Supporting Your Child In French Immersion:
VoilaLearning Homework Help:
Your children can now access the Virtual Immersion Campus and receive help from our online teachers in French, English and Math. Send your homework to: [email protected] before accessing the platform. Your children can also practice their French and play French games on the platform (riddles, pictograms and much more), all while earning points. To register to the Virtual Immersion Campus which opens October 2nd, 2017:
● Visit voilalearning.com, click on ‘My school board is registered’
● Enter the code: LDCSB16
The Virtual Immersion Campus will be open Monday to Thursday from 5pm to 6:30pm for homework help and from 6:30pm to 8pm for French practice
A Quick Mini lesson on French pronunciation Trying to help your child in their reading or pronunciation of French words? Here is a quick lesson:
Your children can now access the Virtual Immersion Campus and receive help from our online teachers in French, English and Math. Send your homework to: [email protected] before accessing the platform. Your children can also practice their French and play French games on the platform (riddles, pictograms and much more), all while earning points. To register to the Virtual Immersion Campus which opens October 2nd, 2017:
● Visit voilalearning.com, click on ‘My school board is registered’
● Enter the code: LDCSB16
The Virtual Immersion Campus will be open Monday to Thursday from 5pm to 6:30pm for homework help and from 6:30pm to 8pm for French practice
A Quick Mini lesson on French pronunciation Trying to help your child in their reading or pronunciation of French words? Here is a quick lesson:
- while there are significant differences between the sounds of the vowels in the two languages, the consonants are essentially the same
- h is always silent in French
- an s at the end of a word to indicate the plural is silent
- qu sounds like k (not like kw as in quick)
- th is pronounced t
- ch is pronounced like the English sh
- i is pronounced like the long English e (bee)
- y sounds like yes event at the end of a word
- ou in French always sounds like group (not out)
- oy and oi sound like the wa in water
- au and eau have the long o sound (so)
- ez has the long a sound (way)
- accents change the sounds of vowels; e sounds much like the short English e (deck) while é sounds has the long a sound (hay)
- stress falls on the last sounded syllable (ami sounds like am-ee)
- when a word begins with a vowel (or a silent h), it is usually joined with the last consonant of the preceding word- it will sound as though your child is reading one word instead of two.
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