TEACHING RESOURCES AND SAMPLE STUDENT/TEACHER PROJECTS VISIT US OFTEN AS THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED ON A REGULAR BASIS.

LITERATURE

• L'Art du portrait (BNF, France)
  Teaching materials (literature, painting and photography)

• Cahiers de littérature française (Institut français de Düsseldorf, Allemagne)
  Interesting compilations on authors and their work. One on Azouz Begag is quite well done.

• La Classe de français virtuelle
  Introduction to literary texts and analysis.

• La Clé des procédés littéraires
  

• Connexion Français
  Excerpts of literary texts with commentaries.

• Courants ou tendances littéraires

• Eléments de narratologie

• L'Étude des textes littéraires au lycée

• Figures de rhétorique et procédés littéraires

• Le Français dans tous ces états (Revue du CRDP, France): Dossiers sur auteurs

• Lexique des Etudes littéraires

• Manuel d'études littéraires: Analyse du poème, du récit et du discours

• Sommaire de versification classique française

LINGUISTICS

• Introduction à l'étude du langage (University of Alberta, Canada)

• Introduction à la linguistique française (Queen's University, Canada)

• Notions de linguistique française.

• Sur les sentiers de la linguistique (Université de Toronto, Canada)

• Cours d'introduction à la linguistique (Département de linguistique de l'Université de Genève)

• Phono, Phonétique du Français Québecois
  Linguistic description of Quebecoise pronunciation of French. The site provides audio recordings, contrastive analysis (with standard French), geographic and sociolinguistic study of each phenomenon, and extensive bibliography on each subject.

• Histoire du Français au Québec

• Cours de Phonétique Française
  This site just put together by a group of researchers in linguistics from the Université Laval is devoted primarily to the phonetic description of French sounds. Large database of sound and visual documents. Lists and explains 500 terms in phonetics.

CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION

• Civilisation française (Marie-J. Ponterio, Robert Ponterio)
  Activities and interactive exercises on a number of variours cultural themes.

• Voyage Virtuel en France (Marie-J Ponterio)
  This website offers a introductory tour of French cities and regions. Click on the map to see...

• Les caves de Lascaux
  Developed by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, this Website shares the prehistoric artwork of the cave at Lascaux. The site explains the geological and historical timeline of the cave, the story and circumstances of its discovery, the circumstances of its closing in 1963, the construction of a copy of the cave, and a virtual tour through the different rooms.

• Traditions de Noël en France et au Canada
  A site in French with its English version created in association with the French and Canadian Ministries about Christmas origin and customs from the two cultures.

• French Revolutionary Pamphlets
  A series of rare pamphlets from the French Revolution. These materials could be used in French civilization lessons as well as language classes.

• La Révolution française - 1789-1799 (Pierre-Marie Lasseron pour un cours de CM2)
  Created by Pierre-Marie Lasseron, this site is incredibly weel organized and the drawings are stunning. You will find documents, portraits, songs, music, etc.

• Ciel, mon bateau!
  Users accompany seventeenth century explorers on their voyages to America. The task is to identify the explorer in question by using clues given along the way. Reading comprehension, civilization and history.

• Une fin de semaine dans le Dauphiné
  A web quest activity for three or four students. Users are guided through the planning process for a trip to Grenoble. Detailed script, good external links.

• Jour d'histoire
  Jours d'histoire is an online encyclopedia of the world major historical events.

• Napoléon
  Thematic chronologies of Napoleonic history, genealogy of the imperial family, database of articles on Napoleon, filmography of the First and Second Empires. Itineraries for Parisian strolls of the Second Empire. Exhibits, interviews and searchable database.

• Gallica, Voyages en France
  Discover France through images and texts of travelers from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the XXth century.

• Apprendre à enseigner avec TV 5

• Funambule: Apprendre et Enseigner le Français avec TV5
  Video modules with pre-viewing, viewing and post-viewing exercises. Short videoclips from TV5 expose students to engaging authentic materials in French. Modules ready for classroom use.

• Centre des Monuments nationaux
  Visit 200 hundred monuments. Get information about events taking place in castles and abbeys. Put together a personal travel notebook.

• Mille monuments du XXe siècle!

• Le système éducatif français.

• Histoire, Géographie et Education Civique
  Teaching site created by Eric Ranguin, from the Académie d'Orléans-Tours.

• France Practique
  Info about anything you want to know about France, education, politics, etc.

• France diplomatie - Voici la France
  Geography, history, politics, economy, French contenporary society, eductaion, etc.

• Cultural Services of the French Embassy (Wash., D.C.)

• Ministère de la Culture et de la Francophonie.

• CHÂTEAU DE VERSAILLES (Site officiel du Château de Versailles)

• Ambassade du Canada, Washington, D.C.

• CODOFIL - Conseil pour le Développement du Français en Louisiane

• Evangeline

• CULTURA
  Intercultural communication. Created at MIT by a team of French teachers and financed by NEH. To find more about it, read the article recently published in LLT "The CULTURA Project" (Vol.5, No. 1, January 2001, pp. 155-102). Note that CULTURA is now hosted by WebCT.com where there exists the possibility of becoming a Beta-Tester of CULTURA 2000. American professors of French can explore this possibility here.

• Voyage en Terre d'Oc, le catharisme

• La cathédrale de Chartres, expression d'une religion (Véronique de Montchalin)

• LA TAPISSERIE DE BAYEUX - Etude de la société médiévale à partir dÕun document patrimonial 
  Project conducted by Thierry Lamiraud.

• Accords Francophones: Traditions et Instruments de Musique du Monde Francophone

• Le Quid
  Huge information database. Best seen with Internet Explorer.

• Cartothèque
  Very nice collection of maps that you can easily download and edit in any image/photo software.

• ZipZapFrance
  The geography of France explained to juniors.

• Introduction à la civilisation et culture française
  (online course)

• Le Mondial de la Publicité
  View the best commercial ads in French.

FRENCH FOR BUSINESS

• Le Français en affaires au Québec et en Amérique du Nord
  Teaching materials for intermediate and advanced classes.

• Site des affaires et des professions
  This site includes teaching materials and exams to prepare for the exam of the Chambre du commerce et de l'industrie of Paris, France.

• Le Français des Affaires: Créer une société
  A French for business module where students are tasked with making detailed plans for creating a company. External links are provided for them to complete the task.

• Centre de ressources pour le français sur objectifs spécifiques

• Dictionnaire d'Apprentissage du français des affaires

• French for Business and Technology
  Cooperative Project by Nicole Minnick at the Universiy of Maryland. Visit the web sites created by her students. Each group of students created a fictitious company, built their company's web site so that they could recruit employees, advertise and sell their products.

• Projet Emploi 
  Serious Canadian interactive "worksearch" resource for advanced level full unit projects in commercial French or as individual projects for students seriously seeking employment in a Francophone country. Rubriques : Les éléments de base/ Connaissance de soi/ Chercher du travail/ Explorer les carrières/ Apprentissage et formation/ Travailleur indépendant/ Avoir des compétences monnayables.

• Le Français des Affaires, Langue et Culture
  Syllabus, modules and tests. Course created By Thérèse St. Paul as a joint project between the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies, the Wharton School of Business, and the French program at University of Pennsylvania.

• French for Business at UT Austin
  Syllabus, modules and tests. Course created By Thérèse St. Paul.

MISCELLANEOUS

• Banque d'activités pédagogiques
  Activities for the primary and secondary grades which can be easily adapted for the college level. Very well done.