Topic One (1.1): Je vais en vacances
Objectives for this topic
- To talk about holidays that you normally go on and to be able to talk about what type of holiday you prefer.
Introduction
In this topic, you will learn vocabulary associated with different types of holiday and listen to people expressing their preferences about them. You will also be able to explain where you normally go on holiday and give your opinion about different holiday types. You will also practise using the verbs finir and choisir in the present tense.
Working through your coursebook
Please work through the following sections in your coursebook, completing all listed exercises:
- Page 112 – Listen to Audio Disc 2 Track 25 and read the conversation in Exercise 1 as you listen. Once you have listened to the track, read the conversation aloud, focusing on your pronunciation. Then complete Exercise 1 by working out which person is saying each phrase – Maman, Papa, Pierre or Melissa.
- Page 112 Exercise 2– Listen to Audio Disc 2 Track 26 and look at the pictures. Identify which picture is being spoken about in each conversation.
- Page 113 Exercise 3 – Read the 3 texts aloud, focusing on your pronunciation. Look up any unknown words in a dictionary.
- Page 113 Exercise 4 – Using the texts from Exercise 3, work out if the phrases are True, False or Not Mentioned. Challenge yourself! If the phrase is false, can you correct it so that it is true?
Review
Complete Exercise 5 Page 113. Remember, you can be as creative as you like for this activity!
Interactive Kerboodle Activities
Log onto Kerboodle and complete the interactive activities for this topic by following the links below:
COMPLETE - Je vais en vacances (1) Links to an external site.
COMPLETE - Je vais en vacances (2) Links to an external site.
Support activity for this topic
Log onto Language Nut and choose the Topics page.
Complete at least two activities in each of the skill sections (Listening/Reading/Writing/Speaking) of the following section:
- Locations - On Holiday - Holiday locations
Extension activity for this topic
Make a poster to express your holiday preferences using the vocabulary that you have learnt in this module.
Grammar Alert
Using the conversation from Exercise 1 on page 112, find all examples of the verbs finir and choisir. Then read the Grammaire box on page 112. To practise these verbs in context, you will need to go to the 'Labo-langue' section on p.122, where you should complete Exercise 1.
Vocabulary
You need to review the vocabulary for this unit on page 129. Which words do you not know? You might already have built up some good vocabulary learning strategies - perhaps you could make flashcards, or a powerpoint with pictures for the words, or a mnemonic, or an illustrated spider diagram?
Check your answers
To check your answers to the topics in this course, you will need to consult the teacher pages of the coursebook. This might seem a little confusing at first but you will soon find your way around these. For your first time, take a few moments to orient yourself. Open up the pdf below for Topic 1.1. You might want to open it in a new window so that you do not lose this page.
CHECK - Topic 1.1 Download CHECK - Topic 1.1
You will see a document that resembles a teacher's lesson plan. At the top of the document you will find the details of the pages in Allez 1 on which this lesson is based - it says 7.1 Je vais en vacances, pages 112-113 of Allez 1 student book. This tells you that this is the right answer sheet for the exercises you have done on pages 112 to 113. If you look further down into the lesson plan, which is set out as a table, and find the section of the table headed 'main', you will see each exercise listed in turn, in numerical order, and at the end of the instructions for each exercise you will find the answers. The answer sheets for all of the topics in this course will look like this, so you will become very confident finding the answers. As long as you check that the page reference at the top of the sheet matches the pages of the exercise you want to mark, you will be fine!
You will have noticed that in the Grammar Alert section of this topic, you had to move to page 122 to do an additional exercise. Because this is on a different page of the coursebook it has a different answer sheet. You will find this below - open it up in a new window now:
CHECK - Topic 1.6 Download CHECK - Topic 1.6
You will see that at the top of this sheet it says 7.7 Labo-langue, pages 122-123 of Allez 1 Student Book. This tells you that this is the right answer sheet for the exercise you did from page 122. And you will find the answers you need under Exercise 1: finir and choisir.
Hopefully you feel more confident now checking the answers. You can always refer back to these instructions later in the course if you need a quick reminder!