Slamez en français!

La Francophonie is not only about French Speaking Countries per se, it is also about the communities and their cultures, using French as their common language. The Dossier Spécial Francophonie  of the Franc-Parler website features a great teaching resource called "Slamez en français".

Slam, a speech form, born in the 80s in Chicago has become hugely popular in French speaking countries since the 2000s. Slam combines poetry, eloquence and improvisation, The "Fiche pratique" includes an introduction to slam with a "How to" video, podcasts and video clip from Grand Corps Malade. Those are great to introduce slam to your students. Should you wish to incorporate Slam in your teaching, several fiches pédagogiques, illustrating videos and links to archive are also available from this Fiche Pratique. Could this be an other way to free oral expression in the classroom?

Célébrer la Francophonie!

This séquence pédagogique, published in

Les Dossiers de Franc Parler

(Feb. 2010) is based on the exploration of 4 websites which provide the interactive resources to discover French speaking countries.  This Unit of Work, intended to last a minimum of four sessions, has been put together to coincide with La Journée de la Francophonie (March 20 2010). 

All links, skills involved, astep by step lesson plan and activities are provided.
Activity 1- Present one aspect of one French speaking city, based on TV5 apprendre.tv
Activity 2- Gather information from 1 of 4 quiz and produce a collage based on the questions and answers of the quiz (can be online, Glogster for instance)
Activity 3- Create your own quiz using the information gathered form Le Rallye X5 which presents 5 French speaking countries This can become a great interactive activity upon completion.
Activity 4- Study on French song and reuse its themes to write some lyrics.

 Célébrer la Francophonie!

Les pays francophones

Use the Ppt below to introduce French speaking countries as well as future tense.  Students guess the name of the country from the pictures and give their answers using aller+future.

The DOM TOM document that follows is a reading comprehension activity which also include a research activity.

Don’t miss this amazing online resource created by Pr. M. Overmann to spend time with your students on the Francophonie topic.

Francophonie Day

Up to date map of Francophonie members

Facts and figures about the French language

Write a report or study project outline

Les pays du Mahgreb:  Multimedia course created by Pr. M Overmann

 La Tunisie

Sue Kano (St Mary's College) compiled this picture slide show to support preparation work to AS 2.2.

Tahiti et ses Iles

The reading comprehension oulines features of Tahiti and its Islands, and the Ppt. presents with pictures the points made on the reading passage

Le Maroc

The three following worksheets, created by Noelene Taylor (Tauranga Girls College) are very useful for students to acquire, retain and practise prescribed L2 vocabulary related to the topic.  Noelene's samples sentences give students confidence to build their own, and they work on giving and responding to advice, warnings and suggestions (7.2) with the Imperative practice activity.

Persuading someone to visit Morocco.

This PPT presentation by Frédéric Dichtel (Aquinas College) introduces many sentences to describe Morocco, using vocabulary relevant at this level.  The PPT is interactive and offers not only a Jeu de Kim, but also the chance to practice the passive voice.