Seventh-grade French Students Study Sounds

Jacky Kalubi, Middle and Upper School French and Spanish teacher, recently taught her seventh-grade students different sounds in French. Students first practiced the pronunciation of nasal sounds, including an, en, in, on, and un. Kalubi would say the sounds and selected students to repeat or identify the sound she pronounced. Kalubi told students that in the English language, there are no nasal sounds. “When you speak in French, you have to be really light on your tongue,” she said. Following the lesson, students also practiced saying words with silent letters. Kalubi wrote the word on the board, then students would write the word on their iPads and cross out the silent letters.