FrenchZine

Learning & Speaking

Around the Table

Florence Lojacono, Ph.D.

June, 2007

flojacono@caramail.com

WHAT IS FrenchZine?

Imagine that you

meet some friends

each week around a

table in a French café.

What would

you talk about?

YOU WOUD TALK ABOUT: Gastronomy Traveling Gardening Sports Culture Bestsellers Movies / TV

WHAT DO YOU PREFER?

TALKING about your interests, but in French?

SPEAKINGin French, but about anything?

Around our Table You Will Find:

Realia from day-to-day life & magazines Weekly PowerPoint support Grammar Clinic Audio files (to listen to, to be downloaded) Links for exercises and explanations English-French dictionary

FrenchZine IS 100% TEXTBOOK FREE

FrenchZine is made up of authentic French documents from day-to-day life such as French magazines you can buy in your bookstore. International subscriptions are available. Online editions are an easy and free means to complete paper magazines.

With FrenchZine you will learn French or improve your skills working on a unique, custom made material elaborated with realia. When working on real day-to-day life you will learn about culture and geography as well as about the French language.

Realia as Educational Materials

STUDY THIS PICTURE:

1) What does this picture represent?

2) Where was this picture taken?

3) Why is this place famous? Write a short essay with the history of this place and its main features.

Practicing Numbers with a Menu

Or Travelling in France

Magazines are our TEXTBOOKS

Example:The Verbs

Irregular verb:

vous allez

Imperative form:

dévorez

GRAMMAR CLINICALLER (irregular verb)

Present

Je vais

Tu vas

Il, elle, on va

Nous allons

Vous allez

Ils, elles vont

Exercise: fill-in-the-blank

Je ___ au travail. Elles ___ au supermarché. Il ___ au cinéma. Nous ___ au MacDo. Tu ___ à l’université. Vous ___ à Chicago.

Aller.mp3

GRAMMAR CLINICGiving Orders

CHANTERRegular verb ending in -ER

ChanteChantonsChantez

1. Keep the base chant2. Add e, ons, ez according

to the subject

The imperative form is a command form used to give orders

Only 3 forms: tu / nous/ vous

The subject (tu, nous or vous) is always omitted

The “tu” form does not end in –s like the present-tense form

Giving OrdersThe Imperative Form

Write all the imperativeforms (tu,vous, nous) foreach sentence:

• Écouter la radio• Marcher plus vite• Jouer aux cartes• Étudier le français• Regarder ce film

LINKS: http://www.xtec.es/~sgirona/fle/i

mperatif_index.htm http://french.about.com/library/w

eekly/aa123099.htm http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/~courr

on/cours/conjugaisons/conjug1_vb1ergroupe.htm

http://plano.free.fr/exercices/conjugaison/perso/imperatif_present_er.htm

FrenchZine IS Talking about day-to-

day life, talking about your interests, but in French.

Learning French grammar and vocabulary in a cultural an updated context.