le mardi 2 septembre 2014
WHAT WE DID IN CLASS
- Reminders
- iLrn: Listening and speaking exercises coming up aren’t optional: you can do them on your device or the Language Lab (open 8:00 – 4:30 this week).
- Don’t forget to use capital letters, periods, accents, etc.
- A few people haven’t signed up for iLrn : it’s required & there’s a 21-day free trial if you’re waiting for financial aid, etc. The iLrn page has info.
- Please do iLrn on time — About 20 people had at least one exercise late. 1st week, there was no penalty. Normally, there will be 10% for each day late.
- iLrn: Listening and speaking exercises coming up aren’t optional: you can do them on your device or the Language Lab (open 8:00 – 4:30 this week).
- Table francophone — Wednesdays 10:30-11:30 am in room Jones 241. Up to 2.5 points on your final course grade
INTRO / REVIEW
- Practice quiz (didn’t count, but to give an idea of general format, etc.). Don’t forget to study before coming and be in class on time
- Review classroom vocab together (p. 11).
- Qu’est-ce que c’est ? C’est une chaise, etc. Qui est-ce ? C’est un étudiant, etc.
- PowerPoint — Practice a formal conversation
SUBJECTS AND ÊTRE FOR DESCRIPTIONS
- Je suis de Memphis. Je is a subject pronoun
- p. 29, subjet pronouns
- p. 29, ex. 7 together
- Fill in together and repeat the conjugation of être (je suis, tu es, etc.)
- You can use être to talk about descriptions:
- Projector: Adjectifs : masculin et féminin (1st page)
- p. 15 has additional vocab
- pronunciation : brun vs brune like un versus une
- Together, we talking about how to switch nouns and adjectives from masculine to feminine, normally by adding -e : étudiant, étudiante, grand, grande, etc.
- Exceptions for feminine adjectives:
- p. 31
- nerveux, sérieux -> nerveuse, sérieuse
- optimiste -> optimiste (already an -e, don’t need another)
- note that fatigué (ends with an accent) does add an -e in the feminine because of the accent
- p. 16, La description de la personnalité.
- p. 16, ex. 10. Avec un partenaire.
- Modèle to show how the activity works
- p. 28 — singular vs. plural
- Adjectifs : singulier et pluriel (2nd page)
- Exceptions:
- beau, beaux
- vieux, vieux
- gris, gris
- If an adjective already ends in -s or -x, you don’t add another -s or -x to make it plural, you just leave it as it is
- p. 31, ex. 10.Together. Look at context (word that the adjective is describing) to decide the correct form (masc vs. fem, sing vs. pl.)
- Note that sometimes a word is singular in English but plural in French, and vice versa (les cheveux = hair — you have more than one hair)
- p. 16, ex. 11. Descriptions des célébrités. Avec un partenaire
- Read the descriptions (practice vocab, pronunciation)
- Guess what each is referring to
- Jeu : Guess who?
- Write a description of 3-4 phrases about yourself (p. 15, 16, 32-33 give some ideas)
- Try to come up with at least one thing to help us ID you (hair color : j’ai les cheveux blonds ; eyes : j’ai les yeux bruns, etc.)
- I collected your descriptions and we tried to guess who each one was referring to.
WHAT TO DO FOR HOMEWORK
- iLrn exercises due Wednesday at 11:59 pm
- Read pages indicated on course calendar before Thursday’s class
- Table francophone — Wednesdays 10:30-11:30 am in room Jones 241. Up to 2.5 points on your final course grade
- If you have questions, let me know!