This resource offers students an interactive activity with twenty sentences in eight modules, where they have to quickly identify the word as feminine or masculine before it drops in the basket.
In this activity, students predict what housing ads in the target culture will include and scan newspaper ads for information and style of the ads. They compare US housing and target culture ads. Using the style and language of the target culture, students write their own ad describing their ideal house. The language structures include present and future tense. This activity is applicable for any written world language course. Included are suggestions for adapting and extending this performance task. Included are sample housing ads in French and Spanish as well as roommate ads for French, German and Spanish.
In this activity, teachers can learn how to set up inside and outside circles to serve as icebreakers, warm-ups or reviews of specific vocabulary or grammatical structures. This activity should be for short periods of time to get students to interact in the target language. The language structures can vary as can the cultural topic. The modalities include speaking and listening. This activity is applicable for any world language course. Included are suggestions for adapting and extending this performance task.
Students will have the opportunity to listen to 8 fables written by Jean de la Fontaine as they are read by authentic French speakers.
The song and the lesson explore the ideas of personal diaries, hopes and dreams, and memories. It includes pre-listening, vocabulary, listening comprehension, discussion and simple writing activities.
Students will watch a video song and discuss the its theme based on the vitual new world "Monde Nouveau", in which things are now possible between dream (reve) and reality (reel) as characterized by the "super-heros."
Students will listen to a Quebecois song about World War II and complete various interactive online activities to show comprehension, practice grammar and vocabulary, and read and interpret short related texts. The themes of love, friendship, and family are addressed in the song.
In this resource, students will learn how to use the infinitive and the subjunctive in subordinate clauses as compliment to sentences.
This collection of topics includes basic vocabulary and expressions for novice language learners. Each topic includes several subtopics introduced by online activities and corresponding print activities.
Students will listen to the description of this appartement by a French speaker and correctly identify each room as it is described by dragging and dropping the corresponding label to the correct room.
In this unit, students will develop reading strategies and make cultural comparisons as they analyze documents and texts about the French educational system.
Students will learn about the legend of the Black Horse or "Le Cheval Noir," who helped Canadian church workers to build their church at Saint-Boniface in Manitoba during heavy winter.
Students learn how to write, read and say many different animal names. They will play interactive games that will be fun and educational.
Students will learn vocabulary associated with sports. They can practice readying and saying the vocabulary words and have the option to listen to the vocabulary being read by a native speaker. They will be able to play 3 different games to test their knowledge of the vocabulary.
In this activity, students will read the story of the booted cat for reading comprehension.
Les Conversations Mises à Jour is a collection of authentic conversations in French that targets mostly intermediate and advanced learners of French. Each conversation highlights the shared experience of two native or near-native French speakers and provides both an oral history of that experience and a trove of cultural references. Vocabulary lists are included.
Students will learn leisure vocabulary in French, read an article, and watch a video about them. They will conduct a class survey and read other surveys to develop a better understanding of the topic and later answer comprehension questions. This resource offers four lesson plans for leisure activities "Les Loisirs".
Students will be able to name objects found in the classroom at the end of this teacher-led lesson.
Students will identify parts of the human body by dragging and dropping the correct label to its corresponding body part. Upon successful identification, the name of the body part is spoken by a native French speaker.
In this resource, students are provided with interactive activities in four modules to reinforce their knowledge of verb agreements with their subjects or their past participles in simplified grammar explanations. Students will improve their overall language learning skills.