Topic Two (0.2): La Francophonie en fête
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Exercise 1. Read the information about national holidays and guess in which country (or province) they are celebrated.
Exercise 2. It is worth doing this speaking exercise, if only to practise dates. Are you confident saying dates in French? Notice how they are written in Exercise 1. In English, we always give the ordinal number ‘first, second, third, twenty-fourth’ but in French, you only say the ordinal number for ‘first’ (written 1er). After that you give the cardinal number ‘deux, trois, quatre, trente-et-un’ etc.
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Le parfait linguiste
Exercise 3. For this you need to look at the list of ‘conseils’ or ‘advice’ on the right-hand side of the page (A to H with the thumbprint pictures) and make two lists: Je fais déjà ça (The things you already do to help you learn French) and Je vais faire ça (The things you are going to do).
Exercise 4. This is a chance for you to talk about your strategies for language learning. If you are studying on your own at home, you can either make up a dialogue in your head and try to say it out loud or you could try writing a dialogue, then reading it out loud and then seeing if you can remember it without reading it.
This will give you practice of speaking even if you don’t have a partner. You could also record yourself and play it back to see how you sound and correct anything you think needs correcting.
A good, quick test of how your study of the module is proceeding are the multiple-choice quizzes which you will find on Canvas. You can complete these several times to check your progress.