Students will hear four French students describe themselves. In the writing activities, students use listening comprehension to describe others' physical attributes, clothing, and talk about themselves and others. This resource should be paired with the resource entitled, "Les autoportraits - Video."

In this activity, students will hear four French students describe themselves. In the writing activities, students use listening comprehension to describe others’ physical attributes, clothing, and talk about themselves and others. This resource should be paired with the resource entitled, "Les autoportraits-Exercises."

Students will learn French expressions from Switzerland and other francophone countries, while making cultural connections with their own.

This brief cultural lesson offers a look into cultural differences and defines terms related to the distinction between the "toilet" and the "bathroom" in France. The lesson is in English, and highlights key terms related to this topic.

Students will learn basic household tasks like doing the dishes and taking out the trash. Students listen to a short audio description and then must match the item with the associated image.

In this lesson, students learn how to ask and tell the time of day and to relate the times of everyday school activities in the target language of French. They will notice how prevalent cognates are in the French language.

This clickable map of French dialiectical regions provides resources for the most prominent dialects of France. Each section is supported by dialectial dictionaries, historical information, and a range of resources to help the learner deepen their understanding of the dialect while making comparisons with standard French. NOTE: The entire website is written in French.

Students will hear an authentic French speaker reciting this very popular French poem. The text for the poem is also available for students to read as they listen to the poem.

his activity offers students, especially in French I the interaction of writing, a speaking comprehension. the students will create a media profile describing themselves; physically, they will describe their personality traits, as well as their likes and dislikes.

In this lesson, students view, investigate, write, rehearse, perform and present the news. The format of the news in the US is compared to the format in the target country. The modalities include listening, reading, speaking and writing. The lesson could be utlized for any language that has news reports. Included are rubrics for evaluating the student newscasts as well as options for adapting the lesson to other language levels. Language structures for this performance task include present tense, past tense, future tense, embedded clauses and question formation.

Students will understand spoken French about current events. They will listen to a short broadcast of the news in slow French. Each week there is one free broadcast which includes a transcript in which students can mouse over parts of the text to see English translations.

The French song is about indecision and choices we make in life. The resource includes the song lyrics; a vocabulary list; pre-listening, listening and post-listening activities; as well as discussion and writing questions.

In this activity, students predict what they will read in obituaries from the target culture. They compare US obituaries to those from the target culture. The language structures include the present and the future tenses. There are samples in German and Spanish but this activity can be done with any written language course. Included are adaptiations for language and extensions for culture as well as a multi-trait rubric.

This resource is one of the six modules in this series of writing activities. It offers students a way to see mistakes in spelling that they haven't paid attention to before. This is a very good resource to help students improve writing skills.

In this resource, students will learn about the Catacombs in Paris. They will hear authentic French spoken in a real life setting.

This resource offers a printable clipart collection of simple phrases and sentences to be posted around the classroom as a tool for students to communicate in French at all times.

This resource is a multi media interactive web documentary in which an elementary school class chronicles their learning as they address questions of cultural identity, cultural differences, racism, immigration, etc. The home page has links to various tableaux which each focus on one sub-theme.

In this resource, a family takes a journey to Mont Saint Michel in France and discovers its past and present beauty. Students will understand cultural practices and perspectives from the target culture.

In this resource, students will learn the place of adjectives in sentences. Then, use the provided exercises to practice. This is a very good French grammar resource to improve students' speaking and writing skills.

In this resource, students will learn how to use complex adjectives in French sentences. They will then use the provided exercises to practice.