Black M, a French hip-hop artist, was told he should not perform at a concert based on his race. He responded on Twitter with a comprehensive song "clapping back" at the politician and others who think being black makes him any less French. This lesson focuses on identity and uses first-year French constructions to allow students to talk about themselves while learning about French identities. The video for the song includes references to many aspects of French and francophone culture, which are explored briefly in the lesson with room to explore independently.
Lest we think this is an issue unique to France, decades ago, Marian Anderson was also told she could not perform based on her being black. She defied the odds and sang on the steps of the Lincoln memorial, inspiring Martin Luther King, Jr, among others. We look at this performance and a portrait of Anderson from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and students have a chance to discuss how they have overcome odds.

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.

Students will practice basic clothing vocabulary along with colors and prices. Students will also work on the dialogue "Dans un magasin de vêtements."

The students will discover the vocabulary by clicking on images. Each word has associated sound to facilitate the pronunciation of learners in French.

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Interactive activities can be downloaded.

Students will listen to the teacher describe people's phyisical appearance and the student will draw/ color the people.

Students work with a partner to go on a pretend online shopping spree. They use clothing and accessory words, colors, descriptive adjectives, and BAGS adjectives to talk through outfits they’d consider buying.

This project focuses on the passé composé with être ( the DR MRS VANDERTRAMPP verbs) Students will choose a project option and use the rubrics as guidelines for their project.

Students review a few main rules for when and how to use the subjunctive, review a handful of common expressions that trigger subjunctive usage, and then work in partner groups to translate and diagram 12 sentences.  

Notes and practice translations with key. French Direct Object Pronouns. Present, passe compose, futur proche, negation. 

Notes and practice translations with key. French Indirect Object Pronouns. Present, passe compose, futur proche, negation. 

Quiz over French direct and indirect object pronouns in both present and passé composé, with a little negation.  

Quiz covers negation structure definitions and proper placement in present and passe compose sentences. 

Students pretend that they are currently living in a town in France and create a PowerPoint (or other media format) presentation telling about 8 pretend errands they ran over the weekend and 2 that they didn’t run.  

In this activity, students will review French sentence starters to convey opinions about different items and activities.

In this stem changing verb activity the students will color code the French ER verbs according to the stem changing pattern that they follow. 

An online pedagogical reference grammar of the French language that combines authoritative grammar explanations, self-correcting exercises and online audio with surreal dialogues and cartoon images.

Tex's French Grammar combines explanations with surreal dialogues and cartoon images.
Individual grammar items are carefully explained in English, then exemplified in a dialogue, and finally tested in self-correcting, fill-in-the-blank exercises.

This is a handout for students to help them understand that some verbs can take avoir and être in the past tense and it explains when to use them.

This document can be used in any language class to help students brainstorm ideas for a writing or speaking assessment about the weather. They should fill out the attached document in the target language.