Le 11 novembre, c'est l'Armistice , pour commémorer cet événement les Français ont un jour férié. Mais que se passe-t'il exactement et que connaissez-vous de cette période. Pour cela, j'ai trouvé un texte sur le site de 1jour,1actu, vous y trouverez les renseignements que vous avez besoin. Lisez le texte et répondez aux questions:
Year 11 are starting to work on the topic of the holidays. To start with I would recommend that you work on your tenses, this will help you relate your previous holiday, how you feel about it, what was the place like and where you may go next year. The best place to revise tenses is on Languagesonline- Click on French then Grammar and then work your way through the different tenses.
When you talk about your holidays you need to describe the weather. You can learn some of the vocabulary relating to the weather here: http://www.bonjourdefrance.com/n11/meteo.html
2) Write a list of sentences on the weather that you can hear
3) Write down the weather forecast for Saturday in French.
At first Year 11 found the listening very fast and did not think that they would be able to cope with it but after a while they were able to impress me with some very accurate sentences.
Next lesson, we will read the weather forecasts and pretend to be weather forecasters. You can find maps of France here
Le dernier film va sortir demain . Connaissez-vous les personnages? Pour vous familiariser, visitez l'abécédaire d'Harry Potter :
Vous pouvez aussi voir la bande annonce en français sur Allo-ciné. La version originale (VO) a des sous-titres donc vous pourrez comparer l'anglais avec la traduction française.
Si vous allez au cinéma ce week-end, j'espère que le film correspondra à vos attentes. Pourquoi ne pas faire écrire un commentaire et le poster sur le site d'Allo-ciné?
Pour se préparer au GCSE, les 9ièmes ont préparé des petites présentations sur le présent et les verbes. J'espère que cela les aidera l'année prochaine!
Year 10 have been working on the topic of sport. We looked at a text from 1 jour, 1 actu.
First step, read the text aloud, students follow with ruler and cross out letters that they can't hear with a pencil. This make them realise that s, t, d etc at the end of a word are not pronounced.
We then looked at vocabulary. Students were given 4 colours and in groups worked on the text:
Green- I know the word : (je connais)
Orange- Cognates : ( mot comme en anglais)
Blue- Word I have come across before- not sure: ( je ne suis pas sûre)
Red- I do not know: ( je ne sais pas)
Last- students had to research 5 words in the dictionary and feedback to other students in the room.
The students progressed well during the lesson and have to do the questions for homework.
Year 9 are looking at Fair Trade. We started our lesson by watching a clip (the first 2 mins 30)- We gave our opinion on the clip that we had watched.
Je pense que le clip est sur....
Il s'agit de......
I gave students the words cut up. This helped them focus on the sound and written words.
Then students were issued with the script. They followed it with a ruler. The aim was to notice pronunciation. I then played it again and put the sound to mute , when I stopped the recording, students had to say what the next word would be.
We then coloured the text according to words we knew (green), cognates and words we thought we sort of knew (orange) and words that we did not know (red). Students had then to find words in the dictionary. Next lesson they will need to share the vocabulary that they have researched with other members of their group.
The next lessons will be spent exploiting the vocabulary, building sentences and discussing the text.
We have done the perfect. It is used in the past as well. What is the difference?
The imperfect describe an action in the past. You would use was or were in English. (The weather was nice. They were lots of beaches to explore)
It could also something that you used to do ( I used to play a lot of sport when I was your age. I did not use to watch telly all the time.)
How do you form the imperfect tense?
You need to look at the present tense of the verb that you want to use so for I used to play, you would look at to play= jouer in the present tense: Je joue etc. Then look at the nous form- nous jouons. When you have this, remove the nous and the -ons. You are left with the stem jou-
Use this to conjugate your verb and add the following endings:
Nearly all of them. To be: être is the only exception- You use the stem ét- instead.
Can we have some examples?
faire --- nous faisons. Remove nous and ons and conjugate
je faisais
tu faisais
il/elle/on faisait
nous faisions
vous faisiez
ils/elles faisaient
Now listen to this song. It is quite an old song but it tells the story of a young man who used to buy a pain au chocolat every morning at the bakery's. The young lady behind the counter was in love with him ......
Look at the worksheets below- You listen and complete with the appropriate missing verb. You can also cut the sentences and put them in the right order. I am also including the lyrics. To follow up make a cartoon of the song, you can use toondoon or Go animate.
Year 10 have been working on introducing themselves. They have done this quite a lot in Year 7, 8 and 9, so I thought that it would be better if they presented a puppet each. They spent part of the lesson looking at some texts and adapting them to their character. This allowed us also to revise dictionary skills. Here are some of the presentation which were made. Well done!!
I enjoy using songs in my classroom and as someone mentioned Stromae "Alors on danse" and that it could be linked with a phoneme lesson, I thought that Year 10 would enjoy it. Here is how the lesson went:
I played the song as they entered the classroom. Gave them the lyrics cut out and they had to put them in the right order. Then we looked at the lyrics and did some sound discrimination- Find as many words as you can with the sound- a / eu/ ou/ ille etc. They worked quite well and were able to recognise the sounds studied in the previous lesson.
They were keen to work out the meaning of the words in the song. I asked them to look for 5 words (their own choice) in the dictionary- When finished, they had to share their findings with other students so that they learnt from each other. We then explained the song in English and everyone left the room singing!!!
Next time, we will revise the present tense, we will try to recognise all the verbs in the present tense in the song and work out how to recognise irregular verbs when using the dictionary.
