In class today (followed by homework & reminders)

• People did their presentations
• We finished the review together
  • Review sheets here
  • Answer key for the final exam review.
  • Find out the exam time for your class here on the University’s official schedule. I sent you a reminder with this information by email, but it’s your responsibility to be there at the right day and time.
  • I’ll also be at the final exam 30 minutes early so I can answer any last questions you have and am available before then by email, Skype, FaceTime, etc. to answer questions.
• Video from Géraldine (from Comme Une Française) reviewing how to do Yes/No questions.

WHAT TO DO AT HOME, reminders, etc.

• Find out the exam time for your class here on the University’s official schedule. I’ll also send a reminder, but it’s your responsibility to be there at the right day and time.

• Lille study abroad info. If you’re interested in more info, please contact me to let me know!
• ORAL PRESENTATIONS
  • IMPORTANT: If you didn’t present and haven’t already done so, please let me know why you didn’t present to see if there’s a possibility for you to make it up.

In class today (followed by homework & reminders)

• People did their presentations
• We started the review together
  • Review sheets here
  • We’ll continue to practice with this Tuesday after Thanksgiving Break and it’s considered a regular attendance day, so please make sure to be there on Tuesday!
• Video from Géraldine (from Comme Une Française) reviewing how to do Yes/No questions! Please look at this on your own, or I’ll show this (or show it again depending on the section!) on our last day in class so we can discuss it.

WHAT TO DO AT HOME, reminders, etc.

• iLrn due Wednesday night
• Lille study abroad info. If you’re interested in more info, please contact me to let me know!
• ORAL PRESENTATIONS
  • Information sheet here
  • 9:40 class — Presentation sign-up and topics
  • 11:20 class — Presentation sign-up and topics
  • IMPORTANT: If you haven’t picked a topic, please email me RIGHT AWAY. You need to be signed up and have an approved topic before you can present.
  • IMPORTANT: If you were supposed to present already and didn’t, please let me know why you didn’t present to see if there’s a possibility for you to make it up.

Activités en classe (followed by homework)

Météo

• Projecteur : Températures Celsius, or why you go to the beach in France when it’s 32 degrees. (FYI, not directly tests on final but good to know!)
• Écoutez et notez. Carte (map) à la page 139. Listen and decide whether each sentence is true or false (exemple : À Perpignan il y a des nuages)
• Et aujourd’hui à Memphis ? Quel temps fait-il à Memphis ? Et dans la salle de classe — il fait chaud / froid / frais / etc. ?

Re :  les verbes -re

• Exercice sur papier
• Réponses ensemble

Les questions Oui / Non

• Nous avons parlé des invitations : Tu veux aller au cinéma ? Oui, cool ! Euh, j’sais pas. Non, c’est pas possible. Aujourd’hui, nous allons parler d’une autre stratégie importante pour la conversation — comment poser des questions.
• p. 141. Imaginez que vous êtes à une fête, une célébration avec des amis. (une fête = holiday, mais aussi = party)
• Regardez la photo. Voici des questions.

• p. 152. Four main ways to ask Oui/Non questions
  • a) intonation (1st bullet point in the book)
  • b) est-ce que (2nd point — Est-ce que, ça veut dire tout simplement que c’est une question. It’s just a “chunk” that means “hey, this is a question”)
  • c) n’est-ce pas (3rd point). In English: isn’t it? are you? don’t we? etc. In French, all of those can be said by n’est-ce pas, no need to change it. Hein is like huh or right in English
  • d) inversion (4th point — C’est un peu plus formel)
    • Notice that you add a -t- when the verb ends in a vowel and the next word starts with a vowel: Va-il (wrong) => Va-t-il (correct) au théâtre ?
    • Note #3 in book. We can do something similar sometimes in English.
      • (So) Véronique, does she study French?
      • Véronique étudie-t-elle le français ?
  • You should be able to understand and recognize all of these, and should be able to write all four types of questions. For intonation, you should be able to write questions like Va-t-il au théâtre, Aimes-tu le français, etc. but won’t be expected to do ones with a noun and pronoun (Véronique étudie-t-elle le français ?), but you should understand it.
• TABLEAU OUI / NON : Travail individuel — You did them on your own and we went over some examples of each type.

• p. 143, ex. 19. En groupes de 5 personnes. Each person has a role
  • • intonation
  • • est-ce que
  • • n’est-ce pas (hein / non)
  • • inversion
  • • réponse (answer in negative or affirmative, whichever you prefer)

Les questions d’information

•  Sheet « Demandes d’information ».
  • Ce sont des demandes d’information (des questions d’informations)
  • You’re looking for specific info, not Yes/No answers
• Tournez à la page 153. Expressions and types of Info questions
  • a) intonation (1st bullet point in the bouquin)
  • b) est-ce que (2nd point — Est-ce que, ça veut dire tout simplement que c’est une question. It;s just a “chunk” that means “hey, this is a question”)
  • c) n’est-ce pas (PAS POUR LES QUESTIONS D’INFORMATION)
  • d) inversion (4th point — C’est un peu plus formel)
• Sheet —  «  INFORMATION QUESTIONS »
  • We went over each of the mini-sections, first the question words, then the examples, and you did the exercises to practice.

WHAT TO DO AT HOME, reminders, etc.

• ORAL PRESENTATIONS
  • Information sheet here
  • 9:40 class — Presentation sign-up and topics
  • 11:20 class — Presentation sign-up and topics
  • IMPORTANT: If you haven’t signed up for a day to present in class (Tuesday, Nov. 25 or Tuesday, Dec. 2) OR you haven’t picked a topic, please email me RIGHT AWAY. You need to be signed up and have an approved topic before you can present.

WHAT WE DID TODAY IN CLASS (followed by homework and reminders)

Pop quiz!

I collected the Composition (Details here)

p. 134, Rendez-vous au café. 

• Questions sur le vocabulaire
• Discussion of a few vocab words

• Rendez-vous = appointment, get-together, date (doesn’t have to be romantic)
• un demi = une bière [ un demi = 0,25 l ≈ 8,45 onces ≈ une demie pinte ]
• un rouge = un vin rouge
• un (vin) blanc
• une limonade = lemon-flavored soda
• un café crème = a coffee with cream
• French coffee is much stronger than American coffee, so if you go there be careful if you’re not a big coffee drinker!
• un thé (au) citron = tea with lemon
• un thé glacé = iced tea
• une infusion : herbal tea
• sweet tea doesn’t really exist in France (or the northern US for that matter!) — but you could say « un thé sucré » to give a general idea

p. 134, ex. 8 Individuel

• (Vocab, p. 132, 154-5)
• frais, fraîche = cool (related to the word « refreshment » in English)

p. 135 Commandons — Expressions utiles

• L’addition s’il vous plaît : Très important !! In France, they usually leave you alone to chat — giving you the bill would be like rushing you. If you don’t come out and ask for the check, you may wait a very long time!

Jeu de rôles !

• Groupes de 3
• Fiche : Passez une commande

• p. 149, Verbe prendre (to take)

• I’ll take/have some coffee -> Je PRENDS un café

• p. 150 comprendre, apprendre

• Conjugate comprendre ensemble to get down the pattern
• p. 151, ex. 7. ensemble
  • Marie et Paul, ils prennent un café
  • Et vous, qu’est-ce que vous prenez en général ?

Moi, je prends … c’est un pronom tonique

p. 148-9, Pronoms toniques / accentués. Répétez

• Four main uses
  • Emphase
  • Après «être» : C’est moi, C’est toi
  • Phrases incomplètes : Et moi? Toi aussi.
  • Après prépositions : Prepositions are connector words that indicate the relationship between nouns (spacial or figurative)
  • avec moi, chez toi, pour nous, etc.
• p. 149, ex. 5. Ensemble. Réponses correctes

p. 135, Prononcez. Travail ensemble

Deux autres verbes importants quand vous êtes au café : boire et vendre

• p. 150. Verbe boire (irregular -re verb). Conjuguez. This is another irregular -re verb.
• p. 150, regular -re verbs (vendre, attendre, etc.)

• Répétez attendre
  • to wait for (in French, the « for » isn’t translated : J’attends le bus NOT pour le bus)
  • Conjuguez répondre
  • Note that the –d– IS kept in the plural for regular -re verbs, so it’s DIFFERENT from verbs like prendre (p. 149)
  • For prendre and verbs that end in prendre, there’s no -d- in the plural.

p. 151, ex. 8

• ATTENTION : Some regular, some irregular

La météo (weather).  Quel temps fait-il aujourd’hui ?

• Images sur le projecteur
• p. 138. D’autres descriptions.
• p. 139, ex. 14. Avec un partenaire. En français

Et à Memphis aujourd’hui ?

I also handed back the Module 4 tests. If you have any questions, please come see me. As I mentioned, a lot of people lost points on little but important things (spelling or accents, not following the directions, etc.).

WHAT TO DO AT HOME, reminders, etc.

Reminders —

• Please think of a topic for your oral presentation and sign up if you haven’t yet (information sheet here; I will put the schedule online soon)
• One more quiz sometime this chapter

WHAT WE DID IN CLASS

Il a neigé (snowed) ! Il fait froid (it’s cold)

• Voici une chanson pour l’hiver : Vive le vent (sung to the tune of Jingle Bells, it talks about the winter wind blowing through the evergreen trees, snowballs, and New Year’s — which is a more typical time for snow instead of November both here and in France!)

Les verbes pouvoir, vouloir, et devoir. 

• Vous allez dire ce que vous pouvez, devez, et voulez faire.
• Fiche : « Les préférences, les possibilités, et les obligations ».

LEÇON —

I handed back the quizzes. We’ll have at least one more quiz this semester.

Test, Module 4

Téléphones portables  

•  p. 127, ex. 2. Liste d’activités qu’on peut faire sur un smartphone

• Qui a un portable ?

• Quelle est votre activité préférée sur votre portable ?

• Discussion ensemble

• p. 127, Écoutons ensemble. Réponses aux questions

peux, veux, dois — trois verbes importants

Talking about wants, possibilities, and obligations

• p. 146, Structure 5.1. pouvoir, vouloir, devoir

• Répétez les verbes. Repeat as a class

• p. 147, ex. 1. Conjuguez

• p. 146,Conditionnel de politesse — (I would like, etc.)

• This is how you can make requests more politely (not I want some beef!, but I would like some beef!)

• You’ll practice more with this on iLrn and in class Thursday

DEVOIRS, reminders, etc. — 

• iLrn due Wednesday night
• EXTRA CREDIT : Click here for extra credit info, including info about —
  • Film festival ends tonight at 7 pm in the Psych Auditorium on campus. See all about the extra credit assignment and what films are showing here.
  • Table francophone Wednesdays 10:30-11:30 in the Student Lounge (Jones 241)
  • Tutoring schedule here
• Thursday: continue with the course calendar
• Tuesday: Expression écrite (composition) due (Details here)

WHAT WE DID IN CLASS

Pop quiz (If you were absent/late for the quiz or didn’t score as well, there’s no make-up but I drop the lowest couple of quiz grades. We should have at least 1 more quiz before the end of the semester.)

PowerPoint — Quick review

Bonne chance

WHAT WE DID IN CLASS TODAY

• Feuille — Quelle heure est-il ?

• Part C — How to convert from official
• Exercice: C) Transform to unofficial time

• p. 100 — Écoutons ensemble (blue box). Listen and note time you hear.

• p. 116. Verbe pronominal
  • réfléchi : something you do to / by yourself
  • IMPORTANT : only some verbs, for now only the ones conjugated and listed in the chapter on p. 116
• Répétez la conjugaison
  • me, te, se before m’, t’, s’ before vowel or mute h
  • Répétez les verbes
  • se lever : in the boot, accents graves
• p. 117, ex. 5. Together : Correct pronoun

• p. 117. Negative goes before the pronominal part and after the verb

• Conjugate a verb together to practice

• je ne me lève pas, etc.

•  p. 117, ex. 7. Individu

• p. 105.  Les activités de loisirs. Répétez les expressions

• p. 118. Faire. 
  • Répétez la conjugaison
  • Note : Qu’est-ce que tu fais ? Responses —
    • Je fais un voyage BUT
    • J’étudie (ONLY use faire in the response if it’s part of the expression)
    • NOT Je fais étudier, but instead j’étudie
• p. 106, ex. 12. Travail individuel.
  • Use an expression with faire (for example, p. 105 or use other ones based on what you see there), conjugate the verb correctly
  • #1 together
    • Oui je fais un voyage ce week-end
    • Non je ne fais pas de voyage

How to use jouer and faire with sports, games, and music (p. 118)

• For jouer, it depends on the activity

• jouer + (à + article) + sport/game
  • au, à la, à l’, aux
  • Exemple : Je joue au tennis. Je joue aux cartes

• jouer + (de + article) + music/instrument
  • du, de la, de l’, des
  • Exemple : Je joue de la guitare. Je joue de l’accordéon.

•  Quick exercise : p. 106, ex. 14. avec un partenaire

Le futur proche :  aller + infinitif

• p. 120 Repeat expressions, examples
• Note the structure is similar to English :
je vais (=I’m going) regarder (=to watch) -> Je vais regarder (I’m going to watch)
• the négatif : je ne vais pas regarder la télé, etc.
• p. 120, ex. 12, individuellement

WHAT TO DO FOR NEXT TIME

• iLrn due mercredi à 23h59 (Wed. at 11:59 pm.)
• Continue with course calendar. I announced that we will have a couple more quizzes before the end of the year, so please make sure you’re in class everyday
• We’ll finish up Module 4 and review together on Thursday
• The test will be Tuesday, Nov. 11

• EXTRA CREDIT : Click here for extra credit info, including info about —
• • Film festival continues tonight at 7 pm in the Psych Auditorium on campus. See all about the extra credit assignment and what films are showing here.
  • Table francophone Wednesdays 10:30-11:30 in the Student Lounge (Jones 241)
  • Tutoring schedule here.

WHAT WE DID IN CLASS

Quiz

• If you were absent/late for the quiz or didn’t score as well, there’s no make-up but I drop the lowest couple of quiz grades. We should have at least 2 more quizzes before the end of the semester.

Professions : photos de personnes / personnages

• Quelle est leur profession
• Phrases complètes :
  • Il/Elle est …
  • Ils/Elles sont …
  • C’est un …
  • Ce sont des …

aller + preposition à, p. 115, ex. 5

• Subject + (form of aller) + au, à la, à l’, aux + destination logique
• Follow the model in the book; we did the 1st one together

Comment dire l’heure : How to tell time

• Quelle heure est-il ? Il est quelle heure ? Tu as l’heure ? These are all ways to ask the time, the last one is informal.
• p. 99, Time. Volontaires pour lire.
  Écoutez, et répétez certaines expressions
• p. 100, Volontaires pour lire.
  midi, noon, minuit, midnight

• Feuille — Quelle heure est-il ?
  Part A, non-officielle to start with
• Exercice — A) Heure non-officielle
  Don’t forget quarter past, half past, etc.
• Feuille — Quelle heure est-il ?
  Look at part B, heure officielle

• If it’s 1:00 pm or later, you just have to add 12 to the non-official (12-hour) time to find out the official (24-hour) time. We talked about the other information on the sheet as well

• Exercice — B) Heure officielle
• mardi — on va pratiquer plus

Fiche — Informations et vocabulaire pour Halloween

Chanson — Octobre

• Lyrics (paroles)
• Link to a video of the song
• Discussion together

HOMEWORK, REMINDERS, ETC.

• WHAT TO DO FOR NEXT TIME
  • iLrn due Monday night. I will finish grading the ones you’ve already done tonight or tomorrow.
  • Continue with course calendar (we still have a couple quizzes left in the semester…)
  • Click here for extra credit info, including info about —
  • Film festival starting Monday, Nov. 3. See all about the extra credit assignment and what films are showing here.
  • Table francophone Wednesdays 10:30-11:30 in Jones 241
  • Tutoring schedule here.

Have a good Homecoming Weekend!

WHAT WE DID IN CLASS

• Module 4. Quel est le thème ? Les métiers = les professions
• p. 94, Read sentences aloud for pronunciation, reinforce vocab
  • Pôle emploi National database in France to help people who are unemployed (au chômage) find a job, get unemployment benefits, find training to get a better job, etc.
  • Le chômage ≈ 10 % en France (comparaison : 10,5 % en Europe, Espagne 25 %, USA 6 %)

• p. 113 Masc vs. fém
  • Regardez les exemples
  • Note that some professions are always masculine: professeur, etc.. Others have a special feminine form like we saw (femme d’affaires, etc.)
  • Suggestion: Learn both forms when learning professions.
• p. 95 — Prononcez ! ex. A et B ensemble.

• p. 95, ex. 2. Avec un camarade.

• p. 96 — biographies. Écoutez. Discussion rapide.
  • Elle est avocate — article indéfini ? Non
  • Il est haïtien — Non
  • Ce sont des footballeurs — Oui
  • C’est un écrivain — Oui
  • Note that C’est un, C’est une, Ce sont des have the article after them ; Il/Elle est, Ils/Elles sont do not
• p. 113: Des nationalités (you can look at these more at home)
• p. 114. Structure:
  • Il / Elle est + profession/nationality
  • Ils / Elles sont +profession/nationality
    • adjectives: no articles are used
  • C’est un(e) + profession/nationality
  • Ce sont des + profession/nationality
    • nouns: articles are used
  • Il est avocat = C’est un avocat
    • Means exactly the same thing
    • So, if there’s an article or if the profession/nationality is modified (by an adjective, for example), you MUST use «c’est / ce sont »
      • Il est médecin OR C’est un médecin
      • C’est un bon médecin.
      • C’est un médecin français
  • p. 114, ex. 2. Individu.

• Lieux de travail = Où (where) les personnes travaillent
• p. 97. Les lieux de travail. Répétez.
  • le café = the café / coffeeshop
• p. 115. Verbe aller.Répétez.
  • p. 115. Prépositions with à (in/to/at somewhere), often used with the verb aller
• à + definite article (to the, at the, in the)
  • à + le => au
  • à + la => à la
  • à + l’ => à l’
  • à + les => aux
• p. 97, ex. 5. Avec un partenaire

• Pictionnaire — people drew on the board to have the rest of the class guess the profession
• I handed back the tests and your grades for the oral interviews

WHAT TO DO FOR NEXT TIME

• iLrn due Wednesday night
• Continue with course calendar (we still have a few quizzes left in the semester…)
• Click here for extra credit info, including info about —
  • Table francophone Wednesdays 10:30-11:30 in Jones 241
  • Film festival starting Monday, Nov. 3
• Tutoring schedule here.