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Pre-AP Strategies for French Language and Culture
Build vocabulary, fluency and confidence in your French speakers by having them participate in some of these engaging activities. Several suggestions are given, but you will have to design the actual lesson yourself.
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La Tour Eiffel- A History
Why was the Eiffel Tower built? When? What is its significance to the French people? Intermediate and early advanced French readers explore a page-long passage and complete the reading comprehension questions that follow. Consider posing...
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The Family: French Grammar
Review possessive pronouns and adjectives with your intermediate and advanced French speakers. They complete four exercises to help them recall the appropriate possessives. All sentences relate to the family and family-related vocabulary.
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Changement climatique et risque de destruction des récifs coraliens
How is climate change affecting the coral reefs? Advanced French speakers read a half-page text about climate change and what it means for coral reefs. Then, following the reading, they complete a vocabulary activity and discuss the...
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Le Lion
What do you know about lions? Intermediate and advanced French readers are presented with a page-long text. After completing the reading, they work on the activities that follow. The activities focus on vocabulary development, reading...
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La petite araignée
Read a short passage about a spider, and complete the multiple-choice questions that follow. The questions provided are simple, but the last question does require learners to do some writing. A quick reading activity for your class!
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l'environnement
How can we better preserve our environment? Help your French language learners recognize that the slogan reduce, reuse, recycle is also used in France. Challenge them to think about what things they can personally reduce, reuse, or...
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La nuit de Guy Fawkes
Assess your advanced French class's reading comprehension skills with this reading on la nuit de Guy Fawkes. As they learn about the holiday, have them mark the text to increase their understanding. After reading, have them complete the...
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Greetings and Introductions
Students recite common forms of courtesy, greetings and leave takings appropriate to the time of day. They practice identiying the differences in forms of address for age and rank. Pupils are each given a copy of the "Greetings and...
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Interview Avec Kathryn Hire, Astronaute
Bring a female astronaut into your French classroom with this interview. Give your class the opportunity to hear it as you (or two classmates) read it aloud. Following the page-long interview are a set of comprehension questions. Some...
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The Family
After teaching your French classes family-related vocabulary, quiz their knowledge with this two-page activity. In the first exercise, your test-taker has to complete a dialogue between a girl and her grandmother. The second exercise...
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Reading Discovery
Students investigate literature to discover details and focus upon the main idea to analyze it. They use reading comprehension skills to interpret passages of choice based upon literary importance to the overall meaning. While evaluating...
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Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Avi's Crispin: The Cross of Lead is the focus of a teacher's guide that provides background information on 14th Century England, a plot summary, discussion questions, activities, and resource links. A must-have for those who use this...
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Expressing a Condition with "If"
Have your French classes mastered the conditional tense? This worksheet contains four exercises to help assess the current level of your pupils. They review what other tenses the conditional can be used with in a sentence, identify which...
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Word Puzzle
Add some fun to rhyming using a word puzzle worksheet. First, learners match up single-syllable rhyming words. Then, they find all the words in a word search. This beginning reading activity only has words spelled horizontally from left...
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Write Your Name
Kids love to write their own name. Here is a twist on the old trace and write your name three times task. Little ones hunt through the provided alphabet and circle the letters in their name. Then they write the letters on the line below....
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La prise de la Bastille: fête national de la France
What is Bastille Day? While the United States celebrates July 4th, the French celebrate their independence on July 14th. This reading passage contains information about the holiday, and reading comprehension questions follow. There's...
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Beach and Water Safety
Nothing is more relaxing than a nice, sunny day at the beach. Make sure your visit to the beach remains relaxing with a list of summer safety tips for the beach, including using sunscreen with a high SPF, handling jellyfish and stingray...
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Centimetres and Millimetres
In this measurement worksheet, students convert centimetres to millimetres and millimetres to centimetres. Normal objects are used for examples of measurement.
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Prefixes and Suffixes
Use this interactive tool to introduce your learners to prefixes and suffixes. First they use a crossword puzzle to find the opposites of the words provided. Then, they take a list of words and possible suffixes, matching the appropriate...
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Creating Letter-shape Patterns
Help your budding writers become familiar with letter shapes using a pattern worksheet. They examine three patterns, tracing a dotted line to continue them to the end of the page. For each, they also draw the pattern freehand below. This...
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Draw it Yourself
Here are four familiar pictures and words for emerging readers: dog, mouse, cat, and hen. After examining the image and spelling, they draw something that rhymes with each in the space provided. Encourage pre-readers to sound out words...
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Find the Pictures
Uncover the hidden pictures. There are two sets of shapes here, and each has a CVC word inside. Beginning readers follow directions by coloring all the shapes with words that rhyme with a given sound (in for the first and ug for the...
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Odd One Out
One of these words doesn't belong! As they practice first-letter recognition, scholars examine rows of familiar objects to determine what letter each begins with. For each row of three items, they decide which does not begin with the...