Food Popplet

Write two paragraphs in English and post it to your blog with your a) impressions on French food and b) comparing French and American shopping habits.  Make sure you have a topic sentence for each paragraph and use details from the readings to support your topic sentences. In addition to your paragraph, embed your Popplet (click on Share, then copy the embed code).

Overall, my impressions on French food are pretty good. A lot of the things they eat are similar to what we eat. They have coffee in the morning like us (other than the fact that they drink it out of a bowl instead of a cup), they eat at McDonald's and order Domino's pizza, and they are starting to eat more American cereal. And a lot of restaurants in America require 15% tips, too. 

French shopping habits are almost the same as in America too. They have fresh fruits and veggies and there are some open air markets here too. When they go to the grocery store, they either bring their own bags to carry their food in or they can rent a cart for a small fee. In America, most stores offer carts for free and put your food in plastic bags to take home. Both France and America have specialty shops like patisseries and bakeries. Grocery stores sell soda and other packaged food. Unlike America, French people buy fresh bread every day.

French Script for skit

Script for French Project

Serveur: Qu’est-ce que vous voulez?

Visiteur 1: *gives server a look, talks in annoyed tone* je veux les steak-frites pour les entrés et au vin blanc s’il vous plait.

Serveur: Et pour tu?

Visiteur 2: Je veux les petit pan et le soda, s’il vous plait.

Serveur: tout ce que *walks away while rolling eyes*

*5 minutes later*

Serveur: *sets appetizers and drinks down promptly* Qu’est-ce que vous voulez pour le plat principal?

Visiteur 1: Je veux un croque-monsieur *doesn’t even look up while speaking*

Serveur: Que va vous faites grossir.

Visiteur 1: *looks at Visiteur 2 not wanting to be there anymore and really mad*  

Serveur:  Et pour tu?

Visiteur 2: Je veux le boeuf bourguignon

Serveur: *doesn’t say anything and just walks away*

*10-15 minutes later waiter comes back as Tourist 1 and Tourist 2 are discussing to leave the restaurant*

Serveur: ici vous allez *sets down plates promptly with food flying off of them*

Visiteur 1 and Visiteur 2: *says nothing to the server and eats their food angrily*

*finishing their meals*

Serveur:  Qu’est-ce que vous voulez pour les desserts?

Visiteur 1 and Visiteur 2:  *annoyed*  Ne rien.

*Tourists get up and walk away leaving the server standing there with no tip and nothing to put in the cash register.*

Morale of the story: Don’t work in customer service if you are not a people person.

French Foods Chart

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GItnwIgrrYmJZetG9ajMInLDFcHrDNI_HDP3hhPSC1o/edit

Digital Storytelling

Bonne St.-Valentin! :)

T1 Reflection

What were your goals when you began this class?  Did you have any?  How have they changed based on our first topic? I didn't have any goals in the beginning of the class other than to pass it with at least an 80. After Topic 1 I'm lowering it to 75... What areas did you do well on?  How did your behavior in class (speaking in the language, listening to the teacher, doing the homework, working in groups, etc.) help or hinder you performance?  What would you do differently? The area I did best on was the vocabulary. I memorized most of the vocab but I sound like a european redneck when I talk. Listening to Mrs. Waid and doing the homework helped, but I think working in groups didn’t really help me at all because I get distracted easily. I think the only thing I would do differently would be to practice my pronunciation more. Think about the strategies we learned in class this week to be better language learners.  What strategies do you feel will be most helpful, and why?  What questions do you still have about how to use them? The only strategy that works for me is studying and just paying attention, because that’s just how I learn the best. 

The next topic is Family - identify three preliminary goals for things you would like to learn about or learn to do in French.

I really can’t think of any goals, but one thing I really need to do is relearn all the basic classroom words... because whenever Mrs. Waid gives instructions in French, this is how I (and probably everyone else) feels:

Hello everyone! :)

Welcome to my blog :) Follow me for some cool Frenchy stuff..