Le 7 juin - Review for you exam. Bring any questions you might have to class on Tuesday.
Exam day 1 : Thursday June 14
Exam day 2 : Friday June 15
YOU MUST BE THERE BOTH DAYS.
Le 29 mai - Continue studying your verbs, and start reviewing for the final exam.
FINISH ANY MISSING ASSIGNMENTS, AND HAND THEM IN.
Le 24 mai - Your project is due (to be presented) on Tuesday May 29th - that's THIS Tuesday.
Le 22 mai - your Imperative work booklet (yellow) is now OVERDUE.
Continue working on your project (bring your supplies for next class)
We will be working on your imperative directions / map activity next class.
Le 16 / 17 mai - WORK ON YOUR PROJECT - due : May 29th (This includes the presentation).
Review "Y" pronoun.
We started work on The Imperative - finish the yellow booklet.
Le 15 mai - Your projects are due (and to be presented) on May 29th. The last day to work on them in class will be May 17th.
Verbs of the day : ER / IR / RE / Lire / Dire ** Make sure you are reviewing these, as they WILL appear on your exam.
Le 10 mai continue working on your project. You must have a 2 hand drawn maps, and a hand drawn flag for class on May 15.
Le 3 mai - Finish the yellow "La Meteo" worksheet.
Le 26 avril
Finish your review Passé Composé booklet.
Passé Composé Test - TUESDAY MAY 1
Le 24 avril
Finish the first side of the Passé Composé Negation worksheet
Passé Composé Test - Tuesday May 1
Le 17 avril
Quiz on Thursday (Passé Composé)
Project due on Tuesday (April 24)
Le 12 avril
Work on your project. Bring all of your work to class next Tuesday.
There will be a passé composé test (with both Avoir and Etre) on Thursday April 19
Le 10 avril
- Review Passé Composé (with être and avoir) - finish the "Maison d'Être Worksheet.
- Bring supplies to work on your projects for next class.
Le 5 avril
***REVIEW YOUR PASSÉ COMPOSÉ NOTES - BOTH AVOIR AND ÊTRE - WRITE DOWN ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE ABOUT IT.
Work on your project - Due April 24
Joyeuse Pâques !
Le 3 avril - Passé Composé with "Être" - review Avoir, then look at the new information added.
Unit Project due April 24th
Unit Test - tentatively April 26th
Get the flash cards here :
http://quizlet.com/2570032/french-house-verbs-etre-flash-cards/
Le 29 / 30 Mars - Work on your Unit 3 project. The templates are attached below.
Also, you must complete 1, 2, 3...partez for Tuesday
You have a vocabulary quiz on Tuesday (jouer / faire sports vocabulary)
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Le 27 mars - We've started a new term, so as of right now, all term 2 work is overdue.
Today's Journal topic was : Aimes-tu regarder les émissions de sports à la télévision? Quels sports?
Make sure that you have chosen an athlete for the Sports Unit (Facebook) project.
Le 15 mars - finish up any overdue work - Friday is the end of term 2. Go to www.engrade.com to check if you are missing any assignments.
1.) Finish - Faire crossword / translations with Passé Composé on the back.
2.) Find basic information (in french) about your preferred athlete / sports team / broadcaster, as we will be starting our project next week. (Basic information like : Age, Name, Date of Birth, Hometown, Current town, things they like, people they talk to, etc)
Have a great Spring Break!
Le 13 mars - Finish the "JOUER" Crossword puzzle, and the sentence translations on the back.
- There will be a quiz on passé composé on Thursday (basic structure / formation - meaning, translations)
Le 9 mars - Finish page 17 of your yellow booklet (PART A AND B)
Le 8 mars - Finish the worksheet on "Passé Composé" - reread your notes, and make sure that you understand exactly what the verb tense is - bring your questions in the morning.
Le 1er mars - Finish your translation of P. 71-74, as well as your "re-written" ending to the comic.
- Translate all of the words on the second vocabulary worksheet
- Do the review worksheet (pink) - review with adjectives, and the sports related questions (J'ai besoin d'....pour jouer au.)
Le 28 fevrier - Finish re-writing the end of comic strip (must use at least 5 DIFFERENT sentences). Also, translate the green supplementary vocabulary sheet.
If you missed journal today, it was an unscramble. Unscramble the following words that you will find on your first vocabulary sheet, and state whether you use "Jouer" or "Faire" for each word.
actgeona
kyoehc
ceboria
acgnmip
ovlé
scrmtooos
elivo
lsqilue
slcoares
bugry
Le 23 fevrier - translate the comic on Pages 71-74.
Le 14 fevrier - La Saint-Valentin! Great presentations today. The test is on Thursday afternoon - I will be in the classroom at lunchtime on Thursday for any help you may need.
Le 10 Fevrier - You will be presenting your projects on Tuesday. Your Valentine's Day Project is also due on Tuesday (February 14 - coincidentally Valentine's Day!).
Thursday will be our unit test. Here's what's on it.
Unit 2 Test – What do I need to Know?!
Vocabulary
- (from Page 59, the “La Musique” vocabulary sheet, and the Instruments Vocabulary sheet).
Adjectives
- be able to
define them in French.
- be able to write your own
sentences using adjectives
- know the regular and (common)
irregular verbs and their endings
Adverbs
- be able to define them in French (be able to identify them)
- know the meanings of the adverbs on P. 52 *we translated them in our notes*
The superlative
- know what it is.
- know how to use the correct words (think best, worst, the same as, etc).
Verbs
- IR verbs / Aller / Avoir / Etre / Faire / ER verbs
Reading comprehension
- You will be reading an article about music, and responding to questions that will tell me whether or not you understand what you are reading.
Le 7 fevrier - Your good copy of your presentation is due on Thursday. You need to check your mark to make sure that you are handing in work.
Dates to be aware of :
Friday February 10 - I will be collecting your journals. We have done 7 journal entries :
1.) Describing yourself - what you like / don't like about French.
2.) What's in your fridge (Il n'y a pas / Il y a)
3.) Test Review
4.) Write about your favorite restaurant (or if you don't have one, then write about what your ideal restaurant would be).
5.) What do you want for Christmas? OR What are you doing during the Christmas holiday?
6.) Who is your favorite musician? Why?
7.) Who is your favorite star (T.V. / Radio / Music (different than who you have already written about) / Film).
Tuesday February 14
Your final projects are due. This means that you will be presenting, and handing in your rough draft, along with your good draft.
Thursday February 16
Unit 2 test.
Le 2 février - Your rough draft for your project is now overdue. You have to complete the adverbs / adjectives worksheet (that corresponds with Page 52 of your textbook), and the "IR" verbs worksheet.
Le 31 janvier - For Thursday, you MUST complete your rough draft of your music project, and you have a quiz on the verbs: avoir, etre, aller, pouvoir, and vouloir.
Le 27 Janvier - Your rough draft of your music project is due on Tuesday.
Le 26 janvier - Collected homework. We wrote a quiz on adjectives, and adverbs. There was a purple worksheet on pronouns and "er" verbs, that is for homework. We also worked on your music presentations. Be prepared to work on them tomorrow.
Mardi le 24 janvier - we corrected the homework (doubled sided translations with adjectives and adverbs). We then did the HMV Reading activity (which is on page 46 of the text, and page 29 of the yellow booklet). After that, we did Faisons de la "pub" an activity where you had to come up with publicity slogans for the albums that were given, by using an adverb, followed by an adjective (there is a list at the bottom of the activity).
There is a quiz on adverbs and adjectives on Thursday (know how to define them in French, and how to identify them). Know how to make the adjective and the noun agree (do you add an "s" "es", "e", or does it change form completely?)
For homework, you are responsible for the double sided worksheet (Les meilleurs des meilleurs/ les opinions personnelles).
Come prepared to work on your project on Thursday. If you are not prepared, you will not get any more class time.
Le 19 janvier - We wrote the P. 59 Vocabulary Quiz. Then we did some notes on Adverbs - reviewed what we had learned about Adjectives / and the Superlative. We talked about your new project - which is a television segment on something related to music. You ar working by yourself, but it is part of the collective television show that six of you are working on together (groups were already predetermined). For homework, you have to have your idea about what your segment is going to be about. You also have to complete the double sided worksheet that is about adverbs and adjectives.
You will have a test on adverbs and adjectives next week as well.
Le 17 janvier - We did some vocabulary on "time" (Yesterday, tomorrow, midnight, etc) . Then we watched a little bit of TinTin, and played Family Feud to review for a vocabulary quiz on Thursday (Page 59 of your text book).
Le 10 janvier
1.) If you are going to re-write your verb quiz, or you were away when we originally wrote it - you can do so tomorrow (January 11) in Room 150 (that's just across the hall from our classroom).
2.) Make sure that you are familiar with the vocabulary that we have been learning so far (at the back of the chapter) - along with the worksheets that I have been giving you.
3.) We worked on "Bye Bye, Mon Cowboy" - P. 41-44 in your textbook, and did The "En famille" section of the yellow work package (Page 27). Please familiarize yourself with the vocabulary, and understanding what is going on in the short story.
4.) We started "Sondage Musique" which is the first page of the yellow booklet - you are to ask someone the questions listed, and record their responses.
Le 5 janvier, 2012!
1.) The quiz that we wrote today is the type of thing that you are going to be seeing more often, so if you felt that it was a challenge, you should practice your verbs and vocabulary more often.
2.) Les Instruments - the white worksheet that had 6 questions on it - if it was not done in class, it is homework.
3.) We completed listening activities A and B on Page 30 of your yellow booklet (DO NOT LOSE the booklet).
4.) Try to find some French music that you enjoy.
5.) Start reading / listening to the radio / watching movies in French - this will help you increase your fluency.
Le 3 janvier, 2012!
1.) If you did not complete the green worksheet over the break, you must do so, as we are marking it on Thursday
2.) Journal : Qui est ton musicien ou ta musicienne préféré(e)? Ou ton groupe de musique préféré? Pourquoi?
3.) Verb quiz on Thursday- it will be a fill in the blank quiz (you will have to choose which verb [danser, écouter, chanter, avoir, être and prendre] and you will have to conjugate it according to the subject of the sentence) For example : Mes amis ____________ les chansons à la radio. Here, you would put écoutons - because mes amis = ils, and that is the verb that best fits.
Le 15 Decembre
1.) The green worksheet must be done for the first day back to school (Jan 3) - Underline the pronoun, and circle the verb - it is attached in case you lost it, "didn't get it", etc.
2.) Your journals will be collected in January - we have done 5 so far.
Make sure that they are thought out, well-written, etc.
If you missed one, the topics were as follows:
A.) Qu'est-ce que tu aimes manger? Qu'est-ce que tu n'aimes pas manger?
B.) A review Entry - in preparation for the test
C.) Avez-vous un restaurant préféré? Pourquoi? Décrivez-le. Si vous n'avez pas un restaurant préféré, dites-moi pourquoi pas.
D.) **Écrivez 5 Phrases completes - your sentences must follow these guidelines: (1 - le verbe manger et l'article partitif / 2 re-write that sentence using "EN" / 3 An expression of quantity / 4 An adverb of quantity / 5 The verb prendre)
E.) Qu'est-ce que tu veux pour Noël? OU (or) Que fais-tu pendant les vacances?
3.) Happy Holidays!
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Le 9 Decembre - Please try your best to work on the Expressions with Food Worksheet.
Le 6 Decembre - Thank you to everyone who presented their projects this morning - well done!
We started to work on a Review Package for the Unit Test (that is on Friday December 9th). This review package is for homework - complete it, and bring your questions to class on Thursday.
The Unit test will have :
Vocabulary (Text Book P. 29 - All of the vocabulary that we learned in class - copied from overhead)
The Partitive Article (du / de la / des / d' / de / de l') - which follows a negative? What about an expression of quantity? Which is masculine? Feminine?
"EN" - the pronoun that means "some of it / some of them" - used instead of repeating the partitive article.
For example : Je veux des frites. J'en veux. Je n'aime pas de lait. Je n'en aime pas. (notice the placing of the negative). The "EN" replaced "des frites" and "de lait" - so you don't have to write those again.
Translations - you should know "ER" verbs, prendre, comprendre, etc. The verbs that we have frequently used in class.
Listening activity - you will be required to listen to a short dialogue and then you will have to match the food to the proper person.
Le 1er Decembre - 1) Your Project is due on December 6th - you will be presenting on that day.
Remember you have to have these components : Menus / A slogan / Restaurant Name / Floor Plan / A review (at least 50 words) / 3 Testimonials (can be just once sentence, followed by the person's name) - please open the attached assignment if you have lost / forgotten your rubric - criteria for marking.
.2.) Unit 1 test - Friday December 9th (we will be doing review for this test next week - think of any questions that you may have.
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Le 29 Novembre - 1.) I will be collecting your journals over Christmas break - please make sure that you have completed all of the entries.
2.) Your project is due December 6th.
3.) Quiz thursday on Prendre / Comprendre / P. 29 Vocabulary
4.) Re-test offered Wednesday at Lunch - (EN / Partitive Article) - Rm 131
5.) Un Sandwich Deluxe - due on Thursday (you must have ten items labeled (using partitive articles), colored, have a title, etc)
6.) Start to do some independent review for the Unit Test, which will be early December.
Le 21 Novembre - PLEASE REMEMBER TO GET YOUR PAREN T / GUARDIAN TO SIGN YOUR MARKS SHEET (and make sure to return it to me by November 23)
Have your rough draft for your project done by Thursday, as we will be working in the Computer Lab. - Your project is due Tuesday, December 6th.
Please finish "Le Sentinel" worksheet for homework, if you did not have enough time to complete it in class - answer in full sentences.
Test / Quiz Re-writes / makeup....Wednesday at Lunch.
If you have any questions, I'm in room 152 (our classroom) - all week.
Le 18 Novembre
1) Quiz - EN / Partitive Article
2.) Work time for project - you should have your rough draft of all three elements (menus, floor plans, and reviews/testimonials) for Tuesday.
Le 15 Novembre
Journal : Quel type de nourriture est dans ton frigo? (Utilisez l'article partitif - du, de la, des)
Tu vs. Vous (P. 20) - familiarize yourself with when we use these - familiar / polite, etc.
Review "Y" - Je vais à Paris - J'y vais. (Refers to a previously mentioned place - "there")
Expressions of Quantity vs. Adverbs of Quantity (p. 26) Beaucoup vs. beaucoup de
**Finish your white worksheet - J'analyse
Le 10 Novembre - EN - replaces the partitive article - allows you to not have to repeat yourself.
Example : Je mange des pommes. J'en mange.
Finish the booklet on "EN."
Start thinking about your project - it will be due at the end of November.
Le 8 NOVEMBRE - Les articles Partitifs - finish both the blue and the pink worksheets. (De + le = du / de + la = de la / de + l' = de l' / de + les = des) Don't forget that negative is always just De or D' (Je ne mange pas de pommes).
Test Re-write Thursday at lunch...if you did not do as well as you had hoped to, please come and try the re-write.
LE 3 NOVEMBRE - P. 7 - you have to create a list of all sorts of fast foods that you know. Part B - choose the fast food that best fits in each description (ie : un peu salé = a little salty = les frites).
Vocabulary Quiz on Tuesday
Also, I will be at school on Tuesday morning (around 8), and Thursday at lunch - at which point in time, you can write a re-test for the Review Unit we did.
LE 1 NOVEMBRE - You are responsible for translating all of the vocabulary from Page 7 (we covered most of these in class) - I suggest that you fold a paper in half, and put the English on one half, with the French on the other half - that way, when you are studying, you are able to see if you remember them.
Mon Monstre! Create a monster, label 10 body parts (label with "Le, La, or Les"). Give your monster a name. Write 5 sentences about what your monster likes, dislikes, or anything else (remember to use the sentence structure : subject + verb + necessary information)
Review Quiz - le 27 October (ER Verbs, RE Verbs, Irregular Verbs [Avoir, Etre, Faire, Aller, Pouvoir, Vouloir, Mettre, Lire, Sortir, Partir, etc], Numbers, Questions [Inversion, Est-ce Que, Intonation - Inflection], and Adjectives [Masculine, Feminine, Singular, Plural - know the irregular ones that we covered in class], Possessive Adjective - Mon, ma, ton, ses, etc).
Vouloir / Pouvoir Quiz - le 25 Octobre
Devoir and RE Verbs Quiz - le 20 Octobre
***Your Verb Review Worksheet is for homework, and will help you study for this quiz.
Un Magazine! - Remember, this assignment is due : mardi le 18 octobre.
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