16, March 2010: Teaching class #5

I thought this past week was one of our best classes yet! We started off with a review. Last week we had asked them to bring in something that reminded them of French culture. I was very impressed that most of the girls had remembered to bring in something. It showed that they had put some effort into the assignment which I was very happy about.



This week we wanted to focus mostly on food since our food/game "party" is next week so this class we focused on the different French meals such as le petit déjeuner, déjeuner, le dîner etc. We also reviewed time, asking the girls at what hour of the day they ate certain meals. Then we began teaching some new food vocab.

I went over les fruits and tried to make it more interesting by getting everyone to talk about what their favoirite fruits were. I got a lot of great responses! We did the same with les légumes. I then went over some typically north american foods that I thought they would be most familar with. However we didn't even get to finish going over this particular group because the girls were so focused on copying down every single vocab word we presented to them. I was very impressed by this! I think the girls are defenitely in the notetaking phase where they want to copy down everything new we are teaching them. I did not expect this at all and was pleasantly surprised that they were taking the class so seriously.

For next week we are of course having our food celebration and were planning to review anything else we thought was necessary. We asked the girls to write down anything they had questions about or specific thing they wanted to know so that next week we would be able to answer them on our last day. I also heard a request to play Twister again so I think a quick review of body parts would be helpful so we can play that again on our last day. I'm very excited for the food though and hope they will like the different items we bring for them. I can't wait!