Supplementary Materials
Gesture Database DVD-ROM |
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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 |
Inspirations Poster Series |
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Soul-stirring quotes from famous French authors Antoine de St. Expuéry and Émile Zola are illustrated in an evocative manner by French illustrator Adrien Deggan. These beautiful posters will enliven and bring colour to your FSL classroom. |
Parnter/Group Activiy Raps CD |
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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. |
Veux-tu jouer? The Prevention and Correction of Errors in French: A Systematic Approach |
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This highly effective resource will help FSL students, age nine to 16+, increase proficiency in French. Based on current research, it targets eight difficult structures such as J’ai fini, Je suis allé, J’ai seize ans. The approach motivates students through active involvement, singing, creating, communicative activities, and student performance. The kit includes a CD, 235 page Teacher’s Guide, eight Posters, and 240 laminated Language Activity Cards.
"This resource provides teachers with fun songs and instructional strategies to help students not only enjoy learning a second language, but to eliminate common errors in French." |
Tralco - Lingo Fun
Our friends from Tralco Educational have developed a range of DVDs that make for excellent supplementary resources. They cover a wide variety of themes, including le Carnaval de Québec and Mardi Gras.
NEW! Carnaval de Quebec avec Sand y Fortier |
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This video takes students on a whirlwind adventure of the famous Carnaval de Québec in Québec City. With the help of Webzine journalist Sandy Fortier as guide, students experience Carnaval without leaving the classroom.
The video includes 22 scenes that include Sandy interviewing snow bathers, viewing ice sculptures, seeing la tire sur neige, and even interviewing Bonhomme Carnaval, all in French! The famous Hôtel de Glace, an ice hotel is also included as well as extra scenes. The video, appropriate for students studying French or learning Quebecois culture, is ideal for developing cultural awareness and understanding as well as listening comprehension and vocabulary development. The DVD and accompanying activity book in French includes script, viewing and post-viewing activities and answers. |
NEW! Beyond the Eiffel Tower - Grades 7-11 |
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After experiencing the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre and the other great sites of Paris you may think you have seen all that Paris has to offer. This video highlights other equally interesting but less famous Parisian sites.
Come with us as we cruise along the historic Canal Saint- Martin, take a subterranean tour of the Sewers of Paris, climb to the top of Notre-Dame to visit the gargoyles, shop at a street market and explore some of the lesser known museums and sites. Includes DVD with French and English and activity book in French. 2006. Video is approx 30 minutes. |
NEW! Voices from the Louvre |
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Les Voix du Louvre - Les tableaux nous parlent . Voices from the Louvre - Every painting tells a story .
A visit to the Louvre is always enjoyable, especially when the artists and their subjects talk to you! From Mona Lisa to Monet, Louis XIV to Delacroix, the rich variety to French history and culture comes alive. Live the magic of a visit to the most famous gallery in the world, enriched with fascinating and unusual details. Includes DVD with French and English and activity book in French. |
NEW! Bon appetit |
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Bon appétit! A French family dining experience .
Audrey is a high school student living with her family in Paris. Viewers follow her through a day as she visits a boulangerie in the morning for freshly baked goods for the family breakfast, joins high school students in their school cafeteria for lunch, shops in a marché for produce, cheese and all the necessities for a day as we experience dinner with Audrey and her family. Your students will hear authentic French in a Parisian setting, acquire new vocabulary, and see and learn the importance of food in French culture. 2006. Video is approximately 30 minutes. Includes DVD with French and English and activity book in French. DVD includes extras. |
Carnaval de Québec |
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See and hear the activities of a weekend visit to the Québec Winter Carnival in this 17-minute video produced for the interests and language capabilities of FSL students.
The action includes Bonhomme, the cart races, canoe races on the icy St. Lawrence River, the Calgary breakfast, and much more! The accompanying activity book (app 45 pp) includes: background information, full video text, vocabulary list, flash cards of 24 words and 24 /images, pre-viewing exercises, post-viewing exercises, word search using French vocabulary, crossword puzzle using French vocabulary, exercises of vocabulary and grammar activities based on the Carnaval, suggested topics for research and projects, and answer key. The activities, script and background information in the book are in the same language as the narration. Package includes DVD and book . Carnaval de Québec - English Version - All levels |
New Orleans and Mardi Gras |
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A video of New Orleans and its famous Mardi Gras that is designed exclusively for classroom use. Students will gain an understanding of the history and traditions surrounding Mardi Gras and New Orleans. The video moves from costume design and creation to display in one of the many Mardi Gras parades. In addition to the parade floats with their Krewes, beads and masks, the music, food and culture of the city of New Orleans are also highlighted. The type of revelry often associated with Mardi Gras is not a part of this video.
The DVD is approximately 30 minutes and available in both French & English . Accompanying activity sheets provide vocabulary, viewing and post-viewing activities. |
Provence ~ The Experience |
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Students will discover the many highlights of Provence: the markets of Nice and Aix-en-Provence, le pont d'Avignon, the yachts and shops of St Tropez and Monaco, the horses and bulls of the Camargue, the fields of lavender in Haute Provence, candy-making in Carpentras, the breathtaking calanques in Cassis, the boardwalk and seaside of Nice and Cannes, the arenas of Nîmes and Orgon, hilltop villages, and the Roman architecture of Arles and the Aquaduct.
The fast pace of the video is designed to capture and hold the interest of your students. (appr 30 min.) Available in French & English, the videos will enhance your students' understanding of France, its culture and its language. English DVD & Activity Book |
Les Transports: BINGO |
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Practice 'aller' and means of transportation with BINGO!
25 Flashcards to preteach vocabulary, 2 master cards, and 32 student BINGO cards. |
Play Verb Bingo! |
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This Verb Bingo Game features pictorial representations of the most essential verbs for communication, including: aimer, parler, manger, aller, vouloir, and plenty more!
The package consists of one Master Bingo Card, thirty student cards and twenty-five flash cards all on high-quality card stock. Your students will love it! |
Verbarama au présent |
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Gives ample practice of the present tense of regular and the most useful irregular French verbs. Uses verbs in relationship to themes such as l'école, le Carnaval, la nourriture, les passe-temps and many more!
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Verbarama au passé composé |
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Like Verbarama 1, but in the passé composé. Copy masters provide thematic exercises on the passé composé of regular and most irregular verbs. Themes include media, hobbies, school, etc.
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Australian and New Zealand teachers can get workshop and product info from our Australian distributor:Hearsay Language Learning Downunder.
