MOVE YOUR STUDENTS TO PARIS
A "Virtual Residence Language TM " Book
Sue Fenton, M Ed
NOTE: The actual "how to" book for setting up a "Virtual Rresidence Language is:
"Move Your Students to a World City." This book is a supportive resource of that.
"Move Your Students to Paris" is a huge supplement ary Paris teacher resource dripping with Paris culture and web sites (stores, products, current events, maps, schedules, neighborhoods, documents, city info, photos, forms, vocabulary, etc.,) to add authenticity to any French course.
There is a wide variety of over 900 web sites intended for heritage speakers. There are 1,200 ideas for culture-related activities. The web sites are updated about every year.
USE THIS BOOK:
1. as an exciting Paris culture connection to supplement and enrich any French course
2. to support a "Virtual Residence Language TM" (see below) French course in which all language is learned and applied (spoken) in actual and practical everyday culture contexts...all over the city.
NOTE: "Virtual Residence Language TM" is an approach teaching language in which students "move" into their own apartments in a world city and "live" there for the whole year to learn and apply vocabulary and structure in real and practical everyday culture contexts in the city.
USE THE 900 PARIS WEB SITES TO:
- expose students to French "in the wild" as heritage speakers see it with all its trendy" vocabulary.
- enrich your own French vocabulary and cultural expertise of Paris and French culture.
- find vocabulary and resources to print to make your unit materials more real and authentic... students are very curious and love to learn interesting tidbits and about differences in other cultures.
- give students Internet tasks similiar to experiences of Parisians who search for information in they daily lives
QUICKLY FIND:
- documents, maps, reservation forms, train & concert schedules, forms
- city events, neighborhood events, flea market treasures, magic shops
- cool locations for your conversations, ice cream flavors
- photos,store web sites, catalogs, names of hair stylists,
- music, live radio, classifieds, detective agencies, films playing this weekend
- clubs, restaurants, menus, learner's permit practice tests, etc.
- videos, magazines, literary texts, Paris sites info, school curriculae
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There are 111 categories !!!
Teaching shoes vocabulary? "Go" to a REAL Paris shoe store! Teaching toiletries?" Buy" REAL French products! Use REAL places in Paris and REAL products and streets, etc. There's a SALON DU CHOCOLAT in Paris? Simulate one in YOUR classroom the same week! Where do people SAY demonstrative pronouns in Paris? Use real contexts and places.
THIS BOOK PUTS PARIS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS & KEEPS YOU PLUGGED IN TO WHAT'S GOING ON THERE!
INCLUDES:
- Ideas for adventures and simulations to learn French. . . all around Paris.
- 900 French Web sites (and links to 100's more)
LEARN FRENCH WHILE YOU "LIVE" THERE ... do errands, take classes, consult guides, have appointments, explore, visit places.
- Send e-bisous, e-pastries, and e-cards.
- See a photo of your Paris apartment building.
- Listen to top singles on Skyrock radio.
- Keep "plugged in" to daily events in Paris/arrondissements.
- Apply for jobs at fast food restaurants and stores.
- Watch news on video; visit a kiosque for the press
- See photos of luxurious Paris hotels.
- See aerial views all over Paris.
- Visit parks, monuments, museums.
- Buy a pet at a pet store.
- Check transportation schedules.
- Go to a disco, stores, markets, and restaurants.
- Read comptines, poems, riddles, stories, song lyrics
- Cruise the Seine and see its bridges.
- Hundreds of photos of Paris places, sites, and scenes.
- Take a practice test for your license.
1,200 ideas in all !
© S.M. Fenton All rights reserved. Madame Fifi Publications
