Tuesday, November 1, 2011

French 2 Extra Credit Project

You are going to make a set of flashcards online for our upcoming food unit.

1. go to http://www.brainflips.com/

2. join - use an email you can access today to activate your account
your USERNAME must be your actual name - first and last initial, etc to get credit password must be your SCHOOL password

3. click on BUILD A DECK

4. NAME DECK - HHS french 2 food

5. from flickr or google get a pic of the food item on your list. it needs to be CLEARLY what the food is

6. CARDS: left: photo of food
right side: FRENCH WORD - no english!

7. When you are done SAVE your deck and then add it to our group - HHS French 2 Food

8. then post a COMMENT below in the blog that you added a deck to the site

Merci!

Thursday, October 13, 2011

French I Unit I Review

Games for review: stay on the game page. This is a timed activity.
NUMBERS: http://www.quia.com/ba/310081.html

TIME: http://www.quia.com/rr/202169.html
http://www.quia.com/mc/419596.html
http://www.quia.com/pp/213386.html?AP_rand=145224549

DAYS/MONTHS: http://www.quia.com/jg/1217136.html
play all games

WEATHER: http://www.quia.com/rr/87404.html

ALL: http://www.quia.com/ba/243178.html
http://www.quia.com/cb/358597.html

You can play these games at home for review as well.
Bonne Chance!

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

French I Scavenger Hunt

In top search box type "scavenger" and the scavenger hunt assignment will come up.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

French 3 brainflip project

You will be creating a deck of AUDIO flashcards for your conversation test.

FIRST - open audacity and make recordings of your questions. Try to get your best, clearest pronunciation possible. SAVE them to your hard drive; put them in a french folder where you can find them easily later. audacity instructions are posted earlier on the blog - go to OCT 2010

SECOND - go to www.brainflips.com
REGISTER - your username MUST be your name - first, last, etc so I can grade your work!
open your email and activate the account.

CREATE a DECK - NAME your deck HHS French Conversation 1
add audio to the left card from an audacity file; the right card should be the question typed in french - NO ENGLISH

SAVE DECK when done.

FIND our group - HHS French 3 and click JOIN GROUP. you can ADD your deck to the group

You can access this website at home to practice for your conversation test Sept. 29!

Monday, September 12, 2011

FRANCAIS 2 REVISION

Today you will be creating a CLASS deck of flashcards for our review.
Using your chapter notes, make a flashcard for every VOCAB word and VERB on your list. Split the list in half with your partner.

FIRST - find pictures illustrating all your words and verbs and save them to your hard drive. Work quickly - you don't have a lot of time to spend on this and pick SIMPLE photos, they will upload faster - think comics/cartoons

go to http://www.brainflips.com/
register for an account - username MUST BE your first initial and last name (ehowell)
pick a password that you will remember! you have to give them an email address then open your email and activate your account.

click on MAKE FLASHCARDS at top of page
your DECK NAME is your review chapter: HHS Review Unit 2, 3, etc - start name with HHS!!!!
you don't need to fill in a description or keywords

ORANGE BUTTONS at top of cards - insert PICTURE - no other text on picture side
answer card should be FRENCH WORD - no english on cards!!!

click ADD CARD to move on to next card

when done, click on SAVE (grey box) - this takes a while, it's slow :)

next, you need to JOIN our group - HHS french 2 and your period- find our group then click JOIN GROUP. add your deck to the group deck.
TURN IN your sheet and write on it what you got done today - put a check next to the vocab and verbs that have cards made and write a note whether the deck was added to the group.
Merci!

Monday, May 2, 2011

French 3/AP Country Project

French Country powerpoint/ food presentation project
DUE : Tuesday, May 10 Major grade

I. History report of the country & its foods : items by slide: TEN SLIDES in FRENCH:

1. a map of the country / where located in world – country name
2. a picture of the flag of the country, the capital, population and size of the country.
3. capital of country – at least 3 monuments/ famous places and pictures
4. any special celebrations or feasts and foods involved
and special eating habits or customs with pictures
5. the typical foods of the country with pictures
6. government info – king, president, etc
7. famous people from this country – art, music, theater, etc? and pictures
8. history – major events and pictures – wars, independence, etc.
9. tourism – where would you go if you went to visit
10. music – find ONE song/ video to embed or link

II. Food presentation:

Prepare or purchase ONE food from the country to share with the class:
main dish, vegetable or salad, or dessert.

5 point bonus: Centerpiece or other artifacts from the country as part of
the display.

POINTS:
Food dish 20 points
Powerpoint – 10 slides – 70 points (8 per slide)
Presentation – 10 points
USE OF A TRANSLATOR WILL RESULT IN A 50 POINT DEDUCTION.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

French 1 Clothing project

Today you will be shopping online and creating a powerpoint of FIVE slides with an outfit on each slide. Slide topics are:
1. School - Ecole
2. Weekend - le weekend
3. Prom/Fancy - le prom --- a tux is a "smoking" or "costume"
4. beach - la plage
5. Winter - l'hiver

Each slide must contain:
1. FOUR items of clothing
2. title /theme
3. background
4. prices for each item in euro
5. label each item in french
6. tell where you found each item - store online
7. TOTAL up the price for each outfit for each slide in EURO!

Stores available to you:

http://www.laredoute.fr/
http://www.hm.com/fr/
http://www.pimkie.fr/ - girls only
http://www.3suisses.fr/
http://www.camaieu.fr/
http://www.galerieslafayette.com/
http://www.hermes.com/index_fr.html
http://us.christianlouboutin.com/ - you can't copy and paste from this site, put the name of the shoe in flickr.com and paste from there
http://www.bonprixsecure.com/fr/home.htm - prom dresses
http://www.glamedressit.fr/ - prom dresses
http://www.unerobe.com/ - dresses
http://www.maysange.com/home.php?lang=fr&session=0Y6A2URE3T - prom and tux


Due end of class - put into homework drop box on gaggle

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

French 2 Vocabulary Review

TEST next class over vocab unit 6: Go to www.classzone.com choose our book - Discovering French Blanc code: 9780618820948 do the flashcards for Unite 6 - parts of the house!

Thursday, March 31, 2011

French 3/AP Poursuite Inattendue

Here is the link to the audio recordings online if you are absent. You are expected to make up any missed work. http://www.emcp.com/electronic_resource_centers/listonline.php?GroupID=6705

Monday, February 7, 2011

French 2 Unit 4 Review

LIRE, DIRE, et ECRIRE:
1 http://quizlet.com/902860/les-verbes-dire-lire-et-ecrire-flash-cards/
2 http://wps.prenhall.com/ml_valdman_cheznous_3/28/7361/1884580.cw/index.html - timed
3 www.quia.com/shared/french : keyword lire

SAVOIR et CONNAITRE:
12 http://quizlet.com/3794487/connaitre-et-savoir-flash-cards/
13 http://quizlet.com/2702221/savoir-vs-connaitre-flash-cards/

VOCAB:
4 www.classzone.com - flashcards
5 http://quizlet.com/2207249/unite-15-aller-au-spectacle-flash-cards/
6 http://quizlet.com/1550985/spectacle-vocab-flash-cards/ advanced
7 www.quia.com/shared/french keyword spectacle

PRONOUNS:
8 http://quizlet.com/921875/direct-object-pronouns-flash-cards/
9 http://quizlet.com/1436765/direct-obj-pronouns-french-flash-cards/

10 http://quizlet.com/516872/french-indirect-object-pronouns-flash-cards/
11 http://quizlet.com/1066975/aisd-discovering-french-ii-unit-4-lesson-14-verbs-a-indirect-object-pronouns-flash-cards/

QUIA: object pronouns, objet pronouns,