This chapter will cover the house,  and housing,  furniture, the town and thngs in your neighborhood and giving directions there.    In grammar it will cover il ya, voila and possessive adjectives.  This chapter will review "aller" and preposition à la, au, aux and à l'.   It will introduce the future with aller.   Time will be reviewed in months, dates, years and hours.  It will introduce the 24-hour clock.  

In this activity, students will be talking about their living situation- where they live, who they live with, if they live at a house, apartment, etc. Students will also practice buying furniture for their home.

In this activity, students will be talking about their living situation- where they live, who they live with, if they live at a house, apartment, etc. Students will also practice buying furniture for their home.

Furniture making is in many ways like bridge building, connections holding posts apart with spans to support a deck. Many architects have tried their hand at furniture design, Wright, Mies Van Der Rohe, Aalto, Saarinen, Le Corbusier, and Gerhy.
We will review the history of furniture making in America with a visit to the Decorative Arts Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and have Cambridge artist/craftsman Mitch Ryerson show us his work and talk about design process. Students will learn traditional woodworking techniques beginning with the use of hand tools, power tools and finally woodworking machines.
Students will build a single piece of furniture of an original design that must support someone weighing 185 lbs. sitting on it 12 inches off the ground made primarily of wood. Students should expect to spend approximately 80 hours in the shop outside of class time.
Preregistered architecture students will get first priority but first meeting attendance is mandatory. Twelve student maximum, no exceptions.

Students will learn how French artists used lacquer panels in their furniture. They will then explore Asian lacquer panels and create their own Asian-inspired lacquer panel design. Students will then trade their designs and incorporate their classmates' designs into a new furniture design.

 Students will work within a budget to find pieces of furniture to decorate their dorm room.

Students will work within a budget to find pieces of furniture to decorate their dorm room. Die Schüler werden innerhalb eines Budgets arbeiten, um Möbelstücke zu finden, um ihr Wohnheimzimmer zu dekorieren.  Students will practice describing furniture and using terms related to money.  Die Schüler üben die Beschreibung von Möbeln und die Verwendung von Begriffen, die mit Geld zu tun haben.

Students will work within a budget to find pieces of furniture to decorate their dorm room.

In this activity, students will practice shopping using a list to purchase a variety of household items. The students will ask each other questions to find items on their list. 

Do you have a bed, dresser, mirror, or window in your bedroom?  What other types of things might you have in your bedroom?  Discover how to identify these objects in Spanish so you can label them correctly.ACTFL StandardsCommunication: Interpersonal CommunicationCultures: Relating Cultural Products to PerspectivesLearning TargetI can label items in a room.Habits of MindApplying past knowledge to new situationsCritical Thinking SkillConstruct Meaning

In this activity, students will partner up and practice talking about their house, what rooms and basic furniture they have. Discuss what they want to have and then give suggestions to each other. Students will then practice talking to a landlord about renting an apartment.

This activity is intended to provide authentic material to Novice-Mid students. The video of Guillaume from Bordeaux shows a typical French studio and takes students through the different rooms. After viewing the video, students have to answer a few questions to check for understanding. Then they are asked to describe their own living space, mentioning at least 2 comparisons from their lives with the French studio from the video.

This lesson presents common household vocabulary. It includes activities for cooperative learning, student interviews, and vocabulary development.