le jeudi 28 août (Thu, Aug. 28)

WHAT WE DID IN CLASS

  • Good first day. Remember, if not sure about something or you feel a little lost:
    • ask a question (in French): Expressions utiles sheet I handed out
    • consider context (photos, words, gestures, etc.)
    • look in the vocab or glossary in the book
  • Contact — Email format, other services — if you have questions

iLrn — questions, quick reminder

  • Almost everyone signed up for iLrn. If you haven’t signed up, please do so today — free for 3 weeks, so everyone should be able to get connected.
    • A few people who signed up for iLrn didn’t do the exercises — please go back in and do them. This time only, I’m not counting late exercises for anyone, but in the future 10% off for each day late
    • Comments and corrections for anything you didn’t get 100% on or questions with more than one possible answer (personalized questions, etc.)

p. 26 — Informel et formel (Images)

  • tu une personne, (familière)
  • vous: une personne, formelle / respectueuse
  • pluriel: plus d’une personne, informelle / familière

Projector :  Friends. Ensemble

Formal versus informal

Projecteur — p. 7, Expressions utiles. Contexte formel / respectueux
    • Écoutez, puis répétez
Projecteur — p. 8, Expressions utiles. Contexte familier
    • Écoutez, puis répétez

PowerPoint — Situations : Informel / familier.

    • Play out the scenario with at least 2 people.
    • Quick corrections/review of expressions (p. 4, p. 6)
    • Afterwards, a group acted out the situation

Culture

  • p. 9-10, Perspectives culturelles. You already read this at home, just a few quick notes:
    • Bonjour, monsieur / Bonjour, madame
    • Discussion of greetings, leave-takings, handshakes vs. la  » bise  » (kissing on the cheek), smiling and tu vs. vous in France, Quebec, and African countries
  • p. 10 Avez-vous compris ? Decide if each action mentioned would be bien élevé ou mal élevé in that situation.

How to identify objects 

  • p. 11. Identification — Projecteur. Vocabulaire de la salle de classe. (Can look in glossary or p. 32 if you’re not sure what the image is)
    • Répétez certains mots de vocabulaire (cliquez)

• You should have studied these at home (the words are clickable). We repeated a few key words

• Qu’est-ce que c’est = what is that ?
• C’est un bureau (masculin ou féminin?)
• C’est une fenêtre (masculin ou féminin?)
• Ce sont des chaises (singulier ou pluriel?)

  • On the board: un = masculin, une = féminin, des = pluriel. Il faut mémoriser (memorize) le genre – masculin / féminin. For now for objects, it’s best to just memorize. (p. 32) For people, usually masc, fém. depending on the gender of the person, BUT some exceptions: un professeur (always masculine)
  • p. 12. Prononcez bien ! Listen to your teacher and say which are masculine (un) and which are feminine (une) 

prononciation : un — nasale (like Ann in English without the n)
prononciation : une — u (i, then round lips)

  • Prononciation — Liaison
    • last consonant in a word is usually silent in French
      • étudiant (silent -t) vs. étudiante (the t is not silent because it’s not at the end)
    • when there’s a vowel sound beginning the next word, you often link the two words up. It’s called « liaison », or linking, between the two words)
      • des livres (both -s at the end are silent) vs. des étudiants (the -s in des is pronounced because it comes before the vowel é in the next work)
      • un livre (silent n) vs. un étudiant (n pronounced)

 p. 12, Activité de prononciation : Avec un partenaire (Look at p. 11 — to see if it’s masc / fém)

Singulier versus pluriel

  • En général, quelle lettre pour le pluriel ? (ex. 6, #4 : singulier ou pluriel ? )
    • cahier -> cahiers
    • stylo -> stylos
  • Exception : -eau -> eaux — p. 28. Structure 1.3 Nombre

Plurals: The -s and -x endings are silent, but you still need them when writing

• p. 12, ex. 6. #1-6 with a partner

Est-ce que c’est X = is it X ? (p. 27)
Oui…
Non…
C’est un(e)…
Ce sont des…

Identification of people 

  • p. 13, Célébrités 
  • Read descriptions of celebrities on p. 13.
    • Attention —
      foot = football = soccer
  • Qui est-ce ? = Who is that? Introduction rapide.
    • Qu’est-ce que c’est ? (objet: What’s that?)
    • Qui est-ce ? (personne: Who’s that?)
  • p. 14, exercice. Qui est-ce ? Look back at p. 13 if you need to. If it’s wrong, then give the right answer.

WHAT’S FOR HOMEWORK  —

• By Friday night at 11:59 pm — do the iLrn exercises that are due

• Before Tuesday’s class, continue with the course calendar.

• READ: Thème, p. 15-16
• READ: Structures 1.4-1.5, p. 29-31
• READ: Perspectives culturelles, p. 17

 Bon week-end !

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