Aujourd'hui

1. A few more presentations of your stories from last class

2. You read a short story and chose whether to use passé composé or imparfait.

3. You listened to the song "Elle m'a aimé" and filled in the lyrics (missing imparfait or passé composé) - We also worked through the translation of the lyrics.

4. We watched part of this video "les comptines" en printemps

-nursery rhymes on the streets of Montreal in the 70s (and in the spring!)

5. Then we learned one! (the 2nd one in the video, just the alphabet en français)

Devoirs: Duolingo!

Today you wrote your own version of the "chandail de hockey" story, using your own toy, and your own sad ending. You made a collage (Pic Collage) or drew a picture of the events. You shared your story with people around you (Block 2, some of you shared with the class)- next class you will be sharing with a new group of students and I will ask a few people to present to the class (Block 4).

Devoirs: Duolingo

Double Block (Apr 6/7)

Aujourd'hui...

1. You did a warm-up where you described pictures: deciding what the background action was, what the interrupting action was (some pictures were during, some were after- and you had to make a guess: first in English, then in French!)

Imparfait (Background) quand... Interruption (Passé Composé - aux + pp)
e.g. Je dansais quand un ami a frappé à la porte

2. We then played a short round of Telephone Pictionary using the same formula as above (you write a sentence, you pass it, the next person draws a picture of your sentence, folds the paper over, they pass it, that next person has to write a sentence about the picture without seeing the original sentence)

3. When the paper returned to you, you unraveled it and looked at the whole story. You were then asked to spend a few minutes correcting the errors you saw in the sentences, and to share your story with your peers.

4. When you finished, you chose either passé composé or imparfait for this story (Blanche Neige, snow white!) on paper and then checked your answers online: http://fog.ccsf.edu/~creitan/blanche.htm

5. We then looked at another case of differentiating between passé composé and imparfait: Occasional vs. Habitual actions.

6. We played "un mensonge, deux vérités" (1 lie, 2 truths)
-> Where you were born (p.c.)
-> One thing you did all the time (imp = habitual)
-> One this you did one time (p.c. = occasional)

You all spent a few minutes writing out your sentences, I came around and checked them, you were put into two big groups, and you took turns sharing your sentences. You used p. 44/45 in the cahier to keep track of your peers lies- how to play: if you correctly guess the lie, you get 1 point. As the writer of the truths/lies, you get 2 points for everyone you fool on your turn.

7. You then did the second half of the imparfait worksheet from last week (B. Ma Jeunesse. Caroline parle de son enfance...) # 1 - 11. We went over the answers

8. You then read an article on Mia Wasikowska (the Actress from the 2010 Alice in Wonderland Movie): answering some True/False questions **Attention: the verb tenses!!, and doing a few imparfait questions on the sheet. We went over the answers

9. You then started the "Chandail du hockey" activity, where you rolled dice to find out the fate of your beloved childhood toy. Next class you will write about it, and share your story.

HW: Duolingo

Today you learned the difference between the passé composé and the imparfait. You were encouraged to take notes on the video we watched:

I asked you to watch this imparfait/passé composé video again for homework, 

doing the exercises at the end.

You did a charades-type activity using background (imparfait) and interrupting (passé composé) actions. You wrote a sentence in groups and came up with actions that you presented to the class.

e.g. Je dansais quand qqn a frappé à la porte

(don't forget that the passé composé has both an auxiliary and a past participle) 

Bien fait!

Devoirs: Duolingo, watch video again (doing exercises at the end)

Aujourd'hui

You had your Imparfait quiz, I gave you a few minutes at the beginning of class to review your notes.

We did a mini-interview about your favourite toy (good practice for final project) -answer in full sentences!
 Mon jouet préféré (p.33/34 to help come up with ideas)
 1. Quel jouet est-ce que tu avais quand tu étais jeune?
 2. Quel âge avais-tu?
 3. C’était quelle couleur?
 4. Qui t’as donné ce jouet?
 5. Où est le jouet maintenant?

 e.g.
1. Quel jouet est-ce que tu avais quand tu étais jeune? j’avais un camion de pompiers. 
2. Quel âge avais-tu? j’avais quatre ans. 
3. C’était quelle couleur? c’était rouge.
4. Qui t’as donné ce jouet? ma mère m’a donné le camion. 
5. Où est le jouet maintenant? j’ai donné le camion à mon frère.

I gave you some feedback, and we practiced the pronunciation of common mistakes:

Feedback:
Block 4:

quel, quand (K)

french r (rose, rouge, brun)*

jeune (make sure you pronounce the ’n’)****

louder**, more energy***, flow!**

jouet**** (not jouer)***

ans (silent s)**

maintenant (like main!) 

peluche (no accent)*

CE not C’est*

don’t forget to pronounce “é” (ma mère m’a donné)***

make sure you pronounce english words like French (auto, miniature)

colours go after the noun (un auto rouge) — not a part of BANGS (BAGSO)

est-ce que (all as one)* (s-keuh)

l’auto (put together)

mon/ma (make sure you use it for the right masc/feminine) 

ours (pronounce the s- YES!!!) 

dans (silent s) 

étagère (eh-ta-j-air)

:) - liaison b/w age and ans

:) - avais/étais

:) - some of you put lots of effort into the mini-presentation! 

Block 2

J’avais (not je vais)

sept (silent p)

ans (silent s)******** 

ce jouet (not c’est) 

jouet (not jouer)****

maintenant 

jeune / jaune *****

peluche*** (not pé)

donné ** 

r (gris, rose, brun)***

quand* (k sound)

où est (ooh, eh)

camion (nasal n) 

VOLUME! **

FLOW!!*

:) - liaison, between age and year (most of you did this!), still something to keep in mind 

:) - most of you had lots of expression

Devoirs: Duolingo!

Poisson d'avril!

You learned a little bit about Poisson d'Avril (April Fool's Day) today: see document here 

We also watched a Têtes à claques episode

You worked through the top half of this sheet: 

(The answers under the cut)

I will be giving you a quiz on the Imparfait Monday, April 4th: I will only be including verbs with regular conjugations -ER, -RE, -IR (but review your notes, I may include -CER and -GER verbs... those requiring extra e's, ç for some subjects) 

You worked on p. 30 of the cahier, we went over pronunciation of vocabulary, and we did a mix-n-mingle style activity where you asked each other one or two of the questions when the music stopped (using the imparfait: Avais-tu...) 

You started p. 31, and found out "what kind of child you were"

Bon weekend!

HW: Duolingo, study for quiz

Double Block (Mar 30/31)

- I checked your Feedback Frame

- For homework,  you were to ask your parents at what age you were when certain things happened in your life (first steps, read your first book.. etc.) from the box "À quel âge" on the "Quand j'étais jeune" worksheet. Today, you wrote out the sentences in full. We corrected the passé composé in it. You read the sentences to your partner (and decided on one to share with the class.)

- I gave you feedback to add to your log

qu = k (quand), do liaison between most numbers and the word ans (deux ans -> deu..zan, trois ans -> troi.. zan), ans the s is silent, make sure you are saying j'ai not je when speaking in the passé composé, premier/première


I gave you notes on the imparfait:

https://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/gr/tap5.html (more notes can be found here. The exercises we did in class and corrected can be found at the bottom of this page.)

Le chandail | The Hockey Sweater

In pairs, you highlighted all the cases of the imparfait that you could find on the front page of "Une Abominable feuille d'érable sur la glace" by Roch Carrier (there were 29!) and we went over the pronunciation of the highlighted verbs (paying close attention to the -ions). This story is about a young boy and what happened when he received the wrong hockey jersey to replace his old one (a true story! one of his childhood memories) 

In groups, you were assigned a section to read over and translate for the class. (I explained that there is a verb tense used in literary pieces: the passé simple, and any verbs that you didn't know, to put them into bescherelle to find the infinitive (looking at recherche exacte). e.g. fut = être) You were encouraged to come up with a little skit to accompany the translation/have lots of energy while reading. When we were done, I gave you some information about the story. (How cool is it that a line from the story used to be on the 5$ bill!) and you read out your sections.

We then watched an animation of the story in French:

To wrap up the day's activities you worked on p. 30 of your cahier- talking about your own childhood memories: your favourite place, your favourite vacation, your favourite elementary school teacher... etc.

Devoirs: For homework you were asked to think of a favourite childhood toy for an activity next class (Roch Carrier talked about his jersey, but we're going to talk about toys), and don't forget to do Duolingo. 


Music today: