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Liens Web pour les Profs et les Etudiants Dans Volterre-Fr Internet Projects http://www.volterre-fr.com/inetpro.html Web Links for Teachers of English http://www.volterre-fr.com/weblinktch.html Web Links for Learners of English http://www.volterre-fr.com/weblinklearners.html Liste de liens About the French Language http://french.about.com/ This email newsletter and web site by Laura K. Lawless is for students, teachers, and lovers of French. It includes weekly lessons and quizzes, word-of-the-day feature, listening practice, dictionaries, games, a special section for beginners and much more. Améliorez votre orthographe et Textes de dictées de Pivot http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/cgi-bin-ulg/pivot De nombreux trucs, Homophones, Noms de genre difficile: masculins, féminins et Outil de recherche dans le dictionnaire -- worth looking at! And learning! Bien-dire http://www.biendire.com/ "Bien-dire is a quarterly journal in French, published in Lyon and written for the many Francophiles in English-speaking countries who would like to improve their French and learn more about France." Bonjour de France http://www.bonjourdefrance.com/ "L'équipe pédagogique de l'école a créé en partenariat avec le CIEL de Brest un outil d'apprentissage du français sur l'internet gratuit. Ce journal qui paraît tous les trois mois s'adresse aussi bien à des professeurs qu'à des étudiants. This is a nicely done site with activites for all levels for learning French as a foreign language. Bonjour http://www.bonjour.org.uk/ "Le Site "Bonjour" a été créé à l'attention des élèves britanniques du secondaire, mais nous souhaitons qu'il constitue une ressource pour les enseignants, chercheurs et étudiants en Français Langue Etrangère." A nicely done site with lots of interesting activities and resources for learners and teachers alike. CCDMD http://www.ccdmd.qc.ca/fr/franc/accfranc.html Le site, entièrement consacré à tous les aspects de l’amélioration de la langue, contient près de 800 documents (plus de 5300 pages) libres de droits : des tests diagnostiques, des exercices (PDF) avec et sans corrigés, des jeux pédagogiques, des exercices interactifs, des bases de données, etc. Canal Rêve http://babelnet.sbg.ac.at/canalreve/regie/index.htm This site has interesting, interactive activities for all levels of French. Canadian Parents for French - CPF http://members.shaw.ca/cpf99/ The CPF site is a non-profit volunteer based organization. In 1997 in response to requests from parents of French Immersion and Core French students for help in these areas, we began to keep lists of popular French software and French Internet addresses. See the CPF French Internet Address List and thier List of Popular French Software. Le Centre de Ressources pour l’Enseignement du Français http://frenchrc.rutgers.edu/ An extensive site with resources for learning French. "Le Centre de Ressources pour l’Enseignement du Français a été créé par les Services Culturels de l’Ambassade de France aux Etats-Unis et Rutgers University dans le contexte d’un accord entre le gouvernement français et l'Etat du New Jersey. Nous oeuvrons dans le sens de la promotion et de la modernisation de l’enseignement du français à tous les niveaux de l'Etat ainsi que de la valorisation des relations culturelles avec la France." Commission Nationale de l'AATF sur la Compétence Culturelle http://www.siu.edu/~aatf/missionf.html "La Commission s'est fixé l'objectif de promouvoir l'enseignement des cultures française et francophones. Pour ce faire, la Commission a produit un modèle qui définit des bases communes de la compétence culturelle et applique ce modèle aux principales régions francophones du monde." Note: The document is also available in English. Cooperative Learning in the French Class http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/cooplearn.html Pete Jones' Home Page for small group cooperative learning strategies which includes: Mais c'est l'Halloween!! http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/gradeninehalloween.html The Count welcomes Mr. Jones' students enrolled in Grade 9 French at Anderson Collegiate in Whitby, Canada to this 2000 Halloween treasure hunt! 4th of July Page http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Tower/6504/july4.html For teachers of French with activities for the classroom. Enjoy the treasure hunt in French, the July 4th Word Search and Paul Revere's Interactive Ride! Halloween fun and games page for the French, German and Spanish class http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/halloweengames.html Just delightful! Fun for young and old alike! By Pete Jones, Whitby, Ontario, Canada, Ulli Braunecker, Klagenfurt, Austria and Dawn Santiago-Marullo, Rochester, N.Y., U.S.A. Compte A Rebours Vers l'An 2000 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/an2000.html Concept Attainment in the French Class http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/ca.html Another wonderful idea from Pete and delightful poems from his students using this technique. Concept Attainment has four steps: 1.Focus statement, 2.Presentation of data set, 3.Sharing thinking and hypotheses and 4.Naming and applying the concept. Concept Attainment in the French Class http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/concept.html Pete has applied this to French grammar: En being used with feminine countries and au with masculine countries. Feminine countries end with an e (and YES, Pete knows there are exceptions). Halloween Scary stuff and fun! Try Chasse au Tresor D'Halloween, Phrases Magiques, Pete's frightful Halloween Word Search, and Pete's ghoulish Les Cinq Amis! Valentines Page 2000 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/valentinegames.html This Valentines page is intended to provide teachers of French, German and Spanish with lots of activities for Valentines Day. Some of the activities can be done interactively on the screen and others you have our permission to print out for use in your class. P. J.'s Happy Valentines http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/valentine.html Pete Jones does it again with a page which provides teachers of English and French with useful links to resources for Valentines. Why not have your students of French take part in the CHASSE AU TRESOR DE LA SAINT-VALENTIN in your computer lab? Easter Web Page For teachers of Modern Languages with useful links to resources for the Easter season. http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/easter.html NOEL | Season's Greetings http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/christmas.html "Twas the Night Before" http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/twas.html Poem en français et anglais for teachers and students of French. M. LIMPARFAIT EST MORT À PICKERING!!!! http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/imperfect2.htm This wonderful detective story starts out like this: "Nous regrettons de vous informer que le jour du premier novembre on a trouvé le cadavre pitoyable de M. Limparfait dans son bureau. Son bureau était au trentième étage d'un gratte-ciel où il avait un service de traduction à Pickering. Comment est-ce qu'il est mort? On l'a frappé violemment à la tête d'un accent aigu! Comment est-ce qu'on sait ça? "... read on! Mon Ami Imaginaire http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/imaginaire.html From Pete Jones -- imagine, imagine! For teaching French and adaptable for other foreign languages. Thanks Pete and Barbara. Phrases Magiques http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/magiques.html This "is a reading and writing activity for a grade nine French class but the idea can be applied to any level and any language." Thanks to Pete Jones! Remembrance Day http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/flandersfields.html Using the poem In Flanders Fields - Au Champ d'Honneur, the famous and poignant poem of the Canadian doctor John McCrae written during World War I outside the town of Ypres in France. Debbie Rusch Boston College http://www2.bc.edu/~rusch/ There is a wealth of ready-made activities written at the elementary or intermediate levels in French. Each contains pre-, while, or post-viewing activities for the students to complete. To do the activities they must access existing L2 sites on the Web that were written by L2 speakers for L2 speakers. The activities were written by graduate students under my direction at Boston College. Some of the sites were made possible by funding from a Title II grant and by funds from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Boston College. We also have sites in Spanish and in Italian. Educorock Productions Inc. http://www.educorock.com/ This site provides you with English, ESL, French and Spanish educational music designed to motivate and reach students with a current beat. EduFLE http://www.edufle.net/ "ÉduFLE.net est un lieu d'échanges où tous les acteurs du Français Langue Étrangère sont invités à partager expériences et ressources pédagogiques. Créé par des 'anciens' de maîtrise FLE et destiné principalement, mais pas uniquement, aux étudiants et enseignants de cette section, vous y trouverez rapports de stage, dossiers de didactique, et autres ressources pédagogiques, tous en consultation libre." An interesting site for French as a Foreign Language. FranceLink http://www.francelink.com/ Radio programs you can listen to on the Internet -- looks interesting! Some services are free and others you must subscribe to. Plus other general information on France. First Year French http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fr/ From the University of Texas in Austin Nicely done site with grammar, web activities, video and more. Foreign Languages http://www.uni.edu/becker/ A very extensive site for a variety of languages, including French, that features grammar, culture, games and a wide selection of language learning aids of all kinds. French Assistant http://www.frenchassistant.com/ Practice your French online. French Culture http://r_little__1.tripod.com/frenchculture/ Le tour du Francais: French and Quebec culture lessons by Bev Jaremko, who over the course of twenty years researched this information and put it together into one vast series of 3 volumes. The books are in English and French. The material is adaptable to any level of French and to any course instructing French. It is about real life in French. French in Action http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/FiA/FrenchinAction.html For teachers using the French In Action videos. French Information Web Links http://www.uni.edu/becker/French.html A site mostly in French with Asterix le Gaulois, Histoire Ancienne de France, Discovering French and Website Workbook for French (Surf's Up!) Worth the visit to the Modern Language Department of the Malcolm Price Laboratory School at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA FrenchtasticPeople http://www.frenchtasticpeople.com/ Download free French lessons and access plenty of resources to get you started and improve significantly your French proficiency. Guide to Intermediate French http://www.frenchlesson.com/ Thomas Blackmon has a very useful, challenging and fun site. Conjugations, gender, participles, adjectives, exercises and more. Be sure to try the gender: trial by fire exercises. Le Net des Cartables http://www.cartables.net/ This site is in French with a multitude of resources for primary school teachers, including French and French as a foreign language (FLE), but also other subjects, technology, email lists, partagiciels and graticiels éducatifs PC (educational freeware and shareware) and more. Learn French http://www.learnfrenchguide.com/ Learn French guide, all about how to learn French and how to speak French. Parlez.com http://www.parlez.com.ar/ This is a site to practice French vocabulary with topic lists, exercises and games. Information is in French, English and Spanish. Piquemots http://www.piquemots.fr/ This site offers French word games like crosswords, cryptograms, anagrams, word searches and more. Philagora http://www.philagora.net/ "Un site indépendant et gratuit, pour la diffusion conviviale de la culture. (Association loi 1901)" A site mostly in French, including philosophy, epistemology, literature, art, stories and poems for children (some in English) and more. Le Cours Phonétique http://www.unil.ch/ling/phon/index.html Un cours en ligne de la section de linguistique de l'Université de Lausanne. Maison des Langues de l'Université de Picardie Jules Verne http://www.u-picardie.fr/crl/minimes/index.html Links to resources for learning English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Russian. A nice collection. Paulsen Janice B. http://www.urich.edu/~jpaulsen/home.html An excellent example of using the Web for teaching French! Ne manquez pas de visiter! Le Point du FLE http://www.lepointdufle.net/ "Le Point du FLE est un portail dont l'objectif est de faciliter l'accès aux meilleures activités proposées sur Internet en Français Langue Etrangère. TICE, grammaire interactive, exercices auto-correctifs, simulations... Pour travailler en classe de FLE ou en auto-apprentissage." This site offers extensive and interesting links for learning French. Polar FLE http://www.polarfle.com/ Thierry Perrot and Anne Fournier have an extensive site for all levels of French learners in this 'thriller-type' site. Solve the murder case; it is very challenging! Apprendre le français avec l'inspecteur Roger Duflair: Un crime a été commis à Trouville. L’inspecteur Roger Duflaire mène l’enquête. Pourquoi et comment Bernadette Dejeu a été assassinée? Qui est-elle? Vous êtes l’assistant de l’inspecteur. Votre travail sera de retrouver le/la/les criminels et de procéder à son arrestation. Toutes les rubriques sont divisées en 4 niveaux: Débutant, Elémentaire, Intermédiaire et Avancé. Quartier Français du Village Planétaire http://www.urich.edu/~jpaulsen/gvfrench.html Ressource extraordinaire. Merci Janice Paulsen! Ressources en français http://www.tcd.ie/CLCS/francais/francaishome.html You'll find: Moteurs de recherche, Collections, Médias, Exercices/ Grammaire/ Dictionnaires, Litterature, Musique et chansons, Arts, Sciences, Culture, Histoire et Geographie. Authored and maintained by Klaus Schwienhorst in Dublin. Testez votre niveau de français http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ik2r-myr/index.htm French language proficiency test. An interesting online test of proficiency at lower levels, provided by teachers at l'Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo, in Japan. Usina Quiz http://usinaquiz.free.fr/ Usina Quiz est un site qui s'adresse aux enseignants qui désirent créer des quiz interactifs sur Internet. verb2verbe.com http://www.verb2verbe.com/ This site provides conjugations, translations and online testing of over 4000 French and English verbs. Le VTI-Bruges visite Paris http://users.skynet.be/christophelaroy/index.htm Il s'agit d'un site avec plus de 40 exercices interactifs (fragments vidéo avec questionnaire, exploration de sites, exercice de lecture, ... tous réalisés avec Hot Potatoes) sur les principaux attraits touristiques de la ville de Paris. Mes élèves (6ième année) utilisent ces exercices pour préparer notre excursion annuelle à Paris. VIFAX-français http://www.langues-vivantes.u-bordeaux2.fr/ "Batteries d'exercices fabriqués quotidiennement par nos équipes à partir des journaux télévisés du jour, sont disponibles sur la Toile par abonnement." Weboscope http://www.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/weboscope/ L'internet dans l'enseignement du FLE -- une vue d'ensemble des ressources en didactique du français langue étrangère sur le web. Very well organized site focusing on learning French as a foreign language. Introduction, Ecrire, Parler, Compréhension, Outils, Préparations, Liens, Agenda et Discussions.

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