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Beach Time! Color Adjective Exercise (French)
What are the rules for adding adjectives to a sentence? Where should you place the adjective? This worksheet introduces the rules for feminine, masculine, and color adjectives in French. It includes phrases to translate from English to...
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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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Description Quiz
Several things are missing in each picture, can you identify the missing objects? There are two descriptions here: one for a landscape, and the other shows a classroom setting. After reading the descriptions of each (in French), your...
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Describe and Compare
Interest your French classes in making comparisons and using the expressions plus que, presque aussi que, tous les deux, and beaucoup plus que. They study a list of Internet businessmen who have made a financial bundle. Then they compare...
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Guess Who?
Your class is designing an online dating service, and they have to complete their members' profiles! Group your kids in pairs, and distribute this resource to get them speaking! As one partner describes a member, the other has to...
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Describe and Compare: Teacher Edition
Note: This is the teacher's guide to Pimsleur's French lesson plan called "Describe & Compare." The guide discusses the lesson plan's purpose, objectives, and designed learning outcomes. It presents information on each of the...
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The House
Oú est la cuisine? Several activities are suggested here to develop and further vocabulary acquisition for your beginning French speakers. They draw pictures of different rooms in a house and place objects around the room. Then, using...
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Les Métiers (Jobs and Professions)
Work a few of these activities into your unit on jobs and professions for beginning French speakers. This teacher's guide focuses on feminine and masculine word endings, and introduces the teacher to different opportunities for oral...
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Interview Exclusive! Paris-Match interroge Audrey Tatou, vedette du film, Le fableux destin d'Am¿¿lie Poulain
Young scholars role play an interview. After researching Audrey Tautou and the movie Amelie, pairs of students take turns interviewing each other. One plays the role of a journalist and the other plays the role of an actress. During the...
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Napoléon Bonaparte: un héros ou un tyran?
Was Napoléon Bonaparte a hero or a tyrant? Discuss examples of each, and list their common attributes. Then, to form a solid argument and take a stance, intermediate and advanced Francophones conduct Internet research. After a few days...
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Describing Family - Lesson Plan
Pupils describe their family in their new language French. They use adjectives, and proper gender. Then they describe how the family is alike and different.
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Self and Photography
Eleventh graders, after investigating and studying self, family, friends, etc. by taking pictures of their daily life, assess basic photography skills that reflect aspects of their culture. They review those aspects and write a...
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Vocabulair - Chaptire VII Le Petit Prince
In this French vocabulary worksheet, 9th graders match 30 French vocabulary words to the English word. The vocabulary words are a mix of nouns, verbs and adjectives.
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Introduction to French Adjectives
Concise introduction to French Adjectives. Defines adjectives in general and describes agreement and placement of adjectives in French. Has good examples, and contrasts with adverbs.
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Tex's French Grammar: Adjectives That Precede the Noun
This site from Tex's French Grammar provides a clear and concise presentation of French adjectives that precede the noun (bon, beau, vieux, etc.) Helpful acronym for remembering - Beauty, Age, Numbers, Goodness, and Size (BANGS). Site...
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City College, San Francisco: French Online Grammar Quiz
Series of interactive online grammar quizzes divided into 12 chapters (intended to accompany text "Allons-y" but text not necessary). Each chapter is divided into various concepts and provides a short, self-correcting test - several in...
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Introduction to French Adverbs
Very useful intro to adverbs in general - defines adverbs, contrasts with adjectives, explains how to form in French.
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Tex's French Grammar: Comparisons With Adjectives
This site from Tex's French Grammar provides a succinct presentation of comparative adjectives (plus que, moins que, aussi que) and irregular adjectives (bon/meilleur, mauvais/pire). Provides usage examples, dialogues and interactive...
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Tex's French Grammar: Imperative Mood
This site from Tex's French Grammar clearly explains the formation of the imperative (l'imperatif), using high quality examples, dialogues, (both written and audio), and interactive exercises. Explains and provides examples of irregular...
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Tex's French Grammar: Irregular Adjectives
This site, from Tex's French Grammar, is an excellent site which has a clear, concise explanation of adjectives that are irregular for gender or in forming plurals (doux/douce, faux.fausse, etc.). It provides examples and interactive...
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University of Texas: Francais Interactif
This full-featured interactive textbook encounter utilizes French speakers in real life scenarios. Well structured for work on grammatical concepts (links to Tex's French Grammar), vocabulary, listening comprehension and exposure to...