This is a subject verb sentence building activity. Students with build sentences with regular French ER verbs in steps.
Chansons françaises is the integrated music component of Français interactif. Chansons features a French or Francophone song, related to each chapter's cultural or pedagogical focus, presented via audio or video. Accompanying pdfs provide additional information, as well as comprehension exercises. Songs act as a portal to various Francophone cultures and musical genres. Aural comprehension and study of lyrics afford students practice with culturally authentic text and expression. Students discover yet another reason to be passionate about studying French!
Students describe their phone or other frequently used favorite technology item. They tell what it looks like, how often they use it, and what they use it for.
Students search for a French brand car to describe and then play a 20-questions style game with partners to guess and figure out what each other's selected cars look like.
Students select a famous person to describe (actor, musician, sports figure, social media figure, etc.) They can be current famous figures or can be from history. They should be sure to choose someone who has enough information available about them.
Enhancing French skills is a website for intermediate learners of French. It includes authentic language videos from French websites, as well as interviews of French speakers on cultural topics. Videos and activities are organized into five broad themes and tagged by communicative language function with links into Tex’s French Grammar for specific grammar explanations and interactive exercises. Each theme includes a pdf of suggested classroom activities and homework.
Students will research and create a presentation about a famous Francophone.
The FLLITE website contains a collection of lessons in second language literacy for various languages.
The website is the focal point of the FLLITE Project, which takes the creative moments found in everyday language use as the basis for lessons in second language literacy. By emphasizing language play as central to communication, FLLITE lessons aim to develop language awareness as well as communicative abilities through the integration of speaking, reading, listening, and writing tasks.
The goal of the FLLITE Project is the publication of classroom-tested lessons based on authentic texts in different languages, for example, blogs, Internet memes, YouTube videos, slam poetry, and so forth.
All FLLITE lessons carry an open license that allows you the teacher to…
…access, adapt, and re-use any lesson; and
…contribute a lesson for editorial feedback and publication.
In this quiz, students will label some mountains, rivers, and cities in France.
In this activity, students will label some mountains, rivers, and cities in France.
Students select a francophone African country to research and present on.
Français interactif is a unique, award-winning 1st-year French curriculum used by learners all over the world. Students explore French language and culture by following the lives of real students who have participated in the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. The online curriculum includes over 320 videos, vocabulary and phonetics audio, online grammar reference with self-correcting exercises and audio dialogues, verb conjugation and practice tools, internet activities, and a textbook of classroom exercises. Franais interactif was awarded the 2009 CALICO Esperanto Access to Language Education Award and the National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment Best of Humanities on the Web award (2005)
This Power Point reviews French irregular verbs that are typically taught in French 1.
Students will create a three day travel itinerary for a city in France. They can choose from a variety of project options.
French Vocabulary - Family (detailed)
The article first introduces an overview of close and extended family members in French, then clarifies some of the common misconceptions and differences between the English and French expressions. Finally, it presents a sample dialogue on the topic of family.
This document has fun conjugation charts for the verbs être, avoir, faire, aller, prendre, and boire.
This is a Power Point to review regular adjective placement in French.
This activity reviews French subject pronouns and how to replace nouns with subject pronouns. The students will cut out of the subjects from page 2. They will glue them onto page 1 under the correct subject pronouns that would replace the noun.
Fun Quiz over French facts: history, food, fashion, geography, etc.
This is an activity to help students find the imperfect stem for irregular verbs in French.