"A day in my life”
From the middle of October, the students began a new unit: “ a day in my life”.
This unit aims to help the students to acquire the basics of the routine through new vocabulary about the calendar, the time, the house, the school, the household and the hobbies.
Then, they might learn some useful language structures to describe a place, a schedule, and the daily life activities in general.
For sure, the contents and the organization will vary according to the student levels, their needs and interests. For example for the beginners, the description of the vocabulary ad easy sentences dealing with the main actions such as eating, going to school, playing… will be taught. By this way, my objective is to encourage them to interact in simple and rehearsed exchanges, using verbal and non-verbal language. Also, they might use basic phrases to communicate ideas, feelings and information on a variety of aspects of everyday topics.
Whereas the intermediate level students will be more focused on grammar to be able to respond in detail and appropriately to simple short phrases and basic information in spoken, written and visual text. Then, they should interact confidently in basic structured exchanges and use phrases effectively to communicate ideas, feelings and information in a variety of familiar situations; ideas are relevant, detailed and include examples. Finally, they should communicate with an excellent sense of audience.
Here is some vocabulary taught during this unit:
- writing tools: http://www.languageguide.org/french/vocabulary/writing/
- telling time: http://www.languageguide.org/french/telling-time/
- house: http://www.languageguide.org/french/vocabulary/house/
- indoors: http://www.languageguide.org/french/vocabulary/indoors/
- living room: http://www.languageguide.org/french/vocabulary/den/
- dining room: http://www.languageguide.org/french/vocabulary/dining-room/
- kitchen: http://www.languageguide.org/french/vocabulary/kitchen/
- bedroom: http://www.languageguide.org/french/vocabulary/bedroom/
- bathroom: http://www.languageguide.org/french/vocabulary/bathroom/
- school: http://www.languageguide.org/french/vocabulary/school/
- food: http://www.languageguide.org/french/vocabulary/food2_new/
- meals and taste: http://www.languageguide.org/french/vocabulary/meals-and-taste/
- drinks: http://www.languageguide.org/french/vocabulary/drinks/
During the week of October 17 to October 21, we began our new unit. After brainstorming about the new unit topic,
students expressed what they want to do and to learn for the next weeks to explore their own routine as well as French people routine.
Most of them said that they wanted to play vocabulary games and cook or eat French food. I guess that France culture is linked to food in many students mind...
For sure, I will organize a special activity about French food!
After, we reviewed the days of the week through playing games.
During the week of October 24 to October 28, the students learned how to write vocabulary words about the time of the day (noon, evening, night...) and learned how to read the time.
During the week of November 28 to December 2,
During the week of December 5 to December 9,
"A day in my life”
On October 19th, the Grade 5 students began a new unit: “ a day in my life”.
This unit aims to help the students to acquire the basics of the routine through new vocabulary about the calendar, the time, the house, the school, the household and the hobbies.
Then, they might learn some useful language structures to describe a place, a schedule, and the daily life activities in general.
For sure, the contents and the organization will vary according to the student levels, their needs and interests. For example for the beginners, the description of the vocabulary ad easy sentences dealing with the main actions such as eating, going to school, playing… will be taught. By this way, my objective is encourage them to interact in simple and rehearsed exchanges, using verbal and non-verbal language. Also, they might use basic phrases to communicate ideas, feelings and information on a variety of aspects of everyday topics.
Whereas the intermediate level students will be more focused on grammar to be able to respond in detail and appropriately to simple short phrases and basic information in spoken, written and visual text. Then, they should interact confidently in basic structured exchanges and use phrases effectively to communicate ideas, feelings and information in a variety of familiar situations; ideas are relevant, detailed and include examples. Finally, they should communicate with an excellent sense of audience.
Here are some of the vocabulary will be taught during this unit:
Calendar: Monday (lundi), Tuesday (mardi), Wednesday (mercredi), Thursday (jeudi), Friday (vendredi), Saturday (samedi), Sunday (dimanche),
Months of the year: January (janvier), February (février), March (march), April (avril), May (mai), June (juin), July (juillet), August (août), September (septembre), October (octobre), November (novembre), December (décembre)
day (jour), month (mois), week (semaine), year (an), date (date), today (aujourd’ hui),
yesterday (hier), tomorrow (demain)
Day activities: I eat breakfast at (je mange à), I go to school at (je vais à l’ école à), I leave school at(je quitte l’école à), I play at (je joue à) …
House description: House (la maison), room (la pièce), bedroom (la chambre), bath room (la salle de bain) …
School description: classroom (la sale de classe), nurse station (l’ infirmerie),
Cafeteria (la cafeteria), gym (la salle de sport), swimming pool (la piscine)…
Circumstances: When I am tired (quand je suis fatigue(é),When I am free (quand je suis libre), During the week, (pendant la semaine), During the weekend (pendant le week-end), with my family (avec ma famille),with my friends (avec mes amis).
Action verbs: to learn (apprendre), to share (partager), to play (jouer), to go (aller), to prefer(préférer)…
Meals: breakfast (le petit déjeuner), snake (le goûter)…
Sports: football, basketball, swimming (la natation), rugby, golf...
watch TV (regarder la télévision), going to the cinema (aller au cinéma), reading books (lire des livres) …
Music instruments: piano, flute…
During the week of October 19 to October 23, we began our new unit by discovering a french performance of pantomime dealing with daily life. Then, some students acted out a story about their own routine through body motions, without use of speech. A funny way to begin our new unit!
Click here to know more about mime and the famous mime from France, Marcel Marceau.
On Friday, the students reviewed some key activities while listening to a French song and discovering a French poetry.
Poetry is often rich in cultural references, and it presented a wide range of learning opportunities and they are authentic texts. By group, the students wrote their own poetry which rythmed easily. Some of them have been very creative!
During the week of October 26 to October 30, the students worked on grammar: how to structure French sentences speaking about our own routine. First, we began by reviewing the different categories of verbs and then, be focused on the first group verbs (or ER verbs).
During the week of November 2 to November 7, the students learned some new vocabulary so as to be able to construct more complex sentences.
During the week of November 2 to November 7, the students discovered a famous French song: "Comme d'habitude" (Claude François), interpreted by Franck Sinatra and they began to write their own routine song. They also reviewed the time in French.
During the week of November 9 to November 13, the students reviewed all the vocabulary and grammar. Then, they used these words to play games.
They did some collaborative activities to reinforce their skills.
During the week of November 30 to December 4, the students
completed their formative assessments. Also, they watched a short cartoon so as to learn new words and realized some tasks by groups.
During the week of December 7 to December 11, the students
completed their summative assessments. All the students have done very valuable efforts! We can be proud of them!
Then, the students choose some articles taken from the French magazine Le petit quotidien depending of their interests. They
read them and wrote some feedback and posts in French or in English on the blog.
Finally, during the week of December 14 to December 18, they realize projects by groups to support the climate conference, called COP 21, which is taking place in France until December, the 11th.
http://isppelementaryvalerie.blogspot.com/2015/11/what-is-cop-21.html
This activity promoted an international mindedness through discovering some facts about the climate, the environment issue in France...
Group 5 working on the exhibition " the 34 wonders of the world".
Group 3 working on the French official clip of the conference taking place at Paris.
Then, all the groups presented their own research.
Finally, we played vocabulary games together. It was very funny!
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