Bonjour! My name is Hanne and I will be exploring the French language through the project ‘French Language Growth Plan.’ Please feel free to follow along with me and observe my progress. This journey will explore one of the Big Ideas and one Content connection in each of the grades 5 through 8, with activities I will complete along the way. Additionally, I will be recording most of my development for my teacher and others to observe.
I am always open to feedback as it helps me learn and grow. I am quite new to speaking French so this will be a wonderful reflection tool to look back on when I am more confident and capable. Posting the videos will also help me challenge myself and move outside of my comfort zone.
This week I am focusing on practising describing myself and my two dogs! I wrote myself a script to read off, but want to get to the point where I am more comfortable and natural speaking about my dogs and myself.
I think it will be more helpful when I have someone I can speak french with to help with my pronunciation and fluency. There is also a need to practice the proper dictation of my tone and voice.
Here is the script I wrote and followed. As you can see, there were several mistakes that I corrected with the help of the references at the bottom of this post. I think making mistakes is important for learning, and self-correction can be less pressure than having someone else correct you. Both are important though!
Here is my corrected and typed script to follow:
The challenge with running through a script like this on my own is that I don’t have anyone to ask if I’ve made mistakes before they occur. I did use several sources to help me with sentence structure and pronunciation, but as languages are living I think it would be more helpful to have someone I can practice with in person. The sources I used are linked at the bottom of the post.
I am looking forward to my next activities! Here are a few photos of my dogs I was describing in my video for reference. 🙂
This week I focused on learning a French song to teach students (and myself) a conversational greeting and several responses in a fun and engaging manner! Here is my practice run-through of the song below:
As I was not able to go into a classroom this semester, I recorded myself with a couple of my willing participants engaging in my French teaching song! I promise they were not bribed 😉
I found this song online and wrote down the lyrics for my practice. The biggest mistake I made was with the ‘tail’ on the ‘c’ letter, otherwise known as the cédille.
