Les aninaux du bayou

De bonnes nouvelles ! We are pleased to announce that the learning units in our original Histoires en action ! Add-on Kit are all now available as full teaching kits, complete with full Teaching Guides; updated Blackline Masters (as both a binder & encrypted PDFs); updated DVDs, updated CD & CD-ROM; Posters & Image Cards and Big Book, overhead transparencies & PowerPoints™ of the play.

Les animaux du bayou is a Level 3 kit which is designed to help students consolidate the vocabulary and structures that they have learned in the first two kits through ever more extensive use of partner/group activities such as story retelling, story extension, rap writing and performing, etc. The large majority of students are able to produce 10-page original documents entirely in French.

KIT CONTAINS:

Big Book and Overheads/PowerPoint™ 

• Play with colour images in large print
• Available as either Big Books (11” x 17” format) or Overheads (for overhead projectors)
• The play is also available on PowerPoint™

Partner/Group Activities Book

• Gestured words from the vocabulary for this kit and for the two previous kits in the Histoires en action ! A series
• A wide variety of partner/group activities
• Scaffolded language-manipulation activities
• 100+ questions based on the story
• Creative storytelling activities
• Puppets
• Song and rap lyrics
• Supplementary language-manipulation activities for the kit

Posters and Image Cards

• Image cards of words not gestured
• Song and rap lyrics

Audio CD

• Songs (with instrumental versions)
• Fun Grammar Raps (with instrumental versions)
• Play
• Listening exercises / Assessment activities

CD-ROM

• PowerPoints™ of the play, songs and raps
• Written activities
• Cards and activities in game format to accompany kits in the program
• Drama resources
• Games
• Puppet images

Teacher DVD/Student DVD

• Gestured vocabulary for this kit
• Music videos featuring young Francophones
• The play gestured for this kit
• The play performed with TV series quality production
• Modelled whole-class activities
• Overview of AIM Language Professional (Online training)

What is the AIM? DVD

Simon le grincheux
Story: Jacqueline Kelly
Illustrations: Adrien Deggan

Simon is a somewhat peculiar boy who loves rain, snow, sleet and wind, and despises sunny, pleasant weather. One day he is swept up into the air by a ferocious hurricane. As he is flying through the sky, he notices a baby that has also been caught up in the wind. Risking his own safety, he rescues the child and returns him to his mother. He is heralded by the villagers as a hero. Simon le grincheux becomes Simon le généreux ! This book is written in verse.

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Prince Veut-tout
Story: Jacqueline Kelly
Illustrations: Jana Tubinshlak

Prince Albert has been brought up in the lap of luxury. The more material goods he has, the less satisfied he feels; because of his greedy nature, he becomes known as Prince Veut-Tout. One day, while speeding on his motorbike, he almost runs over an old man; this event triggers a sense of remorse in him and causes him to re-evaluate his life. One night, looking up at the stars, Prince Albert decides to become a space explorer. He heads off into the heavens in his spaceship. Years later, he returns to his home with his new-found alien friends.

	Click below to view excerpts from this reader

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