Ms. Ellingsen

March 21--French 2

Class began with a warm-up on translating sentences into English.  They worked on old and new vocabulary.  They need to know all the words through gigot, and they will have a test on the words through choucroute on Friday.  Many in the class took a retake of the Units 2 and 8 grammar and vocabulary section of the last test. 

le 21 mars--AP and Honors French 4

Both groups began with a warm-up and then proceeded to short instruction on the passe simple forms of vouloir, pouvoir, and savoir. These are: voulus, voulus, voulut, voulumes (with a circonflexe) voulutes (with a circonflexe) and voulurent; pus, put, put, pumes (with a circonflexe) putes (with a circonflexe), purent; and sus, sus, sut, sumes (with a circonflexe), sutes (with a circonflex), surent.  AP then took a vocabulary quiz, looked at new vocabulary, went over rubrics for a project, did reading #4 in the AP workbook, and worked on her project.  The Honors French 4 group also worked on vocabulary, went over rubrics for their island projects, and worked in their textbook, pages 116-118, and 119, ex. 1 and 2.  Both groups finished with a summarizer--having to change sentences from passe compose to passe simple.

AP project is due on March 31, and Honors French 4 project is due on Weds., April 13th.

March 16th and 17--French 2

Classes began with a warm-up as usual.  This time they had to create 3 sentences using vocabulary from this Unit.  They then studied for 5 minutes for a quick vocabulary quiz.  After this they went over new vocabulary, and the schedule for quizzes on the vocabulary next week.  They then practiced some French pronunciation.  After this we switched gears a little bit and entered into the world of French table manners, many of which interested the students especially the one fact dealing with ketchup.

le 17 mars--la fête de St. Patrick--AP and Honors French 4

 

Both groups shared today's warm-up which was supplying the passe compose of jouer, obéir, and rendre.  Then they had another lesson on the passé simple involving the verbs aller and prendre.  After this the AP student did work from the AP workbook.  She is to continue to study vocabulary under the sections Airport and Affaires.  She will have a quiz on airport words on Monday and a quiz on the business section on Wednesday.  She then read reading passage #2 on did the questions.  She was also to underline the passe simple verbs she found in the passage.

The Honors French 4 grouphad a quick vocabulary quiz on the words listed under lois, droits, et la politique.  They then reviewed their 2 short films:  The revolt of the crabes and The imprisoned ball.  We went over new vocabulary, especially for the 11th graders taking the graduation tests, so they could know what to study during their absence.  One of the Units we are studying deals with French Caribbean islands and so each student chose an island to research--Martinique, Guadaloupe, St. Bart's, Haiti, or Marie-Galante.

le 14 mars--Honors French 3

Woe is me.  Woe is me.  I have graded the tests taken on 3/10, and the grades are sub-par.  Many students did not study at all; many have "senioritis."  The students have been given the option to take the grammar-vocabulary section over again, since that is the one that is weighted the heaviest.  All tests need to be made up by Friday (March 18th) (and some have until Monday, if they did not get their test returned today in class).  Anyway, they started with a warm-up dealing with today's vocabulary assignment.  They were assigned new vocabulary for Wednesday, meaning they have to make sure they know "l'adepte through reprendre."  They will be having a quick quiz on these vocab. words on Friday.  Also we reviewed the present, passe compose, imperfect, near future tenses, and the subjunctive.  This was to prepare for the introduction of our new text:  the simple future.  The simple future for regular verbs is very easy.  Just take the infinitive of ER and IR verbs and add ai, as, a, ons, ez, ont, and for RE verbs, drop the E and add the same endings.  The translation is:  will or shall do something.  After this we did another remediation exercise by reviewing French pronunciation for the letters A through G.  Homework involves studying the vocabulary and the notes about the future tense.

March 14th--French 2

Today's class began with a warm-up classifying French names for foods as either fruits, legumes, or viandes (fruit, veggies, meats).  We then went over vocabulary assigned for today, checked for cognates on our vocabulary list, and assigned vocab. for Wednesday.

 

 

  They are to learn all the verbs beginning with "faire la cuisine" to "verser."  After this we did a remediation drill on French pronunciation, specifically with letters A through D. We reviewed the verbs "prendre" and "faire" since they are used a lot with cooking and food. Then we talked about what a typical French breakfast (le petit déjeuner) looked like, and we taste tested some of the foods.  Finally, the class ended watching a DVD clip showing how to prepare some famous French recipies.  Anybody hungry yet?  The picture represents one of the recipies we watched--the Opera cake made with chocolate and coffee.  Bon appétit!

 

Week of March 7 through 11

Sorry, everyone, but I have not had a chance to "blog" until today.  Classes are in full swing again after returning from vacation.  This week every class has been tested.  French 2 was tested on Units 2 and 8 and will begin Unit 6 dealing with food. Honors French 3 was tested on Unit 2 and will begin Unit 3 about leisure activities.  Honors French 4 was tested on their Unit 5 and they will be beginning the study of 2 combined units dealing with politics and pastimes.  Finally, the AP student was tested on the French presidents and some grammar points.  She will be starting a French research project on a French president of her choice plus the present president, Nicolas Sarkosy.

le 2 mars--Honors French 3

Class went over Monday's warm-up done with the substitute, and also worked on today's warm-up. We went over the work packet they were assigned for Monday's substitute. They are having a major test on next Thursday, March 10th, on Unit 2.  They were given 2 essay questions to prepare in advance in French for the test.  On Friday, with the substitute, they will have another work packet.  We will go over that packet on Tuesday and also work on a study guide for Thursday's test.

Next French Club Meeting

Next French Club Meeting will be Tuesday, 3/8, to celebrate Mardi Gras.  This will happen immediately after school until 5PM.

le premier mars--French 2, blue days and le 2 mars French 2, white days

Had warm-up number 1 on conjugating reflexive verbs, reviewed command forms, and lui and leur.  The pronoun EN was introduced.  A couple of skits were presented.  French 2, blue days, has a major exam on Wednesday, March 9th. French 2, white days has their test on Thursday, March 10th.