French+IA


 * This class meets Fridays from 9:00 - 10:25 with Professeur Tucker.** Homework assignments will be listed here in reverse chronological order. This means that the most recent homework will appear at the top of this page. We try to list current homework by the Sunday following Friday's class.

Bonjour et bienvenue au wiki du cours de français 1a! I will use this space to post homework assignments, handouts, important announcements, questions, resources you can use outside of class, and items of interest. Please try to access the wiki at least once a week to check for updates.

Our textbook is : Voilà, 2nd edition (or 3rd, if you don't find the 2nd), by Jacqueline Gonthier and Crispin Geoghegan. Remember: If you access Amazon through the La Causerie website, a percentage of your purchase goes to La Causerie!

E-mail is the best way to get in touch with me. My e-mail address is beckyfr@swbell.net


 * le 4 mai**

Answer questions (in English or French) in Activité10, Aller-retour à Cherbourg., page 124. Do tout worksheet.


 * le 27 avril**

Exercises 1 and 3, page 135, 136 Journal intime, using the future tense Possible pop quiz on At The Station vocabulary, page 137

Write 10 sentences using ir-iss, ir, re verbs. Go to this link and do the 2 exercises. https://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/gr/vir3.html
 * le 20 avril**


 * le 13 avril**

Read Activité 6 and 7, page 121. Translate, if you wish. Fill out the timetable in Activité 6. Answer the following questions for Activité 7. 1. Est-ce qu'il y a un train pour Paris le soir? 2. Le train de 20.14 est-il direct? 3. A quelle heure part le dernier train pour Paris? 4. A quelle heure arrive le dernier train à Paris? 5. Dans quelle gare (station) arrivent les trains de Lisieux?

Faisons le point - 1, 2, 6, pages 114-115
 * le 6 avril**


 * le 30 mars**

Activité 18, page 109


 * le 23 mars **

Five sentences or questions you might hear from a waiter. Five questions or sentences you might say as the customer. They don't have to match.


 * le 16 mars **

Exercises 3 and 4, page 112


 * le 9 mars **

Study the alphabet and be prepared to do Activité 11, page 104, Exercise 5, page 112, and read and translate into English Activité 12, page 105.


 * le 2 mars **

You and a friend are eating lunch together. Order for yourself and your friend (in complete sentences) a sandwich or savory crêpe, a dessert and a drink, from pages 96 - 98. Add up the bill and say how much it costs. If your favorite flavor of ice cream or crêpe wasn't listed, look it up and tell the class next Friday.



Write out the answers to "You have completed Unit 5. Can you...?" on page 95, if you want. Write 10 sentences using prendre or re verbs. Read page 97. Continue journal entries, if you want.
 * le 23 février **

Finish En Pratique, page 94, and choose which property you will buy on page 90, writing 5 sentences about it.
 * le 16 février **

**le 9 févrie** **r** Activité10, page 85 and En pratique 2, 3 4, page 95


 * le 2 février **

Keep a journal, writing down where you (or other people) are going everyday. Use à la, au, aux, and à l'.


 * le 26 janvier **

Review rooms in house, page 87. Draw a rendering of your house and label the rooms. Review pouvoir and vouloir verbs, page 92. Read dialogue, page 82, and answer these questions. 1. Où travaille l'employée? 2. Est-ce qu'il y a un musée militaire à Kansas City? 3. Aimez-vous la cuisine régionale? 4. Où est la discothèque? 5. Est-ce que la discothèque est ouvert tous les jours?



le 19 janvier Finish the handout we worked on in class.

le 12 janvier

Continue clothing journal En Pratique, page 75, Exercises 2, 3, 4, 5

For French clothing sizes, check here:

www.tripsavvy.com/european-clothing-sizes-and-size-conversions-3892230

le 5 janvier Activité 7, page 61. Make sure you make agreement with size and gender. Continue clothing journal.

le 22 décembre Keep a journal for at least 7 days, telling what you are wearing, what your friend (husband, wife, dogsitter, etc.) is wearing. Complete sentences! On pages 64 and 65, write out all the numbers you can find on these two pages. For example, if you see "1 bouteille gratuite", you write "une".

le 15 décembre

For French clothing sizes, check here: www.tripsavvy.com/european-clothing-sizes-and-size-conversions-3892230

We had a dictée, told the class what we were wearing and what someone else in the class was wearing, did a listening exercise (Activité 22, page 71) and worked on pages 70 and 71, wring lists of things a salesperson might say, then things a client might say. Homework: Using the picture in Activité 23, page 71, write a dialogue between a salesperson and a client. It must be at least six lines long. Look for more homework next week.

le 8 décembre Write sentences using the vocabulary words on page 66 (in the red square). Make sure to conjugate the verbs.

le 24 novembre

le 17 novembre We looked at sentences on the board and decided if they were correct or if they had mistakes. We looked at seasons and months, page 46. We learned prepositions on the bottom of page 52 and did En Pratique, page 53 together. Christine gave a great explanation of "Il y a" and "Il n'y a pas de. Merci, Christine! Homework: Do Faisons le point! on pages, 55 and 56. Treat it as a test, then do corrections. More homework will be put up next Friday, as well as the answers for Faisons le Point!

le 10 novembre Students listened to a story about Titi, le chat, and afterward, told what they understood. We reviewed numbers and practicing telling other our phone numbers. We did Activité, page 44 together, read page 44 and learned weather phrases. We did Activité 11, page 46, by listening to a weather reporter (Me!). Homework: Activité 6, page 43, Write a email to a friend talking about where you are staying on vacation, using only words you know. Also, review the Grammaire on page 52.

le 3 novembre We practiced conjugating être and avoir and reviewed numbers up to 60.We read page 40 and talked about what we preferred in a vacation.Then we learned numbers up to 100 on page 48, il y a/il n'y a pas de on page 40. We did Activité 5 with partners. Homework: Activité 4, page 42, and Activité 8, page 44.

le 27 octobre We did a dictée, using errors from this week's homework, reviewed numbers from 1 - 60, made a list of what information a person can say about himself using "être" and "avoir", read pages 32 and 34 about professions. Homework: Activité 17, page 35 and read page 40.

le 20 octobre We covered pages 28,31, and 38. Homework: Activité 13, page 31, read page 32, and En Pratique, exercise 5.

le 13 octobre We did a dictée with the conversation on page 24, read pages 26 and 27, learned the habiter verb and the venir verb, Homework: En Pratique, 1, 2 and 3, page38.

le 6 octobre We reviewed people in our family before beginning Unité 2. We read page 24 and put adjectives in categories according to how they become feminine, studied the être verb. Homework: Read about the nationalities of the people on page 25 and write two sentences for each person, one stating what the nationality is and one saying what the nationality isn't. Ex: Fred est suisse. Fred n'est pas allemand.

le 22 septembre We practiced voici and voilà, learned about masculine, feminine and plural determiners for nouns (le, la, l', les), read pages 18, 19 and 20 and did Activité 16 and 17. Homework:En pratique, page 22 and study vocabulary, page 23.





le 15 septembre We revised all pages through 15. We did pages 16 and 17. Homework: Write out activités 6 and 7, pages 12 and 13, if you didn't last week. Do activité 12 on pages 16 and 17.





le 8 septembre

We did pages 9 - 11 in class. Homework: Read pages 12 - 15.






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 * [|Mot du jour] and [|French Word-a-Day] Two links to websites that introduce a new French word daily (or at least regularly).
 * [|Basic French Words and Phrases] This is a webpage with links (some audio) to words and phrases that might be useful to beginning learners.
 * [|BBC French] This is the website for the BBC's language learning series. There are multiple activities, lessons, pronunciation files, and TV shows that you can access.
 * [|Beginning French Pronunciation] There are several links on this website which open to different aspects of pronunciation, specifically individual letters--consonants, consonant clusters, vowels, and nasal vowels.
 * [|Acapela] The interactive demo on this website allows you to type in words or phrases which you can then hear pronounced by up to 5 different French speakers.
 * [|Word Reference] This is a free online dictionary for French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, and English.
 * [|Audio Dictionary] This is a free online audio dictionary. The word list is limited, and the site uses .wav files which seem to be played using Real Player.
 * [|Kansas City Public Library: Language Resources] This web page lists resources available through Kansas City Public Library as well as online. LiveMocha and Mango Languages are accessible through this page.
 * [|Johnson County Public Library: Language Resources] This web page directs you to Mango Languages, an online language program. You need a Johnson County Public Library card and PIN number to access Mango Languages, and you must set up an account.
 * [|Alliance Française de Kansas City]Alliance Française is an international organization that promotes French language and culture. There is an Alliance Francaise in most major U.S. cities. Check out this website for information on French-related events including conversation groups, lectures, movies, and classes.
 * [|TV5MONDE USA] [|TV5MONDE] TV5 is a cable station that broadcasts in French 24/7. This is a good resource if you would like to watch TV in French. Some broadcasts are also accessible through the Internet (in other words, you don't need to have cable TV to watch some shows). TV5MONDE also has a free online dictionary, although it is exclusively in French.

Other useful websites:
[] [|http://www.mamalisa.com] [] Very complete, all-purpose dictionary with pronunciation guides and many examples of usage [] You can click on a word (more limited than a regular dictionary) and hear a word pronounced as many times as you like! [|http://www.studystack.com] This is a great site for practicing all kinds of things. Excellent for quick-study flashcards. [] [] [] these last three are major newspapers in Paris and the south--look at the headlines and see how much you can pick up!

French-related Items of Interest and Happenings in the KC Metro Area:

 * [|Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art] often hosts exhibits of French/Francophone artists or on French/Francophone themes.
 * [|Tivoli Cinemas] in Westport often shows foreign films.
 * [|Screenland] has four locations (one in St. Joseph, MO) and also sometimes shows foreign movies.
 * [|Screenland] has four locations (one in St. Joseph, MO) and also sometimes shows foreign movies.