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• En classe – Speaking game & French Contest practice
• Demain (tomorrow) – French Contest – Il n’y a pas de devoirs!

• En classe – French contest prep.
• Devoirs – French contest sheet – both sides for Monday.

• En classe – Prepositions à, au, à la, aux quiz based on p. 208
• Devoirs – Make sure the Petit Cahier is up to date – p. 127-129. Refer to textbook. Make sure you know ‘aller’ off by heart and the use of prepositions above. 

• En classe – French Contest prep.
• Devoirs – Workbook p. 127, 128 – refer to “prepositions” in txtbk p. 208
• Devoirs 2 – Learn “prepositions” à, au, à la, aux  in txtbk p. 208 and the preposition “chez” p. 211. You can practice them here http://www.francaisfacile.com  Click the yellow banner to check your score.

• En classe – Aller with contractions au, à la, à l’ , aux 
• Devoirs – Petit Cahier p. 127, 128. Remember to conjugate and to use the correct contraction – txtbk p. 208 
• Video – Give me your scripts and show your films if you haven’t already. 

• En classe – Aller p. 206
• Devoirs – ex. 2p. 207

• En classe – Passé Composé Quiz
• Devoirs – Passé Composé sheet – fill in the blanks by conjugating the verbs – go through the steps we discussed in class

• En classe – Memory games & Lizzy / Katia’s video
• Devoirs – Learn the first side of the passé composé verb list. YOu should know the meanings, the auxilary verb and the past participle for each – NB a quicker way to memorize them is to learn the MRSVANDERTRAMP verbs (all the verbs thats conjugate with être)

• En classe – Passé Composé with Être verbs. Ben & Asha’s video.
• Devoirs – Use http://wordreference.com/ to fill in as many verbs on your sheet as possible. You should spend about 30 mn. Type in the infinitive verb, press conjugator and look up the Passé Composé. You should be able to tell if the auxilary verb is avoir or être and what the past participle is.
  

Example – Aller – to go

je  suis allé(e)
tu es allé(e)
il / elle est allé(e)
nous sommes allé(e)s
vous êtes allé(e)(s)
ils / elles sont allé(e)s

(auxilary verb is être, past participle is allé(e) (s) )

• En classe – Le Passé Composé! We are now officially versed in the past tense – bravo! Georgia you will need to catch up in IWP.
• Devoirs – http://www.languagesonline.org.uk/ Click on Francais – Grammar – The Perfect Tense For Beginners – do as many activities as you can in 30 mn. Use your cheat sheet to help you. N.B These are all AVOIR verbs! so you don’t need to worry about agreements!