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American School of Douala
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Editor and Design : Jacqueline Bindzi
FROM THE LOWER SCHOOLDIRECTOR
TALKING DRUMS
Happy Friday!
IN THIS ISSUE:
Gala Dinner, New Destiny Orphanage, PTA
Morning Coffee, High School French News,.
I hope you have a good weekend. As
always, ASD remains a busy place!
Please remember to mark your
calendars for the Gala, to be held on
April 23rd at the AKWA Palace Hotel.
It is a fun evening of food, dancing
and entertainment. Don’t miss out!
Progress Reports will be distributed
next Friday. Please be sure to check
with your child to see if they received
any. Also, you can be monitoring
grades online at any time. The more
we all work together and stay
informed of student progress, the
more likely they are to succeed!!
Paul Johnson Ph.D
“Dr.J.”
Director
Upper School Principal
Lower School February birthdays!
ORPHANAGE VI SIT
HELP SUPPORT
ORPHANAGE
THE
NEW
DESTINY
NEXT VISIT- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20th
All visits are scheduled to leave ASD at 2:00 PM
and return at 5:00 PM.
Please bring in your donations!
This is a great way support local children in
need. We hope that you will help us provide for
those less fortunate in our community.
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Mark your Calendars!
Feb. 20th
Ophannage Visit – 2:00 pm
Feb. 26th
Progress Reports given to all
students
SPRING BREAK – NO SCHOOL
AISA Conference
Mar. 7th -11th
Mar. 25th
GOOD FRI DAY – NO SCHOOL
Apr. 8th
Quarter 3 ends
Apr. 11th
Quarter 4 begins
Apr. 13th–
15th
Parent Teacher Conferences
May 2nd
LABOR DAY – NO SCHOOL
May 5th
ASCENSION DAY – NO SCHOOL
May 13th
Progress Reports given to all
students
NATIONAL DAY – NO SCHOOL
May 20th
Last class for the first group of Tadpole
swimmers
Tel: (237) 23342 1437
Beautiful fish swimming caps as a reward!!
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Mr. Parfait Logang Pando
With our Grade 10,11,12, we are familiaring ourselves and exploring the French
language through a variety of exciting activities, supported by a wealth of practical,
dynamic and stimulating education.
At present, four learning units have been studied: an input unit entitled "The French
language in action" (class notes, daily routines, Francophonies ...) and a first module
entitled "Multiply contacts," which includes three units namely: 1- Meeting others, 2 Enriching one’s network, 3- Living information.
The operation of each unit is structured around four topics: socio-cultural,
communication, grammar and vocabulary.
For each of the learning units, our learners, always motivated, discover the theme in
study through video input, activities and comprehension strategies, vocabulary work,
grammar and communication, emergent phonetic, and written and oral microproductions.
Acquisition activities related to understanding the operation of French lead students
to appropriate vocabulary skills, phonetics and linguistics.
Many communication aids and production strategies are empowering and making the
students capable, at their own level, to express themselves orally and in writing. At the
end of each unit, we summarize all the concepts acquired in the form of a lexicon of the
synthetic scheme and communication to enable our children to have a reference to
refer to re-employ the vocabulary and speech acts in another context. It is through this
process and linguistically scientific approaches that our GR.10, 11,12 are currently
able to use moderately but effectively and academically the French language to talk
about their interests, describe someone, say or write a message to propose an output,
express a difficulty, ask questions, write a poem, present studies, discuss the course
(curriculum) advice, write an application, write tweets, report words, express their
point of view, seek the advice of someone, express surprise, tell a story, and write a
literary tweet.
You can understand that, at ASD, French is indeed one of the languages through which
your children, our learners, become true polyglots. In any case, they are and will
always be welcome.
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Ms. Ghislaine Mbog Yongui
Grade 10-11-12 we are working on
realism in literature and art.
The 10 graders try to understand how contemporary authors are
questioning former/previous representations of the world.
The 11 and 12 are identifying the different types of
characters and the different ways they can evolve in novels.
Using the appropriate vocabulary, grammar and styles to create a
piece of writing is the challenge of the moment for all three
grades.
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In Advanced French 1, high school
students spend their time between
improving their grammar and
conjugation, literature and writing
skills.
Ms. Sophie Lambremont
They have now seen almost every indicative tense and the most
used homophones. It is easy to use this knowledge in the specific
exercises, but it is more challenging to do it while writing essays
or stories, and this is what they still have to work on.
As far as literature is concerned, high school students have
read two novels so far : “Oscar et la dame rose” written by
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt and “Dix petits nègres”, Agatha
Christie’s famous mystery novel. They all enjoyed them very
much and loved being detectives in the last one. Next, they
will read and discuss short stories written by Bernard
Werber.
Finally, the last two weeks have been devoted to working on a
project in groups of two or three. Students had to choose three
famous French proverbs, explain them, find the equivalent in
English and illustrate the literal and the figurative senses. Their
posters are displayed in front of the French classroom, on the
second floor, if you want to know more about French proverbs.
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