Ms. Ellingsen

The next French Club Meeting

The next French Club Meeting will be on Monday, October 24th.  In both the morning and afternoon sessions we will be collecting T-shirt sizes, working with manipulating the color schemes for our new T-shirts. French Hallowe'en will be explained.

le 3 octobre au 7 octobre--AP and Honors French 2

These 2 classes did not really meet today due to a senior class meeting--they are all seniors!  However during the time we had we reviewed the conditional tense, and I went over upcoming assignments.  The Honors French 4 gentlemen have their Francophonie presentations due on Wednesday and will have a major Unit 1 test on Friday.  We have already begun to review for that.  The AP ladies will have an open-book, open-notes test on the entire book, Le Monstre dans le Métro on Wednesday.  Also on Wednesday, the AP ladies will be reviewing the passe simple and will also have exercises in Chapter 6, French 3 Years, on the passe simple to complete.  They have their writing prompt also due on Wednesday.  Basically everything is due for this Wednesday!

le 3 octobre au 7 octobre--Honors French 3

This week Honors French 3 will be reviewing the subjunctive mood, used after phrases of will, necessity, and possibility.  We reviewed the formation of the subjunctive (take the --ent form of the present tense, drop the ENT and add: e, es, e, ions, iez, ent).  They will also have to learn all highly irregular subjunctive verbs from page 45 in their textbook for Wednesday, and the slightly irregular subjunctive verbs from page 44 for Friday.  They had workbook exercises to do today and tomorrow:  workbooks page 14, 15, and 15, ex. 9, 10, and 13 dealing with the subjunctive.  We went over the rubrics for their group presentations about French vacation spots--Mali, Canada, Guadaloupe, Martinique, or Spain.  And they will meet in the Media Center for the next 2 class sessions (through Monday of next week).  Their presentations will be on the following dates:  Blue Class:  Monday, October 17th and White Class: Tuesday, October 18th.

This is a picture of a mosque in Mali.

le 3 octobre au 7 octobre--French 2

This week the French 2 students will be doing the following:  They will be reviewing the conjugations of aller (to go)--vais, vas, va, allons, allez, vont and savoir (to know a fact)---sais, sais, sait, savons, savez, savent, plus what these verbs mean when they are immediately following by an infinitive verbs--a word which ends in ER, IR, or RE. Aller plus an infinitive means "GOING TO DO SOMETHING," and savoi plus an infinitive means "KNOWING HOW TO DO SOMETHING."   ex.  Je vais faire les devoirs--I am going to do the homework.  Elle sait lire le français--She knows how to read French. The students were also introduced to the distinction between the verb savoir--to know a fact, to know how to do something and connaître--to know a person, to be acquainted with. They finished exercises on page 10 in their books (ex. 12 and 13) on savoir and connaitre today or tomorrow.  I am going to give them a pop quiz for their next class (Wednesday or Thursday) to see if they studied the 2 verbs.  I have also divided each class into research groups to study one of 4 French Impressionist painters--Dégas, Renoir, Monet, and Cézanne.   They (either Tuesday or Wednesday) have to read pages 20 and 21 in their books and to do exercises A and B on page 21.  Both groups will be making a small poster advertising a play, a TV, or a movie.  Later on this week the Blue class will begin a review of question words.  They will also do workbook pages 8 and 9, ex. A and C and textbook page 18, reading and exercises.  White Day will do the same next Monday.

This is one of the many beautiful paintings by Claude Monet.