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This unit is a comprehensive overview of French culture that teaches about the customs, holidays, food, monuments, geography, literature, art, economy, education, sports, etc. of France. It includes a game where each student is given a sheet with a piece of information at the top, and nine questions below. Students must share their piece of information with each other while trying to find the answers to their questions. There are 32 different sheets, so the activity can accommodate a large cl

This bundle will teach your students how to use prepositions to describe one's house/dwelling with explanation, practice, and assessment activities. It includes 4 Power Point Presentations, 2 Smart Notebooks, and 6 Word documents. Students will especially enjoy the practice activity for individual practice: students must click on the correct contraction or noun marker (du, de la, de l', des, le, la, l', les) to complete the sentence. Clicking on the incorrect answer produces a voltage sound an

This product is excellent for teaching the political maps of Central America and South America. It includes two interactive Power Points, a worksheet,and an answer key. The worksheet can also be used as a quiz. The Power Points are interactive: an arrow pointing to a country appears on a click, then the name of the country appears on the next click, so it can be used as a drill. The two Power Points each show the countries in a different order, to make it more challenging.

Students will have fun learning about all of the countries in the French-speaking world! This unit comprises a lot of great activities and materials for teaching students about French-speaking countries. The main items are a map activity, a cooperative-learning game, an interactive Power Point culture quiz, and an assessment. Each slide of the Power Point has an image, a question and three possible answers. If the wrong answer is clicked a voltage sound like an electric shock is heard. If th

This unit teaches the history and culture of Québec City; it includes a 2-page text about the history and landmarks of Québec written in student-friendly French and in a student-friendly format. There is a power point point with 25 picture slides that provide rich visual context for each historical fact and/or landmark highlighted in the text. The Power Point can be used to accompany a whole-class reading of the text. In addition, there is a question sheet that goes with the text, and also two

This is an effective and fun way to teach numbers in French! Dot-to-dots with a twist! Students don’t connect the dots in numeric order; they use a list of numbers written in French to connect the dots; teacher can also call out numbers as a listening activity. What’s fun about these dots-to-dots is that it’s hard to tell what the picture is until the dot-to-dot is completed; also, it’s very hard to guess how to connect the dots without reading the numbers from the list. Students love the su

This unit is a comprehensive overview of French culture that teaches about the customs, holidays, food, monuments, geography, literature, art, economy, education, sports, etc. of France. It includes a game where each student is given a sheet with a piece of information at the top, and nine questions below. Students must share their piece of information with each other while trying to find the answers to their questions. There are 32 different sheets, so the activity can accommodate a large cl

This product is great for teaching the impératif. It includes an explanation sheet, a practice sheet, two extra-practice worksheets, two power points, and one smart notebook. The power point will engage students with its animations and sound effects (see preview).

This is an effective and fun way to teach numbers in French! Dot-to-dots with a twist! Students don’t connect the dots in numeric order; they use a list of numbers written in French to connect the dots. What’s fun about these dots-to-dots is that it’s hard to tell what the picture is until the dot-to-dot is completed; also, it’s very hard to guess how to connect the dots without reading the numbers from the list. Students love the surprise element. These dots to dots are great to use as bon

This bundle includes an explanation, a worksheet, and two interactive power point presentations, all with cute pictures that clearly illustrate the difference between the subject pronouns "tu" and "vous". Once you have presented this material to your students they will know when to use "tu" and when to use "vous".

This unit includes everything you need to teach expressions of quantity and partitive: explanation and vocab sheets, practice worksheets, flashcards, interactive multiple-choice Power Point, interactive Smart Notebook and quiz. Lots of pictures to increase comprehension.

This product is excellent for teaching the political map of Francophone Africa. It includes an interactive Power Points, a worksheet,and an answer key. The worksheet can also be used as a quiz. The Power Point is interactive: an arrow pointing to a country appears on a click, then the name of the country appears on the next click, as the previous arrow and country name disappears , so it can be used as a drill. 24 countries are included. Please note: the country names are in French,

This Power Point teaches the futur proche. Each slide depicts something about to happen, and students are prompted to use the futur proche to say what is going to happen. The teacher clicks to make the answer appear. Included is worksheet to compliment Power Point. The visuals provide context and keep students engaged.

This is an effective and fun way to teach numbers in French! Dot-to-dots with a twist! Students don’t connect the dots in numeric order; they use a list of numbers written in French to connect the dots. What’s fun about these dots-to-dots is that it’s hard to tell what the picture is until the dot-to-dot is completed; also, it’s very hard to guess how to connect the dots without reading the numbers from the list. Students love the surprise element. These dots to dots are great to use as bon

This product is a perfect way for students to practice and learn the different forms of the verbs faire and jouer in the present tense. The first two slides are animated/interactive conjugations of the verbs. The 21 other slides depict and show phrases with the verb missing; students must supply the correct form of the verb. This is a great activity to do with whiteboards. A 10-second countdown clock that makes a tick-tock sound on each slide keeps the students on-task in a fun way. When th

This product is an excellent way to teach possessive adjectives. It includes an explanation sheet with a guided note-taking sheet, an interactive power point for practice, a card game, and a homework sheet. There's also a worksheet the goes with the interactive power point. This product will reach all kinds of students, including visual learners and kinesthetic learners.

This is an interactive Power Point that reviews language structures and vocabulary from level 1. Each slide contains a question and four possible answers. Selecting the wrong answer produces a voltage sound, selecting the correct answer produces a chime and the answer changes to a pleasing pink color. If computers are available, students can complete activity in partners, or it can be done as a whole-class activity. Students will enjoy the sound effects!

This Power Point is a fun, interactive way to teach students about Quebec. the students pair up, they see a slide containing a question, they each write what they think might be the answer on a piece of paper, then they share their answers with each other, then they see the slide containing the actual answer. Each pair of question and answer slides is followed by a slide with a visual or a brief explanation to help present/reinforce information.

This is an interactive Power Point that teaches adjective agreement with adjectives to describe people. Each slide contains a depiction of a phrase with the adjective missing, and four possible choices for the missing adjective. Selecting the wrong answer produces a voltage sound, selecting the correct answer produces a chime and the answer changes to a pleasing pink color. If computers are available, students can complete activity in partners, or it can be done as a whole-class activity. Stu

This product is great for teaching weather and seasons in French. It includes a vocab list with pictures and a vocab list with English translations; there's a power point that matches the vocab list with pictures that you can use to present the vocabulary. There's also a weather rhyming power point to practice vocabulary: ask the students "quel temps fait-il à.." and then click or touch a city on the map of France and a picture clue will slowly start to apear and students should find the weat