Assignment: 

Cognates:  Copy the cognates into a word document.  Next to each word/term, make your best informed guess about what it means.  Use what you have learned in the video, books, and other wiki pages to inform your response.

Send all of this to me via email at sylviaf@mpsvt.org.  Do not use any special formatting at all!  Do not change the font size, color, anything.

Vocabulary:  Practice saying the words.  Be ready to use each word in a sentence that you will say out loud.  You can say the rest of the sentence in English.  For example, "Can you tell me where the "toilette" is?"  The goal is to know these vocabulary words and be able to use them on our trip.

You should ask me for pronunciation help, and let me know when you are ready for me to hear your sentences.

Cognates:

Words that are similar from one language to another are called "cognates."

The French language comes from Latin, and many English words also come from Latin.

See if you can guess the meaning of some of these French Canadian terms which have English cognates:

• Nouvelle France
• Trois-Rivieres
• Joie de vivre (hint: vivre means life; try pronouncing "joie" a few ways)
• Mont-Royal
• Chocolat chaud (hint:  it's a drink)
• Cabane à Sucre (hint: we have these in Vermont; it's where you go for sugar on snow)
• Soldat de la Tour (hint: you will see these people at the Martello Tower)
• Festival International de Jazz de Montreal

Vocabulary!

There are a few words you must know before embarking on our trip:

• s'il vous plait = please ("see vou play")
• merci = thank you ("mare-see")
• arret! = stop! ("a-ret")
• toilette = bathroom ("twa-let")
• faire des achats = go shopping ("fair days ah-shat")

Phrase Book

• Dépanneur: A variety store, corner store, or bodega. ("DAY-pan-ooer")
• Une poutine: Montreal’s indigenous junk food: french fries, gravy, and cheese curds. ("OOn POO-teen")
• Ma blonde/Mon chom: My girlfriend/boyfriend. (Mah Blown-d/MON ChOM")
• La Souffleuse: The snowplow. ("Lah SUE-fleuus")
• Le Char: The car. ("Le Charr")
• Le Guichet: The automatic teller. ("Le GHEE-chay")