Re: Discovering French Bleu, which lecon are you?

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Greeetings:

I must correct an error in typing below.

It concerns my pacing in French II. I meant to type that we
cover Units 1 - 3 and lesson 31 for the 1st semester exam.

James

On 12/12/09, James in Belgium wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> I taught exclusively DF Bleu for 6 years, four periods a day.
> We have only 45 min. five days a week.
>
> From the very first year, we finished in the lesson with the
> Passé Composé with être.
>
> In the "Nouveau" edition, we finish lesson 11, adjectives, for
> the semester exam. We finish lesson 24 for the final exam.
>
> In French II, Blanc, the pace is a bit slower. This is my 5th
> year teaching 3 sections of Fr. II. For the semester exam we
> will have finished Unit 2 lesson 12 plus lesson 31, the future
> simple. For the final exam, we will have covered most of unit
> 7. The grammar of lessons 27 and 28 is very easy for the
> students.
>
> In French III, Rouge, first semester will have unit 5 on it.
> Second semester will have unit 9 on it.
>
> If you go too slow, the student never get to a point where
> they have a sense of achievement.
>
> Fr. II is taught the simple future in one week before a fall
> break. This year for the first time, I will teach at least
> one lesson of the Imparfait the first week of second semester.
>
> The Imparfait is so important to self expression and to
> reading any non adapted materials.
>
> James
>
>
>
>
> On 11/19/09, Andrew wrote:
>> Bonjour! We just adopted DF bleu/blanc/rouge in our
>> district. The other level I teacher and I are roughly at
>> the same point.....now in Unite 3 just finishing lecon 6 and
>> starting lecon 7 before Thanksgiving. Our goal is to to
>> finish up to lecon 6 in the academic year. Our students
>> meet every day for 45+ minutes.....some days its 50 minutes
>> some days it's 45minutes. Just curious where you are at in
>> your series. Merci mille fois!
 

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