French AP - Queen of Peace

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Mlle Todaro : Français AP- Le travail de l’été
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Ce paquet est une révision de tout ce que nous avons étudié
dans la classe de Français III. Cela va t’aider à réussir à
l’examen d’AP en mai 2017 
Il faut compléter ce devoir par le 16 août, 2016 quand nous
rentrons à QOP.
Ce paquet sera noté de 0-100, ce qui sera la première note
du semestre.
Je suis très enthousiaste de faire ce « voyage » avec vous
cette année !
BONNE CHANCE ET PASSEZ UN BON ÉTÉ !!!
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1.) CHER JOURNAL
-You need to buy a composition notebook/journal that will serve as your summer 2016
French diary.
- You need to have AT LEAST 15 entries in this diary
- Write at least 5 sentences for each entry
- Start every entry with the date and with cher journal (dear journal)
- You may write about your thoughts, feelings, daily life, current events, funny things you
remember, randomness, old stories, future hopes and aspirations, your love of French
class etc. Be creative!!
- You need to use the present, past tense, imperfect, future, conditional, and
subjunctive tense throughout your journal- FIGURE OUT A WAY HOW TO DO SO!!
- Highlight/underline these above verb tenses (in sentences you think are strong) to
showcase to Mlle. Todaro your writing abilities.
-You use wordreference.com to write new words- BUT THE RULE IS IF YOU USE
WORD REFERENCE YOU NEED TO TURN TO THE BACK OF YOUR
JOURNAL AND MAKE A DICIONNAIRE WHERE YOU LIST EACH NEW
WORD AND WRITE THEIR ENGLISH MEANING
2.) LISTENING
- Go to the site RFI- LE FAIT DU JOUR (or just type this into Google and click on the
first page).
- This site has an archive of short podcasts of news and current events. You will click on
ANY article- it does not have to be recent. You can search the site by date/ theme to find
a podcast subject that interests you.
- After listening to the podcast you should then answer the questions about it and check
your responses.
-Keep a log of what articles you listen to (title and date of podcast) and print out your
answers to the online questions to the article.
-Listen to at least 5 of these this summer
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3.) Culture
- Watch 1 French film that you have not seen before (Netflix and Itunes have great
options) with English subtitles
- Write a paragraph (7-10 sentences) of summary and a paragraph (7-10 sentences) of
reaction/personal opinion about the film.
In the paragraph should be the following information about the film :
a) date
b) titre du film
c) De quoi s’agit-il ?
d) Quand se passe-t-il ? e) Où se
passe-t-il ? f) Quels sont les personnages ? g) Quel est le conflit, s’il y en a ? h) Quelle est
la résolution ?
i) Qu’est-ce que tu en penses
-Some suggestions are :
Monsieur Lazhar
Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis
Entre les murs
Des hommes et des dieux
La haine
Coco avant Chanel
Le placard
Les intouchables
Dans la maison
Haute cuisine
Quai d’Orsay
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon
Potiche
Les parapluies de Cherbourg
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4.) Reading Comprehension
- You will read the short story called La Parure by Guy de Maupassant. In English this is
called The Necklace.
-This short story is divided into three parts, each with a vocabulary exercise and
questionnaire exercise. Please write out (by hand or in a Word document) these exercises.
-You may read the English version to help you- BUT all exercises must be completed in
French after reading the French version.
-NOTE: Maupassant uses the passé simple often instead of the passé composé. This
is an explanation of the passé simple!! You will need to recognize this tense but will
not need to write in it ever! It is translated just as the past tense is.
The passé simple, translated in English as either "simple past" or "preterite," is
the literary equivalent of the passé composé, which means that it is used only in formal
writing (e.g., historical and literary writing) and very formal speech. In such writing and
speech, the passé simple is used alongside the imperfect, just as in everyday
speech/writing, the passé composé and imperfect are used together.
You will probably never need to actually use the passé simple, but it is important to
recognize it, especially if you read in French a lot (fiction or non-fiction). Fortunately,
thepassé simple is very easy to recognize - my high school French teacher told me that if
a verb looked weird, it was probably in the passé simple, and 9 times out of 10, she was
right. Many are irregular- you can look up more online if you need more clarity.
Construction
re-verb
Avoir
être
er-verb
ir-verb
j’aimai= I liked
je finis= I finished
je vendis=I sold j’eus- I had je fus- I was
tu aimas
tu finis
tu vendis
tu eus
il/elle/on aima
il/elle/on finit
il/elle/on vendit
il/elle/on eut il/elle/on fut
nous aimâmes
nous finîmes
nous vendîmes
nous eûmes
nous fûmes
vous aimâtes
vous finîtes
vous vendîtes
vous eûtes
vous fûtes
ils/elles aimèrent
ils/elles finirent
ils/elles vendirent ils eurent
tu fus
ils/elles furent
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