French 111 Tutoring Activities – Week of Sept. 23-24
Include: pink vocab sheets, dialog sheets, Tuyau Prononciation sheet, grey vowel sheets
The students are feeling very insecure about how French is pronounced, so this week you will be helping them with pronunciation for the first 15-20 minutes.
1. (10 min.) Work through the vocabulary items on the attached pink vocab sheets (Étape Préliminaire and Chapitre 1). The students received these sheets in class as well. They correspond to the following sections in the TB: p. 10, and pp. 44-45.
- Skip the words / phrases that have an *. (They are for recognition only.)
- Skip the headings.
- Say each word / phrase and have the student repeat it after you
- Help them fine tune their pronunciation
- After going over all the words, have the students read a few of these words on their own for you and see how they do.
2. (5 min.) Dialogs in Chapitre 1 (see list below to find pages in the TB). For each dialog:
a. Have students repeat sentences (one manageable segment at a time) after you.
b. Then have them take one person’s role, while you play the other role.
c. Then switch roles..
- p. 13
- pp. 22-23
- pp. 29-30
3. (5 min.) “Tuyau-Prononciation” (Pronunciation Drills)
- p. 18
- p. 26
- p. 33
4. (5-7 min.) Work through the “Vowel” Sheets (light blue/grey — attached). Do NOT do the nasal vowels. [We have done some of these in class already, but just start again from the beginning. They need the practice.]
– Say the vowel sound for the student and have the student repeat it.
– Then have the student write the vowel sound (on the white board) while simultaneously saying it. Do this several times.
– Then have the student repeat each word with that sound after you.
Other ideas (if time remains):
Conjugate some verbs – use the white boards :
- chanter
- être
- étudier
- fumer
- habiter
- manger {nous mangeons}
- nager {nous nageons}
- parler
- travailler
- visiter
- voyager {nous voyageons}
The first verb would look like this :
chanter = to sing
je chante nous chantons
tu chantes vous chantez
il, elle, on chante ils, elles chantent
être = to be
je suis nous sommes
tu es vous êtes
il, elle, on est ils, elles sont
If there is time left over, after doing the pronunciation work, they may ask you for help with HW corrections, or ask you questions of other kinds……
The major “stuff” we have covered so far is:
- regular “-er” verbs
- question formation with rising intonation, “est-ce que” and “n’est-ce pas?”
- negation with “ne……pas”
- the verb préférer
- the verb être
- definite and indefinite articles [le, la, l’, les] [un, une, des]
- adjective agreement with adjectives of nationality and professions (just begun on this)
So, feel free to review any of the above.
