Aux Champs Elysées song...and dance!

Je m'baladais sur l'avenue le coeur ouvert à l'inconnu
J'avais envie de dire bonjour à n'importe qui
N'importe qui et ce fut toi, je t'ai dit n'importe quoi
Il suffisait de te parler, pour t'apprivoiser

Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées
Au soleil, sous la pluie, à midi ou à minuit
Il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux Champs-Elysées

Tu m'as dit "J'ai rendez-vous dans un sous-sol avec des fous
Qui vivent la guitare à la main, du soir au matin"
Alors je t'ai accompagnée, on a chanté, on a dansé
Et l'on n'a même pas pensé à s'embrasser

Hier soir deux inconnus et ce matin sur l'avenue
Deux amoureux tout étourdis par la longue nuit
Et de l'Étoile à la Concorde, un orchestre à mille cordes
Tous les oiseaux du point du jour chantent l'amour

I trotted on the avenue my heart opened to the unknowns
I wanted to say hello to no matter whom
No matter whom, it could be you, I'd said anything to you
It was enough to speak to you, just to calm down.

You said to me "I was pinned in a basement with fools
Who live guitar-in-hand from dusk till dawn"
Then I accompanied you, one sang, one danced
Any one who did not even think of embracing oneself

Yesterday evening two unknowns and this morning on the avenue
Two in love all dazed by the long night
And to the Star of Concord, form an orchestra with thousand cords
All the birds at day-break singing for the love




Lyrics to Pas Capable De Tirer Ma Vache :

Je vais à l'étable pour tirer ma vache
Pas capable de tirer ma vache
Je prend un petit banc pour tirer ma vache
Pas capable de tirer ma vache
Je prend un seau d'eau,
Puis j'y jette en pleine face
Les deux yeux bouchés bien dur
Un bon chocolat chaud
Un bon chocolat chaud

Et maintenant, on va tirer la grosse vache...

Je vais à l'étable pour tirer ma vache
Pas capable de tirer ma vache
Je prend un grand banc pour tirer ma vache
Pas capable de tirer ma vache
Je prend un seau d'eau,
Puis j'y jette en pleine face
Les deux yeux bouchés bien dur
Un bon chocolat chaud
Un bon chocolat chaud

Et maintenant, on va tirer la toute petite vache...

Je vais à l'étable pour tirer ma vache
Pas capable de tirer ma vache
Je prend un petit banc pour tirer ma vache
Pas capable de tirer ma vache
Je prend un seau d'eau,
Puis j'y jette en pleine face
Les deux yeux bouchés bien dur
Un bon chocolat chaud
Un bon chocolat chaud



Je ne pense qu'à elle jour et nuit

J'allais à l'étable pour tirer ma vache
Pas capable de tirer ma vache
Je prenais un petit banc pour tirer ma vache
Pas capable de tirer ma vache
Je prenais un seau d'eau,
Puis j'y jetais en pleine face
Les deux yeux bouchés bien dur
Un bon chocolat chaud
Un bon chocolat chaud

La vache boogie-woogie
Je vais à l'étable pour tirer ma vache
Mais ma vache danse sur mon petit banc
C'est le boogie-woogie qu'elle danse
Danse, danse, danse tout le temps
Boogie le matin (boogie-woogie woogie)
Boogie le midi (boo boogie)
Ma vache qui danse le boogie
Boogie-woogie toute la nuit

La vache africaine
Je vais à l'étable pour tirer ma vache
La vache
Je prends un petit banc pour tirer ma vache
Pas capable de tirer ma vache
Je prends un seau d'eau puis, j'y jette en pleine face
La vache
Les deux yeux bouchés bien dur
Pas capable de tirer ma vache
Un bon chocolat chaud
Un bon chocolat chaud

La vache «carrousel»
J'allais à l'étable pour tirer ma vache
Ma vache au soleil
Ma vache en Alaska
Pour elle, j'avais du chocolat
Mais hélas, elle n'était plus là
Elle est partie dans le sud
Danser le boogie-woogie
La voilà en Afrique
Je me fais des soucis
Ma vache est en voyage
Et moi, je m'ennuie
Je ne pense qu'à elle jour et nuit

Dansez!! Aux Champs Elysée

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Les Pipiolit

Watch this video for a laugh!! Can you guess what they are singing about?? Leave me a comment.

NOTE: an email was sent to my classes re: Tuesday's oral

Bonjour! Please check your email for an example of what you will have to do for Tuesday's oral. If you did not receive it, please email me or a classmate. Don't forget to do a good job on your written take home assignment this weekend. Madame

l'emploi du temps

Use these activities to check your reading comprehension of this vocabulary.

l'emploi du temps (vocabulaire)

Bonjour!

Here is a link to a set of flashcards that you will need to know for the listening quiz on school schedule tomorrow.  Be sure to listen with the French audio on. :)

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les cours à l'école

Ecoutez, regardez, et répétez.

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le verbe avoir - étudiez

Here are the conjugations for the verb avoir.  It's basically the lyrics to the song that you memorized.

Chansons: les jours de la semaine, AVOIR

Here is a copy of the recordings we made in class.  Soyez préparés pour demain!!

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Dictée #4 le 21 mai

Jouez!

CLICK HERE

For Time practice, choose beginner level, What time is it?, and then choose tutorial/games/test. 

Try this site to check out various vocabulary/grammar.  You can learn, practice, and play games.

L'heure (time)

Click on the link below for further explanation of how to tell and write time in French.

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l'heure..Quelle heure est-il?

Quelle heure est-il?  (What time is it?)

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--> Il est 7h05.  (It is 7:05)  [h = heure]

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Telling time is easy because it is so similar to English...as long as you know your numers!

A few things to remember:

1- when writing time in French, replace the : with h (stands for hour/heure)
2- when writing minutes fewer than 10, don't forget the zero!  (7h01, 7h02....)
3- when saying it's 1 o'clock, un changes to UNE
Example:

4- lastly, when pronouncing the hour number, run that number's pronunciation into the word "heure" to make the sentence flow better.
Example:
1h
2h
3h
4h
5h
6h
7h
8h
9h
10h
11h
12h
13h
etc.

listen to ‘l'heure (3)’ on audioBoom

5- in Europe, they use the 24 hour clock. That means that after 12 noon, 1pm is called 13h, 2pm is called 14h, etc.


Here's a fun reminder on how to tell time if you are a skeleton!

Quelle heure est-il?

Here is a video that explains how to tell time in French.

Dictée #3, mercredi le 13 mai

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dictée #2, vendredi, le 17 avril

les nouveaux (new) verbes - chapitre 1

Ecoutez et répétez!

Ecoutez et répétez!

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Ecoutez et répétez!

Etudiez! Le petit examen à écrire demain - practice!!

Here is some practice for asking/answering questions using preference terms.

les préférences

Dictée vendredi, le 10 avril, 2015

Vocabulaire pages 52-53

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les noms - chapitre 1

Révisez les noms (le vocabulaire).  - These are all common everyday nouns including places, school vocabulary, and sports/activities.



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exemple - collage #2

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-er verb conjugation links

Here are some -er verb conjugation videos that may help if this still seems a bit confusing.  (I created the third one.)

Link #1

Link #2

Madame Leger's video

Dictée #4 le 25 mars, 2015

vocabulaire à réviser pour vendredi le 20 mars, 2015

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Dictée #3, le 20 mars, 2015

dictée #2, le 6 mars, 2015

les verbes -er dictée #1 - vendredi, le 27 février

les verbes -er (listening practice for quiz DEMAIN)

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DEVOIRS - la Conversation - écrivez!

Use this audio clip to practice your dictée and vocabulary/spelling skills.

DEVOIRS:

Listen and write what you hear, line by line so it looks like a conversation. 

Then, go back and CORRECT what you have written with a RED PEN.

(Corrections can be found on pages 1&2 of packet #1.)

Pass this in tomorrow.  If it has not been corrected, you will not receive any credit. 

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Devoirs - révisez les verbes

Below you will find a photo of pictures that correspond to the audio file.  Look at the pictures, follow along by listening and repeating the verbs that match each numbered picture. 

listen to ‘-er verbs’ on audioBoom

Dansez!! Dansez!!

la France en février

While France gets the vast majority of its annual visitors in the summer and early fall months, February can be an ideal time to visit the country. Not only will you find the best deals on flights to France in February and early March; you’ll also find yourself among locals rather than tourists at many popular attractions.

While there are fewer celebrations, festivals and special events happening during these months, it is also the best time to get deep discounts at cheap hotels in France and land incredible deals on airfare to France.

It’s also a great time to breeze through short or non-existent lines at museums and other attractions. This is also the time of the year when Paris and other French towns and cities are owned by the locals, giving you the perfect opportunity to get in touch with local life in France.

Reasons to go to France in February

• Enjoy the quiet of low travel season and avoid long lines at museums and attractions
• February is the peak of the skiing season
• Low rates on lodging and airfare
• France’s centuries old Carnaval, which predates New Orleans’ Mardi Gras (depending on when Easter happens)
• Enjoy Valentine’s Day in the most romantic city in the world

Winter Weather in France

Chillier temperatures are one of the reasons you find fewer tourists in France during the winter months. While the south of France and Cote d’Azur tend to be more mild, the cold winter winds called the Mistral can even make these sunnier regions on the frigid side.

Paris tends to be damp and cold in the winter, and while snow will fall occasionally, you’ll usually see temperatures hovering above 0 degrees C, or in the 40s F.

Of course, you’ll also find snowy, cold conditions in the mountains, where skiing in popular.

If you pack accordingly and bundle up, however, the weather in France in the winter isn’t inhospitable. 

Skiing in France

Chamonix, ski là si tu peux (ski there if you can)

Tignes 

France is renowned for its world class ski resorts located high in the snowy peaks of the Alps. Val Thorens in the Alps is Europe’s highest resort; this resort has snow pack early in the season and is already near to being in full-swing by December. Chamonix and Tignes’ high elevations and year-round glaciers also make for fantastic ski conditions, especially by February.

>>Read more about skiing in France

www.francetravelguide.com

le 2 février - la Chandeleur

Another good reason to make and eat crêpes!

The Catholic holiday of Candlemas, on 2 February, is a feast to commemorate the purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of baby Jesus. In France, this holiday is called la Chandeleur, Fête de la Lumière,* or jour des crêpes.

Not only do the French eat a lot of crêpes on Chandeleur, but they also do a bit of fortune telling while making them. It is traditional to hold a coin in your writing hand and a crêpe pan in the other, and flip the crêpe into the air. If you manage to catch the crêpe in the pan, your family will be prosperous for the rest of the year.

There are all kinds of French proverbs and sayings for Chandeleur; here are just a few. Note the similarities to the Groundhog Day predictions made in the US and Canada:
À la Chandeleur, l'hiver cesse ou reprend vigueur
On Candlemas, winter ends or strengthens
À la Chandeleur, le jour croît de deux heures
On Candlemas, the day grows by two hours
Chandeleur couverte, quarante jours de perte
Candlemas covered (in snow), forty days lost
Rosée à la Chandeleur, hiver à sa dernière heure
Dew on Candlemas, winter at its final hour

les Pronoms "C": Remplacez les sujets

Click on the picture above and then choose the activity that you would like to use to practice.

Look at the given subject and write the appropriate subject/personal pronoun.  Be careful!!

les Pronoms "B"

Use this review to see if you know which pronoun to use if you are talking TO someone or ABOUT someone.  Click on the picture below and then choose the activity that you would like to use to practice.

les Pronoms "A"

Practice subject pronouns by clicking on the image above.

Then, choose the activity that you would like to use to practice.

la ville de Poitiers, France

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la ville de Poitiers, France

dictée #4 le 4 février

Dicté #3, mardi, le 27 janvier, 2015

Dictée vendredi, le 16 janvier, 2015

Dictée #1 - le 8 janvier, 2015