Hello students! Two more days before THANKSGIVING BREAK! I hope you take some time to relax, safely reconnect with family, and eat some good food. I can't wait to hear about all the food. This week in content hour, we did another of the TV5 Apprendre le Francais for extra credit. This time we focused on one of our big verbs this unit "aimer," and we also practiced a bit of grammar. Here's the link in case you couldn't make it to content hour. The feedback from the students is that this exercise is "medium" difficult, which is good: not too easy, not too tough. My recommendation is to try it without the transcription at least once, and if it's too hard, open up the transcription to check your listening comprehension. Here's one thing I have learned from this unit: everyone loves French fries. I love French fries, you love French fries, Carl loves French fries. Turns out, French fries, or les frites, aren't even French. They were invented by Belgians, and are still an iconic Belgian street food served with mayonnaise. Yeah, you read that right. Mayonnaise. Here's a video of people happily roaming the streets of Belgium with their freshly fried frites: None of us can go to Belgium right now, I imagine. So if you'd like to recreate the classic frites at home, here's a recipe. These potatoes are fried not once, but twice. No wonder they taste so good.
Y'all, French pronunciation is hard. Like I told you guys in class today, it's starting to get in the way of me being able to understand some of your oral quizzes. We went over the phonetics of the dialogue for Friday's quiz in class today, which I hope was helpful. It's a physical thing: the shape your mouth makes creates the sounds. Before you submit your quiz, I recommend you also watch the video below. Keep thinking about the shape of your mouth as you speak. I'll see you in content hour this afternoon, where you'll be showing me your progress in Busuu for extra credit. I'll also be inviting you to do an enrichment activity on TV5 that focuses on the pronunciation of the <u> sound, like in "tu." Good luck! Bon courage!
Well, class, the eyes of the world are on us and the results of our election. Below is a screenshot of the Le Monde homepage: On the right-hand side of the page, we see "Les plus lus" articles, that is, "the most read" articles on the Le Monde website. The number one article is "La carte des résultats, Etat par Etat." La carte=map, and Etat=state, so the translation would be "A map of results, state by state." All of the top three most popular articles cover our election. This Week's Content HourSpeaking of the news, for this week's content hour we will be looking at a clip from TV5. You will watch the clip and answer general questions about the vocabulary and the content of the article. I'll show you how to use the subtitles to help you with your comprehension. Listening and reading French at the same time is so beneficial: it helps train our minds to recognize the sounds of French.
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