Week Two

Week Two

I have been practicing French slowly. It requires more time than I thought to go back and learn a language you have some history with. Having said that, there are some really fun songs to learn the French alphabet that I would definitely look into using when it comes to teaching this in the classroom.

The obstacles I encountered are that it’s going to take much more time than I anticipated to learn this language at a teachable level. The goals I have for each week in my proposal are a little far-stretched but I will still try my best to follow along!

Something helpful is that in my placement, the students are in Grade 6 and are learning French as well! I actually sat through the whole French class and made so many observations, following along very carefully. The teacher used such creative approaches to be familiarizing the kids with different vocabulary. They listened to many songs and played some games in order to recognize the words and practice vocalizing the phrases they need to know for the Grade 6 French Curriculum.

For next week, I want to be more active in trying to teach myself French. I feel like I can watch videos and try more fun ways to learn it and that way I will be more interested. One way I will be doing this is by using thefrenchexperiment.com. It’s an application I found called where you can find many bedtime stories in French writing. There are colourful pictures and you can also listen to the stories in French. You can listen and follow along to the narrator or you can repeat after the narrator and practice your words. This enables a person to recognize new words because they hear, and it can see the translation if they click on it. This website is perfect for new French speakers! I want to be able to read these stories with my husband and practice them. I know when you try to teach something to someone else, you learn It better yourself. Let’s see how this goes! I will try to finish the Three Little Pigs/Trois Petit Couchon by next week!