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Monday, October 25, 2010

In Review: Eighth Week of French Language Learning

In Class:
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Hobbies
  • Job Interviews
  • Demonstrative Pronouns
  • Ear-training and pronunciation: liaisons, consonants
  • Oral Comprehension
  • Storying with imperfect verb tense
  • Adverbs
  • Pronoun "y"

Language Sessions:
  • Input flooding for rhyming words
  • Input flooding for minimal pairs
  • Categorizing pictures vocabulary items by grammatical gender
  • Soliciting the vocabulary for describing daily activities in the present tense
  • Comprehending description of daily activities in the past tense
  • Soliciting the vocabulary for describing the process of making crepes
  • Soliciting the vocabulary for describing the process of washing dishes
  • I Spy with busy pictures
  • Listening to self-recordings of ourselves describing our daily activities, language helper gave corrections to our mistakes
  • Soliciting the vocabulary for situational dialogues (e.g. first meeting someone, accidentally running into someone, giving condolences at a funeral)

Note: all our soliciting of vocabulary happens through the use of pictures with the help of some negotiating in French; soliciting vocabulary should not be a translation exercise.

On our own:
  • Guided tour of the historic district of our tour
  • Watched the children's cuisine DVD (we understand more every time)
  • Reviewed language session recordings
  • Reviewed class recordings
  • Self-recordings
  • Attended a small group Bible Study
  • Watched a children's movie twice
  • Listened to children's songs

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