NEWS FROM THE FRENCH CORNER

Grade 6 the students read; the begining of unit 2 Pauvre Alphonse. The story is about a prized piglet who gets stolen at a fair. There are a lot of descriptions of clothing and people.
Homework is to study the vocabulary, the spelling and everyone should be able to use the colour adjectives. 
Mini quiz on Thursday, Oct. 15

Grade 7 the students read a story aobut a stolen song and how they were able to re-trace how it was stolen. Everyone took turns at reading and their comfort level for reading aloud is greatly improving.
The big lesson today was about le passé composé of regular verbs and a few irregular ones as well.
Homework, study le passé composé, review its formation, study p.164 for irregular past participles. Mini-quiz on Thursday, Oct.15

Grade 8 The students read 'un groupe de discussion' from Cris et Frissons. and answered well a few questions. The lesson today was Le passé composé of irregular verbs. They had a lot of practice!
There is mini-quiz on Thursday on the use of passé composé p218 of the textbook.

Grade 9 The students read the last 3 chapters (independently) and have the list of 'expressions idiomatiques' sheet to complete.
They also brainstormed questions to use in their interview of their parents. This is part of their final task where they will take on the role of parents and their parents are the children.

Grade 10/11 took up their homework on discours direct et indirect. They also had a short lesson on passé simple. This is a verb tense that is used in formal historical texts.
They also independently read Les enfants du marais and  watch a short clip of this film.
La tâche finale is to find a movie they particularly liked and do a film critique.
On Thursday they will get the rubric to work on their text and presentation.

Grade 12 Write a letter of opinion to the editor and the topic is Bio-diversity.
Thursday will be used to edit the text before presentation.