Bonjour les ami(e)s,

For your final week, please finish up the assignments from the past weeks if you haven't already done so. Remember to send them to me at zachary.martin@nbed.nb.ca.

For the ones who are already done, attached below are some activities that you can do for the rest of the week.

Have a great week and enjoy your summer! :)

Mr. Martin

Bonjour les ami(e)s!

I would like thank everyone who has been sending me their drafts and good copies of their historical event / biography project. I really enjoy seeing what you have created! If you haven't completed this assignment yet, you can continue to work on it and send it to me by email if you can. If you are done and really enjoyed this project, you can always do a second one with a different topic since you are now much more familiar with the process of making a poster or a magazine page.

Attached below are more oral, reading and writing activities that allow you to practice your French. 

Have a great week and enjoy the nice weather,

Mr. Martin

Bonjour,

Over the course of the next week or two, I want to give you an opportunity to work on a more social studies focused research project. Always in French of course :) . The project theme would be to research a historical event or a person of your interest. 

The project idea is to publish 1 page, this could look like a poster or a page in a magazine for example. Some guidelines to follow this project are the following; atleast 5 sentences that provide a description of your choice, 3-5 facts and images. 

I decided to choose a historical event and to publish it as a poster. Attached below will be the model I made on www.canva.com. (All of my grade 7 students should have a canva account. Some grade 6 students may also have one. If not, it is free to make an account if you are a student.) Howeverm you do not have to make the project on Canva, but it is a great website to create pages/projects like this. You can use Word or even make it by hand. That said, if you decided to chose a person instead of an event, you can still follow the same model. I will also attach a more detailed guide to help you with the project so please check this document as well.

Once you have finished your draft, you can send in your paragraph to me by email (zachary.martin@nbed.nb.ca) if you would like for me to go over it and give you some feedback before you move on to the good copy.

Also, if you would like to keep practicing your other French skills on top of this project, please feel free to go back and check the choice boards on the previous posts.

Have a great week!

Mr. Martin

Bonjour,

With being in our 4th week, some of you may want to start or continue working on some French :) 

Here are the at home suggestions I have that would be able to help work on your french skills;

- https://www.duolingo.com/course/fr/en/Learn-French (this is a great site that allows you to work on your speaking and listening skills)

- https://fr.lyricstraining.com/fr/ (this is the french music website that we would use in class, this also works on your listening skills)

- Watch a tv show, movie that you like (on Netflix or Disney+ for example) or even a youtube video in French. You can put on the subtitles in order to help you see the words as well. The goal is not understand every single thing but the gist of what has been said (by also using the visuals to help). It may be a good idea to start by only watching 10-20 minutes at a time and not want to watch the entire show or movie so you do not overwhelm yourself. 

- Try to talk in French with a family member or classmate (perhaps on the phone) if possible. 

These may seem difficult and challenging at first, but remember what I would say in the classroom. The only way to learn and acquire a new language is to be exposed to it and to practice using it. :)

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at zachary.martin@nbed.nb.ca

Mr. Martin