Thursday, 27 October 2016

Aujourd'hui-

We read about graffiti, you answered some questions about it.

You learned about a famous French graffiti artist (Invader)
...and a video on some "green" graffiti (inspired by your art projects!) 

We started watching a movie called "Vandal" 

Tuesday, 25 October 2016

Yesterday and today were both project work days! 

Your projects are due tomorrow!! 

Thursday, 20 October 2016

Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Monday, 17 October 2016

Aujourd'hui we started with the speaking presentations on Morriseau's paintings.
I was unhappy that so many of you were unprepared. We will be finishing the presentations tomorrow, so please ensure you have your recording (you can also e-mail me your recording if you cannot play it off of a device).

You also did a little listening activity, and guessed which paintings your peers described!

We reviewed the passé composé. You will be using the passé composé for your final project. I gave you a chart with some useful verbs for your final presentation. You used bescherelle.com (see links) to fill in the irregular verbs (starred!)

Devoirs: Duolingo (we will finish p.c. sheet in class tomorrow)






Friday, 14 October 2016


Modèle: 

Voici un tableau de Norval Morriseau, 

D’abord, pour symboliser le/la ______________, il utilise ____________ (colour). 
Ensuite… (line)
Puis… (form)
Finalement… (texture). 

Devinez quel tableau je décris!


** Record yourself on your phone (bring your phone to class)
or at home on your computer (if this option, send it to me by e-mail!) **

On Monday, we’ll do the presentations, bring your recording with you. 
I will be giving you a speaking mark for this.
Don't forget to review your Speaking Feedback Log!

Thursday, 13 October 2016

Aujourd'hui

- We started with a Kahoot! on textures.
- We went over some general feedback about what you wrote yesterday:

- great vocabulary usage! :)
 - you can just describe the lines and forms that you see, you don’t have to say what it IS (mountains, rocks... use the vocabulary you know!)
- many of you used “pour représenter” (don’t forget the “er”!) (other examples to make it less repetitive: démontrer, créer, symboliser)
- utilise! You all used this word (great!) Here’s some more ways to say something similar so it’s not so repetitive. L’artiste… ajoute, met, dessine, peint 
- watch out for adj agreement (m/f/pl) and articles (le/la/les, un/une/des!)

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 Let’s correct some of our mistakes together! 

 ce/cet/cette/ces 
- “ce oeuvre” -> cet oeuvre (masc, vowel) 
- “cette lignes” -> ces lignes (plural)

 colours:
 - “l’artiste utilise blanchâtre rose” -> l’artiste utilise le rose blanchâtre 
 - “pour représente bleu la confusion” -> pour représenter la confusion, l’artiste ajoute le bleu (la couleur bleue)
 - “le brun sont différent” -> le brun est différent. 
- “l’artiste utilise bleu blancatre et brun fonce” -> l’artiste utilise le bleu blanchâtre et le brun foncé

lines and forms:
- “l’artiste utilise une ligne vertical” -> l’artiste utilise une ligne verticale 
 - “pour démontrer bonheur l’artiste utilise lignes ondulés” -> pour démontrer le bonheur l’artiste utilise les lignes ondulées 
- “l’artiste utilise une ligne zigzag” -> l’artiste utilise une ligne en zigzag

 texture:
- “la texture rugueux et crayeux” -> la texture est rugueuse et crayeuse

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- You learned about conjunctions (connectors: they link ideas together in one sentence) and adverbs (to start your sentences! firstly, then, next...) -- See class Quizlet

- You did p. 22 in the cahier to practice, we went over the answers



- We watched this video, and described it as a class. "Premièrement, l'artiste ajoute la couleur jaune. Ensuite, il ajoute le bleu verdâtre. Puis, il met les lignes courbes pour démontrer la joie.... etc."

DEMAIN (tomorrow), you will be doing another writing activity. Please look over your notes tonight, try to add conjunctions and adverbs tomorrow to make your writing flow more smoothly! (and take care to avoid the mistakes we corrected today!)

N'oubliez pas de faire Duolingo!