French 1-Bienvenue!


Ms. Paupst

Useful web sites

Web-based games and exercises at Quia.com
 
Beginner's French lessons from the BBC's "French Steps"




Daily Performance Assessment Rubric

Language

Department

Standards


French-English cognates 


Listening to your child's story-Parent signature form

Speaking rubric

Mid-semester self evaluation

Contractions (au, du, etc.)

Pauvre Anne vocab and questions

French1Final

reviewsheet.doc

 

Student work:

Sample voki 1 (Marty)

Sample voki 2 (Molly)

Sample voki 3 (Dani)

Sample voki 4 (Shannon)

Sample voki 5 (Cole)

Oral due 3/19/09

Videos of quarter 3 skits are now on ningCheck out the group who made a wonderful guignol (puppet show)!

 

Welcome to French 1!  Please check back regularly for updated course information.


Make your own flashcards on quizlet or search for sets others have created.

This class uses a language-learning methodology called TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling).  Click on this link for more information about this method.   

Here is a sample TPRS story:  week 5 in a standard-level French 1 class.  (Vocabulary from Chapter 2 in Look, I can talk.)

Here is an example of a TRPS story in a French 1 standard class.  This is the third week of class.

Intro (week 1):

Intro packet

Syllabus

Class notes day 1

Class notes day 2,

Class notes day 3

Class notes day 4

Week 2

Class notes Monday (Homework: make cards for next 10 actions)

Class notes Tuesday (Homework: ten more cards for actions)

Class notes Wednesday (HW: last set of cards for actions)

Class notes Thursday (homework: study for test on  1st page of packet, actions, numbers, colors, weather, time)

Class notes Friday

practice your numbers: listening

practice numbers: written

practice telling time

quizlet: practice days and months

quizlet: colors

quizlet: body parts

quizlet: classroom objects

BBC weather

BBC Je m’appelle

Song for learning the days of the week


Week 3: Chapter 1

Blue book vocab list

Class notes lundi

Class notes mardi

Class notes mercredi

notes jeudi Quiz tomorrow!  Study sports/activities and this week's words from the packet (Chapter 1).

Week 4: Chapter 1

class notes lundi

class notes mardi

class notes mercredi

class notes jeudi

Quebec worksheet (James-this is the homework for Wednesday)


Weeks 5 : Chapter 2

Chanson (song)- La vie en rose

class notes Monday

class notes Tuesday

class notes Wednesday

class notes Thursday

PowerPoint on descriptions

quizlet: la famille

quia-la famille, la famille 2 (fill words in paragraph)

BBC family

Possessive adjective chart("my", "your", etc.)  Tu use with family tree

February is Carnival time!  Check out the video on the Carnival of Nice in the south of France

Week 6: Chapter 2 continued

notes Monday

notes Tuesday

notes Wednesday 

notes Thursday

Week 7: Chapter 3

notes Monday (places in town and school subjects)

notes Tuesday (mardi Gras)

notes Wednesday (Homework: make cards for chap 3 words 8-16.  Quiz tomorrow on school subjects and places in a town)

notes Thursday (no homework over break.)

Weeks 8 & 9: Chap 4

BBC clothes shopping

quizlet cards for les vêtements

quia: les vêtements 1 (Be sure to look at the list of terms first; some of these are different from the words we learned)

quia vêtements 2 (read the list of terms)

quia vêtements 3 

quia vêtements 4 (vocab for shopping for clothes and trying them on-see list of terms)


Week 10: Chapter 5


Weeks 11 & 12: Chapter 6

quizlet: food and mealtime vocab

Food shopping videos:

The outdoor market

Boulangerie/patisserie (bakery)

Fromagerie (cheese shop)

Chocolaterie


Weeks 13 & 14: Paris Project



 100 most common verbs in French: do you know them all? :)

5/20: All voicethread info is now here

3/29/09:  Here is another great pronunciation site!  Click on "virelangues" for really good pronunciation activities.



TPRS story Podcasts!  Listen and write me a summary of one of these stories in English for extra credit!

1. "La princesse et la souris"

2.  "Targetmaster" (incredibly awesome robot story!)

3.  "Le transformer et le dilemme culinaire" (also an awesome robot story)

4.  Une surprise pour Bumblebee (more robots)

 

Chez Mimi video transcripts here

Chez Mimi summaries here

Chez Mimi activities

Resources for the Extra series


Want more comprehensible input?  "French Steps" is an excellent beginner French series from the BBC.

LIstening activities from about.com

From 2010:

Voki update!  If you are having trouble publishing your voki, try creating an account FIRST, before you start recording.  (Thanks for the suggestions, Devon!) 

Tell a story using a voki !  This will count as an oral test grade and is due Thursday, 2/19Here is my sample voki to give you the idea.  Here are the project instructions.