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Top 10 Reasons To Study French
France has several national newspapers like “Le Monde“, “Le Figaro” and “Libération“. But many French people like to read their local paper. Magazines are very popular, and the French read more magazines than anybody else in the world!
You can listen to Radio France Internationale (RFI) on the Internet by clicking on the green link above or on the red “rfi” below. Visit their site (www.rfi.fr) for the Radio France Internationale HomePage.. Altogether, nearly 30 million people all over the world tune in to RFI.
Try these Great Sites for Practice
Bonjour de France Great website for review or help on assignments; Topics are categorized by grammar topics and thematic units
Conjuguemos–verb practice!
Practice your verbs for 20 minutes to get a 3 point homework grade!! Don’t forget to click on Record/Submit before logging out.
Paris Daily Photo Awesome blog featuring a new photo of Paris every day
Phenomenal website made by BBC. Includes review games, explanations by topic and audio and video clips.
Research the 55 countries on the five continents that share one common language. You can select the countries by clicking on the country you are interested in. Once there you will find the country’s flag, Form of government, the date of their national holiday, capital, money, per capita income, population and other official languages.
Click on below:
Explore other countries and find information about them in French
French Folksongs
Enjoy browsing through traditionnal songs.
Verb activities for French
Test your knowledge of verbs with matching, flashcards and many other fun activities.
Links are Fun and Help you Learn About French in the Real World.
Need a word in French for your letter?
Click here: http://www.latl.unige.ch/
Use a dictionnary: Find the word Dictionnaires in the left hand column menu to access an online dictionnary published by
Le LATL (Laboratoire d’Analyse et de Technologie du Langage) du département de linguistique ( Faculté des Lettres ) de l’Université de Genève qui est un laboratoire de recherche.
Just select the language combination you want:
select anglais/français
Type in the English word if you want its French meaning or
français/anglais
if you have a French word and want the English.
Get help from ARTFL Project Verb Conjugation:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/inflect.query.html
Want to have a perfect French accent?
Click on the links and check out the vocabulary. Then click on the sound icon to hear the pronunciation. Practice until you can pronounce the vocabulary.
Explore Great French Cultural Resources
Explore the Alps, great French innovations, the French revolution, sports and more.
Check out this webquest and create a café with a cool French theme and cultural showcases.
Want to try many different dictionaries and e-mail me an evaluation? Visit Clicnet dictionnaries and you will get extra credit.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/clicnet/dictionnaires.html
Explore the Beginning French program at Middlebury College and learn some cool vocabulary with great pictures! http://cweb.middlebury.edu/cr/lexique/
Interested in French fashion, makeup, and teenage social issues?
Try Elle magazine at http://www.elle.fr/
Then on to http://www.momes.net/index.html
An amusing French site for kids called my first steps on the internet and strangely enough great for beginning language students with lyrics to songs, children’s stories that students will enjoy and understand, French fables, pirate and monster stories, book reviews, a dictionary, games, toys, etc..:
If you like to listen to music and want to share opinions in French click on Musique.
Les Pages de Paris is all you need.
http://www.paris.org/parisF.html Has great links to restaurants,
museums, the metro, bus schedules, and monuments.
Check out Père Lachaise Cemetery where you can visit the graves of Chopin, Jim Morrison, Descartes, Molière and many others.
Time travel by checking out historical maps of Paris and time
line of events that happened this month in history.
This is a very nice link to use as authentic sources to study dates, directions, means of transportation, monuments of
Paris and how to reach them, cafés, shopping, hotels, restaurants, museums including hours and prices etc*.
International directory of search engines.
http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/
You can find search engines in any country in the world. The French list of search engines is incredible. The sites are all in French so they could be a challenge for those who don’t know the language but a real rich search media for French teachers and students. The lists in countries all over the world are a treat and well worth exploring. The business and academic links are also excellent.
Visit
FRANCOPHONE CAREER LINK @ GLOBE-GATE,
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/globeg.shtml
The links “are intended to serve students as an ever-current orientation in the vocabulary, the practices, the structures and cultures of workplaces and specific professional disciplines in the Francophone world. They are also here to be a point of
contact for professionals who are already in the workplace.”
For example check out the computer terms at http://www.culture.fr/culture/dglf/ressources/lexiques/abc.htm#h
How about converting the weather from our degrees Farenheit to the degrees Celsius the French use? Use this conversion tool at:
http://www.marsradio.org/ctof.htm
Professional links:
Explore the site of the American Association of Teachers of French for great professional resources including software evaluations, publications, contests, lesson plans, a bulletin board, direct links to the French Embassy and Cultural Services websites in the USA and much more. Find them at:http://www.frenchteachers.org/
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/clicnet/
for great resources such as dictionaries, access to radio stations, a site that groups 300 sites directly usable in French instruction along with an annotated bibliography including the level for which the site is appropriate.
Visit Kathy Schrock’s Regions of the World and Foreign Languages Page for curriculum ideas and sites pertaining to a vast array of language and country information. Click below:
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/world/worldrw.html
French Embassy
Information about art, education,people and music.Prepare for your visit to France on the exchange by visiting French castles.
Search www.castles.org for fantastic pictures and rich commentary. Convince your parents to take you on one of the tours during summer vacation! Consider buying one, some are listed for sale. Don’t miss the castle vocabulary and enjoy the history and beauty this site has to offer.
Click here for French Historic Sites
Explore different regions of France to discover historic sites and learn when and how to visit!
Le Quartier français du Village planétaire
This is a very rich resource with tons of links!
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