Thursday, February 12, 2015

Improve your French Listening skills!

Bonjour mes amis!

I strongly encourage you to practice your French language skills for 15 minutes every day! More specifically, I would like you to focus on areas that you may need more practice, for example your Listening skills! Podcast Français Facile is a great tool to do so! The following link will connect you to a page where you can listen to a variety of French conversations, in different contexts. Hearing the correct pronunciation of vocabulary words can help to improve your own oral French skills!

Lozano, Jose. (October 28 2012). Podcast Français Facile.[Online Image]. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1zanbGP

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Since the recent revision of the Ontario French curriculum (accessible here), a Listening strand has been added requiring students to determine meaning of various oral French texts, accurately interpret oral messages while interacting in French, as well as demonstrate an understanding of information in oral French texts about aspects of culture in diverse French-speaking communities (Overall expectations B1, B2 and B3 of the Core French and French Immersion curriculum). The following website, Podcast Français  Facile, allows students to listen to dialogues in multiple scenarios. Hovering over certain words in each dialogue will link to other exercises focusing on those vocabulary words.  Not familiar with the French language? This is the perfect opportunity to see what your child is learning and to help teach yourself some simple French vocabulary.

From the Podcast Français Facile homepage, students have access to grammar/dictation exercises, phonetic activities, cultural texts, vocabulary expressions, verb conjugations and much more!

Just a remind, please bookmark these sites in your web browser for future use!

Mme. Woroniuk

Monday, February 9, 2015

Les Ressources et les Outils!

Bonjour mes amis!

This is a reminder that every night, even for just 15 minutes, you should be practicing your French at home! This will keep your mind engaged and help to build your French language skills!

The first link can help improve your French vocabulary in engaging, interactive ways! There are a variety of topics that you can explore! You can review lessons  and even test yourself by playing fun games!

http://www.french-games.net/

The second link is a webpage including all of the ALT codes in order to make French accents on your PC or Mac. Writing in French without the accents will not be permitted.

http://www.afgs.org/faccents.html  - for PC
http://www.afgs.org/facntmac.html  - for Mac

The third link is to 'Le grand dictionnaire terminologique' (GDT), a terminology bank to help find the appropriate translations of French words. This website is similar to WordReference, but categorizes words based on specialized fields to find them more simply.

http://gdt.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/

Please take the time now to bookmark the links above in your web browser!

Merci!

Mme. Woroniuk

Monday, January 26, 2015

A Great Resource - Word Reference!

Salut!

I wanted to start off my sharing the most useful resource you will ever use as French Immersion students; WordReference. If you haven't heard about it, WordReference is an online French-English dictionary that can help you translate those tricky words you may sometimes have a hard time remembering in French. There are a number of French translating websites out there, Word Reference is by far the most accurate. It will recognize if a word is masculine/feminine (for nouns), as well as adjectives, verbs, adverbs, etc.

*N'oublie pas - please use this site to look up key words or a short phrase. It will not be able to translate a whole sentence for you! Use your notes and handouts from class to properly conjugate your verbs.
Benson, Nicole. (November 25 2013). WordReference. [Online Image]. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1B1Yli3
I would suggest that you save this link as a bookmark on your web browser for easy access!

À bientôt!

Mme. Woroniuk