(Exciting news: I have been selected as the winner of the 2012 CASLT H. H. Stern award for Innovation in Second Language Teaching!)
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Please take a moment to visit my other websites when you get a chance:
This
blog is designed mainly for
beginner French students and their
teachers. You will notice that most of the
websites are interactive, free, ad-free,
and do not require any registration.
This collection can be used by teachers
in class, or for individual students on
their own computers, either in school or
at home.
Please
let me know if any of the
links do not work or if there is
anything inappropriate. Also please email me
if you have an interactive website to
recommend: sylviaduckworth@rogers.com.
Merci, et amusez-vous bien!
(Please look to the right for the links to these great websites.)
*Many thanks to my friends on Twitter. Most of the resources on this blog are from you! Please read this blogpost on "How Twitter helped me become an award-winning teacher"!
Also, please click here to read about how you can use social media with your classes.
(Please look to the right for the links to these great websites.)
*Many thanks to my friends on Twitter. Most of the resources on this blog are from you! Please read this blogpost on "How Twitter helped me become an award-winning teacher"!
Also, please click here to read about how you can use social media with your classes.
1. Click here for a great blogpost about using "Les Simpson" to teach French.
2. Click here for some funny, short animations called "Une minute avant". Fairly advanced.
3. Click here for a Certificate generator, en français.
4. Click here for a fun game called "Le chat noir": Try to trap him by clicking on the circles.
5. Click here for the Hunger Games site, en français. Click here for the entire book, en français! (go with middle option: save file to computer).
6. Click here for a YouTube channel with lots of videos with useful French phrases.
7. Click here to see how you can use Pinterest and Audioboo to record messages with images.
8. http://lingro.com/ So cool! Will translate words you click on in any website!
9. http://learnfrench.fouiner.info/ Lots of French vocab with audio.
10. Click here for a great blog called: Living in France: Real life experiences and articles about living in France.
11. Click here to learn about an easy way to do French accents on a PC, by Louis Sulek.
12. http://chansonsfle.blogspot.com.es/
Lots of popular songs with the words underneath.
13. http://www.cinemafrancais-fle.com/
Great website for learning French with films!
14. http://1jour1actu.com/ Nice site with simple language for current events.
15. Les animaux dans les dessins animés (short quiz).
16. Lots of quizzes here on Les dessins animés.
17. Boowa & Kwala à la ferme
18. Click here for some simple activities from CASLT.
19. http://musique.premiere.fr/TOP-50 Top 50 songs in France.
20. Jeanne de la Lune: Dans mon château il y a un robot. Cute song for kids. Click here for Accompanying activity.
21. Showme.com is a website that lets you create lessons and record them. Click here for a lesson on writing a letter in French.
22. http://www.surfacelanguages.com/language/French Learn many words and phrases.
23. http://lang-8.com/ Get native French speakers to correct your writing.
24. Click here to watch a YouTube playlist of Le Petit Prince read en français with animations.
25. Wow, ça, c'est différent! An interactive film by the NFB: http://blabla.onf.ca/
and click here for a video about making it.
26. Click here for a collection of visuals (cartoons) for Foreign language instruction.
27. Click here for lots of great printable posters for French teachers.
28. Click here for instructions on using QR codes for an activity with "La nourriture.
29. Click here for a powerful video about race discrimination when job hunting.
30. Click here for lots of fun games to play in French.
31. Click here for a great, simplified blogpost and video on The Titanic, en français.
32. Click here for a wonderful interactive Abécédaire avec Babar.
33. Click here for an interactive game: Trouve l'objet.
34. Click here for lots of animated shorts, sans mots et en français. However, some not kid-appropriate, so screen carefully! Click here for a cute one called Margarita.
35. Click here for some great stories with audio files.
36. Click here for "Pierre Lapin" par Beatrix Potter, l'histoire complète!
37. Click here for a blogpost about SayHi, a translator app.
38. L'histoire du poussin Cute interactive animation for "Les verbes conjugués avec être au passé".
39. http://www.linguee.com/english-french/ A great site for translating phrases/expressions.
40. Lots of interactive educational games here for French immersion students.
http://www.e-learningforkids.org/fr/fr_index.html
41. http://www.figureoutfrench.com/ App for learning French expressions.
42. Click here for the "Top 50 Podcasts for learning a language".
43. http://www.wismo.ch/contes/dessins.php Animated children's stories in French.
44. Funny French flashcards with images
http://bogglesworldesl.com/french/flashcards.htm
45. Clique ici pour "Le générateur de biographies". Très amusant!
45. http://sedonnerlemot.tv/
Very creative and original site for advanced French learners.
46. http://radioparischanson.com/# For songs related to Paris.
47. Click here for "The Top 10 Best Movie Quotes of All Times—In French".
48. Click here for "La francophonie dans tous ses états" Simply wonderful, by the NFB.
49. Cree ton propre monstre: L'atelier des monstres: http://monstres.kikooshi.com/
50. http://www.textivate.com/ Very cool puzzle maker. Free registration, try all the different formats. Try this one: http://www.textivate.com/initials-oocjn1
51. http://micetf.fr/Puzzle/ Really good image puzzle generator. Can't save puzzles though.
52. http://www.findyourtracks.fr/ Find music you like.
53. Click here for "L'histoire de l'Halloween en France" via Textivate.
54. Great idea for first week of school: Students make name cards with important phrases on the back for them to use. Click here for an example in Spanish.
55. Click here for French tongue-twisters.
56. Petit-bleu et Petit-jaune: Adorable video made by kindergarteners.
57. Click here for "Code de bonne conduite en ligne".
58. Click here for a PP on "La nuit avant Noël". Click here for an audio recording.
59. Click here to watch the Extra series en français. (My students adore these episodes! It's kind of like "Friends" but in French! Thx Joanne Thomas for uploading the videos and providing the worksheets.)
60. News in slow French <-- Cool idea!
61. Le journal des enfants
62. 7 Jours sur la planète
63. http://fr.monsterhigh.com/ <--Looks very interesting!
64. Click here for "Les textos en français".
65. Click here for a really fun way to create a story.
66. http://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Accueil Wikipedia-like site for young French students.
67. http://cabouge.tv5.ca "Ça bouge": lots of videos about Canada, en français.
68. Audiolingua is a great resource to find audio recordings of authentic language speakers. Click here for the results of a search for children speaking in French.
69. https://www.verbling.com Interesting-looking site to practice speaking in different languages with other people.
70. Click here for "Le petit Nicholas": entire book + audio + questions.
71. Le grenier de Bisou Cute site with videos and games.
2. Click here for some funny, short animations called "Une minute avant". Fairly advanced.
3. Click here for a Certificate generator, en français.
4. Click here for a fun game called "Le chat noir": Try to trap him by clicking on the circles.
5. Click here for the Hunger Games site, en français. Click here for the entire book, en français! (go with middle option: save file to computer).
6. Click here for a YouTube channel with lots of videos with useful French phrases.
7. Click here to see how you can use Pinterest and Audioboo to record messages with images.
8. http://lingro.com/ So cool! Will translate words you click on in any website!
9. http://learnfrench.fouiner.info/ Lots of French vocab with audio.
10. Click here for a great blog called: Living in France: Real life experiences and articles about living in France.
11. Click here to learn about an easy way to do French accents on a PC, by Louis Sulek.
12. http://chansonsfle.blogspot.com.es/
Lots of popular songs with the words underneath.
13. http://www.cinemafrancais-fle.com/
Great website for learning French with films!
14. http://1jour1actu.com/ Nice site with simple language for current events.
15. Les animaux dans les dessins animés (short quiz).
16. Lots of quizzes here on Les dessins animés.
17. Boowa & Kwala à la ferme
18. Click here for some simple activities from CASLT.
19. http://musique.premiere.fr/TOP-50 Top 50 songs in France.
20. Jeanne de la Lune: Dans mon château il y a un robot. Cute song for kids. Click here for Accompanying activity.
21. Showme.com is a website that lets you create lessons and record them. Click here for a lesson on writing a letter in French.
22. http://www.surfacelanguages.com/language/French Learn many words and phrases.
23. http://lang-8.com/ Get native French speakers to correct your writing.
24. Click here to watch a YouTube playlist of Le Petit Prince read en français with animations.
25. Wow, ça, c'est différent! An interactive film by the NFB: http://blabla.onf.ca/
and click here for a video about making it.
26. Click here for a collection of visuals (cartoons) for Foreign language instruction.
27. Click here for lots of great printable posters for French teachers.
28. Click here for instructions on using QR codes for an activity with "La nourriture.
29. Click here for a powerful video about race discrimination when job hunting.
30. Click here for lots of fun games to play in French.
31. Click here for a great, simplified blogpost and video on The Titanic, en français.
32. Click here for a wonderful interactive Abécédaire avec Babar.
33. Click here for an interactive game: Trouve l'objet.
34. Click here for lots of animated shorts, sans mots et en français. However, some not kid-appropriate, so screen carefully! Click here for a cute one called Margarita.
35. Click here for some great stories with audio files.
36. Click here for "Pierre Lapin" par Beatrix Potter, l'histoire complète!
37. Click here for a blogpost about SayHi, a translator app.
38. L'histoire du poussin Cute interactive animation for "Les verbes conjugués avec être au passé".
39. http://www.linguee.com/english-french/ A great site for translating phrases/expressions.
40. Lots of interactive educational games here for French immersion students.
http://www.e-learningforkids.org/fr/fr_index.html
41. http://www.figureoutfrench.com/ App for learning French expressions.
42. Click here for the "Top 50 Podcasts for learning a language".
43. http://www.wismo.ch/contes/dessins.php Animated children's stories in French.
44. Funny French flashcards with images
http://bogglesworldesl.com/french/flashcards.htm
45. Clique ici pour "Le générateur de biographies". Très amusant!
45. http://sedonnerlemot.tv/
Very creative and original site for advanced French learners.
46. http://radioparischanson.com/# For songs related to Paris.
47. Click here for "The Top 10 Best Movie Quotes of All Times—In French".
48. Click here for "La francophonie dans tous ses états" Simply wonderful, by the NFB.
49. Cree ton propre monstre: L'atelier des monstres: http://monstres.kikooshi.com/
50. http://www.textivate.com/ Very cool puzzle maker. Free registration, try all the different formats. Try this one: http://www.textivate.com/initials-oocjn1
51. http://micetf.fr/Puzzle/ Really good image puzzle generator. Can't save puzzles though.
52. http://www.findyourtracks.fr/ Find music you like.
53. Click here for "L'histoire de l'Halloween en France" via Textivate.
54. Great idea for first week of school: Students make name cards with important phrases on the back for them to use. Click here for an example in Spanish.
55. Click here for French tongue-twisters.
56. Petit-bleu et Petit-jaune: Adorable video made by kindergarteners.
57. Click here for "Code de bonne conduite en ligne".
58. Click here for a PP on "La nuit avant Noël". Click here for an audio recording.
59. Click here to watch the Extra series en français. (My students adore these episodes! It's kind of like "Friends" but in French! Thx Joanne Thomas for uploading the videos and providing the worksheets.)
60. News in slow French <-- Cool idea!
61. Le journal des enfants
62. 7 Jours sur la planète
63. http://fr.monsterhigh.com/ <--Looks very interesting!
64. Click here for "Les textos en français".
65. Click here for a really fun way to create a story.
66. http://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Accueil Wikipedia-like site for young French students.
67. http://cabouge.tv5.ca "Ça bouge": lots of videos about Canada, en français.
68. Audiolingua is a great resource to find audio recordings of authentic language speakers. Click here for the results of a search for children speaking in French.
69. https://www.verbling.com Interesting-looking site to practice speaking in different languages with other people.
70. Click here for "Le petit Nicholas": entire book + audio + questions.
71. Le grenier de Bisou Cute site with videos and games.
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