Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Jour 29 03/31/10

Jour 29
Aujourd'hui nous avons continué avec les pronoms.



Remember your placement rules too, look at the examples we have done in class and really think about them. It always goes before the first verb unless you see an infinitive. The verb then goes in front of the infinitive. (futur proche for example - je vais regarder la télé = je vais la regarder.)

Devoirs

-Faites les exercices 1-13 dans la feuille que je vous ai donnée. On one side there is an introduction to pronouns, then on the backside you will find these questions 1-13. If you don't have the sheet then come by my office to get a copy.

-Regardez cette vidéo pour demain. Je vais vous envoyer des questions.





En Plus
-Please go and sign up as soon as possible on the fourth floor for your oral final. It is outside of the room KIMP 423. Remember you can't sign up for me.
-To prepare, I will tell you the overall topics and give you some exercises from the book you can look at to practice but the best way to practice is to push yourself to speak in French without looking at it. Read things aloud, or read a question then orally respond to it - don't write it. Also in class when we are doing exercises it is to your benefit to really try to speak in french. The more you use it the more you will feel comfortable with it! But don't be nervous, try and have fun with it!

Monday, March 29, 2010

Jour 28

Jour 28
aujourd'hui-Les pronoms

devoirs
Etudier Les verbes avec Les prépositions à la page 105 106 pour un quiz. U will need to put in the correct preposition into blanks

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Jour 27

Plus de Vacances! Retournons au boulot!

I hope you all had a good vacation, now it's time to get back to work!
We have one month left and Chapters 4 and 5 to cover.
To be prepared for class tomorrow, read through pages 105-110. We will be talking about pronouns.
I will be handing back your compositions also.

Let's star this next month off with a fresh start! It's time to really focus on your work so as to finish the semester off well.

If you have any questions feel free to email me, or if you want to meet with me at anytime if you are feeling behind or want to go over the test or composition then let me know. I won't be in my office hours on Monday because I have a meeting. So I'm changing them from 10:30-11:30 to be 11:30-12:20.

A demain!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Jour 26 03/17/10

Jour 26
Vous avez fait une rédaction.

Devoirs
Je voudrais bein que vous soyez en classe vendredi parce que nous aurons classe!
There won't be a quiz, but we will have class. Come on you can make it just one more day! Then a week off.

En Plus
A french cartoon about the Shadocks and the Gibis. Two different being of two different planets who try to make it to earth because their planets are too difficult to live on.



Les Shadoks - Série 1 - Episodes 1 à 5
Uploaded by Sebmagic. - Click for more funny videos.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Jour 25 03/15/10

Jour 25
aujourd'hui nous avons discuté le vocabulaire pour décrire un appartement. Je vous ai rendu l'examen.

Devoirs
Mercredi vous aurez besoin d'écrire un essai (rédaction) en classe. Vous pouvez apporter vos dictionnaires. Je suggère que vous étudiiez les temps des verbes et le vocabulaire pour les deux derniers chapitres.

Don't forget to be well organized with your paper. Think about your verbs and your agreements.

Also, if you have more questions about your test please do come and see me. If you still don't understand something, let me know if I can help you with it.

I sent out your grades as well, by email.

En Plus
Here is a video, a little french humor. It might be difficult for you to understand because they are making fun of les paysans, the French uneducated of the country. (like what we consider 'hicks' in America.) They are showing how they make pâté, if you listen to how they say pâté you can hear the accent. It should be paté but they are saying more like poté.



Les Deschiens - Le goûter au pâté
Uploaded by sanglier72. - See more comedy videos.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Jour 24 03/12/10

Jour 24
On a fait une activité de discussion en groupe.
On a commencé le quatrième chapitre. Le chapitre, il s'agit de l'immigration.
Aussi on a discuté les problèmes de la société selon les jeunes Français.

Devoirs
Ecrivez un paragraphe (5 phrases) pour répondre à la question suivante: Qu'est-ce que vous trouvez comme le problème le plus important dans la société? Pourquoi? Décrivez le problème. Comment améliorer ce problème?

En Plus
Voici une carte faite en 2009 du taux de chômage en France. C'est 2% plus bas, 18% plus haut.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Jour après l'examen

Vous avez passé un examen hier.

Devoir
sorry this is going up so late, but I'd like for you to work on translating those sentences I gave you by email.
1. The poor child couldn’t read.
2. My former dog was smaller than the dog I have now.
3. The old woman is eating a slice of bread.
4. My sweet girlfriend gave me a lot of cake.
5. The tall bearded man succeeds at climbing the mountain.
6. The girl with blond hair is smart but a liar.
7. My first year at the university I took classes in biology, business, and management.
8. I must memorize my verbs!10. I finished writing a paper last week

Really try and think about it, don't just write down a literaly translation and call yourself done. Think about the grammar. This is good practice I think for your redaction that will be on Wednesday. Just the act of translating helps you to start thinking about the language.

Here is a video of a french cartoon, Rentrée, meaning returning to school. Watch and listen to see if you understand.


Monday, March 8, 2010

Jour 23 03/08/10

Jour 23
Aujourd'hui c'était la révision.
Les choses importantes: Les verbes au présent, passé composé et plus-que-parfait ; Les adjectifs ; Les prépositions ; La culture ; Les articles (def: le, la, les, l' ; indef: un, une, des ; partitive: du, de la, de l') ; et Vocabulaire.

Devoirs
étudiez pour l'examen
-----Be sure to go back and find some of the practice exercises I have attached in past entries. Also don't forget you can use your workbook as practice since the answers are in the back of the book. If you get something wrong and don't understand why, feel free to send me an email. Also I will be sending you handouts by email. I'll send a separate attachment with the answers so that you can check yourself, after having done it yourself.

En Plus
Just a last note on education, in France they think that it is important for kids at a very young age to know, memorize and study poetry. At a young age they will memorize poems meant to teach them about, for example, the four seasons. As they get older they have to memorize more famous poems by La Fontaine or Ronsard. They will remember some of these poems for the rest of their lives. Here is a cute video of little french kids practicing the poetry they memorized.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Jour 22 03/05/10

Jour 22
aujourd'hui c'était le dernier jour du chapitre trois. Nous avons parlé des prépositions et des pronoms interrogatifs (lequel, laquel, lesquels, lesquelles).

Devoirs:
On va réviser pour l'examen.
Préparez les feuilles que je vous avez données en classe et par e-mail. Nous les discuterons.

En Plus:
Definite Article practice
Listen to the song and choose the articles she sings.
Indefinite articles practice
Partitive articles

Allez! Jouez dehors! ne soyez pas paresseux comme mon chien:


Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Jour 21 03/03/10

Jour 21
Aujourd'hui:
-----on a continué avec le plus-que-parfait
-----J'ai parlé de la laïcité en France.
-----------Il y a une séparation de l'état et l'église après 1905 avec la troisième république.
-----------La réligion ne peut pas être dans les écoles. Les muslumanes ne peuvent pas porter le voile.
-----------La réligion est une chose privée, pas publique
-----J'ai introduit le liste des verbes qui ont des prépositions après quand il y a un infinitif.

Devoir
Etudiez pour un quiz pour les verbes à la page 86-87 (croire, devoir, savoir, suivre)
Faites l'exercice A à la page 71. Fill in the blanks with words/vocabulary from the chapter. Pay attention to tenses.

En Plus
Voici le clip du film "Entre les murs" que j'ai joué en classe.
Voici une chanson d'une artiste française. You can also get to other french music videos from this site if you'd like to explore.
Also if you ever just want to have French music playing in the background or something, mtv.com has some free radio station. If you follow this link and click on café Montmartre it will play some nice music in french for you. It's a good way to get exposed to the language or find some artists you like.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Jour 20 03/01/10

Jour 20
Aujourd'hui
-----On a continué avec le passé composé
-----On a appris un nouveau temps du verbe - le plus que parfait

Devoirs
l'exercice A à la page 82 du livre
-----here you are completeing the sentence with plus que parfait. You are saying what you had done before the actions givin. In the example: Avant de partir en vacances... they are asking you to say what you had done before you went on vacation. So the example gives Avant de partir en vacances, j'étais déjà allé à la banque (before having left on vaction, I had already gone to the bank)

En Plus
Voici une vidéo qui pratique les matières. Vous pouvez regarder des mots avec des photos et répéter après la femme dans la vidéo.
un petit exercice pour le plus que parfait
Une vidéo musicale. Brûle par Sniper
-----les paroles
-----Je pense que cette vidéo peut ajouter à notre discussion de la laïcité pour mercredi

Also just an update on the days up to the test:
You test is March the 10th. Since we lost a day we might not have time for much review. So it is important that you start working on it so you can ask me questions. I will put stuff on here and send out review sheets. If we do any review it will be Monday. It depends on how long it takes to go through the last couple grammer points of the chapter.