FrenchZine Learning & Speaking Around the Table Florence Lojacono, Ph.D. June, 2007 [email_address]

WHAT IS FrenchZine? Imagine that you meet some friends each week around a table in a French café . What would you talk about?

Imagine that you

meet some friends

each week around a

table in a French café .

What would

you talk about?

YOU WOUD TALK ABOUT: Gastronomy Traveling Gardening Sports Culture Bestsellers Movies / TV

Gastronomy

Traveling

Gardening

Sports

Culture

Bestsellers

Movies / TV

WHAT DO YOU PREFER? TALKING about your interests, but in French? SPEAKINGin French, but about anything?

Around our Table You Will Find: Realia from day-to-day life & magazines Weekly PowerPoint support Grammar Clinic Audio files (to listen to, to be downloaded) Links for exercises and explanations English-French dictionary

Realia from day-to-day life & magazines

Weekly PowerPoint support

Grammar Clinic

Audio files (to listen to, to be downloaded)

Links for exercises and explanations

English-French dictionary

FrenchZine IS 100% TEXTBOOK FREE FrenchZine is made up of authentic French documents from day-to-day life such as French magazines you can buy in your bookstore. International subscriptions are available. Online editions are an easy and free means to complete paper magazines. With FrenchZine you will learn French or improve your skills working on a unique, custom made material elaborated with realia. When working on real day-to-day life you will learn about culture and geography as well as about the French language.

FrenchZine is made up of authentic French documents from day-to-day life such as French magazines you can buy in your bookstore. International subscriptions are available. Online editions are an easy and free means to complete paper magazines.

With FrenchZine you will learn French or improve your skills working on a unique, custom made material elaborated with realia. When working on real day-to-day life you will learn about culture and geography as well as about the French language.

Realia as Educational Materials STUDY THIS PICTURE: What does this picture represent? Where was this picture taken? Why is this place famous? Write a short essay with the history of this place and its main features.

STUDY THIS PICTURE:

What does this picture represent?

Where was this picture taken?

Why is this place famous? Write a short essay with the history of this place and its main features.

Practicing Numbers with a Menu

Or Travelling in France

Magazines are our TEXTBOOKS

Example: The Verbs Irregular verb : vous allez Imperative form : dévorez

Irregular verb :

vous allez

Imperative form :

dévorez

GRAMMAR CLINIC ALLER (irregular verb) Present Je vais Tu vas Il, elle, on va Nous allons Vous allez Ils, elles vont Exercise : fill-in-the-blank Je ___ au travail . Elles ___ au supermarché . Il ___ au cinéma . Nous ___ au MacDo . Tu ___ à l’université . Vous ___ à Chicago .

Present

Je vais

Tu vas

Il, elle, on va

Nous allons

Vous allez

Ils, elles vont

Exercise : fill-in-the-blank

Je ___ au travail .

Elles ___ au supermarché .

Il ___ au cinéma .

Nous ___ au MacDo .

Tu ___ à l’université .

Vous ___ à Chicago .

GRAMMAR CLINIC Giving Orders CHANTER Regular verb ending in -ER Chant e Chant ons Chant ez Keep the base chant Add e, ons, ez according to the subject The imperative form is a command form used to give orders Only 3 forms: tu / nous/ vous The subject ( tu, nous or vous ) is always omitted The “ tu ” form does not end in –s like the present-tense form

CHANTER

Regular verb ending in -ER

Chant e

Chant ons

Chant ez

Keep the base chant

Add e, ons, ez according to the subject

The imperative form is a command form used to give orders

Only 3 forms: tu / nous/ vous

The subject ( tu, nous or vous ) is always omitted

The “ tu ” form does not end in –s like the present-tense form

Giving Orders The Imperative Form Write all the imperative forms ( tu,vous, nous ) for each sentence: Écouter la radio Marcher plus vite Jouer aux cartes Étudier le français Regarder ce film LINKS: http://www.xtec.es/~sgirona/fle/imperatif_index.htm http://french.about.com/library/weekly/aa123099.htm http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/~courron/cours/conjugaisons/conjug1_vb1ergroupe.htm http://plano.free.fr/exercices/conjugaison/perso/imperatif_present_er.htm

Write all the imperative

forms ( tu,vous, nous ) for

each sentence:

Écouter la radio

Marcher plus vite

Jouer aux cartes

Étudier le français

Regarder ce film

LINKS:

http://www.xtec.es/~sgirona/fle/imperatif_index.htm

http://french.about.com/library/weekly/aa123099.htm

http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/~courron/cours/conjugaisons/conjug1_vb1ergroupe.htm

http://plano.free.fr/exercices/conjugaison/perso/imperatif_present_er.htm

FrenchZine IS Talking about day-to-day life, talking about your interests, but in French. Learning French grammar and vocabulary in a cultural an updated context.

Talking about day-to-day life, talking about your interests, but in French.

Learning French grammar and vocabulary in a cultural an updated context.