Links to music videos (les clips)

Web links for audio, video and other content in French

French pronunciation guide


review sheet from French 1

 Possessive adjective chart

rubric for oral evaluations

Campus tour in Chinese
 

Recipes:

Recipe Actvity Directions

Recipe rubric

Examples of French recipes (des recettes)

More recipes

Ahmed cooks crepes!

Student recipe projects:

Crêpes

Creme brulee (Merci John et Andy!)

Week 1:

2011 syllabus

Bisous d'eskimo lyrics

Partner interview class notes

regular verb conjugation practice

Week 2:

Song for learning the days of the week

Sample pen pal letters

Pen pal letter project instructions

irregular verb conjugation practice

more irregular verb practice: aller, être, avoir, faire, prendre

Tête à claques: L'Ecole !  And with English subtitles La rentrée, and with English subtitles

Week 3:

Hotels, Bed and Breakfasts: how to reserve a hotel room

video series 1 on "Hotel requests" from BBC (asking for things in a hotel, good for skits)

video series 2 on Les chambres d'hôtes (B and B's)

video series 3 on Booking a Gîte (country house)

passé composé exercises 1

passé composé exercises 2: matching French-English

passé composé 3

passé composé 4

When your classmates make presentations, you MUST give them feedback in French!  Here is a list of helpful phrases.

Week 4:

passé composé with être practice: 1.choosing avoir or être

2.  defining verbs that take etre

3.  practicing agreement with être verbs

4.  choose avoir or être: multiple choice

5.  translate English-French in the passé composé

BBC video: directions and getting your bearings (French steps)

BBC video:  getting driving directions (Ma France)

Campus map instructions

Week 5

direct and indirect object pronoun: exercises 1

direct object exercises 2

direct object exercises 3

direct object 4 (with infinitives)

direct and indirect 5

indirect: past tense 6

Week 6

vocab from doctor and pharmacy unit (class notes 9/26)

Reflexive verbs :class notes (9/27)

class notes 9/28

class notes 9/29

links for voicethreads:

A Block B Block C Block

Reflexive verbs: an explanation

reflexive verbs in the present tense:  exercise 1

reflexive verbs present tense exercise 2

Week 7:

class notes 10/3

Sénégal


Idiom project description

sample idiom video: poser un lapin, se porter comme le pont neuf

Test yourself on idioms: click on "jeu de l'oie"

List of Expressions idiomatiques avec images (thanks Yann from Azurlingua for the list!)

Idioms with illustrations from TV5 (more idioms and Quebecois idioms!)

List of 100 idioms with English translations


Week 8

liste de vocabulaire:  l'Automne

Class notes 10/10

Class notes 10/11

L'impératif (commands) explanation and practice

Our idiom videos


QUARTER 2

Week 9

Mid semester self-evaluation: please fill out this online survey

Artist project instructions:

Accelerated

Standard

vocab for Artist project

sample standard-level artist presentation

Artist resources from our library:  scroll down to Grove Art online and search for your artist.  Lots of great info.  Ask me for password and username. 

Class notes 10/19

class notes 10/21

Imperfect (imparfait) tense: explanation and exercises 1

exercise 2: choose imparfait or passé composé (just choose, don't need to conjugate)

exercise 3: conjugate imparfait or pc (harder)

exercise 4: imparfait or pc

Week 10

SNCF train activity (here is one possible itinerary for this train activity)

Class notes 10/24-10/25 (study this for Friday's quiz)

Class notes 10/26

10/28

Regions of France:

Region assignment description and vocab list

Overview of the regions of France (click on the names of regions on the right for an overview), Map and quiz of France's regions

Info on the regions of France from Fodor's, Frommer's (scroll down to "regions"), and  Lonely Planet

student work: Bretagne, Monaco/Monte Carlo (Lizzy and Aglaia!) CotedAzur.ppt, MIDI-PYRENEES.ppt, Alsace (Thanks Hannah!), Example of a Voicethread on Normandie (sounds like this is a native speaker)

Week 11

class notes 11/1

le pronom "en": exercice (start with this one), exercice 2

class notes 11/2 ("en")

class notes 11/3, pc v imp practice from 11/3 (Laurence, Lizz-do this)


Week 12

class notes 11/8

Le voyage de sa vie:  Powerpoint sur la Suisse

Liste de vocabulaire et questions

VDSV Comprehension questions: Chap 1, Chap 2, Chap 3, Chap 4

Chap 5

class notes 11/9 (vocab for Chap 1 VDSV)

class notes 11/10

practice with the pronoun "y"


class notes 11/11

Week 13

Class notes 11/14

Class notes 11/15

Class notes 11/16
Class notes 11/17
Class notes 11/18 website for Friday's song activity: lyricstraining.com
Handout for song activity

Extra credit:  Watch this adorable video about a French Canadian boy and his idol, the hockey player Maurice Richard and write a summary in French.  No time limit.

Week 14

Class notes 11/21


Class notes 11/22

Syllabus for Voyage de sa vie, including information on the TEST


Week 15

grammar review packet

verb chart-for extra credit

oral for final-assignment description

class notes 11/29 (review)

class notes 11/30 (food vocab for project)

sample French recipes

class notes 12/1

Week 16

class notes 12/5 (includes what topics to study for vocab portion of final exam)

vidéo Saint Nicolas from 12/5

listening on the Tour Eiffel from 12/6

class notes 12/6

révision de chiffres (number review)

review exercises from the Bon Voyage textbook

class notes 12/9 (including listening comprehension practice info)

listening practice transcripts from 12/9 (see 2011 Level 2)


Course surveys:

A Block:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/paupstkaf2011
 
B Block:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/paupstkbf2011
 
C Block:
 
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/paupstkcf2011


Quebec:

Powerpoint of Quebec City images in winter


Quebec City info from the Travel Channel (This should help with your homework)

Quebec City from World web (check out the photo slideshow on the left)

Explore Quebec City (video from Chicago Tribune)

Very detailed PowerPoint of Quebec from the tourism office (Choose the first option under "FRANCAIS")





Clip (video) de "Ta Main" de Gregoire

100 most common verbs: do you know them all?

Review games:

A great site for reviewing grammar and vocab with listening

Numbers review: http://www.quia.com/jg/512859.html

Classroom objects: http://www.quia.com/cc/910843.html

 

2008 information:

We are singing in FRESHMAN CHAPEL Wednesday 12/10.  Be there a few minutes early and tell your advisor you won't be in chapel!

See Academy students singing "Un monde parfait" in Chapel

Directions for Voyage de sa vie assessment (yes, it's a skit!)

Get ready to sing in Chapel on December 2 (Tuesday after Thanksgiving break)!  Last practice session Monday 12/2 in Fuller BASEMENT RIGHT after school! 

Please be there a few minutes EARLY on Tuesday morning so we can get set up!

Un monde parfait (remix) videoon youtube, mp3 and lyrics

Another video of Un Monde Parfait

 

Interactive videos and exercises on the theme of "cooking" from the BBC (check out the amazing moustache on the little French chef)

Cooking show from French TV

Video for "Je t'aimais, je t'aime et je t'aimerai"

 Region projects due Thursday 11/6 (Friday 11/7 for D Block).  See left for more info.

Due Monday 10/27: Self-evaluation of your oral test and corrections from the timed writing protion of your last written test.  Orals can be found at http://kpaupst.stjlabs.com/  Directions for the self-evaluation are here.

Curious about the French phonetic alphabet?

 

Next test on Chapters 2, 3 and Presque Mort:

Monday 10/13: Oral

Tuesday 10/14: Written

Oral presentations on French artists are due Thursday, September 25.