Our new program for junior high students – Jeunesse en action ! – has met with rave reviews from teachers, FSL coordinators and students across Canada and internationally. Students who have completed the first two kits can continue their rapid fluency development in the third-level kit, Qui arrive ce soir ? As in the other kits, vocabulary and grammatical structures are introduced and reinforced through gestures, drama and songs. Your class will love the second play in atrilogy about a high school student who wins a girl's heart with his talent and his caring attitude. In this play, she invites him home to meet her parents!

This program enables the students to:

• express themselves orally in French from the first lesson, using high-frequency and contect specific 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 oral communication;
• engage in activities that support Balanced Literacy in FSL;
• be part of a "learning community"; engage incooperative learning as well as self and peer-assesments;
• learn to apply and understand grammar concepts through an inductive approach to grammar as well as 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 verbs with compound subject;
  
• imperative of some regular -er, -ir and -re verbs;
• demonstrative and possessive adjectives;
• adjectives that precede the noun;
  
• object pronouns;
• both direct and indirect
  
• 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;

Supplementary activities for advanced FSL students in this kit:

• creative writing activities such as complete la phrase et devine le mot ,writing a rap
  
• Choreography / making a music video
• book reports;
• project-based activities.

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;
• image cards;
• 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.

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

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

	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.

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