Students discuss their future using the future tense and vocabulary related to the topic. They choose 3 careers they would and would not like to pursue to research and write interview questions to French speakers via email. They create a...

In this researching radium worksheet, students discover who discovered it, write a short report, and draw a picture. Students compete three activities.

Before presenting the material to your classes, review different constructions of the conditional tense. This teacher's guide provides several examples and role-play opportunities with your class. Dialogue to build familiarity with the...

The conditional tense is a tough for learners to master. This resource, originally designed as a quiz, assesses learners on their use of si and the conditional. They practice writing sentences in both the conditionnel présent and...

Some words need to change in order to be used in their feminine forms. While focusing on jobs and professions, review the words that need that extra e in their feminine form. Also, distinguish between the words that get the ending -teuse...

While talking about jobs and professions, discuss masculine and feminine nouns. When given a list of masculine nouns, learners have to decide how to make that noun feminine. In addition, they will edit a short paragraph that currently...

Students read a current television guide from French television. In groups, they practice and review the twenty-four hour clock and determine when a show they want to watch is on in Europe. They create a list of words they know and do...

Fourth graders explore ballet. In this dance and music humanities lesson, 4th graders practice ballet positions and play a card game using French ballet vocabulary. Students count beats in rhythm patterns and listen to classical music...

The 15th and 16th centuries marked one of the most interesting periods in European art history. The deep symbolism, allegory, rich imagery, and iconography can be found in this extensive and well-organized slideshow. From El Greco to...

Do you think there are other planets similar to the earth? Assess your intermediate and advanced French readers with this interesting text about super-Earths. Following the reading are three activities: one focusing on vocabulary, a...

One, two, three. Un, deux, trois. Eins, zwei, drei. Primary learners love to count and this lesson contains a series of games that encourage learners to count in English, French, German, and Spanish. The exercises develop literacy and...

This units gives students opportunities to * Research the history and patterns of French settlement in Louisiana * Discover three types of music (New Orleans jazz, Cajun, Zydeco) which are representative of the Francophone presence in...

Class groups examine conflicting primary and secondary sources describing the 1704 attack on the fort at Deerfield by French and Native Americans and analyze the implications of discrepancies.

Every war has a number of turning point battles that define the outcome. Inform learners of three major battles of the American Revolution. The Battle of Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Yorktown and the Treaty of Paris are each discussed. Maps...

The second and third movements of the Eroica, Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, provides listeners with an opportunity to connect to French Revolution and to Napoleon Bonaparte. As they listen to the music, individuals draw what their ears...

Europe was changing in the early nineteenth century, and the Congress of Vienna largely sought to slow and contain those sweeping changes. A slideshow presentation illustrates the details of the Congress of Vienna, including its three...

Bilateral suborbital hematoma? Call an audible? 404? Have fun with “the twittering or warbling of birds,” or as 14th century French speakers would say, have fun with “jargon.” Groups match specialized jargon with plain speech, decode...

Many classic tales, like "Cinderella," can be found worldwide. Bacis events are similar, but each retelling is molded by the culture in which it exists. Present your class with several version of tale (links provided) and have them...

Read this bizarre story with your French class! The story is about a half-page in length, but the word choice and sentence structures are geared towards intermediate and advanced Francophones. Activities focus on vocabulary development,...

Students explore philanthropy in literature. In this literature lesson, students read text from three different genres that all have a moral. Students compare and contrast these pieces of literature, focusing on the character traits that...

Two real-world activities to practice adding, subtracting and multiplying matrices to problem solve. Data from several Pro football quarterbacks is used in one activity to make some predictions based on their stats. Then the class takes...

Set up your learners to become master sentence combiners with this sentence combining instructional activity! There are 3 columns on this resource. Writers merge simple sentences from the first column and second column using the clue...

I can burn off one scrambled egg in 30 minutes of walking? Explain how we daily consume and burn calories using this fun instructional activity, which breaks down basic foods and activities into kilocalorie equivalents. Nutritionists...