Salut, mon ami ! - ISBN: 978-1-897504-83-3

This level one play is an excellent entry-level story as it contains lots of repetition, rhythm rhyme and comedy. It's the story of a boy who continuously receives incorrect advice from his friends on how to play basketball and lots of slapstick humour results! This kit floods the students with language learning to rapidly increase their fluency, confidence and motivation!

This program uses the same methodology as our French Second Language program for elementary students – Histoires en action ! – which has been extremely popular since its publication in 2004, and which is currently being used in more than 4000 schools across North America, Europe and Australia.

This program is based on the Accelerative Integrated Method (AIM). The use of high-frequency vocabulary – introduced with gestures and contextualized in stories, drama, songs and dance – allows students to achieve high levels of oral and written fluency. This methodology enables most students to express themselves with ease at a basic level (capable of carrying on conversations and able to write a text of several pages) in less than 100 hours of instruction!

This program enables the students to:

• express themselves orally in French from the first lesson, using high-frequency vocabulary;
• learn vocabulary in visual, auditory and kinesthetic ways;
• participate in literature- and drama-based activities in the target language
• learn to think and write creatively, while practising oralcommunication;
• engage in activities that support Balanced Literacy in FSL;
• be part of a "learning community";
• learn to apply and understand grammar concepts through error analysis.

Examples of some of the grammar, language conventions and vocabulary in this kit:

• present tense of irregular verbs including vouloir, pouvoir, partir, sortir and devoir with both singular and plural subjects;
• double-verb constructions, le passé;
• aller plus infinitive to form le futur proche;
• agreement of verb with compound subject;
• imperative of some regular -er, -ir and -re verbs;
• demonstrative and possessive adjectives;
• adjectives that precede the noun;
• object pronouns;
• singular and plural, feminine and masculine of some irregular adjectives and agreement in number and gender;
• subject-verb inversions;
• the prepositions à and de plus the definite article;
• basic vocabulary (e.g. numbers from 0 to 1000; words associated with the arts, sports, food, t.v., hobbies);
• vocabulary from the unit under study;
• use of related spelling patterns and sounds associated with accents;
• use of resources (e.g. text, personal dictionary).

Supplementary activities for advanced FSL students in this kit:

• creative writing activities such as Les gens en action !, writing a rap d'entrée en classe;
• book reports;

Each kit (a 50-hour course) in the Jeunesse en action ! series contains:

• Whole-Class Activities Book;
• program guide;
• colour overheads and PowerPoint™ presentation of the play;
• Partner/Group Activities Book on blackline masters containing a vast choice of activities for individual, partner or group tasks;
• Assessment Activities Book;
• audio CD, containing songs, raps, and sound effects;
• posters of rap and song lyrics;
• flashcards;
• DVD, containing gestures, plays, raps and dances, as well as an extensive instructional component that models each classroom activity in-depth;
• student DVD;
• student textbook;
• game cards;
• suggestions for Balanced Literacy activities.

Whole-Class Activities Book Wendy Maxwell, M.A.

Partner/Group Activities Book: Student Blackline Masters Wendy Maxwell, M.A.

Supplementary readers, La lecture en interACTION series, support literacy development and have been created to accompany the program

NEW!! Subtitles added to our gesture and play footage on DVD!

La lecture en ACTION ! AIM Readers

En vacances !
Story: Wendy Maxwell
Illustrations: Ian Fry

Two teenagers, Marie and her friend Suzanne, are on a trip from their home in Montréal to Martinique during their holiday. A series of amusing events take place after Marie bumps into a young man named Pierre at the airport. Marie's initial reaction to Pierre is not very positive, nor does her second impression of him improve when he accidentally spills water on her during some turbulence on the plane. However, he redeems himself at the end of the story during a scuba-diving excursion. The blackline masters contain language manipulation activities that focus on vocabulary-building as well as grammar, appropriate to the junior high or beginning high school level.  There is also a cultural unit on Martinique and a unit discussing the Caribbean rainforest ecosystem.
Blackline Masters written by AIM teacher/presenter Edite Sammons.

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Rozène : La fille qui n'était pas contente
Story: Wendy Maxwell
Illustrations: Ian Fry

This is a traditional Iroquois story about a teenage girl named Rozène from the Iroquois nation. Rozène daydreams of meeting a tall, young man who will sweep her off her feet. Although her family wants her to marry Orenda, the young man from her village who loves her very much, Rozène wants more. One day, a strong, well-dressed young man arrives at her house and offers to take her away from the village. This is a story about decisions that young people must face as they grow up. It is a story that contains elements of fantasy, adventure and romance, while also giving insight into First Nations culture.

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	Gesture Database Ever wanted to know what a particular gesture is, but have not known where to locate it on your teacher DVD? Well now your problems are solved. With the Gesture Database DVD-ROM, you can look up a gesture by keying in the word or phrase, and Wendy pops up on your computer screen performing the gesture CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
	Partner/Group Activity Raps CD This features over a dozen partner/group activity raps designed specifically for AIM classrooms. These include raps for starting and ending partner/group work, starting and finishing class, story retelling, collecting folders, etc.