Bonne Année {2013}

Wishing you all the best things - health, love, happiness and prosperity - in the new year!

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Much love,

Get in on the Hunger Games craze!

Are your French students studying the Hunger Games as part of their English program?  Or are they just caught up in the media frenzy surrounding these awesome young adult novels?  Capitalize on that, and get them talking about the Hunger Games in French class!  My students were so excited the days we learned how to make comparisons and to use the superlative while they got to talk about themselves, each other, and the movie they either loved or loved to hate!

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French Earth Day or Environmental Unit Vocabulary and Activities

Looking to celebrate Earth Day in your French class, or do you do an Environmental unit in your intermediate or advanced class? Try out these activities! This product is also a great way to incorporate the Common Core Teaching Standards since it teaches some academic science vocabulary. Stop by Liz's Lessons Blog to learn more and to get the links to four French youtube videos for Earth Day!

Connais-tu Étienne?

Do your students have trouble remembering basic verb endings and other grammatical structures? Do they like music? Of COURSE, to both questions, I'm sure! Have you heard of Etienne? He's the coolest, according to my grade 7 & 8s. What I like about him is that the songs are in the target language, rather than some of the other "educational music" out there that is bilingual.

The other really cool thing, if you are just getting introduced to Etienne for the first time, is that his work is available for download on iTunes, so if you just want to try one song to see how your kids react to his music, it's a very inexpensive and low-risk investment. You can also play full songs from his web site. I do recommend purchasing his entire teaching packages, where you get the lyrics in photocopiable format, student activities and suggestions, and the CD all for one very reasonable price. Check out Pourquoi take French? (which is mostly in English, but is a really unique song that really hits home with the students, and they LOVE it!) and his song for teaching the possessive adjectives......

PS... Etienne also has products in SPANISH! Here is one sample song for Spanish ER verbs.