Links, Links, Links...

http://www.travlang.com/languages/iloveyou.html

Here you will find: multiple choices, crossword puzzzles, word matches, cloze exercises, sentence scrambles, magic sentences, the five friends and word searches as well as a Valentines internet treasure hunt in all three languages.  And a page with close to 80 Valentine Day links in French, Spanish and English. 

The address of our page is:

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/3852/valentinegames.html

We hope that these activities will be of use to you and your students.

Best wishes,

Pete Jones - Whitby, Ontario, Canada
Ulli Braunecker - Klagenfurt, Austria
Ruth Rideout, Beaverton, Ontario, Canada

I'm thinking of making a display of some of the jokes and cartoons I have gathered to brighten the corridor outside my room. I'd like to do a poster with quotes from as many languages as possible. For English I have 'Many a true word spoken in jest' and for German 'Mann kann auch lachend ernsthaft sein.' But my mind has gone blank for French and Spanish. Any ideas? I'd welcome ones from other languages too, if you can give me a translation.

The Exploratorium, a museum of art and perception, has interesting illusions and activities in four languagues at the following address: 

http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/index.html

I'm not sure about a jumpstart, but here's what I'm doing tomorrow: a MadLib.
For those of you not familiar with this, a Madlib is a series of sentences with words missing from them. Without showing them the text, I ask students to give me a : singular or plural noun, number, adjective, verb in (X) tense and (X) person ending, an adverb, a city, or whatever (in the target language, of course!!!). After they have listed the required words, I reveal that they have written....

New Years Resolutions!
These usually are quite humorous.
For first year students, we use the "I am going to...." form of verbs.
For second and third, the future tense...

1. I will _ (verb)___  to ____(city)___.
2. I will lose ___(number)__ kilos.
3. I will give ___(family member)__ a  ___noun__.
4. I will buy a ___ (noun)___ for ___(number)__ dollars.
5. I will be more ___(adjective)__ to __(friend's name)__.
6. I will try to be less __ (adjective)__ in class.
7. I will clean my __(noun)__ more often.
and so on.

Then, I ask them to use these and write some resolutions for me, OR I use the wonderful idea I got on this list (if I haven't already) and pass around a bowl of M&M's (Smarties) and have them take a handful....and then they owe me that many sentences in whatever tense (or on whatever topic) we happened to be on before break.

Hope this idea appeals to some of you!

Standards

Now that several people are talking about standards again, I get to gloat a bit, and remind all of those who have forgotten, that TFLTA and Globe-Gate have teamed up to bring you a virtual library (better than any physical collection) of national, regional, state and municipal standards and curriculum frameworks documents.  These are at the top of

TFLTA PROFESSIONAL RESOURCE CENTER
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/resctr.html

which also includes a link to another important set of professional documents:

The Interagency Language Roundtable Scale
http://fmc.utm.edu/~rpeckham/ilrhome.html

sporting connections to the ACTFL scales, General Second Official Language Qualifications  (Public Servce Commission of Canada guidelines), and the FRAMEWORK of the Association of Language Testers in Europe.

French Grammar Central

I weeded around 15 or 20 lead links (all from one source) out of our grammar site, and I put in a number of interactive exercises and grammar topic descriptions. There are now 305 grammar links, and the page is a regular grammar encyclopedia:

French Grammar Central
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/gramm.html

TF1 France livecam - index
http://www.tf1.fr/livecam/index.html

nooSFere - LEncyclopedie francophone de la science -fiction
http://www.noosfere.com/

L'ENCYCLOPEDIE DE FROMAGES.COM
http://www.fromages.com/fra/encyclo.htm

Ecyclopedie Collective Informatisee Multimedia (ECIM)
http://ecim.citeweb.net/data/hypertxt/main.html

La papyrologie et l'lectronique
http://130.104.156.164/PapyF.html

Le Code Napoleon - La femme placee sous tutelle
http://www.avirtuel.ch/cod-napo.htm

Minitel Multimedia
http://www.labourse.com/

La Bourse de Paris
http://www.bourse-de-paris.fr/

Caisse des Depots (France)
http://www.caissedesdepots.fr/cdd/fr/sommaire.htm

le chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte
http://www.chez.com/vauxlevicomte

Petite histoire de lalimentation -4- le moyen age (Mots et Mets n 5)
http://www.plumart.com/vf0599/html/body_615b_petitehistoir.html

LA CUISINE AU MOYEN AGE (modernized text from pp. 32-34 of the Viandier)
http://www.avaric.com/ecoles/site%20jc/cahierecette/menus/theme/moyenage.htm

Extrait du Journal d'un Bourgeois de Paris
http://www.philippe-auguste.com/quotidien/approvisionnement.html

Recettes medievales
http://www3.sympatico.ca/michel.gauthier3/recettesmedievales.htm

Le Menagier De Paris (Food and cookerie)
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/menagier/

Les  regions du Quebec
http://netrover.com/~gabel/Velo/Regions_Quebec.htm

Les Regions administraves du Quebec
http://www.micst.gouv.qc.ca/PME-REG/regions/index.htm

ELEMENTS POUR LE CALENDRIER DE L'ANNEE 2000
http://www.bdl.fr/Granpub/ephem2000.html#calendrier

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
http://le-village.ifrance.com/civilisation/Flaubert.html

Programme Flaubert (ENS Paris)
http://www.item.ens.fr/flaubert/menu.html

Gustave Flaubert (1821- 1880) [biographie en fichier audio]
http://members.xoom.fr/_XOOM/koublai/frabio4.htm

Poetique et genetique de l'espace Herodias de Flaubert (these de doctorat
de Qian SUN)
http://www.multimania.com/sunqian/sommaire.html

Cegeps du Quebec - Le repertoire et coordonnees des Cegeps au Quebec
http://quebec.to/Cegeps/

La Federation des Cageps du Quebec
http://www.fedecegeps.qc.ca/

Les Jardins du Quebec (map presentation)
http://www.versicolores.ca/jardins-du-quebec/fr/

Les rectifications de l'orthographe (1990)
http://home.ican.net/~galandor/rectifi.htm

Enseignement du franais (ecole)
http://www.multimania.com/dpernoux/DP018000.htm

Guide pour parents d'enfants hyperactifs
http://planete.qc.ca/sante/elaine/

Thesaurus Personne handicapee
http://cbsh.qc.ca/centredoc/descrip2.html

YAHOO! France - Enseignement specialise
http://fr.dir.yahoo.com/Enseignement_et_formation/Enseignement_specialise/

Association Quebecoise pour les troubles d'apprentissage
http://educ.queensu.ca/~lda/aqeta/

La Casbah Alger
http://www.ovpm.org/ovpm/sites/falger.html

Gouvernrat du Grand Alger
http://www.gga.dz/

Saint-Maudez
http://www.pays-de-dinan.asso.fr/CANTONS/PLELAN%20LE%20PETIT/SAINT-MAUDEZ/St%20MAUDEZ%20page%201.htm

Information pratique sur la Guadeloupe
http://noirdefrance.ifrance.com/noirdefrance/Information%20pratique%20sur%20la%20Guadeloupe.htm

Saint Claude Guadeloupe (Tourisme en France)
http://www.tourisme.fr/cgi-bin/aurweb/FNOTSI/rech.txt?ville=saint-claude&code_dpt=971

Tourisme Rimouski
http://www.tourisme-rimouski.org/

FNAC Marseille
http://www.fnac.fr/html/Magasins/2742_18a.html

Marseille
http://www.mairie-marseille.fr

Lyon
http://www.mairie-marseille.fr

Bruxelles Online
http://www.brussels-online.be/fr/index.htm

Ajaccio, Corse
http://www.lacorse.com/Ajaccio/index.html

Savigny-sur-Orge (site officiel)
http://www.savigny.org/

Bruxelles Online
http://www.brussels-online.be/fr/index.htm

Tourisme Rimouski
http://www.tourisme-rimouski.org/

CCF-EURO entreprises
http://www.euroentreprise.ccf.fr/

Lexique des sigles de la formation et de l'emploi
http://www.mife90.org/cite/lexique/lexique.html

Lexique de la formation
http://www.3ct.com/ridf/a%20la%20une/lexique.htm

Le Pont de Normandie
http://carte-postale.com/honfleur/pontdenormandie.htm

NORMAN FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
http://www.fwkc.com/encyclopedia/low/articles/n/n017001242f.html

Tristan et Iseul (the end)
http://www.lino.sympatico.ca/Special/saint_valentin98/tristan.html

Tristan et Iseul - Les premiers paragraphes du roman
http://francite.net/education/lecture/page64.html

Gerald Seaman, "Literature and the Middle Time" (French medieval
literature)
http://eawc.evansville.edu/essays/seaman.htm

Chretien de Troyes' Arthurian Romances
http://www.gorddcymru.com/chretien/

J'accuse, Emile ZOLA
http://www.memodata.com/jaccuse/JACCUSE.HTM

Activites de franais (vocabulaire)
http://www.csdm.qc.ca/Cyberquartier/alpha/francais.asp

Activites ludiques et communicatives pour l'etude de la langue
http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/mangenot/afef1.htm

Evaluation des principaux dommages des monuments en France
http://www.culture.fr/culture/actualites/tempete/index.htm

France Art de vivre
http://www.franceartdevivre.com/

conditional  (with an irregular stem chart)
http://www2.lamc.utexas.edu/frgr/tac1.t

simple future: regular
http://www2.lamc.utexas.edu/frgr/taf2.t

simple future: irregular
http://www2.lamc.utexas.edu/frgr/taf3.t

futur anterieur
http://www2.lamc.utexas.edu/frgr/taf5.t

futur proche
http://www2.lamc.utexas.edu/frgr/taf1.t

Lingu@web French
http://www.linguaweb.ndirect.co.uk/lw_old/fren/french.htm

Les 35 heures mises au Net
http://www.35heures.net/

Site dhistoire medievale
http://www.multimania.com/gautlang/histoire.htm

Collectania : LE site du mobilier contemporain
http://www.collectania.fr

LE ROMAN COURTOIS
http://www.cafe.umontreal.ca/genres/n-romcou.html

Annales, Histoire, Sciences Sociales (tables of contents)
http://www.ehess.fr/editions/revues/annales/Accueil.html

L'Homme - Revue franaise d'anthropologie
http://www.ehess.fr/editions/revues/homme.html

Brown University French Graduate Reading list
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/French/read-list.html

French 307
http://www2.artsci.wustl.edu/~tasha/307.htm

French 310
http://www2.artsci.wustl.edu/~tasha/310.htm

Plan de la ville de Montigny le Bretonneau
http://www.mairie-montigny78.fr/pgeneral.htm

Conseil National des Economies Regionales
http://www.cner-france.com/

Atlas agricole du Quebec
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/k22761/agri/agri.html

Entreprises, Territoires et Developpement
http://www.etd.asso.fr/

Label France, No. 37, 10/99 (Les Femmes en France aujourd'hui)
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/label_france/FRANCE/int37.html

www.infofemmes.com - Reseau national des Centres d'information sur les
Droits des Femmes
http://www.cidff.com/

Admifrance (annuaries des sites gouvernementaux)
http://www.admifrance.gouv.fr/cgi-bin/multitel/admifrance/

Velo Quebec

There are nearly 3000 km of this bike route in Quebec, permitting extensive cyclotourism.  The group should decide on either rental in Quebec or transport of bikes to Quebec.  They should decide on a departure city, and if not a question of a round trip, they should decide on how to get bikes back to the point of departure.  The route should have a town or stop density to permit a short immersion in each municipal culture.  The group could study each town on the web, study bicycle and travel vocabulary, and take a pledge to speak only French.  Upon entering each town, groups of students would go out to search for something they had studied before the trip and each student would be responsible for reporting in French...Yes...it would be on the test, and each student would have to keep a French journal (perhaps with photos). Among the things they could write about: information to supplement the web sites, how the places they visited were like or different from what they saw on the web sites, the human dimension (residents they spoke with), the biking portion of the trip (hardships, joys), ...
 

The trip I sketched out using a portion of Quebec's route verte is not a language survival trip.  It has some of the same control mechanisms you would find in the classroom.  First of all, You should only take fit students.  The only thing about the cycling to be remembered should be the enjoyment of the exercise.  Second, you chose students with decent language skills, train them hard with bicycle vocabulary (perhaps several short immersion trips in close formation in the states.  You study all the towns you will pass through or near meticulously on the net.  Each group of students has an assignment particular to the knowledge about each town gained before the trip.  The goals in the encounter with each town are to use your French in confirming and going beyond this knowledge.  One of the end products of the trip would be to make an annotated web itinerary of the trip, using graphics, linking in town web sites, with an addition link to notes the class made about the town.  Another might be to make up ficticious tall tales in French about the adventure.  The trip would need attentive teacher supervision, plus parents who speak French.

Before students go, they could study bike saftey. Maybe they should become steady readers of

Velo Quebec
http://www.velo.qc.ca/velo_quebec/index.html

Here is the address again

La Route Verte (Velo-Quebec)
http://www.velo.qc.ca/route_verte/

From TBob Peckham

Le francais des affaires
http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www5/start.htm

Action Sante
http://www.sos-action-sante.com/

Challenges - Quotidien
http://quotidien.challenges-eco.com/

Air Outre Mer (AOM)
http://www.aom-minerve.fr

Air Liberte
http://www.air-liberte.fr

Association pour l'emploi des cadres (APEC)
http://www.apec.asso.fr/

YAHOO! France - biologie
http://fr.dir.yahoo.com/sciences_et_technologies/Biologie/

YAHOO! France - geographie
http://fr.dir.yahoo.com/Sciences_humaines/Geographie/

YAHOO! France - Psychologie
http://fr.dir.yahoo.com/Sciences_humaines/Psychologie/

YAHOO! France - Enseignement et formation
http://fr.dir.yahoo.com/Enseignement_et_formation/

YAHOO! France - Commerce et economie
http://fr.dir.yahoo.com/Commerce_et_economie/

Association des Transporteurs Europeens
http://www.astre-france.com/index.htm

CIF - Annuaire (agents de fret, groupeurs, transporteurs...)
http://www.cifparis.org/francais/annuaire/groupeurs.html

Web Transport
http://www.web-transport.com/

TRANSPORTEURS AERIENS ET MARITIMES (liste breve)
http://www.orstom.mg/cite/html3/list2/l2000032.htm

Studying Psychology in France (en francais)
http://sys130.psych.ut.ee/~epsy/france_uk.html

VTT lexique
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ppan/lexique.html

PlanetsSport Vtt - lexique
http://www.planetesport.com/vtt/lexique.htm

Velo Quebec
http://www.velo.qc.ca/velo_quebec/index.html

Cybevasion - Hotels, Paris
http://www.cybevasion.com/hotels/france/paris.html

Le Parchemin
http://club.bdway.com/flo/

Paul Bocuse
http://www.bocuse.fr/default.htm

Bernard de Ventadorn
http://www.kore.it/CAFFE/Introduc.htm

Bocuse d'Or
http://www.bocusedor.com/

LAn 2000 - site officiel pour la celebration du 3ieme millinaire
http://www.2000enfrance.com/cfm/index.cfm

TBob

Bob Peckham
Director, The Globe-Gate Project
Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages
Univ. of Tennessee-Martin
Martin, TN  38238  USA
e-mail: bobp@utm.edu
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html

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