Clinton Said:

French Lesson Plan for 9 Year Old Beginner?

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I'm assuming that your French is good. Lots of concersation using French imersion is the best way, but there are a lot of ideas here


http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/foreignla…

Hope this helps

Laura Said:

French Beginners Lesson Plan?

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how about starting with the basics?hello,goodbye how to say your age
start them off with their verbs the first ones you should start with are avoir and etre as they are the building blocks to past tenses for all the verbs

show them how to give a basic introduction of themselves
and then show them how to ask questions and instruct them
on informal and formal (tu and vous)

EDIT:how about 2 hours on talking,listening and writing for 40 mins each

Tony Said:

French conversation and lesson plans?

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Some units that I found very interesting for students was to use maps and describe geographical locations while pointing them out on the map. This is visual and comprehensible to students.
I also used math problems. Again, this is a visual and comprehensible task. Students learn numbers and math symbols and terminology and can follow what you are doing. Try any activity where they are familiar with the information. Use language experience technique (provide the info, have the students state it back to use, write it down for them, have them copy, have them read. Finally, you can ask questions based on the information. EArly on, you can point to the answer. Later, they should be able to respond, although the response may not be in correct grammar. That is not important in the early stages of communication in a foreign language. Hope this gives you some ideas.

Jesus Said:

French Lessons in Toronto and how much it costs?

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Look up some price ranges and go from there.

Susan Said:

Did the French learn their lesson when we changed the name to freedom fries?

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Hey, you are not being fair. the Republican government didn't just spend time on changing the name of french fries. They also spent a lot of time organizing warrantless wiretapping, secret prisons, the suspension of habeas corpus, raising the price of oil, and increasing the ease the terrorists have in recruiting members to harm us. There is still much the Republicans are thinking about. They need to get us into a war in Iran to distract us I guess from the debacle in Iraq. To say that the Republicans don't think is like saying that elephants don't fly.

Everett Said:

Any suggestions for substitute teaching for a French class when you don't speak French?

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A good teacher will leave a lesson plan. A week is a long time. But don't forget your bag of tricks for this class too - Always have a Plan B. Even though you don't speak the language you know a lot about France - use that knowledge to make a lesson plan about such things as French paintings (impressionism is always popular) or how about some current French music? A geography lesson would be helpful too. There are mountains and plains, rivers and lakes- if you were planning a trip to France, where would you go and why? Have students find out what comes from that region (besides wine!) And don't let them all choose Paris unless they each choose something different about Paris - fashion, perfume, architecture, food, the Sorbonne, the Champs Elysee. Ask for suggestions from the class. Make them do the work! - THis is all doable in English and your students should be at least attempting to pronounce these places in French. This could be a fun week! See if the media center has anything on the French countryside as a movie. How about "Chocolat?" - I know most schools now have a list of movies that students can watch - better check with them first!
Have a fun week and good luck!

Travis Said:

What kind of French class/lesson should I take? How much does it cost?

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If you can afford it I know some universities in Quebec offer a summer French second language program. I know my university does in Quebec City. http://www.elul.ulaval.ca/sgc/FLE/lang/e…

I don't know how old you are, but you can check out the explore program http://www.myexplore.ca/. Two friends of mine did this for English and they loved it!

Also, if you can, try to watch French television, this helps a lot.

As for visiting Montreal, it's a very nice and cool city, but I heard that everyone automatically switch to English once they hear an English accent (pretty much everyone is bilingual there). When I go there I have a hard time finding some who speaks French (once I went to a restaurant and I spoke French and the guy answered me in English/Spanish...) so I suggest you visit somewhere where it's really predominantly French.