Discovering French

Introduction

Bonjour! et Bienvenus! In this Web Quest, we will be learning about the basics of french. French is a European language dating back 2000 years ago stemming from Latin; it has since recently - around 800 years ago - adopted English words and phrases. Let's learn to speak together in French!.

Task

Your task will be to find simple expressions in french such as:

Hello, Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, Good Night, See you later, See you tomorrow, Goodbye, Welcome, Thank You, You're Welcome, Please, Excuse me, How are you?/ How goes it?, What's your name? Where are you from?

 

Process

When doing the task, you must state the English expression, then a dash ( - ) then the French expression.

Ex: See you soon - À tout à l'heure

Evaluation

Your work will be evaluated by how accurately you have translated the expressions. 

This is so that you would actually say the correct expression in French where you would be saying it in English.

 

Conclusion

French is a beautiful language to learn. This activity is to get you started on simple conversation in French.