Day at the CLC

Today we arrived at the CLC in the morning for French. First of all, we started with a warm-up to get our french up and running. We went on the website http://clcpublic/secondary/site/french/everyday_life.html and was learning about 'family'. Our task was to watch a short video clip and try and understand what the person was saying, also we wrote out what the video was telling us about the family. Most of us had to playback the video quite alot of times to 'jot' down most of the information, this really helped improve our listening skills. After that we had to put it into our own words but with the layout of what the person had said about their family. Here is the finished draft i had done:

Ma famille

Je m’appelle James, voici ma famille. Il y a quatre personnes, mon papa, ma maman, mon grand frère Chris et moi.
Papa s’appelle Ekie il est surveillant il travaille au cabinet, prés de la maison. Ma maman s’appelle Mei elle est assistante aussi elle travaille au cabinet. Mon frère Chris a dix-huit ans il est plus grand cou moi il est fou de basket et aime jouer la l’ordinateur. Et moi, je quatorze ans j’adore écouter la musique et jouer la l’ordinateur. Et toi?

we had to learn this off by heart and we had a voice clip of our own about 'mi famille'. Also afterwards we got into pairs and made ourselves a little interview video. We each asked 5 questions about our family and had to answer them. we had ibook laptops with in-built cameras. It was quite fun because we could watch over the mistakes we made, which was really joooookess! =P this was the best part of the day, and that's about it for the day. The thing i have learnt today was how to speak more fluently in french and also improve my listening skills. =]