L’automne est arrivé ! Fall is here! I’m very excited to start doing some fall activities in the next few weeks!
Here’s a recap of this week’s class.
- Practice introductions, la bise, and small talk.
- Learn to use titles to show respect and politeness: Monsieur, Madame, Mademoiselle
- les adultes, les adolescents, les enfants, les bébés
- Skip counting numbers 0-20, while throwing un ballon – a ball
- American vs. French calendars, days of the week, seasons
- Weather terms: il pleut, il fait frais
- Read booklet: En automne with new seasonal vocabulary
- “C’est” (this is) and “Ce n’est pas” (this is NOT) with people and fruits
- Story: Le Gnou (the wildebeest) using focus vocab above
- Played Pencil Grab game: True/false questions about the story
- Phonics: vowels sounds in fruits – worksheet
- Audiobook: Fête des Fruits (Fruit party)
Le Calendrier – The calendar
A great way to practice is to make or print a calendar chart to use at home and include it in your daily school routine. Here’s a new Quizlet set and some videos to help with pronunciation. It includes how to ask and say the date, days of the week, months of the year, and numbers 1-31.
Quizlet: 🗓️ Le calendrier
Les Fruits – Audio worksheets
Keep practicing fruits! We are starting to pay attention to using “Le” and “La” – the masculine and feminine words for “the” – before each fruit. It’s included on the phonics worksheet. Next week we’ll talk about how all French objects have a gender!
Try these online audio worksheets. Click on the play button and listen for the fruit. Then drag the picture to the box.
🍓 Fruit worksheet #1 (match the picture to the audio)
🍌 More online worksheets for Les Fruits
Le Gnou (Wildebeest) Movie Talk
We read and acted out our first story, using screenshots from a short film. Then we watched the video afterward. It was perfect for practicing “C’est” (this is) and “Ce n’est pas” (this is NOT). I will email you a PDF of it to practice this week.
