Un frère pénible - ISBN: 978-1-926732-56-5

In response to teacher feedback, in the near future we will be offering our popular Elementary FSL Series, Histoires en action !, in single 50-hour instructional units as well as in our present three-kits-in-one configuration.

One of the first new kits – for FSL students who have had at least 150 hours of AIM instruction – is Un frère pénible. Written by AIM teacher extraordinaire, Sylvia Duckworth, and featuring a top-notch play, fun songs and lots of relevant content, this is sure to be a hit with students and teachers alike! It is designed as an equivalent unit to Chat Angora in Histoires en action ! 2.

KIT CONTAINS

Big Book and Overheads

• Play with colour /images in large print
• Available as either Big Books (11” x 17” format) or Overheads (for overhead projectors)

Student Blackline Masters

• Gestured words lfrom the vocabulary for this kit
• A wide variety of partner/group activities
• Scaffolded language-manipulation activities
• 100+ questions based on the story
• Creative storytelling activities
• Puppets
• Song lyrics
• Supplementary language-manipulation activities for the unit

Whole-Class Activities Book Sylvia Duckworth, B.Ed. and Wendy Maxwell, M.A.

Partner/Group Activities Book: Student Blackline Masters Sylvia Duckworth, B.Ed. and Wendy Maxwell, M.A.

Student Language Reference Book

Mon livre de mots, a language reference booklet containing the vocabulary in alphabetical order, with space for additional personalized entries.

Poster 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

CD-ROM

• PowerPoints of the play, songs and raps
• Written Activities
• Cards and activities in game format to accompany units in the program
• Drama Resources
• Games
• Puppet images

Teacher DVD/Student DVD

• Gestured vocabulary for this and previous units (1200 words)
• Music videos featuring young Francophones
• The play gestured for this kit
• The play performed with TV series quality production
• Sample questions gestured for the play
• Gesture associations
• How to teach grammar concepts through gesture (e.g. double verb constructions,  le passé, etc.)

What is the AIM? DVD

Au revoir, l'Acadie
Story: Jacqueline Kelly
Illustrations: Jana Tubinshlak

This story covers a day in the life of a typical Acadian family. Events follow the normal routine of rural community life until the unexpected arrival of British soldiers in the night to take from their homes and send them off to Louisiana as part of La grande expulsion.

	Click below to view excerpts from this reader

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