Class Five: Recapitulation & Contacting Irish Keypals

Recapitulation: take 5 to 10 minutes to answer these questions. You may work with your neighbors. We will answer them aloud in class.

- Do you know this vocabulary: account, bookmark, to click, file, folder, hypertext, keypal, meta-search engine, online, plagiarism, podcast, to post, search engine, to search for, to scroll (down), to type,

- What is the difference between the Yahoo.fr Group and the Class BLOG?

- Why can’t you access the Yahoo Group when you are signed into your Yahoo Mail account?

- Where are you supposed to post your homework online?

- How does a BLOG present information in terms of the chronology of each entry?

- Where do you find the Homework for the next lesson?

- How can you go directly to Class Two without having to scroll down the screen?

- Where is the Centre de Ressources Linguistiques located?

- How can you make a reservation to go to the CRL?

Time for YOUR Questions(in French or in English)

Contacting the Irish Students

Part One: Consolidating the questionnaire for the Irish Students (10 minutes approx)

With your neighbours (in groups of 4 or 5), consolidate your questions and choose the 5 best questions for the Irish students. These should include two “yes-or-no” questions, two multiple choice questions, one open ended question. Hand this in to the instructor also. This survey will be posted online for the Irish students to answer.

Part Two: responding to the Irish texts.

Have you received an email from an Irish student? Make sure to check your Yahoo Mail account for their comments on your essays. If you have not yet received an email, check again next week. They will be writing to you soon.

Connect to the Yahoo Group. Go to the Fichiers section and open the file Franco_Irish_Exchange. Then find the file that corresponds to your class group (NB: Lundi 14h30 + 15h30 are combined so you open the same file).

Open and read some of the Irish texts and prepare a response (votre professeur vous dirait combien de textes il faut lire et auxquels il faut répondre car ils sont beaucoup moins nombreux en class que vous) (Bien sûr, vous pouvez lire les textes des autres groupes aussi ! Ils sont intéressants).

Group 7 – Lundi 13h30:

Group 9 – lundi 14h30: read all the texts in both folders for 14h30 and 15h15.

Group 5 – Lundi 15h30: read all the texts in both folders for 14h30 and 15h15.

Group 10 – Mardi 9h00:

Group 6 – Mardi 15h15:

Respond to one of the texts, or contact one of the people who did not yet post their text. Write a short email in English to the person who wrote the text (See the Excel folder for the email addresses).Give your impressions of the content. Correct his/her French if you want by making suggestions about the vocabulary or the grammar.Tell the person about Cergy , the town you are from or the Cergy-Pontoise region.

Part Three: Exchange programs: (10 minutes)

From the U-Cergy website homepage, find the section about studying abroad. (Hint, it’s in the International section)

- As an LEA student, what other countries can you study in?

- Who is the person (or people) responsible for International Relations in LEA? If you want to go abroad, it is sometimes necessary to contact this person directly if you have questions about your candidacy.

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HOMEWORK:

Go to the Centre de Ressources Linguistiques and work on some English language software (you choose which software you want to work on). Bring your teacher an Attestation signed by the monitor to prove that you went.

Finish writing to the Irish students if you did not finish in class.