Les Chevaliers du Château des Champions

Les Châteaux

Follow the link for the instructions

http://mmehenderson.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/04/french-ii-les-chateaux.html

Why shouldn't I use Google to translate?

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7631939/why-shouldnt-i-use-google-translate

French I- Faisons les magasins!

 

 

DO NOT open Skyward while we are in the lab. You will need to take care of this on your own time. We have MUCH too much to do today.

Preactivity

First, download the Word document and save as with your Last name and today's date. Open the new Word document. I am pasting the document here to make it easy to navigate, but you should type into your own Word document. Be sure to include your name in the header and number the pages.  You will print out and check your name off of the roster when you have finished.

 

 

Download Faisons les magasins version 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activity

 

 

 

Faisons Les Magasins!

 

This activity is modified from Le Shopping à Paris created by Beryl Druker and Deborah Berg 

 

 

Objective:

• To learn learn French clothing  vocabulary
• To use an online French mail order catalog
•  To be able to convert American and European clothing and shoe sizes; to convert  dollars to euros and vice versa. 
• To compare French and American clothing styles and prices.

 

 

1. Learn new vocabulary:
   1. Visit the Les Vêtements Powerpoint and practice with the new vocabulary

http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/MBirney/files/Les%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Vtements.ppt

 

                   2. Visit  http://utafrench1.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/les-vetements.ppt

to see what you would wear in different circumstances

 * Use Wordreference to look up any words you do not know

http://www.wordreference.com/

 

B. Find your clothing sizes in France  

What  are your clothing sizes in France? Use this website http://www.onlineconversion.com/clothing.htm  to find your French

Shoe size

Clothing size

 

C. Plan outfits to wear to various events

You are in France shopping for three different outfits. You will be purchasing an outfit to wear to 1. a party with your new French friends, 2. a wedding you will attend there, and  3. a weekend at the beach. You have a budget of  600 euros to spend for all three outfits. Before you start getting all excited, this amount is  $ 866.169 USD! You will need to save a lot of money before your trip!

You will need to give the article of clothing, the color and size (in French of course!) and price. You will need a top, bottom, and shoes for each outfit. You will calculate the price in Euros and the price in US dollars as well.

 

La Redoute (Ados) http://www.laredoute.fr/achat-ado-10-18-ans.aspx?categoryid=41515233

Les Trois Suisses http://www.3suisses.fr

H&M (femmes) http://www.hm.com/fr/#/fashion9/

MiDia (streewear) http://www.mdiastore.com/

Kiabi http://www.kiabi.com/

Currency conversion  http://www.xe.com/ 

 

 

START PRINTING FROM PAGE 2- YOU DON’T NEED TO PRINT THE FIRST PAGE!

 

 

Pour aller à une boum
Catalogue/site web :
Article	Couleur	Taille	Prix
			Total Euros      Total $

 

 

Pour assister à un mariage
Catalogue/site web :
Article	Couleur	Taille	Prix
			Total Euros      Total $

 

 

Pour un weekend à la plage
Catalogue/site web :
Article	Couleur	Taille	Prix
			Total Euros      Total $
Grand total- Euros          $

 

 

 

1. Compare and Contrast French and American fashion

What are the similarities and differences you observed about  French clothes and American clothes?

 

Unique to US	Similarities France/US	Unique to France

 

1. Identify new vocabulary

List here any new vocabulary words you learned

 

French word	English word

 

      F. Reflect on your assignment

 

Reflection- Two stars and a wish…

What are two things that went well today?

1.

2.

What one thing would you do differently?

 

 

Comments/suggestions

 

 

 

First, download the Word document and save as with your Last name and today's date. Open the new Word document. I am pasting the document here to make it easy to navigate, but you should type into your own Word document. Be sure to include your name in the header and number the pages.  You will print out and check your name off of the roster when you have finished.

 

Download Faisons les magasins version 2

 

 

Activity