Posts Tagged ‘ 20th Century ’

Using Gallica to Find Course Materials

June 11, 2010
By Rachel
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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 not available on Google Books because Google cannot publish full-text documents if there is...Read more »

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Music: Francis Cabrel’s “Octobre” and the Futur Simple

June 10, 2010
By Rachel
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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 text contain a verb in the future, and many of them are irregular. The...Read more »

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