Français II
Madame Shackelford
My homepage: http://www.madameshackelford.com/
Reference Resources (dictionaries, accent marks, etc.)
Class Syllabus 2006-2007
Extra Credit Grid

Note: Scroll down page to locate the unit we are currently studying.


Unit : MOI (All about myself, family ,and friends)

Some useful Sites:                     and click here for Some Fun Sites

Bonjour de France---La Rentrée

How to Study French

French - the most practical foreign language<

Why Ohio Needs French

About.com French (Left hand menu offers explanations and practice in MANY topics!)

French Grammar and pronunciation Glossary

French Grammar by topic

Grammar ("How to" Sites)

French dictionnaries (and more)

French Spelling Tricks

Francophone Countries

Celebrities who speak French

Windows on the world - France

Embassy of France in the US

Frère Jacques  (song)

Negation
Verb Families
Etre, Avoir, Aller
Expressions with Avoir
Adjectives
Adverb formation
Formation of passé composé
House of etre
l'histoire de Pierre

passé composé practice
passé composé irregular verbs practice
Expressions that indicate the use of passé composé

Grammar & Vocabulary:                              Games and Practice:
    Bonjour                                           Game: Greetings, Numbers
    Comment tu t'appelle?                           Days and Months
    Qu'est ce que c'est?                            Numbers 0-69
    Days of the week
    Numbers 13-21                                                  Classroom objects
    La Famille                                                            Ou? Combien? Comment? Practice question words
    Etre and Avoir                                                                           using family vocabulary
    Er Verbs                                                               More Interrogative Expressions (Questions) Practice
    IR Verbs                                                              Practice negative expressions
      RE Verbs                                                              Adjectives form and agreement practice
                                                                                   question word game
                                                                        Here is the answer..what is the question?
                                                                                    Information questions
                                                                       
    descriptions (adjective practice)
      possessive adjectives
    Comparisons
    verbs ALLER and Faire

Family blogs in Fr, III/IV classes: la famille flaubert                              la famille françois                                                        la famille cartier    
                                                 http://mexicanumbrellaman.blogspot.com/            http://famillefrancios.blogspot.com/            http://les-cartier.blogspot.com/

la famille Monet                                             la famille Bourbon                     la famille LaSalle
http://monetfamille.blogspot.com/         http://famillebourbon.blogspot.com/       http://lasalle06.blogspot.com/

Assignments:                                                                                                      Horoscope        
Writing Cinquains   (here is a long list of adjectives to help you) 

Computer Translation Activity

Family Crest (Ecussons) Assignment


Unit: Regions of France

Regions of France - information

Regions of France - clickable map

Let's explore regions of France!
French Cities and Regions


Unit : Les Voyages !
A few of Mrs. Shackelford's favorite travel links (and some of her travel photos)

CIA World Fact Book --- France

Se Déplacer en francophonie - trains, planes, routes

Driving in France

Automotive companies - France

Rick Steve's Europe Through the Back Door

La Francophonie (French speaking countries....Clicking on any one of these will yield information about the country)

Belgium

Visit Belgium

Switzerland

More about Switzerland

Bonjour Québec

Welcome to Martinique

Haiti

Tahiti Tourism


Delta Air lines                                Air France                                   SNCF


Activities:


Voyager (music audio)            Voyager (lyrics & translation)              Les Nubians

Carole Fredericks (site officiel)

Nadiya - les clips

Launch - La musique sur yahoo

verbs ALLER and Faire

IR Verbs   

RE Verbs

Unit: Les Sports
Coupe de Boule
(THE video of the summer in Europe...a spoof on Zidane's famous "head butt" incident)

Sports and recreation in France (in English)
Sports in France (from the Embassy of France in the U.S., in English)
Team Spirit, French Style
French-English glossary of Sports
Official Salt Lake City French-English Glossary of Winter Sports
Lexique des sports de Canada
Sports et Loisirs (en français---beaucoup de links)
Yahoo Sports (en français)
Excite-France Sports
Sports Equipment Online (en français)
CBS Sportsline - World Sports
L'equipe (un journal de sports)
le foot
Soccer in France
federation française de foot
Le Tour de France
Tour de France
Boules/Pétanque
Pelote
Canyoning- a definition in English
Le canyoning (look under "techniques")
Le canyoning - a webquest
le parapent (parasailing)
Sports and recreation in Quebec (scroll down for a fairly complete list)
Sports d'hiver
Ski France
Les Sports à Nice (triathalon, etc.)
Hunting in France ("Faire la chasse")
Field Sports in France (Hunting and Shooting)
Droits et limites de la chasse en France
Federation Nationale des chasseurs
Le cheerleading, un sport pompon
Cheerleading Directory

Research/Presentation Assignment:
Instructions       Research handout(Attention:This is not formatted correctly,but it
                                        will enable you to see the categories to research).

Grammar: Formation of passé composé
Sports Quiz

Games: Sports review


Reading Assignment: Go to the following magazine site and pick an article about any sport you choose. Read it and answer the questions on the handout you receive in class. (Click here for magazine)


Unit: Les repas


Halloween !!!!

Cauchemars(nightmares)
Halloween in France (CNN article)
Halloween (all sorts of ideas, stories, decorations, recipes...en français!)
Halloween stories

Great Halloween Site for poetry/story ideas, coloring sheets, etc!

Halloween (Canadian Site)

Escargots Dressed up for Halloween!

L'Automne

La Toussaint - Cemeteries in Normandy (photos by Mme. Capet, teacher of our epals)


Unit : Voyage au Québec

Bonjour Québec

A Taste of Canada - Quebec
(numerous links and references of interest)

Les Saisons au Québec

Québec - Nature

Faune Quebec (Les animaux)

About Québec (many references and links)

History of Quebec

History of Quebec with timeline

Histoire et culture régionales de Québec

Carnavale de Québec

Scenes of Quebec

Parles-tu Québecois?


Music of Quebec:
Music of Canada

Quebec Musicians

Music of Quebec

Québec Info Musique


Je me souviens - Coffret commémoratif de la chanson québécoise
(The source for a number of songs from class..You may also search the web under individual artists or song title).

Isabelle Boulay .....Paroles de ses chansons
(son site) 

Celine Dion's web site

Garou    ...Paroles des ses chansons
(son site)

Les Cowboys Fringants.... Paroles de leurs chansons
(leur site)

Loco Locasse ...... (numerous other sites on the web)
(le site)

Gilles Vigneault - paroles des chansons



Activities:

Sentiers des saisons

Parles-tu Québecois?

Sentier du lac (Can you recognize these animal tracks?)

Contes:
La Chasse galerie (about; in English, with story summary)

La Chasse galerie (legende, en français)   version #2

Des autres Légendes Quebecoises (il y en a plusieurs!)


Pauvre Anne...(La Belgique)

CIA World Fact Book - Belgium

Lonely Planet Guide- Belgium

Belgium (facts from the Embassy of Belgium in Washington, D.C.)

Official Belgium Tourist Site

Belgium

La Belgique en bref

Federal Public Services Belgium
(choose the "français" portal )

Saveurs du Monde: Cuisine de Belgique

Gastronomie                et  chocolat    gaufres    biere

Recette pour les gaufres
French fries - done right!
Belgian fries.com
Brussels Online


Pauvre Anne Activities:

Pauvre Anne online activity - chapter 2
Pauvre Anne Hangman Game (based on the book)

Role Play Activity
(copy of assignment)


L'Afrique Francophone

Unit Project: (assignment)  English translation of this assignment

Project Pictures (Some of the activities and the products created last year!)

Pictures, Information, Touristic Guides:

La francophonie-Africa (flags, CIA World factbooks, Lonely Planet guides and official tourism sites
                                      for the individual countries,when available, are all included in this link)
Clickable Map opf the African continent

Countries Resources (Maps and good information)

Africa: One Continent, Many Worlds  (Use the menu at left to find pictures and information about many objects,etc.)

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures ...also stories! (From Peace Corp's Water in Africa project)

African Treasures to Buy (some nice pictures)

Pilot Destination Guide: Senegal

Pilot Destination Guide: West Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali

Morocco

L'Afrique Francophone Virtuelle

Cuisine:
"Do's and Don'ts" of eating with a Moroccan family
Food in West Africa
Saveurs du Monde: The Cuisine of West Africa
Saveurs du Monde: The Cuisine of Cote d'Ivoire
Saveurs du Monde: Cuisine of Senegal
La Cuisine Marocaine

History, People:
The Dogans

History of the French in West Africa

Africa Speaks: West African University Students Write About their Lives

Voodo
Voodo and West Africa's Spiritual Life
Do you do Voodoo?

Music:

Hakuna Matata (paroles de la chanson!)

Youssou N'dour (official site)

African Music Encylcopedia

West African Talking Drums and Music

Musical Instruments

African Music and Drumming resources on the Web

Some popular musicians from Senegal     
   

Masks and "How to" ideas for making them:
Festivals in West Africa: fetes des Masques
About African Masks
Make a simple mask!
Mask Making
Designing African Masks
Facing the Mask
Make an African Mask/shield
Initiation Masks in French Speaking Black Africa (a teacher's lesson plan that has much useful information)
Aluminum foil masks (and how to)
Ivory Coast mask to color
masks and makeup links for costumers
fanciful faces templates (ideas to look at)

African Art: Statues, Fetishes, etc.
Poterie au Burkina Faso


Contes(Stories), Proverbs:
Les griots de Senegal---storytellers

Les griots de Mali

African proverbs, Sayings and Stories

A Selection of African contes

Quelques contes de Mali


Kirikou
Kirikou
(official site)
Pictures, storyline, and words from the movie's music composer
(you can hear a bit of the music via one of the links here!)
TV guide movie review of Kirikou


Some Christmas Links:
Worldviews: Christmas

Christmas Traditions in France and in Canada

Christmas traditions from the French Embassy

Santa's Net - France

Pere Noel's Work Shop

http://www.pere-noel.com/accueil.htm

http://www.monperenoel.net/

l'Epiphanie

Gateau des Rois (photos of the two common "types")

Gateau des rois (recipe en français)

Bonne Année!
Cartes de voeux



Les Loisirs Culturels

Cultural Enrichment (links provided from Glencoe textbook publisher --- diverse subjects)

La Vie Culturelle

French Cultural Heritage

Culture Kiosque - The European Guide to Arts, Culture and Entertainment Worldwide

Le Louvre (official site)

Musée d'Orsay

About French Movies

Yahoo France: Cinéma

Films de France.com

Le Gaumont

Festival de Cannes

TV5 (Francophone TV around the world; click on the jukebox to hear music clips and view videos)

TF1.Fr (current French news videoclips)

France 3 la télévision française (entre autres, journal télévisé national et régional en vidéo)

Canal + (In "Sélectionnez une émission",  click on "les Guignols" to see a very popular satiric emission with marionnettes)

La Famille Simpson

Le Monde (journal d'actualités)

L'Express (magazine d'actualités)

Elle Magazine online

Yahoo Fr. Musique

Radio France

Radio France Bleu/playlists

Carole Fredericks (site officiel)

Nadiya - les clips

Launch - La musique sur yahoo

E-Compil  - music downloads (somewhat limited selecttion, though...) + listen to music extracts

Voir le clip "Il faut que tu respires" (Mickey 3D - meilleur clip de l'année 2004)

Il faut que tu respires - paroles(lyrics)
 

Internet Activities : On Va Au Cinéma

                                                                  Learn how to look at art:  Inside Art
                                                                                                           Art Detective
                                                                Ce Soir à la télé
                                                               
                                                                French Art - a good info source
 
                                                                Impressionism Webquest
                                                               Notre Weekend à Paris

Grammar  and vocabulary Practice: Direct Objects
                                  Practice Quiz - les loisirs culturels
                                  Vocabulary Game(Concentration)



Unit: The French in America

Unit :
La Martinique et la Guadeloupe


Martinique (CIA World Factbook)
  Martinique (Information Please Almanac)

 
Guide Martinique - Bienvenue
Martinique Promotion Bureau
Patrick Chomoiseau - (Caribbean author)  Lesson Plans for Chamoiseau's tales to use with young children
Cendrillon - a Caribbean Cinderella
A Martinique Webquest

Unit: Tales of Childhood


Unit: Le Voyage de sa vie


On s'amuse!