French 1-Bienvenue!
Ms. Paupst
Web-based games and exercises at Quia.com
Beginner's French lessons from the BBC's "French Steps"
Daily Performance Assessment Rubric French-English cognates Listening to your child's story-Parent signature form Contractions (au, du, etc.) Pauvre Anne vocab and questions
Student work: Sample voki 1 (Marty) Sample voki 2 (Molly) Sample voki 3 (Dani) Sample voki 4 (Shannon) Sample voki 5 (Cole) Videos of quarter 3 skits are now on ning! Check out the group who made a wonderful guignol (puppet show)!
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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): Class notes day 4Week 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) practice your numbers: listening quizlet: practice days and months
Song for learning the days of the week Week 3: Chapter 1 notes jeudi Quiz tomorrow! Study sports/activities and this week's words from the packet (Chapter 1). Week 4: Chapter 1 Quebec worksheet (James-this is the homework for Wednesday) Weeks 5 : Chapter 2 Chanson (song)- La vie en rose quia-la famille, la famille 2 (fill words in paragraph)
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 Week 7: Chapter 3 notes Monday (places in town and school subjects) 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
quizlet cards for les vêtements quia vêtements 2 (read the list of terms) 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: Boulangerie/patisserie (bakery) ChocolaterieWeeks 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 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, 2/19. Here is my sample voki to give you the idea. Here are the project instructions. |