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 One dream of language teachers has been to find real life situations that would coincide perfectly with grammar exercises. Such a dream might not be realizable because real life is not perfectly coordinated with grammar lessons. However, the abundance of realia on the Internet does make it an effective means to initiate students to the cultural traditions that are part of the foreign culture’s daily life and heritage, such as advertisements, films, songs, art, news, and cartoons. Because of the very fact that real life, as well as realia on the Net are not perfectly coordinated with grammar lessons, this creates a more authentic and challenging learning experience for the students. Students will be constantly asked to recall grammar and vocabulary previously learned. For example, knowledge of the future tense gained in the textbook takes on urgency for the student who is surfing the Net to do the weather forecast for Paris or Madrid as a class assignment. Similarly, color vocabulary learned in class take on new life when the student has to describe a painting by Dali or Matisse on the Net. The subjunctive becomes real when the student has to decipher a message from an interesting advertising poster on the Net: "Il faut que vous fassiez la lessive avec Omo," etc. You will find below thirty-six (36) assignments, each on a separate page.Your students should click on each assignment, print it out and complete the questions, then evaluate the assignment. They then turn in the exercises and evaluations to you, the instructor.Web exercises number 20 to 36 are prepared by Marie Ponterio (SUNY-Cortland) and are more appropriate for intermediate-level French classes.
Useful Websites for French Language Online French-English
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http://www.apreslecole.fr/ http://www.jde.fr/ http://www.radio-canada.ca/tv/jeunes/betes/ 6. Keypals : http://www.infocan.gc.ca/penpals/p_get-f.html
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