Quand Je Vais à L’École…

In Grade 6 we have been working on a unit about our neighbourhoods. We moved into this theme after working on La Maison. I didn’t post about our home unit, but we discussed our dream homes, looked at some different houses for sale in France, and drew a house plan on graph paper. Some of the questions were, Qu’est-ce qu’il y a dans ta chambre? De quelle couleur est ta chambre? Qu’est-ce qu’il y a dans la maison de tes rêves?

So far, for our neighbourhood theme, we have asked, “Qu’est-ce qu’il y a dans ton quartier?” and “Où vas-tu pour faire tes achats?” I made a slideshow about me for each of these using Google slides. Today, I am going to talk about my drive to work. I am going to start the class with this fun video that is catchy and sort of silly 🙂

Speaking French for Points!

We want to get the kids using the sentence structures learned using our essential questions. One way to get students speaking is through different activities where they get points for answering in a complete sentence.

Example:

I ask “quel est ton animal préférée?”

They answer with, “mon animal préférée est le chien!”

This happens, they do something that gets them points. Easy peasy. They can play as individuals, on teams, it’s your choice! In this version, they answer the question in a complete sentence, they get to shoot a basket. I made a 5 point line, a ten point line, and a 20 point line.

 

Les Images!!!

 

http://myenglishimages.com/images/

 

As you know, using lists of vocab is a big no-no in l’approche neurolinguistique. So that leaves us, usually, with a frantic search for images so that we will have something to reference instead of resorting to using English. I found this illustrator’s site and I love her drawings. They are sorted into categories and I would just print them (in colour if I could), and chop off the English words.

 

http://myenglishimages.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Chores_Errands.pdf

Le Camping/ L’Été

I am trying to use some books we recently received as a starting point for developing lessons, and as a way to guide me toward a theme instead of starting with a theme and and then trying to find literature that works. Deciding on a topic and finding great essential questions that will guide my planning is the most difficult part of “L’approche” for me!

Here are some questions to get the ball rolling…

Qu’est-ce que tu aimes faire en été?

Qu’est-ce que ta famille aime faire au printemps?

Qu’est-ce que tu vas faire en été?

Est-ce que tu fais du camping?

As-tu déjà fais du camping? – The structure, “as-tu déjà” was in one of the animal books we received!

I would love any suggestions about questions that would work with this book.