Friday, February 28, 2020

We worked with our new verb avoir today. Students complete "Devoir #29 - avoir" worksheet and worksheet pg 50 activity 19B where they wrote each sentence in the affirmative and negative, which models Tuesday's assessment. I also played the songs for our March Madness of French music and gave them some background information on each artist we listened to today. Students can vote by going to my website mmepayer.weebly.com and clicking on the music website at the bottom of the page. You need to be logged in to your aaps email to view the videos and to vote.
We also updated their self-assessment sheets.

Upcoming assessment - avoir - Tuesday, March 3rd

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

As we celebrated Mardi Gras with croissants (merci Benny's Bakery!!), I showed three short videos about Mardi Gras history and traditions. After I passed out all the croissants. I asked questions from the video and students could choose a Mardi Gras prize if they wanted.

Monday, February 24, 2020

We worked with our age and name vocab today. Students worked with a partner to do two different question and answer activities that I displayed on the board. Then we took notes on our new verb "avoir". Then students completed an informal writing assessment for me giving peoples name, age and how they would be related to them based on the paper I gave them.

Friday, February 21, 2020

Students took their family assessment today. Then we took notes on age. Then I displayed a family tree with names and ages and students had to ask their partner 5 questions based on the family tree. Then I asked them questions.

Thursday, February 20, 2020

We continued to work with our family member vocab. We went over the homework. Then students completed 10 sentences based on a family tree I gave to them. Students also completed their March Madness of French Music brackets. Then students used the computers to go to quizlet or conjuguemos to practice for their assessment tomorrow.

Assessment tomorrow: La famille - family tree & sibling sentences

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

We finished our notes on vocab B with how to ask and give someone's name. We went over the homework. We practiced a lot today, students completed: Devoir #27 back page; lecon 1 worksheet pg 23 #1 and pg 24 #2; La Famille (Pratique) worksheet #22. Then homework is the "As-tu des frères ou des soeurs" worksheet.

Upcoming assessment: La famille (family tree and writing sentences about how many siblings you have) - Friday, Feb 21st.

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

We worked with our family member words today. We also took notes on part of vocab B: numbers 1-4 and the My chart at the bottom of page.
Students then completed an activity I had on the board using our new "my" words in French. Then students completed pg 29 in their chapitre 4 packet. Then they completed "Devoir #27", this is homework if they didn't finish it.

Monday, February 17, 2020

We worked with our "Club des Quatre" story for part of class today. Students answered the questions and the questions on the back. Then they took notes on La Famille - family members which is our next unit.

Friday, February 14, 2020

Students took their faire and inversion assessment then we read through the story "Le Club des Quatre".

Thursday, February 13, 2020

We practiced one more day for their assessment tomorrow. Students completed these in their packet: pg 80 Act #3, pg 82 (all of it) - section two will be like the extra credit tomorrow where students have to write the question that would've been asked to get that answer. They may use the long way or short way of asking questions for this. We went over the answers. Then we did a practice dictée and went over the answers. Then I gave them a short story to read in French. They had to highlight the words they didn't know and tomorrow after the assessment we will be going over it.

Assessment tomorrow: Inversion questions and faire conjugations

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

We went over the homework then continued to practice faire and inversion questions. Students completed lecon 8 revision parts c and d. Then they create 4 questions with est-ce que of their own and exchanged questions with a partner and rewrote their partners questions in inversion.

Upcoming assessment: inversion questions and faire - Friday, Feb 14th

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

We took notes on how to make inversion questions today. We also continued to work with our verb faire. Students completed "Interr Exp Practice" worksheet part c - making questions with inversion. Then they completed pg 78 part D and pg 80 & 81 act #3s in their packet.

Upcoming assessment: faire & inversion - Fri, Feb 14th

Monday, February 10, 2020

We worked with our verb faire today. Students completed an activity on the board with a partner then they used the computers to go to conjuguemos to practice faire.

Friday, February 7, 2020

Students took their interrogative expression and questions with est-ce que assessment today. Then we took notes on a new verb called faire. We did an activity practicing our new conjugations from the book.

Thursday, February 6, 2020

We worked one last day on our interrogative expressions and forming questions with est-ce que. We did another listening practice. Then students completed sections A and B of the Lecon 8 Revision worksheet. Then they completed pg 80 A Activite 1 and pg 81 B activite 1 and 2. Then they had a few minutes to review with someone else however they wished.

Assessment tomorrow: Listening, interrogative expression fill ins and making questions with est-ce que

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

We continued to work with our interrogative expressions and questions with est-ce que. We went over the homework and then we did a round of "dix" with our interrogative expressions but in English, which was much harder than simply saying the French word. We then practiced two listening activities like will be part of their assessment this Friday. Students then individually completed the handwritten worksheet filling in the interrogative expression in the blank.

Upcoming assessment: Interrogative expressions and questions with est-ce que

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

We continued to work with our interrogative expressions and making questions with est-ce que. We went over the homework and then took notes on question clues for each interrogative expression. Students then practiced with a partner and an activity I displayed on the board. Then they completed pg 77 #1 and pg 80 activite #2 in their packet and we went over the answers. We then played a version of "dix" with our interrogative expressions. Their homework was all of section A and 6-10 on section B of the "Interr Exp Practice" worksheet.

Monday, February 3, 2020

Students received all their papers for the next lesson. Then we took notes on interrogative expressions today. We also talked about how to form questions with "est-ce que". Students completed part B 1-5 on the "Interr Exp Practice" worksheet.