In spite of the very public criticism of Google Books by the administrators of the Bibliothèque Nationale, the latter has engaged for years in a similar digitization project called Gallica. Ironically, you can often find texts on Gallica that are…
Online Sources: Interview with David Belle, Parkour’s inventor, on ParkourFrance Parkour Blog with an article about David Belle you can download New Yorker article on Parkour from 2007
This is a quick warm-up activity I use to review comparative adverbs (plus, moins, autant). It’s in the format of one of the most successful kind of oral exercise: a table to “find someone in the class who…” You can…
When learning adjectives in an elementary language course, I often use examples from the visual arts to create a comparaison exercise. Two paintings that lend themselves well to this kind of exercise are Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1862-1863) and Monet’s…
What student of 19th-century literature doesn’t remember the striking portrayal of the young Charles Bovary that begins Flaubert’s 1857 novel? The opening passage – which depicts the child as an awkward “nouveau” joining a class of students younger than him…
You can use any French song to create some sort of grammar, vocabulary, or culture lesson. The song “Octobre” by Francis Cabrel lends itself particularly well to a review of the futur simple. About half of the lines of the…