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Culture assimilator 3. La Famille et Les Personnes. 1. family life in france. Video - La Famille: Qu'est-ce que c'est? - Cliquez ici. 1. family life in france.
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Culture assimilator 3 La Famille et Les Personnes
1. family life in france • Video- La Famille: Qu'est-ce que c'est? - Cliquez ici
1. family life in france • You are staying with your aunt who lives in a little village in the middle of France. You are having lunch with a few of her friends and they are asking about your family. You explain that there are 5 kids in your family. You tell them that you and two younger brothers live in Georgia, your older sister is going to college in Chicago, and that your brother lived in Miami, but now moved to New York for a job. Her friends are shocked by this! Why do you think they are shocked?
1. family life in france • In France, the government only allows a maximum of 2 children per household so they are surprised that there are 5 kids in your family. • In France, they rarely go to college. • In France, a majority of people remain near their family in the region they were born.
1. family life in france • In France, the government only allows a maximum of 2 children per household so they are surprised that there are 5 kids in your family. • In France, they rarely go to college. • In France, a majority of people remain near their family in the region they were born.
1. family life in france • Extended families, at least in rural France, are extremely common. Often, families have occupied the same property for generations and those that have left home have only managed to stagger a few hundred meters down the road. Grandmas, aunties and godparents are all normally close to hand.
2. Family Meals • You have just arrived in France for the summer to live witha host family. The mother goes grocery shopping on Saturday and comes home with a LOT of food. You ask what is going on and you think she says that some young people are coming over. Instead, Sunday afternoon about 30 members of their extended family arrive. What is happening?
2. Family Meals • It is your host brother’s birthday and everyone has come to celebrate. • July 14th is the next day and it is customary to gather the extended family together to celebrate the French Independence Day. • It is customary for extended families to get together on Sunday afternoons for a large lunch.
2. Family Meals • It is your host brother’s birthday and everyone has come to celebrate. • July 14th is the next day and it is customary to gather the extended family together to celebrate the French Independence Day. • It is customary for extended families to get together on Sunday afternoons for a large lunch. • *You realized that when you asked she said “déjeuner” which means lunch and not something about “les jeunes” which means young people!! Oops! You live and learn!
2. Family Meals • You already know the French are obsessed with food and have seen some interestingly different foods put on the table. However, your host mother tells you that you will be eating roast chicken for lunch. You are excited but a little surprised when the roast chicken is brought to the table fully cooked with its head and claws attached and even more surprised when grandma is given the head and she cracks it open with her knife and eats the brain. How do you react to this situation?
2. Family Meals • Scream “this is gross!” and run out of the room. • Tell your host mother that you are vegetarian. • Ask to eat the chicken feet. • Follow the example of your host family and assume it is a cultural norm. And also, you try not to vomit.
2. Family Meals • Scream “this is gross!” and run out of the room. • Tell your host mother that you are vegetarian. • Ask to eat the chicken feet. • Follow the example of your host family and assume it is a cultural norm. And also, you try not to vomit.
2. Family Meals • You wonder why grandma was automatically given the chicken head. Why might this be? • Grandma is on a special diet of chicken brains. • Grandma’s conversation is so bad they have to keep her busy somehow. • The chicken head is a cultural honor and it is a mark of respect for the older generation.
2. Family Meals • You wonder why grandma was automatically given the chicken head. Why might this be? • Grandma is on a special diet of chicken brains. • Grandma’s conversation is so bad they have to keep her busy somehow. • The chicken head is a cultural honor and it is a mark of respect for the older generation. • Can you think of any other “bizarre” foods that people may eat in French-speaking countries? Does your family eat food that other people might consider “bizarre?”
3. les noms de famille • En France les noms de familleont des originestrèsvariées. Certainsévoquentunecaractéristique physique: Legrand, Lebrun, Petit.
3. les noms de famille • D’autressont des nomsd’endroits: Lacour, Dujardin, Delarue.
3. les noms de famille • D’autressont des noms de profession: Médecin, Boucher, Charpentier
3. les noms de famille • D’autres encore sont des termesgéographiques: Dumont, Duval, Dubois
4. les enfants et les animaux • French Toy Commercial- Cliquez ici Do you think they have the same type of toys for children in France as they do in America?
4. les enfants et les animaux • Les enfants et les animaux- Cliquez ici three short videos about two sisters and the animals they like
Additional resources • -Glencoe Video Program, Episode 1
