Category: Hahn

French Video (My Classmates)

After finishing my own French video, I started to watch others from my class. When watching them I was quite surprised by the fact that most of the students used an app called Adobe Spark to create their video. While I used an editing program called After Effects, which I then transferred to iMovie, the other students seemed to stick with the previous app we had used in French class. It was interesting to see how the rest of the class  and my own video project turned out! I think after watching all the videos, the place I would want to go to the most is Half Moon Bay. This was made by Dora Bremond, and I think both how Dora presented the place and her selection of photos made Half Moon Bay the most appealing!

Liam’s French Video (The Moana in Hawaii)

For one of the last projects in the second quarter of French, we worked on making a french video project. We were first asked to think about an important place that we have ether visited or lived in at one point in our lives. I picked the Moana hotel in Hawaii because both my grandparents, my mother, and me have visited there as children. I also thought the Moana would be a great choice because my mother actually made a video about the Moana for her middle school French class! We then were asked to write some important information about the Moana. Finally were were asked to write a script and film the video. I immediately knew I had to use a green screen in my video and I ended up doing so. This entire project has actually been extremely fun(especially the green screen part) and I loved how I got to maybe start a tradition of making videos about the Moana throughout generations! I found that working with things that I had already used, like the green screen, mixed with new activities made the project even more fun and made me achieve a better outcome!

Second Trimester Sports Project (Liam)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PdtDzEzyN1gJxaKz4qofv-mKlWho60yRKHYU-A3btwc/edit#slide=id.p

 

In the last few weeks of the second trimester, we started working on a french sports project. We started the project out by going on google.fr, and looking up the various popular sports in France. I picked le danse moderne. I chose this because I already know a lot about American modern dance, but wanted to see how it differed from French moderne dance. I then researched what you wear, the history of it, the challenges when doing it, and the countries it is most popular in. I found out that moderne dance is most popular in China, Germany, and American, which surprised me. I also learned that moderne dance started a mere 200 years ago. Finally I compiled a presentation. I answered all the same questions and also added pictures. This entire project was extremely fun, and I found love to do it again.

Second Trimester French Lourdes Project (Liam)

https://spark.adobe.com/#design/video/f6c9ee36-51e9-459f-8d69-d0690e62c604

At the beginning of the second trimester we worked on a city project. First, we went onto a site where we got to see important cities in France. I picked Lourdes because of its rich history and the fact that it is still a well known city. After we picked our cities, we were slowly given new tasks to complete. For example, Sharyn told us to research a high class, a mediocre, and then a not-expensive restaurant. Finally, we compiled all our information into a slide show using Adobe Spark. We got to record our own voices on top of the research and pictures. Once we added our voices, I felt that the entire presentation came together. With the cheerful music, the images, and the great voiceover, the entire project ended up looking amazing. After watching the whole video I was extremely happy with how it looked, and this project incorporated a mix of work and play. I would love to do another project like this in the coming trimester, and I am so glad I got the opportunity to learn about Lourdes.

French Comment

I feel that this year in French I have learned to follow the different sentence structures we have been learning about, and have learned new vocabulary from Quizlet! I think I have become a harder worker, a more committed student, and a better speaker. I feel that my accent has progressed and my work habits have improved drastically since my prior years as a French student. While I do feel I have progressed in many areas, I still think that there is room to improve. First off, I can be less thin-skinned and learn to accept failure when it comes my way. I also think I can build on my ability to write in French. I have learned how to follow many different sentence structures, but my ability to write without a certain structure has not quite reached its full potential. I loved working on the city projects as well as our sport projects. I think I have learned more about how to make a presentation and Sharyn has helped me progress. I can also learn more about failure and all that Sharyn can do for that is be strict with me about not being thin-skinned. All that I really want to learn for next trimester is how to fail. While I do want to know more about how to freely write in French, as well as how to improve on my accent, learning how to fail is my main priority. I have loved the past two trimesters in french, and hope they get even better!

Liam’s Lourdes Project!

https://spark.adobe.com/#design/video/f6c9ee36-51e9-459f-8d69-d0690e62c604

At the beginning of the second trimester we worked on a city project. First, we went onto a sight were we were got to see important cities in France. I picked Lourdes because . Then we were slowly given new tasks to complete, like researching a high class a mediocre and low Restaurants. Then we got to record our own voices on top of the research and pictures we put. I think that was my favorite part because it really came together when I added the voice. With the light music, the cool pictures, the traditions between images, the facts, and voice, it all seemed to work. After watching the whole video I was really happy about how it looked and I really  liked this project!

 

 

French Halloween Progect

In French this Halloween we made a poster. First we were given a series of pictures that we got to talk about. Then we were given 7 questions to answer. An example of one would be what is this persons name, or what is this person doing. We were also given a quizlet set that had enough vocab for us to use. We used both bags and regular adjectives, which was focus of this project. Since we just learned about clothing we knew how to say everything they were wearing. My favorite part of this activity was describing the clothing, because we got to test the stuff we learned. I wrote about a vampire, a ghost, a witch, a clown, and a fairy. This was actually a really fun project and I would like to do something in the same realm as this.unnamed

Meal description(French)

 

Il y a pour le petit déjeuner. Je mange des œufs, et des baies. Je ne mange pas l’avocat, et le tomates. Le baie est bleu. Des œufs a chaud de chaud sauce. L’avocat a salé. Le tomates a rouge.

 

Il ya pour le snack. Je mange des jolly ranchers. Des Jolly Ranchers a bleu, rough, vert, et violet.

 

Il y a pour le diner. Je mange de saumon, et des asperges. Je ne mange pas des riz, et citron. Le saumon est rose. Des asperges est long. Des riz est blanc. Le citron est acide.

 

Il y a pour le dejeuner. Je mange moitié de sandwich. Je ne mange pas moitié de sandwich. Le sandwich est bonne.

 

Je prefere le snack car le snack est doux.

 

 

This projects theme was french food vocabulary. I started off by just taking pictures of my food and seeing what I could write. I started writing in english and then I translated in into  french. This project was set on this structure: for _____ I ate _______. I did not like____. I liked_____. I did not eat the______. I really actually liked this project and I would love to do something like it again. It was interesting because if I was in France I could easily use this vocabulary in daily life.

 

Dream house.

This quarter we have done a fun activity called your perfect house. We looked up a picture of our perfect house, and then we wrote a sentence in french about each room in the house. We used bags rule adjective which means that the adjective goes before the noun instead of after. I learned that there are a lot of bags adjectives that we use in daily life. I really enjoyed studying quizlet and learning different adjectives.