Patricia Fast

Posted on 6/17/09

I have been using DF for two years. I have 42-minute daily
classes. I was ambitious the first year but now realize I can only
get through about 15 chapters the first year. The second year I
finish whatever unit we're on and proceed to the the second book.
The third year I finish the second level book. The fourth year I
plan to begin the third level book. If all of my students were
gifted, I could go farther. If I try to go faster, the students
don't really learn the material. I have to go back and review
occasionally. I also need to interject some fun projects
(food/culture/holidays) to keep the motivation up.

On 6/15/09, Madame Vence wrote:

> We have been using DF for 4 years. We have a terrible schedule
> where we see students 3 days/week. We have 2 80-minute blocks
> and one 40 minute block per week. (Don't get me started!) I
> dream of having 50 minute classes again....but I digress.
>
> I find for Bleu I get through Lessons 1-15, and then skip ahead
> to a couple others to add more food vocab, clothing/shopping,
> and more that I can't think of right now. We NEVER get to do
> anything with the passe compose in level one and haven't since
> we swtiched to this schedule 5 years ago. So all in all I do
> about 18 lessons and that is skipping some things!
>
> We begin level 2/Blanc with a brief review and then dive into
> the P.C. right away. I don't teach level 2, so I'm not sure how
> far that teacher usually gets. Good luck.
>
>
>
> On 5/14/09, James in Belgium wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I Started using DF in 1998. I did six years of DF Bleu 4 times
>> a day (45 minute classes). I was always able to get to the
>> Mrs. Dr. D. Vandertrampp verbs, and most years to finish that
>> lesson.
>>
>> The first lesson with adjectives (introduction) is on our
>> first semester exam.
>>
>> The first Units are short! The lessons in second semester take
>> longer to cover.
>>
>> I suggest to move on in the beginning lessons, with frequent
>> review / reteach and retest.
>>
>> To help out with supplemental materials, you should look at
>> this web page http://www.quia.com/pages/jodonnell/page91, It
>> has free samples.
>>
>> French II DF Blanc, Lessons 1-26 and L 31 taught in Oct.
>> This year, I'll skip Unit 7 and teach Unit 8. I corresponded
>> with an AP teacher who skips Unit 7 and teachers Unit 8 in
>> February. This what I'll do next year.
>>
>> Cordialement,
>> James O'
>> French II, III, IV, V-AP Language
>>
>>
>> On 5/13/09, Andrew wrote:
>>> Bonjour tout le monde! My district is retiring
>>> our "Bienvenue" series from 1998 (finally) and getting
>>> Discovering French for I-V.
>>>
>>> In Bienvenue we covered 6 chapters, each chapter divided
>>> into Mots 1 and Mots 2 (now Bienvenue is Bon Voyage). Has
>>> anyone gone from this series to DF Bleu? How many Unites
>>> do you complete?
>>>
>>> My issue is that we do cover a fair amount from September
>>> to April and then May comes and there are so many
>>> interruptions with team activities, field trips, HS
>>> visits, concerts, field days etc.
>>>
>>> How many Unites do you cover in level 1? Our goal is to
>>> finish 6 chapters and then start with Blanc in level II.
>>> Our periods are 50 minutes in length. Does it vary how
>>> long it takes to cover un lecon?
>>>
>>> Thank you for any feedback!

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