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Great Links for French Culture & Language Teachers More Links to visit when you are finished with this page,
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engine to look up the link of interest):
On
the Importance of Knowing French
New feature! Franco-American News and Events Listing Teacher Aids For possible ideas, you may want to consult the AATF website (http://www.frenchteachers.org) where you will find a very wide array of activities. Teachers should feel free to pick and choose and modify these activities at will according to their inclinations, their needs and their particular situation. Good evening, I have just been dusting off and adding to some of my Christmas links for the modern languages class. There are now just over 200 links to Christmas around the world as well as scavenger hunts and 30 exercises and activities, many of which are interactive. The address is: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/christmas.html Season's greetings from Whitby, Ontario, Canada Pete Jones
HERE YOU WILL FIND MANY RESOURCES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGES PLUS OTHER ASSORTED NEAT SITES. ENJOY YOUR SEARCHING AND SURFING Traditions de Noël en France et au Canada Our principal has asked our students to make "cultural" ornaments for the school Christmas tree. I teach French - does anyone have any great ideas for me? I would appreciate some culturally authentic thoughts! Your most authentic source is this French Ministry of
Culture site:"Traditions de Noël en France et au Canada":
Your students might also like to prepare a creche and
some santons. They could even make small cardboard santons pasting photos
of their own faces in place of the villageois ---and learn to sing the
"Noèl des petits santons"
Here are some "santon" Web sites:
You'll find these and additional resources at L'École
primaire du quartier
How about little red maple leaves? Or moose, polar
bears, or timber wolves?
Mes deux sous,
French Lessons from Everywhere http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/frlesson.html I have also updated the section "Tests, Quizzes and Questionnaires".
You can find something on just about any standardized test, a number of
placements and achievement tests.
Bob Peckham
Web pages created by teachers who contribute to FLTEACH http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/9806/flteacherspgs.html
Good morning, I have just finished dusting off my French, German and Spanish links page for Halloween. There are close to 100 on the page now. There are also treasure hunts for the language class in all three languages. (The treasure hunts are based on the contents of the page.) The address is: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/halloween.html You will also find a link on this page to over 30 games (many interactive) which we have created for Halloween. You can link directly to that page by: http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/halloweengames.html Best wishes from Whitby, Ontario, Canada Pete Jones
Anyone have any fun handouts for Halloween in French? You might check this French site: http://www.halloween.tm.fr/default.asp?fichier=/home.asp¶m LA FUMEE BLANCHE/LA GLACE CARBONIQUE:
CHASSE AU TRESOR POUR HALLOWEEN:
HALLOWEEN ORIGINS & CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD:
Trick or Treat in French? J'ai entendu dire "Farces ou Friandises."
If you go to www.imaginet.fr/momes you will find some activities in French for Halloween and lots of other neat activities.
CLICK* below to Go to
CLICK* below to Go to Here is a website with a some animal sounds in
several different
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/animals.html From here there are links to other cultural topics
(insults,
More animal sounds: http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/animals/animals.html
Here are a few others: la vache: meuh
LIBRAIRIES FRANCOPHONES @ GLOBE-GATE http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/libr.html 120 links, and it leads to millions of French book titles. TBob Bob Peckham
MOOfrancais: http://www.umsl.edu/~moosproj/moofrancais.html
Here is a URL for the list of the recognized saints' feast days. et aussi,
French Puns I am really enjoying the book I got (I think it was from
Teacher's Discovery) called "The Wit
of Madame Fifi" by Sue Fenton, and thought I'd share a couple with
you all... Most require a knowledge of French culture or language, which
is great.
What French queen had her own Web site?
What play is about two French chefs who patiently hang
out while their cake bakes?
What did Joan of Arc exclaim to the English as she met
her end at the stake in a Normandy town?
French Proverbs & Other Micro-texts For those who have come to FLTEACH in the past two months, and who may not be thoroughly familiar with some of the Globe-Gate resources, let me remind you of a particularly popular site, which contains authentic and thought-dense micro-texts, with 19 ideas on how to use them with your students. But that is not all. You will never run short of these, because the site leads to the largest combined collection anywhere in cyberspace, and is considerably larger than the vast majority of paper collections: French Proverbs & Other Micro-texts http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/proverb.html Why are these important? They are authentic. They are small and they are comprehensible. Students can classify them, expand them, make humorous recombinations of them. Use them to summarize longer texts, where appropriate, etc. TBob (who says "A stitch in time is a friend indeed")
Here is website for "thank you" in 385 languages spelled out. http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/thankyou.htm I'm in the process of completing a Web site on the LE VERBE FRANÇAIS which may be of interest to those teaching French verbs: <http://www.richmond.edu/~jpaulsen/leverbe/leverbe.html> Here is another for a Paris Project. I don't know what book the person who mentioned a Paris internet project is using, but if there is a real Paris street mentioned or a real Paris place of business with a real address, you can look up the place in this web site: Rue
Commercantes
When you look up the street, you get a representation
of the street, which you can follow to the end, each place of business
is represented, there are probably photos to allow you to see the street
at several points, maybe even one of the place of business mentioned in
your book. You can also see a neighborhood map.
Maupassant - 177 contes de 1882-1884 (titres par ordre alphabetique, avec dates) Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) Traductions des contes et nouvelles L'oeuvre de Maupassant, reflet des traditions et du travail normands
University of Minnesota EARLY MODERN FRENCH WOMEN WRITERS: A WOMEN'S STUDIES DIGITIZATION PROJECT INITIATIVE ARTFL French Women Writers Project
Links for the Franco-American Women's Institute
If you would like to learn more about French Teaching
Methodology and
http://homepages.together.net/~lhostel Elizabeth White
Chansons Toile
du Quebec - Arts et Culture: Musique: Paroles
Hostie.Net
La musique francophone
Collection
quebecoise [chansons]
Paroles de chansons
quebecoises
La
Boite a chansons de l'Assomption
Evolution
de la chanson quebecoise
LE
GUIDE DE LA CHANSON QUEBECOISE
NOMADE
- La Chanson quebecoise
Dictionnaire
de la chanson quebecoise
GUIDE
BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE LITTRATURE QUEBECOISE
internet terms for French There is a english-french dictionary of common computing
terms at the
I am interested in knowing if there are any web sites
which give internet
Bonjour les collegues,
http://www.creteil.iufm.fr/pedagene/ Sandra Howard (Marin County, northern Calif)
Famille Les
Multiples Visages de la famille quebecoise
POLITIQUE
FAMILIALE: LE QUEBEC FAIT LE CHOIX DE SES ENFANTS
La
Societe quebeçoise - portrait social
Medaille
de la Famille Française
Societe
Française de Therapie Familiale
Famille - Service du troisieme age (Boulogne-Billancourt) Voila
Guide - Vie Pratique: famille, enfants
Nomade - le guide français du net: Famille et sante La Toile du Quebec - enfants et ados La Vie familiale - Civilisation française Voyage virtuel - Civilisation française FRANCETRES
: Genealogie en France / Genealogy in France
La
composition des groupes de chasse chez les Mamit Innuat
Thesaurus
du Journal des debats
Violence
familiale : sites francophones
Check out the wealth of resources at the Quartier français du village planétaire: <http://www.richmond.edu/~jpaulsen/gvfrench.html> Janice B. Paulsen,
Don't forget that our remodeled
French Tongue
Twisters:
To illustrate to my students how large the province
of Quebec is, I cut out
Gradekeeper is shareware and can be downloaded
at:
Flashcards for students:
Here's a collection of places for making quizzes for
oneself or for students.
Try http://www.puzzlemaker.com . You can make your own puzzles with the vocabulary that you need. By the way, the students love to make them for the class too. Just be sure you check the spelling of the words before they print the final puzzle. Ancestry Online: http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/ Electronic collection of French realia: As a part of our electronic visual resources, we have created an electronic collection of French realia. It includes such things as movie tickets, train tickets, sales receipts of stores, hotels, and restaurants, etc. There is a sample activity using the materials. Please have a look to see if they can be of any use to you. http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/Realia/French/ Any feedback is always welcome. Thanks.
French Fries and French Toast Somewhere along the way I recall picking up that French fries actually came from Belgium. Someone please correct me if I am wrong. I don't know the rest of the story (other than the fact that Belgium is a francophone country), so sometimes I just tell the kids that it sounds neater to say French fries than Belgian fries. I remember my grandmother telling me that French toast was actually
originally called German toast, and that the change came about in World
War I because of the negative view of Germany that was evolving, especially
in Europe.
Wasn't French toast actually pain perdu (spelling?), a way to use stale
or
For all you ever wanted to know about French Fries, and much, much more
(but it's an entertaining site), go to http://www.tx7.com/fries/index.html
Might want to look into an Idaho potato-mogul named J.R. Simplot who was actually first to package and sell french fries for public consunption. Today he's a bizillionaire. From what I have gathered, he was actually the guy with the idea about cooking potatoes fast. The French refers to the julienne-style cutting of the potato (Julienne is a French name, perhaps an idea for French. . .?) You may find canned french cut green beans in the store; they are cut lengthwise into narrow strips. FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS:
THE revolution:
There are lots of possibilities. One of my favorite French history sites
is that of Eric Ranguin
Here's the link to his page of French history ressource links on the
17th-19th centuries which lead you up to, into and on to the other side
of "the Age of Revolution" in France :
This link from his pages may lead to where you might wish to begin,
depending on how much history background you can count on already having
been acquired by your students :
For French history activities see "Histoire"
Note also the French history links by historical period at "Les Ressources
Web3 de la Civilisation française
For films, consider "Danton" and also "Les MisÊrables". Don't
forget, perhaps for outside of class viewing, the English film classic
"A Tale of Two Cities"
Shopping in Québec:
What is the difference?
Merci
To me the difference is subtle, yet...
Faire des achats: involves the purchase of items such as clothes,
household items, gifts,etc. It might include food but I would not
use the expression for just food.
Faire les courses: to go out to buy food, to run errands, but
it can also include other purchases.
Faire du shopping: also involves the purchase of items but has
a broader meaning, ... perhaps in a centre commercial... (English influence)
Don't forget the quebecois, "faire du magasinage", more properly pronounced
"faire du magasinaaauge".
My take on the matter:
Récemment quelqu'un a demandé les paroles à cette
chanson. Les voilà:
Petit Papa Noël
Et quand tu seras sur ton beau nuage
Petit Papa Noël
http://higher-ed.org/AEQ/fyi.htm
The remaining two leads are common to journals on the web:
Concours de poésie Maurice Carême
The website: "http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/animals/animals.html"
There are also some interesting animal-related links.
Bev Larson
Visit Paris on the Web
Once on the homepage of www.paris.org find the title
Here is the url for a page I made for my advanced French
classes. It has
More links to be added, and if you have some links you
would like to share, please send them along to page compiler. Merci
en avance!
Many links courtesy of the owner-flteach@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
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