Français III Pensez Ecolo Day 1

Objectives-

1.To review vocabulary and  subjunctive for discussing the environment

2. To select a topic for research

I

. Pre-activity: To think about: What is the subjunctive? How is it formed? When is it used?

II. Activity: Practicing vocabulary and subjunctive for talking about the envirornment

A. Complete all 7 exercises from Soyons Raisonables- Should finish by the end of the period.

B. Complete the Activités Internet for Chapitre 3  (You should download the PDF first and copy into a Word document) (A-C only) - We will complete this tomorrow- don't worry if you don't get to finish this part.

Here are some  possible topics for environement problems:

1.) Le Changement climatique (l’effet de serre, les glaciers, l’ours polaire, opinion- Vrai? Faux?, la technologie, Protocole de Kyoto, “Une Verité qui dérange,” etc.)

2.) L’Énergie (propre, sale, renouvelable, énergie indépendante, énergie solaire & énergie éolienne, utilsation du charbon, gaspillage d’électricité, etc)

3.) Le Gaspillage (décharges publiques [dumps], recyclage, culture de consommation, etc.)

4.) L’Eau (pollution, réserves, gaspillage, etc.)

5.) La Nourriture (réserves, gaspillage, consommation, distribution, végetarien v. carnivore, la chasse, etc.)

6.) La Consommation (gaspillage, nations industrialisés v. tiers monde [third world], durabilité [sustainability], etc.)

7.) La Terre (érosion, déforestation, glaciers, parcs nationaux, pollution, etc.)

8.) Les Écosystèmes, les Espèces menacées (animaux, espèces indicateures, plantes, etc.)

9.) La Santé (OGM [GMO], super-insèctes & mauvaises herbes, effets du lait de soja, etc.)

 

 

III. Post activity- As a comment to this post, list the environement issue you plan to research. Also, tell what two things went well and what you would have done differently.

Send your greetings to COP15

During the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15), the Danish government invites the entire world to send their greetings to the conference. Greetings are submitted through www.greetings.cop15.dk  and are composed of 150 characters of text.

The Climate Greetings will be shown on large screens throughout COP15 as well as at various other venues in Denmark and around the world

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Comments

[Juliana A.]

Le Changement climatique

today the first 7 activities went well along with part A of the PDF. reasearching was hard because it's all in French and very hard to understand

[Morgan]

I am going to research environmental issues about water.

♦The activities on the Soyons Raisonables website were simple.
♦The qiuz on Switzerland was interesting.

☼I think it would have been easier if there were specific websites for certian topics.

[Ashley D.]

I plan on researching pollution. I think the first part of the activity went well and deciding what I was going to research was easy. Reading the actual articles was very difficult though.
-Ashley D.

[Juan Carlos Marquez]

I plamn to research endangered species. I think that the subject went well as well as the choie betwee the environmental. problems

I think that the pdf was annoying to manage.

[Jackie L.]

I am going to research the problems that pertain to water.

The vocab acitivites were very simple, and the Sweden quiz was pretty neat.

I would've liked specific sites for differnt issues. ]:

[Arabéa Dubonnet-Berry]

the activities were easy. I enjoyed the subjunctive fill-in in particular. The searching for sites is a little harder.

[Arabéa Dubonnet-Berry]

Also, I'm researching les animaux.

[MMounzer]

I liked the assignment this subject about conservation in quite intreging. I love ebign in the computer lab because I think I learn more in here. It would be better if we had more interactive activites.

[Stephanie Cyriac]

I'm going to reasearch water in the environment for my project. Today, the first 7 activities went well and helped me to review the subjunctive form. Researching was hard, because its hard to understand parts of the passage without reading the whole thing, so I needed more time. The other thing I would have done differently is use different sites.

[Grant Perdue]

La Terre; I was able to understand most of the content on the websites and the 7 activites were pretty easy. I would have used word reference to help me understand some of the words that were unfimiliar to me on the websites.

[Nancy t]

umm i did not get very far with researching on other sites ,its a little hard to understand some of the words. i agree with morgan it would be a little easier to have specific websites for certain topics.

[LuisR]

I'm going to try to learn to do better with this because im not really very good with computers but i have an okay understanding of whats going on and im going to reasearch more about this along with recycling.

[Ariel]

i am going to research Global Warming
♥The first activity activityy was ok..pretty easy...sort of
♥I learned some stuff about Switzerland that i didnt know before
♥i would have looked at more websites

[Maryann W.]

I plan to research about how our enviroment is affecting water. Today, I liked the different websites that were provided, and the first activity helped to refresh my mind about subjunctives. I would have given this assingment more time because it was diffficult to read the french websites