JOURNAL ENTRY: Mon Voyage
DIRECTIONS: Write a letter to a friend telling about your upcoming
trip to a foreign country. You must have at least 40 words. You
must include the following information:
-Where you are going on the trip
-With whom are you going
-When you will be going
-What the weather will be like
-Type of transportation that you will use to get there
-What you will need to take
-What you will do while you are there
-Ask at least one question (other than “Comment ça va?”)
REMEMBER…the information does not have to be true, just
appropriate and possible.
Rough Draft due: _____________________ (in pencil or pen)
Final Draft due:
_____________________ (in pen!!!)
When you are writing the journal or letter…
1. Make sure you use the heading if one is provided.
2. Make sure you leave a space between each word.
3. Skip lines so that comments can be made.
4. Use the closing if one is provided.
5. Count the words. Make sure you are over the required words!
6. Suggestions if you fall short of the required words:
*Write the date *Write the time
*Ask the person questions
*Add more descriptions
*Tell the weather
*Brainstorm vocab from the topic/chapter and put it into a sentence
Les Sigles Barberiens
1 Point Mistakes
Acc accent mark
AWD accent wrong direction
AWL accent wrong location
ending or pronoun)
LC lower case
UC upper case
Punct punctuation mark
AA adjective agreement
5 Point Mistakes
WV wrong verb
VA verb agreement
(right verb, wrong form,
2 Point Mistakes
WO word order
WW wrong word
MW missing word
WG wrong gender
Pl
plural
S
singular
Sp
spelling
-2 per word short of required words
10 Point Mistakes
RS redo sentence
MV missing verb
INF Infinitive needed