"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 (depending of students levels):
- 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/
- school: http://www.languageguide.org/french/vocabulary/school/
During the week of October 10 to October 14, 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 routine and French people routine too.
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 almost 1 cooking session!
After, we reviewed the days of the week through playing games.
During the week of October 10 to October 14, the students reviewed the days of the week and learn how to write and spell some of them.
Finally, they began to learn how to tell the time.
During the week of October 17 to October 21,
During the week of October 24 to October 28,
During the week of October 31 to November 4,
During the week of November 7 to November 11,
During the week of November 14 to November 18,
During the week of November 21 to November 25,
During the week of November 28 to December 2,
During the week of December 5 to December 9,
During the week of December 12 to December 16,
"A day in my life”
On October 19th, the Grade 2 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 the day of the week while 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. The students discussed, understood and performed a part of a poem.
During the week of October 26 to October 30, the students learned something new: the use of masculine, feminine and plural articles and nouns. Then learned an easy way to differentiate these articles while playing a game.
During the week of November 2 to November 6, the students learnt the places in the house and some actions, by using some structures such as: I use to... "j'ai l'habitude de....".
During the week of November 9 to November 13, the students learned how to read the time: It is 6.00: "il est six heures".
Finally, Jodie showed her French book so the students reviewed the numbers (thanks Lilie for offering to help her!)
During the week of November 16 to November 20, the students reviewed all the vocabulary and used these words to play games.
Finally, they worked online activities to develop new 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 created a play to present their own routine. They could practice in groups all the unit vocabulary and oral skills.... a funny activity!
Then, the students completed their summative assessments.
All the students have done very valuable efforts! We can be proud of them!
During the week of December 14 to December 18, they realized a project to support the climate conference, called COP 21, which is taking place in France.
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...
Finally, we sang together the song we learned and danced. So nice!
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