Revision and farewell for 2011

This is the last post for the year. We hope that you have enjoyed learning French with us in 2011. The last task for you this year will be to go through all of the posts for the year to revise on all of the content covered in 2011.

How to tell the time in French

This You Tube video goes in to some depth on telling the time in French. Watch it a number of times to become fully familiar with the concept.

Clothing - des vêtements

Check out this You Tube video on items of clothing in French. The video finishes with a short test. Post a comment on the blog to let me know how well you managed to do.

What's the weather like? - Quel temps fait-il?

This You Tube video introduces you to some types of weather using French vocabulary. At the end there is a short test. Leave a comment on the blog to let us know how well you did on the test.

An excellent resource

While the class continues to work on their conversations, all of you who use this blog may be interested in checking out this fantastic online French language learning resource on the about.com website. This will enable you to take your French a little further than the Let's Learn French website allows you to do (don't stop using our site though!)

Click here to check it out.

Students French Conservations

The students from Room 2 are continuing to work on their French conservations. The conservations will include all of the topics covered so far in class this year.

Student conversations

All Room 2 students are now preparing French conversations, for which they will be working in pairs to plan and present a conversation to the rest of the class. We will be preparing these over the next two weeks, then, hopefully, videoing each conversation and publishing them on this blog.

Revision Time

Unit 11 of 'Oui' is a revision unit. Take the time this week to go through all of the lessons on this blog, from the very first right up to what was posted last week, and remind yourself of all of the topics covered so far.

How to say the date in French

Most of this You Tube video is a recap on the days of the week and the months of the year. However, at the end you will see how to say the actual date.

Watch the video to work out how you would write the date of your birthday. Once you can do this, comment on the post with your name and the date of your birthday.

Months of the Year

To continue with the unit 'Happy Birthday' - 'Joyeux anniversaire', we will look at months of the year.

This You Tube presentation introduces the months in French. At the end of the video there is a short test; give it a go!



Here are the months written for you:

January February March April May June July August September October November December Month Year	janvier février mars avril mai juin juillet août septembre octobre novembre décembre Mois Année

Numbers in French to 31

Watch this You Tube presentation to learn the numbers from 1 to 31.



Now that you have heard the numbers, click here to see them written as flash cards. There are also a number of activities for you to do here to help you to remember the numbers.

The Tour de France

Have a look at this video of the route for the Tour de France. It gives you an idea of the geography of France, and also shows you just how far the cyclists have to ride!

Days of the week in French

This You Tube clip is all about the days of the week. Have a look and practice your pronunciation.

Revision

Wow! For the first time as a teacher Mr Nelson has worked through the first folder in one of the language learning programmes. This is pretty impressive stuff from the Room 2 students, as we aren't even halfway through the year.

This week we will look at consolidating our learning by looking back through all of the topics we have covered so far. The way that you can do this is by looking through all of the posts in our Let's Learn French blog.

To give you an idea of what's to come, here are the next series of topics that we will be doing to take us through the remainder of the Oui! unit.

Unit 10 - Joyeux anniversaire! (Happy Birthday!)
Unit 11 - Entr' acte (Revision)
Unit 12 - Quel temp fait-il? (What's the weather like?)
Unit 13 - La mode (Fashion)
Unit 14 - Quelle heure est-il? (What's the time)
Unit 15 - Chez moi (My place)
Unit 16 - Miam! Miam! (Yum! Yum!)
Unit 17 - Tu aimes les sport? (Do you like sport?)
Unit 18 - Entr'acte (Revision)
Unit 19 - Une crepe, i'il vous plait (A pancake, please)
Unit 20 - Vive la France! Vive le fraccais! (Long live France! Long live French)

Tu as un animal chez toi? Do you have a pet?

Our next unit is on pets. Some of the animals you see on this You Tube clip may not be the sort of pets that we have at home (although I would like a pet giraffe!), but many of them you will recognize as common household pets in New Zealand.

Countries

This video has the name of several countries. Unfortunately I couldn't find one the had New Zealand in it. However, we will be covering New Zealand in class.

Revision

Last week in Room 2 we revised what was covered in the first term. Because of this I won't put up a new post of content this week as we haven't yet started our unit on the family.

If you haven't already done so, go back and check the previous post so that you are ready for the next unit of work.

Family Members

The next unit we do in class will be on members of the family. This vocab list is from the wikihow website:

• Mes parents = my parents
• Ma mère = my mum
• Mon père = my dad
• Mon frère = my brother
• Ma sœur = my sister
• Mon cousin (garçon) = my cousin (boy)

• Ma cousine (fille) = my cousin (girl)
• Mon oncle = my uncle
• Ma tante = my aunt

• Mon grandpère = my grandfather
• Ma grandmère = my grandmother
• Mes grandparents = my grandparents

• Le fils = the son
• La fille = the daughter
• Les enfants = the children
• L'enfant = the child

View this You Tube video to hear some of the words from the vocab list pronounced.

Classroom Objects

Check out this video to learn the names of classroom objects, our next unit in our class French Programme.

Colours

This YouTube video covers the basic colours in French. The video finishes with a short test. See how you go with the test and leave a comment on the blog.

How to ask 'How old are you?'

This is the second post for this week. This one is about asking 'How old are you?'. The video below teaches you both the formal and informal way of asking the question.

Counting from 1 to 20

Here are the numbers from 0 to 20:

0. Zero
1. Un
2. Deux
3. Trois
4. Quatre (sometimes you can hear people saying Quat')
5. Cinq (we sometimes say Cin')
6. Six
7. Sept
8. Huit
9. Neuf
10. Dix
11. Onze
12. Douze
13. Treize
14. Quatorze
15. Quinze
16. Seize
17. Dix-Sept
18. Dix-huit
19. Dix-neuf
20. Vingt

To help you with pronunciation check out this You Tube video.

How are you?

Our next unit will focus on asking and answering 'How are you?' in French. This short video goes over this very clearly. Take the time to watch it before we begin the unit so that you have some idea of what to say and how to say it. Later on you can also use the video clip to revise asking and answering how someone is.

Introducing yourself

Here's your next French online lesson. This one covers introducing yourself. One thing to note is that the way that you see 'What's your name?' on the video is the formal version that we haven't done in class. You will see what I mean when you watch the video.

Count to 10 in French

Watch this You Tube clip to learn how to count to 10 in French.

Saying goodbye in French

This short clip includes four ways of saying goodbye in French, three of which we have covered in class, and one we haven't.

French Alphabet

Check out this video to help you with you pronunciation of the alphabet in French.

Greetings

This You Tube clip covers a lot of what we have done so far, plus a little bit more, including:

• Basic greetings
• Basic farewells
• Asking what someone's name is
• Saying what your name is
• Titles
• Asking how someone is