Salve! Guten Tag! Bonjour! ¡Buenos Días!
Welcome to the Wonderful World of IFL!
Introduction to Foreign Language is a semester elective exposing students to the languages and cultures of Latin, French, German and Spanish. In addition, students will explore the history and origins of human language, focusing primarily on the development of the Indo-European language family. Students will compare and contrast the other languages and cultures and learn how other languages and cultures have influenced the English language and the American culture. With each language, we will study a particular aspect of its culture which affects American culture today. We study how ancient Romans laid out their cities, and how we still follow that same model today. We learn the literary elements of a fairy tale, and how the Grimm Brothers set the standard for our literature today. We learn many French food terms and how to navigate a French menu. We study Hispanic life in America today.
When time allows, we learn little bits from many other world languages. Some of the languages we have studied include: American Sign Language, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Hebrew, Hindi, Farsi, Turkish, Chinese, Vietnamese and Arabic.
Check this page regularly to find out what we are doing each day. (Special note to 5th period: Due to our meeting daily, the dates may not match exactly. Please understand this and accomodate this accordingly. ) Below the list of assignments you will find fun links to explore languages and cultures from around the world. Have fun exploring!
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11/5 Put the final touches on your fairy tale skits.
11/6Complete and turn in the Fairy Tale Skit Tallies. Perform Fairy Tales!!
11/7 We are now ready to begin French!!
 
11/11 French alphabet, pronunciation, and expressions. Begin to learn about French cooking and French foods.
11/13 Allons à Paris! (Let's go to Paris!) Video takes us to Paris, Normandy and Brittany. Complete WS
11/14 More French vocab. Practice pronunciation. Complete WS on Joan of Arc.
11/18 Louis Pasteur. Learn about Louis Pasteur's contributions to the world, and complete packet about him.
11/20 Parlez-vous français? Learn more phrases in French. Continue with film on French and complete WS
11/21 Terms and facts about the fashion industry in Paris. Complete WS
11/26 French Thanksgiving terms. More food and other terms in French which applyto Thanksgiving. Complete a puzzle.
12/2 French Explorers in North America.
 
Remember these facts:
Our language family is called: Indo-European.
Romance languages are based on Latin (the language of Rome)
English is a Germanic language.
French and Spanish are Romance languages ( as are: Italian, Portugese, and Romanian)
Therefore: French and Spanish are sisters
German and English are sisters
German and English are cousins to French and Spanish
For fun and enrichment check out the links to games below and explore the exciting world of language!
Vale! Auf Wiedersehen! Au revoir! ¡Adiós! I have enjoyed having you all in my class this quarter, be sure to say "hi" in the halls! I will miss each and every one of you!!
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