Reflection essay Unit 2 – French 41
Topic How do you build and maintain relationship? You are applying for a position as a summer camp counselor in the target culture. Need to answer the following question: How do you build and maintain relationship?
Topic On a parlé de l’amitié dans le contexte de cette unité. Titre de toutes les activités” comment maintenir des relations?
Introduction Don’t think in English Incoherent sentences trying to guess vocabulary that you don’t know. Use structures previously learned. Je m’appelle …….. Je voudrais être conseiller à votre camp.
Organization Signs to mark a paragraph are not accepted Need to have paragraphs !!!!! Need to use interesting and appropriate transition words Signs to mark a paragraph are not accepted
Some common mistakes that can be avoided _ basic structures Agreement between articles- nouns and adjectives Exemple Féminin - Un vrai ami – Une vraie amie Exemple: Pluriel - Des bons moments
Some common mistakes that can be avoided _ basic structures Agreement between subject and verb ending depending of the tenses Exemple Nous partageons Tu crées Il faut que tu sois
Some common mistakes that can be avoided _ basic structures To express possession Mon ami/ mes amis BUT mon amie
Some common mistakes that can be avoided _ Tenses This essay was asking for a variety of tense “Present” to describe what constitutes a good friendship Passé composé / imparfait to talk about personnal examples Subjonctive to give advices
Some common mistakes that can be avoided _ Tenses This essay was asking for a variety of tense TIPS - It is not because we learned a new tense that you have to use only this particular tense.
Specific to this essay Need to use the organizer to make to answer to all aspects all the prompts. Some essays read like a list of sentences in subjunctive.
Specific to this essay In this essay, it would have been good to use “ ON or NOUS” and not “ tu” when giving advices or talking about friendship (you don’t know this person and you are talking in general) Il est important qu’on ait des amis