E-Language Links for TeachersFrench
WEB LINKS FOR FRENCH STUDENTS - METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT OF STEUBIN COUNTY
Links to online activities and resources for French learners are available on Pierre’s Page.
100 MOST COMMON FRENCH WORDS
A list of the most common 100 French words, including common verb conjugation and use.
OFFICIAL SITE OF THE EIFFEL TOWER
The official website of the Eiffel Tower is available in French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese, Arabic, and Spanish. It includes news, practical information, e-mail postcards (a great writing activity for students), a virtual gallery and a video gallery, and more.
TRILINGUAL INDEX OF IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND SPANISH The site
1000 images on the tip of my tongue is interactive, and focuses on idiomatic expressions that have the same meaning in French, English and Spanish, but cannot be translated word for word. This trilingual directory provides more than 1,000 idiomatic phrases classified according to theme.Each one is inserted into a short text that illustrates its meaning and contains a digital audio file. Listening to the file allows us to fully understand all the various shades in the pronunciation. The site also includes exercises and games as well as brief, humorous animations, which contribute to the discovery of the fascinating world of colorful expressions.
FRENCH SLANG This BBC website is the essential guide to young French people’s slang, divided into categories, including Argument, Going Out, Money, Moods, and Politics.
FRENCH PROVERBS
A list of French proverbs organized by theme is available at this French-language website.
ePALS
ePals.com facilitates e-mail exchanges betwen students in US classroom and students abroad. In addition, ePals SchooBlog allows teachers to create an interactive website for their classes and exchange teaching techniques and strategies with their counterparts in other countries. The "Projects" link provides examples of how teachers have integrated ePals.com into the curriculum. ePals Book Club facilitates discussion among students from different countries.
GOETHE TESTS ENGLISH-FRENCH
200 tests are available in both easy and advanced versions. It is a useful website to test your students by asking in English and getting an answer in French.
FRENCH LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING RESOURCES
Department of French at University of Virginia has diverse teaching resources for French! Classroom and homework activities, films for French courses and more are available.
FRENCH LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTER
French Language Resource Center offers a number of links to culture and history, news and magazines, literature, music, radio & television and etc.
FRENCH IN ACTION!
A video instructional series in French for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 52 half-hour video programs. This series uses active participation to increase fluency in French, while introducing French culture. Pierre Capretz’s proven language-immersion method is presented within a humorous teleplay with native speakers of all ages and backgrounds. The storyline of an American student and a young Frenchwoman's adventures in Paris and the French countryside is reinforced by Dr. Capretz’s on-camera instruction. Create a login to be able to view these videos (streaming from site) for free!
FRENCH LINGUISTICS: SITE FOR THE STUDY OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE
The French Linguistics website includes a French dictionary containing around 70,000 headwords with an additional 20,000 French compounds and expressions; a number of French phrases and basic French vocabulary, with phonetic transcriptions and English translations; some simple French vocabulary games; guides to various topics of French grammar; French computing terms; vocabulary flashcards; currency conversion tools for French-speaking countries; and more.
BBC LANGUAGE
BBC has diverse resources for different levels of French learners, including audio reports with transcripts by topics or language focus, crosswords and Mp3 audio guide to slang.
FRANCAIS INTERACTIF
The University of Texas at Austin has put their entire first year French course online! FANTASTIQUE resource, make sure to check out their videos and audio portions! Everything can be downloaded.
INTERACTIVE WEBSITE FOR FRENCH LEARNERS
The Bonjour les amis! resource provides presentation, practice and production activities. This resource exposes students to a variety of French speakers and cultural content from different areas of Canada and from other French-speaking countries.
FRENCH TEXTING
Teach your students how students send text message lingo in French!
THE INTERNET PICTURE DICTIONARY: FRENCH
This website has flashcards, fill-in-the-blank, word scramble (“stinky spelling”) and straight recall with visual cues. Help your visual learners remember vocabulary better with more fun.
OXFORD DICTIONARIES
Oxford dictionaries offer free resources for students and teachers of French such as French dictionaries, essential phrases, general advice on writing in French and etc.
THE FRENCH LANGUAGE INITIATIVE
The French Language Initiative is focused on promoting the study of French language and French-speaking cultures and increasing the number of students enrolling in French programs nationwide.
THE CANADIAN BROADCAST COMPANY
The Canadian Broadcast Company offers a weekly French lesson called “Word of the Week” as part of its C’est la vie series about French speaking Canadians. Each short broadcast targets one word and features different Canadian French speakers giving example sentences and discussion of it.
CULTURE FRANCOPHONE
The Culture Francophone website, which is available in French and in English, is dedicated to French culture in Canada. Resources include interactive showcases covering five centuries of Canadian francophone history, information about feasts and traditions, a list of prominent French-speaking Canadians, and more.
LYRICS TO FRENCH SONGS
The ABC de la Chanson Francophone website has the lyrics to nearly 25,000 songs in French; some also have links to video and audio versions of the songs.
UNIVERCINE: FRENCH MOVIES TO DOWNLOAD
The French Cultural Services is offering an Internet portal that enables Universities and Cultural Centers to access films online and to organize public screenings more easily throughout the US.
RESOURCES FOR FRENCH TEACHERS
This middle school French teacher’s website has numerous resources for other French teachers.
Latin/Italian
ePals
ePals facilitates e-mail exchanges betwen students in US classroom and students abroad. In addition, ePals SchooBlog allows teachers to create an interactive website for their classes and exchange teaching techniques and strategies with their counterparts in other countries. The "Projects" link provides examples of how teachers have integrated ePals.com into the curriculum. ePals Book Club facilitates discussion among students from different countries.
New York Times Article about Latin: A Dead Language That’s Very Much Alive
VRoma: A Virtual Community for Teaching and Learning Classics
The VRoma Project is first and foremost a community of scholars, both teachers and students, who create online resources for teaching about the Latin language and ancient Roman culture. The two major components of the project are its online learning environment (MOO), which has received several favorable external reviews, and its collection of internet resources. The VRoma MOO requires logging on as a guest or through your personal character and password, but all the web resources are freely accessible on the internet.
ClassicaL MYTHOLOGY PODCAST
LearnOutLoud.com is pleased to present the Classical Mythology podcast.
This series will investigate the gods, heroes, and myths that formed bedrock of belief in the ancient Greek and Roman world.
Word of the Day in Italian
You can either view the word of the day online, or you can subscribe to receive it!
Maps of the Ancient World for Students
The Ancient World Mapping Center is developing a collection of free digital maps for educational use. This effort gives teachers and students an expanding set of small-scale reference maps for classroom and personal use. Each may be downloaded from the website in multiple formats. A blank version of each map — suitable for map quizzes and customization — is usually available.
Interactive Stories Online
Several interactive stories are now available from the Northumberland Language Learning Resources website. Stories are in Italian and include Goldilocks, Three Billy Goats Gruff, and Little Red Riding Hood.
LATIN LANGUAGE
From the history to useful Latin quotes, this website offers a general overview about the language in order to give you a way to get teach Latin language more effectively.
AN ANALYTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ON-LINE NEO-LATIN TEXTS
An analytic bibliography of Latin texts, written during the Renaissance and later that are freely available to the general public on the Web. Only original sites on which texts are posted are listed here.
LATIN GRAMMAR AID AND WORDLIST
This online dictionary provided by the University of Notre Dame contains about 15,600 words. This site also contains links to other Latin resources of interest to language educators and learners.
CONFERENCE: MEETING THE CHALLENGE
Meeting The Challenge: Bringing Classical Texts to Life in the Classroom, is an international conference for teacher trainers and teachers of Latin, ancient Greek and classical civilization. The most recent conference took place in Venice, Italy – July 26-28, 2008.
LATINUM: LATIN LANGUAGE LEARNING PODCAST
LATINUM is the name of the Latin language learning podcast offered on mypodcast.com. Recently the millionth podcast was added to the site, which is indexed so that new visitors can browse the archives.
LANGUAGE CROSSWORDS IN ITALIAN
This site provides a fun and challenging way to refine and improve Italian vocabulary.
CLASSICS TECHONOLGY CENTER
The Classics Technology Center on the Web (CTCWeb) is an online educational resource for millions of educators and students at the K-12 and post secondary levels around the globe. Resources include the following: A link to an online Latin dictionary, Knowledge Builders, Teachers' Companions, Curriculum Materials, A word of the day feature
E.L. SASTON
Useful site offering quizzes and teaching resources, audio Latin sources, links to online teaching materials, entry-level reading texts and pronunciation guides.
ITALIAN PROVERBS
Proverbs are a part of every culture. They are a common way of expressing ideas and beliefs. This site contains a list of Italian proverbs. Just click on a proverb to get the English equivalent.
CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY PODCAST
LearnOutLoud.com is pleased to present the Classical Mythology podcast. This series will investigate the gods, heroes, and myths that formed bedrock of belief in the ancient Greek and Roman world.
CULTURE SHOCKS BLOG
This blog is a resource offered by the National Capital Language Resource Center, a federally-funded language center for teachers of foreign languages. Its purpose is to showcase amusing and informative incidents of cultural misunderstandings.
GOETHE-TESTS ENGLISH-ITALIAN
200 tests are available in both easy and advanced versions. It is a useful website to test your students by asking in English and getting an answer in Italian.
THE ITALIAN ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM
The Italian Electronic Classroom! is a project of Centro Studi Italiani, aimed at providing free on-line, useful information on difficult aspects of the Italian language to students, teachers, translators, writers.
THE INTERNET PICTURE DICTIONARY
This website offers not only a picture dictionary, but also flashcards, fill-in-the-blank, word scramble (“stinky spelling”), and a straight recall game with visuals. Spanish
PEACE CORPS EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Bring dozens of Peace Corps Volunteer stories, letters, and folk tales with standards-based lessons to your class. Also discover ways to involve students in service learning. The WorldWise Schools website has a searchable database of lesson plans largely based on the Understanding By Design framework, plus ideas for enrichment and service learning activities. Culture videos include locations such as Honduras, the Dominican Republic and Paraguay.
ONLINE GRAMMAR DRILLS
These rather traditional grammar drills may provide extra practice for students who find the interactivity alluring. The exercises provide immediate feedback. Specific grammar points covered include adjectives, conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, verb forms, and verb usage.
BIBLIOTECAS VIRTUALES
This website is a virtual community of readers and writers. It offers opportunities to share ideas about well-known literary texts, as well as to share original creative works. It also has online versions of some literary texts.
WORLD SPANISH ACCENTS EXPLAINED AT ES-XCHANGE
An article on differences in Spanish accents around the world is available at this blog. The associated audio library contains a total of 66 voice recordings from 49 cities in 12 different countries — Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Read the article and access the audio library here.
SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
This site contains a number of excellent modules produced by Barbara Kuczun Nelson of Colby College that use stories and songs to teach language and culture.
ePALS
ePals facilitates e-mail exchanges betwen students in US classroom and students abroad. In addition, ePals SchooBlog allows teachers to create an interactive website for their classes and exchange teaching techniques and strategies with their counterparts in other countries. The "Projects" link provides examples of how teachers have integrated ePals.com into the curriculum. ePals Book Club facilitates discussion among students from different countries.
SPANISHDICT.COM
This Spanish-English dictionary has over 50,000 entries with over 10,000 audio pronunciations.
ELECTRONIC FLASHCARDS FOR SPANISH The idea behind this project is to mimic, in an electronic format, flashcards as they are used to learn Spanish. These exercises provide drills for Spanish to English translation of vocabulary words, drills for verb conjugations, and other grammar drills. New exercises will be added as time permits, so stop by often. GOETHE TESTS ENGLISH-SPANISH200 tests are available in both easy and advanced versions. It is a useful website to test your students by asking in English and getting an answer in Spanish.
PAPEL PICADO INSTRUCTIONS
Here are three websites with instructions for doing papel picado projects:
http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/do/papelpicado.html
http://www.storyboardtoys.com/gallery/Jerome.htm
http://www.ehow.com/how_2094327_make-papel-picado.html
RESOURCES FOR USING SONGS IN SPANISH CLASS
A list of Spanish songs, grammar and culture points that go well with each, and links and downloadable associated resources is available.
-A list of Spanish-speaking singers with links to some of their songs and suggested activities to accompany them is available at http://www.elenet.org/canciones .
-Users can share activities that go with particular songs (there is already a large collection of contributions) at http://formespa.rediris.es/canciones.
PROJECT REACH
Project REACH: Recursos para la Ensenanza y el Aprendizaje de las Culturas Hispanas offers resources on the history and literature of the Spanish language, Latino cultures in the U.S., arts of the Spanish-speaking world, instructional materials for teaching Spanish-speakers, and the Quechua culture indigenous to the remote regions of the Peruvian Andes.
FORMESPA
The site includes songs, video activities, listening activities, PowerPoints, internet activities, and resource links.
LANGUAGE CROSSWORDS IN SPANISH
This site provides a fun and challenging way to refine and improve Spanish vocabulary. For the complete beginner or for the intermediate student, the automatic randomly generated crosswords are an interesting method for improving a language skill.
SUPER SPANISH WEBSITES
Super Spanish Website has a very extensive collection of links to other websites useful to Spanish teachers and learners. The links are organized by topic with new additions indicated as they appear.
RESOURCES BY AND FOR SPANISH TEACHERS
TodoELE is a website created by and for teachers of Spanish as a foreign language. It includes teaching materials, activities, songs, film information and activities, grammar exercises, job postings, news, bibliographies of useful resources, and much more.
CERVANTES TV ON THE INTERNET
Instituto Cervantes initiated the first cultural TV channel in Spanish that can be viewed around the world through the Internet.
POWERPOINTS FOR SPANISH
Free Presentations in PowerPoint format and Interactive Games in French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Dutch are available.
WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN MEXICO
SPANISH MYTHS AND FAIRY TALES
Here are two websites with fairy tales and myths in Spanish:
-Mitología para niños
-HadaLuna
LESSON PLANS AND PRESENTATIONS FOR SPANISH
16 lesson plans and presentations for teaching Spanish in grades K-12 are available for download from the Garden City Public Schools Technology Integration Project Sharing website.
