NEWS FROM THE FRENCH CORNER
Grade 6 The students took a mini-quiz on expressions with avoir. Overall, they did well and to re-inforce the activity, they drew HENRY and gave the character every expressions they could think.
Grade 7 They reviewed their web of information (this was homework). They also received their rubric, which is their guideline for their story. The requirements are: 5 passé composé verbs with irregular verbs (avoir, faire, prendre...), 3X adverbs and follow the sheet you were working on today.
Thursday, you will have the period to work and show your rough copy.
due date is Tuesday, Nov.10
Grade 8 Today is presentation day! The students demonstrated their knowledge and creativity and more importantly, how they colloaborate on a project.
The presentations were followed by team critiques.
The rest of the period was spent with a team game to review the vocabulary from the unit.
Grade 9 worked on the relative pronouns: qui, que, ce qui and ce que. It took some time and the grade 10/11 used this activity as a refresher.
Grade 10/11 worked on the 'si' clause. They were able to get through this in the end. WELL DONE AND GREAT COLLOABORATION!
Tuesday, 3 November 2015
Thursday, 29 October 2015
NEWS FROM THE FRENCH CORNER
Grade 6 The students were hard at work learning expressions with avoir. They will have a short quiz on Tuesday.
They also caught up on Tuesday's work since several students were away at soccer. They are able to compare physical features from children to their parents and grand-parents.
Grade 7 have completed the writing of made up stories using pre-arranged words and pictures. They worked in different groups and although they had the same material to work with, the stories were all quite different.
Homework is to fill in the story web for their project. The rough drafts will be done in class next Tuesday.
Grade 8 The students have polished their scripts and had time to rehearse their lines. I had a few suggestions, made a few practice their pronunciation.
Here is the checklist for this project: invitation card, identity card for the detective, police report and script.
The students who had finished, watched parts of the movie TINTIN.
Grade 9 Continued with new unit, Les parfums. They worked at finding family words, antonyms and answered questions. If you are not finished, please complete this segment for Tuesday.
Grade 10/11 We were missing a few students (busy with the bake sale). They worked at the reading and comprehension components of La poutine. They started to learn about which verb to use with the conditionnel 'SI'.
HOMEWORK; finish today's sheet.
Grade 6 The students were hard at work learning expressions with avoir. They will have a short quiz on Tuesday.
They also caught up on Tuesday's work since several students were away at soccer. They are able to compare physical features from children to their parents and grand-parents.
Grade 7 have completed the writing of made up stories using pre-arranged words and pictures. They worked in different groups and although they had the same material to work with, the stories were all quite different.
Homework is to fill in the story web for their project. The rough drafts will be done in class next Tuesday.
Grade 8 The students have polished their scripts and had time to rehearse their lines. I had a few suggestions, made a few practice their pronunciation.
Here is the checklist for this project: invitation card, identity card for the detective, police report and script.
The students who had finished, watched parts of the movie TINTIN.
Grade 9 Continued with new unit, Les parfums. They worked at finding family words, antonyms and answered questions. If you are not finished, please complete this segment for Tuesday.
Grade 10/11 We were missing a few students (busy with the bake sale). They worked at the reading and comprehension components of La poutine. They started to learn about which verb to use with the conditionnel 'SI'.
HOMEWORK; finish today's sheet.
Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Aujourd'hui, nous avons fait....
NEWS FROM THE FRENCH CORNER
Grade 6 Several students were away to a soccer tournement. The rest of the class reviewed the verb 'porter'. We are continuing to describe what we wear, work on adjectives and their agreement with the nouns.
A warm welcome to Aly who is new to the class.
Grade 7 The students learned the difference between sortir and partir and how to conjugate them. Also, they learned how to form adverbs. Homework, complete p.28 and 78.
Grade 8 This week, the students are putting their final touch to their 'soirée mystère. They are polishing the various items needed and on Thursday they will have a rehearsal before presentation on Tuesday, Nov.3.
Grade 9 have started a new unit on perfume. The object is to have two camps: on promoting a new perfume and one banning the use of perfume or scents. Knowing these students, this could be interesting.
After reading the text: answer questions 1,3,5,6.
Grade 10/11 many of the students were away helping with the Bake Sale. Please read La poutine, make sure you understand the text, soresearch the vocabulary.
Grade 6 Several students were away to a soccer tournement. The rest of the class reviewed the verb 'porter'. We are continuing to describe what we wear, work on adjectives and their agreement with the nouns.
A warm welcome to Aly who is new to the class.
Grade 7 The students learned the difference between sortir and partir and how to conjugate them. Also, they learned how to form adverbs. Homework, complete p.28 and 78.
Grade 8 This week, the students are putting their final touch to their 'soirée mystère. They are polishing the various items needed and on Thursday they will have a rehearsal before presentation on Tuesday, Nov.3.
Grade 9 have started a new unit on perfume. The object is to have two camps: on promoting a new perfume and one banning the use of perfume or scents. Knowing these students, this could be interesting.
After reading the text: answer questions 1,3,5,6.
Grade 10/11 many of the students were away helping with the Bake Sale. Please read La poutine, make sure you understand the text, soresearch the vocabulary.
Monday, 26 October 2015
Wednesday PICTURE DAY!!!
NEWS FROM THE FRENCH CORNER
Just a quick reminder! LOOK YOUR BEST, IT IS PICTURE DAY TOMORROW.
MAKE SURE TO HAVE YOUR PICTURE CARD READY.
HAVE A GOOD EVENING AND SEE YOU IN THE MORNING.
Just a quick reminder! LOOK YOUR BEST, IT IS PICTURE DAY TOMORROW.
MAKE SURE TO HAVE YOUR PICTURE CARD READY.
HAVE A GOOD EVENING AND SEE YOU IN THE MORNING.
Thursday, 22 October 2015
Thursday, end of units!
NEWS FROM THE FRENCHade 6 worked on facial recognition and descriptions. They are quite interested with this type of investigative work. Tomorrow, they will continue with a few more activities.
Grade 7 The students only had about half of the classtime today as they were finishing their English test.
Students studied and re-did their French test on passé composé to up their marks.
Those who finished early, were able to read the class copies of Les Misérables. They quite enjoyed it.
Grade 8 are still doing work on their story line for the soirée- mystère. They have distributed their tasks amongst the group members. They have to produce an invitation card, an identity card, a police report and a skit of their murder mystery. To be continued next week.
Grade 9/10/11 all worked on idiomatic expressions. The grade 9 students acted as role models to the 10/11 students.
9- Teacher read the last chapter of La machine à rajeunir.
10/11 Took a short refresher test on l'imparfait after they listened to the last few presentations of a film critique.
Grade 7 The students only had about half of the classtime today as they were finishing their English test.
Students studied and re-did their French test on passé composé to up their marks.
Those who finished early, were able to read the class copies of Les Misérables. They quite enjoyed it.
Grade 8 are still doing work on their story line for the soirée- mystère. They have distributed their tasks amongst the group members. They have to produce an invitation card, an identity card, a police report and a skit of their murder mystery. To be continued next week.
Grade 9/10/11 all worked on idiomatic expressions. The grade 9 students acted as role models to the 10/11 students.
9- Teacher read the last chapter of La machine à rajeunir.
10/11 Took a short refresher test on l'imparfait after they listened to the last few presentations of a film critique.
Tuesday, 20 October 2015
Study Hall day is Friday
NEWS FROM THE FRENCH CORNER
NOTE *THAT LUNCH FORMS FOR NOVEMBER WERE DISTRIBUTED AND ARE DUE FRIDAY OCT. 23
*THE FORMS FOR PICTURE DAY WERE GIVEN OUT AS WELL.
Grade 6 Self-corrected last week's quiz and it will be marked for Thursday. There was a discussion about specialists at the police station whose job is to describe and take the description of suspects. There are so many ways to describe a face, hair etc...They read a selection in the textbook and homework is to re-read pp.37 to 39. to learn the vocabulary.
Grade 7 The students took a test on irregular passé composé verbs.
When they were done, they identified useful terminology to be used in their own version of a theft when they present la tâche finale.
In groups, they produced a story with a set of vocabulary and pictures. They are very creative! The groups need to complete this assignment for homework to present on Thursday, Oct.22. They will have 30 min. to polish the presentation on Thursday am.
Grade 8
The students received their marked tests as well as their projects. There will be opportunities to improve on some of the marks on Friday during Study Hall.
They took this period to get their scenario ready for their presentation on Thursday, Oct.22
The second step is to give a short police report and a solution for the crime
Grade 9 The presentations were interesting and everyone made an effort to include the questions as discussed in class and idiomatic expressions. The students had time to reflect on their work thus. They demonstrated much maturity during this process.
There is a test on l'imparfait on Thursday. This test is done from home. Study well to bring your marks up!
***A few students have emailed me their hard copy, BUT I hope this is not going to be the norm as you can very well understand that any teacher cannot run to the school photocopier for every students.
Grade 10/11 Also presented their film critiques and summary. Several students will have to present their hard copy on Thursday or even the whole project if they were not ready. Sadly, when this happens marks reflect their omission.
Grade 12 Arav did an excellent job when reading his letter of opinion on the subject of biodiversity. Well done!
NOTE *THAT LUNCH FORMS FOR NOVEMBER WERE DISTRIBUTED AND ARE DUE FRIDAY OCT. 23
*THE FORMS FOR PICTURE DAY WERE GIVEN OUT AS WELL.
Grade 6 Self-corrected last week's quiz and it will be marked for Thursday. There was a discussion about specialists at the police station whose job is to describe and take the description of suspects. There are so many ways to describe a face, hair etc...They read a selection in the textbook and homework is to re-read pp.37 to 39. to learn the vocabulary.
Grade 7 The students took a test on irregular passé composé verbs.
When they were done, they identified useful terminology to be used in their own version of a theft when they present la tâche finale.
In groups, they produced a story with a set of vocabulary and pictures. They are very creative! The groups need to complete this assignment for homework to present on Thursday, Oct.22. They will have 30 min. to polish the presentation on Thursday am.
Grade 8
The students received their marked tests as well as their projects. There will be opportunities to improve on some of the marks on Friday during Study Hall.
They took this period to get their scenario ready for their presentation on Thursday, Oct.22
The second step is to give a short police report and a solution for the crime
Grade 9 The presentations were interesting and everyone made an effort to include the questions as discussed in class and idiomatic expressions. The students had time to reflect on their work thus. They demonstrated much maturity during this process.
There is a test on l'imparfait on Thursday. This test is done from home. Study well to bring your marks up!
***A few students have emailed me their hard copy, BUT I hope this is not going to be the norm as you can very well understand that any teacher cannot run to the school photocopier for every students.
Grade 10/11 Also presented their film critiques and summary. Several students will have to present their hard copy on Thursday or even the whole project if they were not ready. Sadly, when this happens marks reflect their omission.
Grade 12 Arav did an excellent job when reading his letter of opinion on the subject of biodiversity. Well done!
Thursday, 15 October 2015
Jeudi,
NEWS FROM THE FRENCH CORNER
Grade 6 had a mini-quiz on the clothes. This vocabulary was given to study on Tuesday. The few who studied did well and we took up the text as a group to make sure that everyone was catching up.
Grade 7 took a pre-test on what they had to study from Tuesday: le passé composé. Part of the quiz was about a text with questions to test comprehension.
There is a test on Tuesday on the passé composé, irregular verbs, page 164.
Please make sure to review this material. Please also read Le cas de la planche à roulette.
Grade 8 The students took their test on regular and irregular verbs in the passé composé tense. They will get their results on Tuesday.
To end the period, they formed groups and started to copy and brainstorm what is required to send an invitation for a mystery evening and how to respond. They will continue this activity next week.
Grade 9 If you have not read the last 3 chapters (you know who you are...)
please do it before next Tuesday. We took up the idiomatic expressions and these are to be incorporated in their timeline/interview paragraph of their parents. This is a reversed role child/parents and pictures started to come in which added interesting comments.
This project is due on Tuesday, October 20 and it should include 1 or 2 idiomatic expressions (from the handout), imparfait and passé composé used appropriately.
Grade 10/11 worked on their film summary and critique. Their rough copy is well underway and should include: characters, plot, time and location, a short summary and then a personal critique. Use the grammar concepts introduced in the unit: imparfait, plus que parfait. Presentations are on Tuesday, October 20.
Grade 6 had a mini-quiz on the clothes. This vocabulary was given to study on Tuesday. The few who studied did well and we took up the text as a group to make sure that everyone was catching up.
Grade 7 took a pre-test on what they had to study from Tuesday: le passé composé. Part of the quiz was about a text with questions to test comprehension.
There is a test on Tuesday on the passé composé, irregular verbs, page 164.
Please make sure to review this material. Please also read Le cas de la planche à roulette.
Grade 8 The students took their test on regular and irregular verbs in the passé composé tense. They will get their results on Tuesday.
To end the period, they formed groups and started to copy and brainstorm what is required to send an invitation for a mystery evening and how to respond. They will continue this activity next week.
Grade 9 If you have not read the last 3 chapters (you know who you are...)
please do it before next Tuesday. We took up the idiomatic expressions and these are to be incorporated in their timeline/interview paragraph of their parents. This is a reversed role child/parents and pictures started to come in which added interesting comments.
This project is due on Tuesday, October 20 and it should include 1 or 2 idiomatic expressions (from the handout), imparfait and passé composé used appropriately.
Grade 10/11 worked on their film summary and critique. Their rough copy is well underway and should include: characters, plot, time and location, a short summary and then a personal critique. Use the grammar concepts introduced in the unit: imparfait, plus que parfait. Presentations are on Tuesday, October 20.
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