🙋🏼‍♀️ Bonjour! This week I want you to try a new story on Duolingo. But first, review this new vocabulary:

1. argent - money

2. J'ai besoin - I need

3. cinéma - theater

4. étudier - to study

5. acheter - to buy

6. du pain - some bread

7. plus - more

8. film - movie

9. voiture - car (in France. You know that in Quebec, they say "auto").

Duolingo

Once you've logged in, go to Stories on the top bar. Choose "I need money!" Follow the prompts from there.

Great job to those who sent me a video or email last week saying that the two meanings for "fille" were "girl" and "daughter"! Très bien!

My question for you: What do you need money for?? Send me an email or video in French. An example might be: "J'ai besoin d'argent pour une nouvelle voiture" ou "un chiot" ou "un nouveau manteau"! Whatever you want! Grammar Tip: with "besoin" we always use DE or D' immediately after. Also keep up on your Duolinog xp points!

treimer@kcacademy.ca

🙋🏼‍♀️ Bonjour!

This week I want you to try these Family flashcards on Duolingo. Follow the link below and you can go straight there. But watch closely! You will need to type some of the words out, so pay attention to how they are spelled when you first see them! And pay attention to whether they are "le" or "la". Level Six is quite hard because it uses British words for "stroller and diaper", which are called "pram and nappy" in British English!

Flashcards on Family. Click on the stack of family cards to begin.

Great job to those who sent me a video or email saying they knew the jacket in last week's story was referred to as "elle" becasue the jacket is feminine! The jacket is a "she"!! Great work!

My question for you: The French word "fille" has two meanings in French. What are they? Send me an email or video!

treimer@kcacademy.ca

🙋🏼‍♀️ Bonjour!

Merci to Adora who sent an email letting me know she read last week's story. Congrats to Adora who now has 314 xp in Duolingo! Haiden is not far behind with 190! How about the rest of you try to catch up?!😬

Your main assignment is to go to Duolingo and listen to the story: "In the Clothing Store". If you don't remember how to log in to Duolingo, it's in Week 2 below.

• Log into Duolingo. Choose "stories" in the list along the top

• Find "In the Clothing Store"

• Listen to the story and answer the questions it asks. BUT read the vocab below first:

French 5 Duolingo

• There is some new vocab in this story:

  1. magasin - store
  2. chers - expensive
  3. veste - jacket
  4. parfaite - perfect
  5. cents - hundred
  6. euros - Euros (the money they use in France)
  7. trop - too
  8. bientot - soon
  9. travailles - work
  10. acheter - buy
  11. ces - these

My question for you: Why do they refer to the jacket as "elle"? Send me an email or video!

treimer@kcacademy.ca

🙋🏼‍♀️ Bonjour! Merci to Kiara, Adora and Haiden who let me know that they finished last week's story! Congrats to Haiden who got 190 xp in Duolingo last week!

Your main assignment is to go to the AIM portal and read along with a new reader called "Simon le grincheux"

• Log into the AIM Student Portal and click "Digital Primary French Library Pack". Remember your username is your first name and last name with a dash in between (no capitals, no spaces). Example: trisha-reimer. Your password is AIM (all capitals).

Link here: AIM Student Portal

• Find the book called "Simon le grincheux". Listen to the man as he reads the book, following the words with your eyes.

• Listen a second time, but speak out loud. Be sure to click "Mark Complete" after the book is done or I won't get a record that you've done it. You can slow down the speaking speed by clicking in the top left hand corner of the video. It should say "100%". A dropdown box will appear and you can alter the speed in order to speak along!

• There is some new vocab in this story:

  1. le beau temps - beautiful weather
  2. serre les poings et il montre les dents - tightens the fists and shows the teeth
  3. nuageux - cloudy
  4. tempêtes - storms
  5. gants - gloves
  6. un vent - a wind
  7. claquer les dents - chatter the teeth
  8. roues - cartwheels
  9. les brises - breeze
  10. tornades et les ouragans - tornados and hurricanes
  11. visage - face
  12. un vélo - a bike
  13. un toit - a roof
  14. son coeur - his heart
  15. Simon se rend compte - Simon realizes
  16. un poteau - a pole
  17. rendre sain et sauf - return safe and sound

Please send a video of you using one of these new vocab words in a simple French sentence! treimer@kcacademy.ca

Keep working on Duolingo this week if you have some extra time.

🙋🏼‍♀️ Bonjour! I want you to keep working on Duolingo this week if you have some extra time.

Otherwise, your main assignment is to go to the AIM portal and read along with a new reader called "Jean Michel Acrobate"

• Log into the AIM Student Portal and click "Digital Primary French Library Pack". Remember your username is your first name and last name with a dash in between (no capitals, no spaces). Example: trisha-reimer. Your password is AIM (all capitals).

Link to AIM Student Portal

• Find the book called "Jean Michel Acrobate". Listen to Wendy as she reads the book, following the words with your eyes.

• Listen a second time, but speak out loud with Wendy. Be sure to click "Mark Complete" after the book is done or I won't get a record that you've done it. You can slow down the speaking speed by clicking in the top left hand corner of the video. It should say "100%". A dropdown box will appear and you can alter the speed in order to speak along!

• There is some new vocab in this story:

  1. cadeau - present

  2. argent - money

  3. chemise - shirt (not the folders we use in class, but same word)

  4. vieille dame vend des chassures - old lady sells some shoes (this word for shoes that we use "souliers" is from Quebec)

  5. la roue - cartwheel

  6. concours - contest

  7. magasin - store

  8. achète - buy

If you can, please send me a video or photo of you doing this assignment, or a video of you using one of these new vocab words in a simple French sentence!

🙋🏼‍♀️ Bonjour! I want you to set up an account on Duolingo! Click this link to get to my classroom page:

French 5 Duolingo

• Enter your username and password. They are made automatically for you and are listed below.

• Please do the Placement Test first (green circle)

• After that, you can do as little or as much as you like! I'll be able to monitor your progress!

• Be sure to send me an email if you find things on Duolingo you don't understand!

That's it for now!

🙋🏼‍♀️ Bonjour! I want you to get settled into your other school work this week, so I am not assigning much for French. We are all learning a new way to do school, so I don't want to add too much to your plate! So for this week, I only want you to log onto the AIM site and watch the video titled "Le Negatif". Here's how you do it:

Log on to the AIM site! The address is sp.aimlanguagelearning.com. Your user name is your first name and last name separted by a dash. For example, mine would be trisha-reimer. No capitals! Your password is AIM.

• Start your lesson by clicking "les vidéos"

• Choose the video called "le négatif"

• Watch another French class follow their teacher 's gestures as they show how to change a sentence into negative. That means making it say "not" or "don't". Example: Je chante - I am singing. Je ne chante pas - I am not singing.

• You will notice that it changes sometimes! Can you figure out when or how this rule changes?

• Make sure to press Submit once you are done!

That's it for now! Next week we will discuss the rule for negitive sentences!

Bonne Chance!