September 7 - 9th
- Name game
- Classroom rules (in mini-skits!)
- Tech permission forms handed out
- French games!

September 12/13th 
- Duolingo demo (see previous post for details on how to sign up)
- Qui suis-je (Who am I) Banner project!
DAY 1: Due Wednesday Sept 14 
DAY 2: Due Thursday Sept 15

Qui suis-je?

What you need:

- Name/symbol/picture of self in the middle

- Make it colourful! Colour a thin border in your favourite colour.

- 4 things that you like/love/appreciate/hate (1 from each category)

Use wordreference.com or a paper dictionary.

*Everything in French has a gender (masculine or feminine).* So for example, if you like basketball, in the dictionary you would see:

 “basketball (nm)” (n = noun, m = masculine)

You would write: “le basketball”

M = le

F = la

Things can be plural too! Instead of using le or la, you use “les.” This does not change their gender. Just like in English, you usually add an “s” to the end.

 If you wanted to say you liked basketball players you would write:

“les joueurs de basketball”

or if you wanted to say you liked cats you would write:

"les chats"

These are called

“definite articles” – le/la/les (more grammar explanation after the banner) 

You will be doing a

mini-presentation to the class.

Bonjour! Je m’appelle ________.

J’aime….  (I like)

J’adore… (I love)

J’apprécie… (I appreciate)

Je déteste… (I hate)

Voilà! C’est qui je-suis!


e.g. Bonjour! Je m’appelle Mlle Powell. 

J’aime la poterie

J’adore les chats

J’apprécie les montagnes

Je déteste les maths

Voilà! C’est qui je-suis!

Need help with

pronunciation?

If you put the word in

Quizlet, it will tell you

how to say it.

(And/or ask me!)

Genders:
French has two grammatical genders: masculine and feminine. All nouns have a gender that you must memorize. Sometimes, the gender can be obvious: une femme ("a woman") is feminine. Other times, it's not obvious: une pomme ("an apple") is also feminine.

Articles:
Articles (e.g. "the" or "a") provide context for a noun. In English, articles may be omitted, but French nouns almost always have an article. French has three types of articles.

*For this project we will only be using definite articles*

Definite articles ("the") are used with specific nouns that are known to the speakers, as in English, but also to indicate the general sense of a noun, unlike in English. [...]

It is critical to understand that articles must agree with their nouns in both gender and number. For instance, le femme is incorrect. It must be la femme because la is feminine and singular, just like femme.

(I took the above information from Duolingo! https://www.duolingo.com/skill/fr/Basics-1 )

Adjectives:
Adjectives must agree with the noun. If you would like to add an adjective to your banner, let me know so I can help you make it agree!