French I- Cultural activities
18 December 2008
Today you will be learning about holiday customs in France. Complete all of the exercises in order. These exercises have been modified by an ICT log created by Helen Myers of the MFL newgroup. Mille fois merci!
- Learn about Christmas customs in France
Go to the Christmas in France site and read about the customs. Make two short answer questions with answers from each section. http://www.terrace.qld.edu.au/academic/lote/french/xmas5.htm
- Practise vocabulary + knowledge about Christmas (including 'Fling the teacher')
Work through the exercises from left to right. http://www.sunderlandschools.org/estrellas/french-index.htm#xmas
- Send a holiday post card in French
Go to the Chez Ema website http://www.jumafred.com/ema/tc-noel.phpand find a text for a holiday postcard. You may use http://wordreference.com to help with unknown words. You may NOT use online translators. I’ll be watching!
- Go to the Internaute site
http://photos.linternaute.com/marches-de-noel/and find a picture for your post card. Send a card to me at Andrea.Henderson@fortbend.k12.tx.us
Sign with your French name and last name.
Do about three more activities on this site without having to ask your teacher what the instructions are if you can! As you do so, note down at least 15 words which you learn through doing this! www.perenoel.com
- Learn Christmas -related vocabulary
Do the same on the following site, which takes you to Santa’s ‘atelier’ (workshop). As you do so, note down at least 10 words which you learn through doing this! www.vivenoel.com
- Understand names for popular games in French
Go back to the village, then into the ‘Top 50’. What’s the most popular game? now vote for games you like below. (Just imagine you’re about three and a half!! Humour me!!) http://www.perenoel.com/village/top50/
EVALUATION
You will copy you questions and answers from activity #1 as a comment to today's post. You will tell me what two things went well today? What would you do differently? What was your favorite exercise? Your least favorite?