Assalam Alaikum Dear Parents:
In French, through our story *Chat Angora*,
we are working on building fluency in oral communication and reading. We have
daily kinesthetic vocabulary review using gestures as stated in Aim Language
curriculum. We focus particularly on the use of verbs. These help students to
acquire and / or to enhance the oral use of French language in their daily
life.
We have also almost daily reading. We focus
on the correct French pronunciation and on the expression.
We are of course working on our writing; so
far we did many activities (related to the story) that combine reading and
writing:
1.
Choisis le
bon mot: The sentence is written with a space and a word bank is provided.
Students read the sentence and fill up the blank with the correct word from the
bank.
2.
Les mots
en ordre: Students have to put the words in order to form a sentence and write
it.
3.
Les phrases coupées: Students match 2 parts of a sentence and write the
complete sentence.
4.
Les mots qui riment: Students match the rhyming words provided. After
that, they look for the rhyming words in the story.
5.
Les questions totales: In this activity the complete answer is in the
question, students cross out all the extra vocabulary and the question mark.
They write the answer using capitalization and the period at the end of the
sentence.
6.
The plural of the verbs : il/elle fait, ils/elles font; il /elle va, ils/elles vont;
7.
The contraction : la école ----˃ l’école
8.
Double verbs
construction
9.
The opposites
All the activities are
modeled in class several times before any homework is assigned.
In any communication,
oral or written, students are expected to use complete sentences. They are also
required to speak only in French during French class.
For French tests,
students have spelling words, an activity we have worked on and a grammar
question. For the evaluation, the activity and the grammar have more weight
than the spelling.
The purpose of the
spelling is to help students to become familiar with the French orthography in
order to prepare them for the creative writing activity we are having at the
end of the unit.
If you have any
question you can contact me by calling the school or by email.
Jazakum Allah Kheiran
for your cooperation
Tr. Amina
French Department
