French

Slide Deck Open House Cooke French

Bonjour tout le monde!

Message from Mme Cooke:

If this is your first time coming to this site, feel free to look around at the resources and information shared below. Contact me if you have any questions about class,the French or ESL program, or Ligon in general. at lcooke@wcpss.net.


About Mme Cooke

Bonjour/Hello!

I am so excited to start a new school year with you! This is my 11th year teaching French and ESL at Ligon and I hope you will love Ligon and language as much as I do. I am a product of the Wake County Public School System, and I am honored to work in such a great educational system. After my WCPSS education, I studied French, History, and Education at Meredith College. While at Meredith, I studied abroad in Angers, France for a semester and in Skálholt, Iceland for a summer. I love to travel, and in 2012 I took students from Ligon and Enloe to Spain and France. I have also been to Germany, Austria, Italy, England, and Ireland. Aside from traveling, I enjoy reading, cooking, being outdoors, camping, and playing with my four year old.

I am looking forward to another great, challenging, and exciting year with both returning and new students.

Optional Resources/Ideas to Practice French Outside of Class


General Resources

Reading

  • Last year we participated in Manie Musicale- a bracket competition involving music! The official website (click here) has really cool activities, videos, biographies of artists, and more!

  • You can read stories on the duolingo app

  • Review what we have done this year: look through your ISN, revisit any quizlet links we used in class, reread our class stories

  • There are some free downloads (stories and story previews) on Fluency Matters online (click here)

  • Pretend to go shopping at an online French retailer

  • Find things in your house that have ingredients/instructions in French

  • Read a wikipedia banner (in French) on a French artist, musician, politician, writer, etc.


Listening

  • Listen to the Manie Musicale songs from last year (see reading section) or try lyrics training with the songs.

  • Practice on thisislanguage.com (check your email for account details/login info)

  • Turn your phone's voice assistant settings to French for a day

  • Listen to French music or a movie/TV show in French for 15-20 minutes

  • Listen to some of Alice Ayel's comprehensible stories (click here)


Writing

  • Create or re-create reflections of any vocab we have done. Make a comic, short story, play, wordart, etc

  • Text some friends in French!

  • Write another adventure for our class character

  • Duolingo has writing/translation practice

  • Read a book preview on Fluency Matters (see reading section) and write your opinion of what you read. I will look at these later to see what stories you want to read in class next year :)


Speaking

  • Call a friend and talk to them in French

  • Let me know you want to practice and we will set up a flipgrid or google voicemail topic to get feedback

  • Teach family members, pets, friends a few phrases in French

  • Duolingo has options to use your mic to practice phrases orally


Grammar

  • https://conjuguemos.com/activities/french/grammar/1 I will give more details for what activities would be beneficial later, but this is a great general resource

  • Levels 1B & 2- conjuguemos French for verb conjugation practices

  • This is language has grammar practices (you will be receiving account details/login info soon)