoutons! Regardons! Finissons! Attendons! Allons! Faisons les devoirs!	Let's listen! Let's look! Let's finish! Let's wait! Let's go! Let's do the homework!

• Students practice saying and writing command forms of the verbs they've put on the board.
• Do p. 202 Exs. 33 & 34 together.

Les Devoirs:

1. For next time, prepare le théâtre du restaurant—a restaurant skit!
• Students may work in pairs or trios (no quartets! no quintets! Pas de plus!).
• One student plays a serveur/serveuse; other plays client/cliente.
• Skit must include...
1. greeting
2. ordering food and beverage (with at least one recommendation from server)
3. server reading back the orders to make sure he/she has them right
4. conversation between clients while waiting for meals to arrive (if only one client, then yes, you talk to yourself, making observations about the restaurant, the server, the weather... perhaps pretending to converse with someone you recognize at another table...)
5. delivery and consumption of meals
6. handling the check
2. Study for Vocab 6.2 Vocab Quiz (pp. 196–198), which will take place on mardi, le 17 avril!
3. Study for Chapter 6 Grammar Quiz which will take place on jeudi, le 19 avril! Items the quiz will cover:
   
1. p. 188: partitive (de)
2. p. 190: -ir verbs
3. p. 192: conjugation of vouloir (to want)
4. p. 200: conjugation of prendre (to take)
5. p. 202: imperative (giving commands)
   

French 2: Tuesday April 10 Lesson Plan

DUE: L'histoire d'aventure!

• Each student writes a short story about an adventure in nature.
• Minimum ten sentences (and for Pierre's sake, don't write your story in English and then plunk it into Google Translate!)
• Every sentence must use vocab from Chapter 7 (highlight those words!)
• Story must be complete and ready to read aloud next class period!

{5 minutes} Finish any remaining camping skits!

{10 minutes} Small group reading and listening! Students read nature adventure stories aloud in small groups of four. At end of each story, group members ask each other three questions about the story (What did she do? Where did she go? etc.)

{20 minutes} New Grammar: The Future Tense (le futur)! (p. 250)

• Practice the basic forms
• Practice irregular forms (see online flashcards here, a list here, another list here)
• Do Ex. 26 in class

{60 minutes} CAH conferences with students on stories; students work on...

...Les Devoirs!

1. Revise stories and prepare for presentation in front of class.
2. Write 20 original sentences in the future tense—i.e., saying somebody will do something!

• Ten sentences must use je as the subject (I will...).
• Ten sentences must use a different subject.
• Every sentence must use a different verb! (I would suggest starting with the Chapter 7 Vocab List on p. 265, using all the verbs there, then working backwards through our other vocab lists!)

French 1: Thursday April 5 Lesson Plan

DUE: Write all new vocab words and phrases four times! (pp. 196–198, including both Exprimon-nous sections and D'autres mots utiles)

{20 minutes} Grammar Warm-up: -ir verb conjugation! Translate the following ten sentences:

1. My dog is growing.
2. Their dogs are growing.
   
3. Your cat is gaining weight.
4. My cats are gaining weight.
   
5. My parents are losing weight.
6. Is her dad losing weight?
   
7. Are you (familiar) choosing the music?
8. No, we are choosing the music.
   
9. I am finishing my homework.
10. Liselle always finishes her homework.

• CAH checks les devoirs de vocabulaire for completeness during this time!

{15 minutes} Oral Vocab Practice!

• CAH asks "Qu'est-ce que tu aimes manger?" Students respond, CAH follows up as possible.
  

{20 minutes} New irregular verbs: prendre! (p. 200)

• prendre conjugates like its related forms apprendre, comprendre, reprendre
• Sure, they're -re verbs (see the regular -re conjugation on p. 116), but they drop the -d- in the plural forms!
• je prends, tu prends, il/elle prend... but...
• nous prenons, vous prenez, ils/elles prennent
• Do p. 200 Ex. 29 together.
• Assign students to write short sentences on board: mix and match subjects with these four verbs, plus appropriate direct objects (food for prendre/reprendre, language for apprendre/comprendre)

Les Devoirs!

1. For next time (mercredi, le 11 avril): pp. 200–201 Exs. 30 & 31. Write the prompts and your responses!
2. For the meeting after that (vendredi, le 13 avril): Prepare le théâtre du restaurant—a restaurant skit!
• Students may work in pairs or trios (no quartets! no quintets! Pas de plus!).
• One student plays a serveur/serveuse; other plays client/cliente.
• Skit must include...
1. greeting
2. ordering food and beverage (with at least one recommendation from server)
3. server reading back the orders to make sure he/she has them right
4. conversation between clients while waiting for meals to arrive (if only one client, then yes, you talk to yourself, making observations about the restaurant, the server, the weather... perhaps pretending to converse with someone you recognize at another table...)
5. delivery and consumption of meals
6. handling the check
3. Study for Vocab 6.2 Vocab Quiz, which will take place on mardi, le 17 avril!
   

French 2: Wednesday April 4 Lesson Plan

Note: make-up times for Vocab Quiz 7.1 are Wednesday (today!) 14:15, 14:45, and 15:20! With the large number of people who missed Monday, we need to do these quizzes at set times to get as many people done at once as possible.

DUE: Vocab 7.2 Writing/Drawing Practice!

1. Write all new vocab words in Exprimons-nous and D'autres mots utiles on p. 247 four times.
2. Write all new vocab words in the pictures on pp. 246–247 three times and draw a picture representing each vocab word next to each vocab word.

{5 minutes} Student Vocab Practice! Students drill each other on vocab words while CAH takes homework scores

{5 minutes} Present remaining camping skits!

{10 minutes} More Vocab Drill! CAH asks, "Qu'est-ce que tu as vu dans la forêt/au lac/à la rivière?" Students respond with "J'ai vu..." and terms from Vocab 7.2!

{10 minutes} Listening Practice: Students listen and respond to spider story (images on p. 248 Ex. 20).

{10 minutes} More vocab practice: Do p. 248 Ex. 21 together.

{20 minutes} Grammar Practice: more imperfect vs. past tense (l'imparfait vs. le passé composé!)

• Students work in pairs
• Students pick four verbs from this chapter (see p. 265 for both vocab lists).
• One student writes four sentences using those verbs in the straight past tense.
• The other student writes the same four sentences but puts the verb in the imperfect.
• After all finish, each pair reads a pair of its sentences aloud.

Les Devoirs: L'histoire d'aventure!

• Each student writes a short story about an adventure in nature.
• Minimum ten sentences (and for Pierre's sake, don't write your story in English and then plunk it into Google Translate!)
• Every sentence must use vocab from Chapter 7 (highlight those words!)
• Story must be complete and ready to read aloud next class period!
  

French 1: Tuesday April 3 Lesson Plan

DUE: Write twenty original sentences using vouloir:

1. The first ten sentences must use different subjects, different nouns from Vocab 6.1 as direct objects, and the partitive: Je veux du/de la/des... ("I want some...").
2. The next ten sentences may use any subject (though never the same subject twice in a row) and any direct object (noun or infinitive verb); in other words, you can say that so-and-so wants a thing or that so-and-so wants to do something.

{25 minutes} Vocab Quiz 6.1 (pp. 184, 185, 187, 189)

{10 minutes} Make up all remaining breakfast skits!

{10 minutes} Go over vouloir sentences: students read aloud!

{20 minutes} -ir verbs! (p. 190)

choisir: to choose
je choisis	nous choisissons
tu choisis	vous choisissez
il/elle/on choisit	ils/elles choisissent

Other -ir verbs:

• finir: Je toujours finis mes devoirs
  
• grossir: Le bébé grossit parce qu'il prend beaucoup du lait.
  
• maigrir: Nous maigrissons parce que nous souvent faisons du vélo.
  
• grandir: Les fleurs grandissent parce qu'il y a beaucoup de soleil.
  
• réussir (à): Tu réussis au français?

• Practice with pp. 190–191: Ex. 14 first (listening!), then Ex. 13 (binary choice), then Ex. 15 (fill in blank)

{20 minutes} Le nouveau vocabulaire 6.2! (pp. 196–198)

• Practice pronunciation of all picture words (196–197), D'autres mots utiles (p. 197) and both Exprimons-nous sections (pp. 197 & 198).
• Note le croque-monsiuer and le croque-madame.
• Check out this San Francisco recipe for an open face croque-monsieur... or this recipe from French culinary instructor Jean-Michel Fraisse:
  

Les Devoirs: Write all new vocab words and phrases four times!