Friday, March 23, 2012

Week 10

Video Menu and Learning Objectives, Week X

(VIDEO 1)
- understand and correctly use demonstrative articles
- understand and correctly use the suffixes -ci and là

(VIDEO 2)
- correctly use demonstrative determiners with vocabulary used to talk about clothing

WRITTEN AND SPOKEN HOMEWORK
 
First, you might find this NPR piece on All-Saints' Day in France and the Cemetery of Pere Lachaise:
CLICK HERE (right-click and open in a new window if the link doesn't work at first)
If you click HERE you can take a virtual tour of Pere Lachaise.

SPOKEN HOMEWORK:

1. Study/review the demonstrative adjectives (CE, CET, CETTE and CES) on THIS PAGE of your online textbook.

2. Use the sound files on the page to listen to and practice the pronunciation of the articles.

3. Complete the self-correcting exercises at the bottom of the page.

4. When you have these answers correct, record yourself reading them using the Audio Drop Box as usual (click on the "Spoken Homework" button in the left-hand toolbar of this page").

WRITTEN HOMEWORK:

For this week's written homework, you'll do some self-study with food vocabulary and learn some new structures for discussing what you eat and drink.

1. Begin by watching the following videos. Remember that these files work best in Internet Explorer (as opposed to Firefox, etc.). You can switch back and forth between French and English by using the buttons below the dialogue box.

Franck
Virginie
Jean-Christophe
Stephanie


2. Study the structure and use of the verb PRENDRE on THIS PAGE of your online textbook. Notice that PRENDRE can be used in French to mean either eating or drinking, and would translate roughly as "to have".

EXAMPLE: "Je prends du café" = "I have (some) coffee"


3. Study the structure of the verb BOIRE on THIS PAGE of your online textbook.

4. Study the use of the "partitive articles" on THIS PAGE of your online textbook.

5. Compose a paragraph (100 words minimum) describing what you eat and drink at breakfast ("Au petit déjeuner"), at lunch ("Au déjeuner") and at dinner ("Au dîner"). Use MANGER, BOIRE and PRENDRE at least one time each. You may use the four videos above as examples and guides for your composition.

6. Submit your paragraph by clicking on the "Written Homework" button in the left-hand toolbar of this screen, and then click on "Written Homework Week Ten".

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