Thursday, September 16, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
AP / French 3 Lab sept. 10
TODAY: you will do these activities then comment on this blog with your scores for each, keep a microsoft word document open to take notes in then copy it into the comment box. Bonne Chance!
1. Log onto the BBC Languages French page http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/gauge/ for a 12-question multiple choice test to get a basic idea of your French level. Although it is not an exact assessment tool, the site notes that the test will give you an “approximate indication of your knowledge.” Include your score in your comments. You can take the test again for a better score if you wish! :)
2 Visit the ESL Language Studies Abroad site http://www.esl-languages.com/en/study-abroad/online-tests/french-test/index.htm for a more in-depth multiple choice test comprising 40 questions designed to test your grammar skills. At the conclusion of the test you will be assigned a level from beginning to advanced. include your score in your comments.
3 Test your comprehension skills by logging onto Radio France International’s (RFI) French language page http://www.rfi.fr/lffr/pages/001/accueil_exercice_ecoute.asp to listen to extracts of French radio reports followed by multiple choice questions (also in French). Write down what you listened to and how you did on the quiz. Do at least 2 of them!
4 Grow your vocabulary by logging onto http://www.french-flashcards.com/ In addition to interactive flashcards, the site also offers written drills to enhance your comprehension and writing skills. you will need to sign up for free, and they will send you daily emails for practice! try some and comment on what you think?
5 AP only!!! Log on to http://www.test-my-french.com/ for a comprehensive test of your written, reading and oral comprehension skills. Composed of seven sections and conducted entirely in French. try it and comment with your score!
1. Log onto the BBC Languages French page http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/gauge/ for a 12-question multiple choice test to get a basic idea of your French level. Although it is not an exact assessment tool, the site notes that the test will give you an “approximate indication of your knowledge.” Include your score in your comments. You can take the test again for a better score if you wish! :)
2 Visit the ESL Language Studies Abroad site http://www.esl-languages.com/en/study-abroad/online-tests/french-test/index.htm for a more in-depth multiple choice test comprising 40 questions designed to test your grammar skills. At the conclusion of the test you will be assigned a level from beginning to advanced. include your score in your comments.
3 Test your comprehension skills by logging onto Radio France International’s (RFI) French language page http://www.rfi.fr/lffr/pages/001/accueil_exercice_ecoute.asp to listen to extracts of French radio reports followed by multiple choice questions (also in French). Write down what you listened to and how you did on the quiz. Do at least 2 of them!
4 Grow your vocabulary by logging onto http://www.french-flashcards.com/ In addition to interactive flashcards, the site also offers written drills to enhance your comprehension and writing skills. you will need to sign up for free, and they will send you daily emails for practice! try some and comment on what you think?
5 AP only!!! Log on to http://www.test-my-french.com/ for a comprehensive test of your written, reading and oral comprehension skills. Composed of seven sections and conducted entirely in French. try it and comment with your score!
French 2 lab sept 9/10
TODAY we are working on review of things we learned last year:
1. Go to http://www.classzone.com/ and follow my instructions
authorization code is 2633296-20 BE SURE TO WRITE DOWN YOUR PASSWORD - i do not have access to it!
play the Unite 1 flashcards (20 minutes)
2. go to http://www.french-flashcards.com/ and sign up for a free account. click on "words by level" and test yourself. try basic, then see if you can do the harder ones! (20 minutes)
3. go to www.quia.com/shared/french and work on things you need to review from last year - be sure to do the passe compose since we are starting that next!!! (20 minutes)
IF everyone behaves i will give you a french game site at the end of class. (10 minutes)
Bon weekend!
1. Go to http://www.classzone.com/ and follow my instructions
authorization code is 2633296-20 BE SURE TO WRITE DOWN YOUR PASSWORD - i do not have access to it!
play the Unite 1 flashcards (20 minutes)
2. go to http://www.french-flashcards.com/ and sign up for a free account. click on "words by level" and test yourself. try basic, then see if you can do the harder ones! (20 minutes)
3. go to www.quia.com/shared/french and work on things you need to review from last year - be sure to do the passe compose since we are starting that next!!! (20 minutes)
IF everyone behaves i will give you a french game site at the end of class. (10 minutes)
Bon weekend!
Friday, September 3, 2010
FRENCH ONE LAB SEPT. 7/8
Today you are going to go on an "internet scavenger hunt" and travel to France and Senegal! Follow your worksheet and use the following links:
http://www.tv5.fr/
http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/
http://www.louvre.fr/
http://www.monster.com/
http://www.lemonde.fr/
http://www.galerieslafayette.com/
http://www.flickr.com/
http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://www.orbitz.com/
http://webworld.unesco.org/goree/en/index.shtml
http://www.weather.com/
http://www.congocookbook.com/
When you are done, turn in your worksheet for a game website!
http://www.youssou.com/
http://www.tv5.fr/
http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/
http://www.louvre.fr/
http://www.monster.com/
http://www.lemonde.fr/
http://www.galerieslafayette.com/
http://www.flickr.com/
http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://www.orbitz.com/
http://webworld.unesco.org/goree/en/index.shtml
http://www.weather.com/
http://www.congocookbook.com/
When you are done, turn in your worksheet for a game website!
http://www.youssou.com/
Monday, May 24, 2010
FRENCH ONE exam review
Today you have a couple of assignments - keep this blog open for your instructions!
DO THESE ACTIVITIES or you will be shut down. at the end of class I will give you an arcade website to play IF you have done all the work.
1. YOU HAVE 40 MINUTES TO Create a French speaking avatar for yourself! go to http://www.voki.com/
don't register - just click on CREATE at the top
go through the faces, clothes, backgrounds, etc and create an avatar for yourself
for speech, select "text to speech"
type in your writing prompt for the exam you did on the review last class - 5 sentences about yourself
select FRENCH for the language
select the voice you want - experiment with different voices
click play to hear how you sound!
click on PUBLISH - X out the register screen, you don't have to do this
select SEND TO FRIEND
email to me at elisabeth.howell@fbisd.k12.tx.us
2. EXAM PRACTICE - 30 MINUTES! go to www.quia.com/shared/french
under subcategories select:
avoir-present tense
etre
food and cafe vocab
foods
aller - present tense
faire - present tense
passe compose
You can get onto quia at home to practice too!
DO THESE ACTIVITIES or you will be shut down. at the end of class I will give you an arcade website to play IF you have done all the work.
1. YOU HAVE 40 MINUTES TO Create a French speaking avatar for yourself! go to http://www.voki.com/
don't register - just click on CREATE at the top
go through the faces, clothes, backgrounds, etc and create an avatar for yourself
for speech, select "text to speech"
type in your writing prompt for the exam you did on the review last class - 5 sentences about yourself
select FRENCH for the language
select the voice you want - experiment with different voices
click play to hear how you sound!
click on PUBLISH - X out the register screen, you don't have to do this
select SEND TO FRIEND
email to me at elisabeth.howell@fbisd.k12.tx.us
2. EXAM PRACTICE - 30 MINUTES! go to www.quia.com/shared/french
under subcategories select:
avoir-present tense
etre
food and cafe vocab
foods
aller - present tense
faire - present tense
passe compose
You can get onto quia at home to practice too!
Friday, May 21, 2010
FRENCH TWO EXAM REVIEW
You have 2 assignments today:
1. You are going to create a speaking avatar of yourself!
go to www.voki.com
you can choose the face, hair, clothes, bling, background, etc
use the text to speech to make your avatar talk - have them say "hello, my name is ... and a couple of other things about yourself IN FRENCH! be sure to select FRENCH and then pick the gender you want
when you are done click "submit" (x out the screen that wants you to register) then click on EMAIL to friend and email it to me at elisabeth.howell@fbisd.k12.tx.us
2. to review for your exam, go to www.quia.com/shared/french and play the games:
under subcategory select:
house - house vocab is on the exam
parts of the body and parts of the body vocab - this is also on the exam
passe compose v. imparfait
passe compose
passe compose verbes irreguliers
Y and En at the very end of the list!
Hope you have had as much fun this year as I have. Y'all were a great class and I really enjoyed teaching you and hope you have a great year next year. Come by the french room and visit your poor old french teacher (if you weren't brave enough to sign up for French 3!!!) :)
1. You are going to create a speaking avatar of yourself!
go to www.voki.com
you can choose the face, hair, clothes, bling, background, etc
use the text to speech to make your avatar talk - have them say "hello, my name is ... and a couple of other things about yourself IN FRENCH! be sure to select FRENCH and then pick the gender you want
when you are done click "submit" (x out the screen that wants you to register) then click on EMAIL to friend and email it to me at elisabeth.howell@fbisd.k12.tx.us
2. to review for your exam, go to www.quia.com/shared/french and play the games:
under subcategory select:
house - house vocab is on the exam
parts of the body and parts of the body vocab - this is also on the exam
passe compose v. imparfait
passe compose
passe compose verbes irreguliers
Y and En at the very end of the list!
Hope you have had as much fun this year as I have. Y'all were a great class and I really enjoyed teaching you and hope you have a great year next year. Come by the french room and visit your poor old french teacher (if you weren't brave enough to sign up for French 3!!!) :)
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Aerodrame Questions
Make up questions:
Episode 3
1. Who accompanies the Prime Minister?
2. Who applauds?
3. What's the name of the plane?
4. What are the men going to take from the stand?
5. What's the weather like?
6. Do the police catch one of the mysterious men?
7. What's the "technical difficulty" that keeps Phillippe from being at the mic?
8. What happens when Phillippe calls Radio Inter?
9. Who is the "idiote" next to Philippe?
10. Is Sylvie's line busy?
Episode 4
1. Does Philippe catch up to the police?
2. Where does Philippe go when he loses the police car?
3. What do the police do to check if someone is following them?
4. Why is Philippe's boss going to be furious?
5. What's the color of Philippe's car?
6. Why does Radio Inter keep having technical difficulties?
7. Does the suspect in the police car talk voluntarily?
8. Which inspector do the police call on the radio?
9. Does the secretary answer the phone at Radio Inter?
10. Philippe's boss says that Sylvie is the girlfriend of a ...?
Episode 9
1. What's un scoop?
2. Why is the boss scared to let Philippe do his story?
3. Why does the boss eventually let him?
4. Where is Philippe going to go?
5. Is he going alone?
6. Who's going with him?
7. What is he going to take with him?
8. Is Sylvie happy to be going on a trip?
9. Does Lamarche know that Philippe left Paris?
10. What does Sylvie think of Philippe's job?
Episode 10
1. At what time do they arrive in Toulouse?
2. What's the first thing they do in Toulouse?
3. Where are they building the Delta?
4. What does Philippe want Sylvie to bring him if he goes to prison?
5. How are they going to present themselves at the hotel? (their "story")
6. Who calls Guerin on the phone?
7. What restaurant do they eat lunch in?
8. Do Philippe and Sylvie find a room quickly?
9. Why does Guerin's mom want to see him?
10. Does Geurin have the time to deal with his mom?
Episode 17
1. Who is the client for Aero-France?
2. Is the pilot satisfied with the Delta?
3. What is Muller-Faure scared of?
4. Did Guerin say, yes or no, that the plane could fly safely?
5. Which method of interrogation does Dumas use?
6. When does the client want the demonstration of the Delta?
7. How much time does it take to prepare the flight?
8. What kind of gas does Philippe need for his car?
9. Who is the driver of the truck?
10. Does Philippe get the license plate number of the truck?
Episode 18
1. What kind of collaboration does Dumas ask of Philippe?
2. Who does not want info on the Delta?
3. What order does Dumas give Philippe on the telephone?
4. Why does Dumas believe the Delta affair is over?
5. Does Philippe return to Paris?
6. Who is the imbecile?
7. What does one do, in general, in a cafe?
8. Is there a connection between Pilevski and the suspects?
9. What are the antennas for?
10. Who gives the plane permission to takeoff?
Episode 19
1. How does the Delta takeoff go?
2. Who is in the control tower?
3. Who is in the woods?
4. Where is Philippe?
5. Since he cant' talk to Muller-Faure, what does Philippe do?
6. Who is at the hospital?
7. Who is Philippe looking for at Pons?
8. Is there someone in Pilevski's house?
9. At what speed does the Delta usually fly?
10. What happens when a plane goes from mach 1 to mach 2?
Episode 23
1. What color are the clouds?
2. How high are the clouds?
3. How much fuel does the XA5 have?
4. Who has to escort Philippe and Sylvie back to Paris?
5. Who does Nougarede call?
6. What instructions does Muller-Faure give to Nougarede?
7. Who has to lead the police to the truck?
8. Who does Nougarede congratulate?
9. Is the Delta flying high?
10. Why do they sound the alarm?
Episode 24
1. Why is it difficult for Sylvie and Philippe to recognize the road?
2. How many kilometers are left to the truck?
3. Does the driver go slowly?
4. What does the Delta pilot hope to find under the clouds?
5. Where was the Inspector when he called?
6. What do they see on the way, on the road?
7. how many police enter the woods with the inspector?
8. Does the Delta catch fire?
9. What explodes?
10. Who wins the race against time?
Episode 25 :)
1. Who answers the pilot of the XA5 in the control tower?
2. Does he understand what's going on?
3. What is the explanation of the jamming?
4. What instructions do the flight chief give to the pilot?
5. What did Muller-Faure not believe?
6. How can they find where the Delta crashed?
7. Are the ambulances useful?
8. Is there a relationship between the client and the agents?
9. What did Pilevsky leave in his house?
10. What favor does Philippe ask of Muller-Faure?
11. Where is Sylvie going to follow Philippe?
Episode 3
1. Who accompanies the Prime Minister?
2. Who applauds?
3. What's the name of the plane?
4. What are the men going to take from the stand?
5. What's the weather like?
6. Do the police catch one of the mysterious men?
7. What's the "technical difficulty" that keeps Phillippe from being at the mic?
8. What happens when Phillippe calls Radio Inter?
9. Who is the "idiote" next to Philippe?
10. Is Sylvie's line busy?
Episode 4
1. Does Philippe catch up to the police?
2. Where does Philippe go when he loses the police car?
3. What do the police do to check if someone is following them?
4. Why is Philippe's boss going to be furious?
5. What's the color of Philippe's car?
6. Why does Radio Inter keep having technical difficulties?
7. Does the suspect in the police car talk voluntarily?
8. Which inspector do the police call on the radio?
9. Does the secretary answer the phone at Radio Inter?
10. Philippe's boss says that Sylvie is the girlfriend of a ...?
Episode 9
1. What's un scoop?
2. Why is the boss scared to let Philippe do his story?
3. Why does the boss eventually let him?
4. Where is Philippe going to go?
5. Is he going alone?
6. Who's going with him?
7. What is he going to take with him?
8. Is Sylvie happy to be going on a trip?
9. Does Lamarche know that Philippe left Paris?
10. What does Sylvie think of Philippe's job?
Episode 10
1. At what time do they arrive in Toulouse?
2. What's the first thing they do in Toulouse?
3. Where are they building the Delta?
4. What does Philippe want Sylvie to bring him if he goes to prison?
5. How are they going to present themselves at the hotel? (their "story")
6. Who calls Guerin on the phone?
7. What restaurant do they eat lunch in?
8. Do Philippe and Sylvie find a room quickly?
9. Why does Guerin's mom want to see him?
10. Does Geurin have the time to deal with his mom?
Episode 17
1. Who is the client for Aero-France?
2. Is the pilot satisfied with the Delta?
3. What is Muller-Faure scared of?
4. Did Guerin say, yes or no, that the plane could fly safely?
5. Which method of interrogation does Dumas use?
6. When does the client want the demonstration of the Delta?
7. How much time does it take to prepare the flight?
8. What kind of gas does Philippe need for his car?
9. Who is the driver of the truck?
10. Does Philippe get the license plate number of the truck?
Episode 18
1. What kind of collaboration does Dumas ask of Philippe?
2. Who does not want info on the Delta?
3. What order does Dumas give Philippe on the telephone?
4. Why does Dumas believe the Delta affair is over?
5. Does Philippe return to Paris?
6. Who is the imbecile?
7. What does one do, in general, in a cafe?
8. Is there a connection between Pilevski and the suspects?
9. What are the antennas for?
10. Who gives the plane permission to takeoff?
Episode 19
1. How does the Delta takeoff go?
2. Who is in the control tower?
3. Who is in the woods?
4. Where is Philippe?
5. Since he cant' talk to Muller-Faure, what does Philippe do?
6. Who is at the hospital?
7. Who is Philippe looking for at Pons?
8. Is there someone in Pilevski's house?
9. At what speed does the Delta usually fly?
10. What happens when a plane goes from mach 1 to mach 2?
Episode 23
1. What color are the clouds?
2. How high are the clouds?
3. How much fuel does the XA5 have?
4. Who has to escort Philippe and Sylvie back to Paris?
5. Who does Nougarede call?
6. What instructions does Muller-Faure give to Nougarede?
7. Who has to lead the police to the truck?
8. Who does Nougarede congratulate?
9. Is the Delta flying high?
10. Why do they sound the alarm?
Episode 24
1. Why is it difficult for Sylvie and Philippe to recognize the road?
2. How many kilometers are left to the truck?
3. Does the driver go slowly?
4. What does the Delta pilot hope to find under the clouds?
5. Where was the Inspector when he called?
6. What do they see on the way, on the road?
7. how many police enter the woods with the inspector?
8. Does the Delta catch fire?
9. What explodes?
10. Who wins the race against time?
Episode 25 :)
1. Who answers the pilot of the XA5 in the control tower?
2. Does he understand what's going on?
3. What is the explanation of the jamming?
4. What instructions do the flight chief give to the pilot?
5. What did Muller-Faure not believe?
6. How can they find where the Delta crashed?
7. Are the ambulances useful?
8. Is there a relationship between the client and the agents?
9. What did Pilevsky leave in his house?
10. What favor does Philippe ask of Muller-Faure?
11. Where is Sylvie going to follow Philippe?
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