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Lawless French - French Listening Practice:
This resource can be used by educators who wish to practice their french or be given to students as practice. Choose from different levels that reflect the DELF levels.
Includes English translations, French transcripts and dictées.
This resource can be useful to educators who wish to improve their French by listening to the host discuss topics that are essential to understanding French. Episodes are under 20 minutes and include topics such as improving French pronunciation with music, masculine and feminine in French, and many more! For educators who wish to work on conversational French but have no one to talk with, try listening instead and see what you can pick up. Available wherever you get podcasts.
This resource provides many educational resources for students of all ages and reflects the different levels of CERF that we strive to have our students develop. It offers video series on any subject that an educator may need including math, health/physical education, the kindergarten program and many more. Produced by TFO (a Canadian French language educational television channel), this is a useful resource that educators can plan activities around or use as part of a lesson. For example, you can show the student one of the video series and have them answer questions about subjects discussed in the video.
Account required to access most of the content, however free educator accounts that access all the resource available using your professional board email.
Games for Teaching Primary French by Daniele Bourdais and Sue Finnie :
This resource is highly useful and fun for both the educator and the students. This book gives a list of 20 different, low resources games to play with your students to activity engage them in the learning with out them realizing they're learning. The book is divided into 7 parts: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, Numbers, Grammar and playing with sounds, all of these parts have 20 different games with full instructions for educators. This resource can be used in core, extended and immersion. This resource is great for motivating students as they're just playing a game. You can make the game the focus of your lesson or as an activity that goes along with the subject you are focusing on at the moment. Available wherever you get books, link is to Amazon.
This resource will bring so much fun and laughter into your classroom and it will have the students activity engaging with your activities that you plan along side it. Manie Musicale starts at the beginning of March and goes till about mid April. It is a March madness brackets for French songs that students all over Canada and the US participate in. It is highly engaging as it expose the students to music that they enjoy and shows different aspects of French culture from all over the world. The creators have provided you with everything you need ahead of time even make it so you can have your own bracket in your classroom. The students get a sheet where they get to pick who’s going to win in each of the brackets and who’s gonna win overall. It is highly engaging and truly bring students to life, even those who don’t have the best comprehension of French because who doesn’t love music. Student see it as class time being used to listen to music and not do "real work". The students are the ones who decide the winners. The students will vote twice a week on who they want to win for that weeks bracket. What makes it so engaging is the students can actually feel like they have a say in who wins. It can be used in conjunction with the different specific expectations of the curriculum. For example, you can use this and have students do oral presentation or have them do a write up about their favourite song. There is also a Facebook group for educators who participate, or who wish to participate in Manie Musicale.
5 Easy Ideas for Using Music in French Class:
This resource was written by a French teacher and gives educators tips on how to use Music in the classroom. Music in the classroom is a great way to way to help your students improve their vocabulary and their speaking ability.
This resource is older in comparison to a lot on this list but it was useful 20 years ago and it’s still useful today. Téléfrançais is a French children’s show that teaches students different vocabulary words and grammar. It does this in 9- 10 minute episodes that can be found on YouTube and usually content a song as well. Any French immersion students born between 1998 and 2002 will probably remember this show. It’s fun, colourful and easily accessible and because of that it is perfect for some fun in the classroom. There is just under 30 episodes available on YouTube to be used on the classroom and will help students improve their oral French as well as their comprehension of the language.
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