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 * FRENCH GRAMMAR ACTIVITIES!**

Savoir vs. connaître
Reference handout with explanation, uses, and examples user:CarrieEGold

Possessive Pronouns
Reference handout explaining use of pronouns mon/ma/mes son/sa/ses etc. user:CarrieEGold

**ADJECTIVE PRACTICE: Art-based Activity**
I had students create a "locker" using construction paper and other fun items. The idea was that they would choose a 3-5 adjectives that would describe themselves. Based on that information, they would decorate their locker to showcase these attributes.

For example: "Je suis curieuse" (They have to know how endings change for masculine or feminine) For this you could cut out a picture of a book to show curiosity, or maybe a cat.

We used large pieces of construction paper and folded it in half so it would be like an actual locker that opens and closes.

You could also do this, showcase them throughout the room and have others try to guess who the lockers belong to.

user:mllegibbs

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 * BATAILLE NAVALE** (Battleship)

I adapted this activity from a friend of mine, who is a French TA at MSU and teaches FRN 202.

Bataille Navale is Battleship in French. In this game, the subject pronouns line the columns and you choose the infinivites that go down the side in rows. You also choose the verb tense you want the students to practice. Whenever they want to take a turn, they have to practice saying the verb conjugation, and also I had them write it down. I'll post the materials here: a directions sheet explaining how to play, the game board, and the WS where the students wrote their turns. This activity took a whole 45-minute class period to play and many students did not want to stop when the bell rang. user:StephanieP



[|Conjugation Practice] - Free self-tests re: tenses in French, German, Latin, & Spanish - registration required user:chericem1

You can use "cootie catchers" to practice writing, speaking, and comprehension for both skills. We practiced the futur proche, but I think just about any topic could be manipluated. I had students write funny futur proche expressions (4) on the fortune part of the cootie catcher (for example, "Tu vas embrasser Matthew McConohaugh"). The outside of the cootie catcher were subjects (4), and then inside were the verbs we were practicing (8). In order to make the cootie catcher function, they had to make questions using inversion with the subjects and verbs, first defining the word, then eventual Q, and "fortune," in English (checking for comprehension) from their partners. They took turns asking questions. The kids really enjoyed it but it need to be carefully structured in order work. If you would like more specific instructions, please contact me!
 * COOTIE CATCHERS- [|flanne13] [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/user/pic/flanne13-sm.jpg width="16" height="16"]]**

I had students (in groups) use magazines to cut out & label (correctly, in complete sentences) a poster of as many faire expressions (weather & activities) as they could in timed atmosphere. Stipulations were that all gorup members' handwriting had to be on the poster, all materials had to be completely cleaned up and put away in order to qualify for the prize. Prizes were given to group with most accurate sentences and proper clean up (DQed if clean-up absent). Worked well and I was able to decorate the room a little.
 * FAIRE EXPRESSIONS user:flanne13**

[|Plus Petit] - PowerPoint with color-coded sentences for presenting comparisons in French user:chericem1

Verb Sandwiches -Teaching negatives (ne... pas)
Students had already learned je n'aime pas, ca ne va pas, and je ne sais pas so they had been exposed to it already without it being explicitly taught. I revisited this and asked them if they notice any patterns. They notice the **pas** more than anything and some of the caught on to the **ne** part. I told them it's the same for other verbs and we make a **verb sandwich**. The verb is the meat and the ne and pas are the slices of bread. We did some examples and had them tell me where to put the ne and the pas in the sentence to make it negative. A great practice activity was sentence building. I wrote out on large index cards the pronouns, verb STEMS, verb endings and the ne and pas. I actually drew the ne and pas as pieces of bread and made the verb stems and endings look like slices of meat. That way when they were building the sentences they were actually building verb sandwiches. user:mllegibbs


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