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Welcome to Madame Dunkin's classroom website! Bienvenue à la page web de Madame Dunkin! Ce site contient les choses suivantes: - une liste des cours que j'enseigne cette année - mes sites web favoris This webpage contains the following: - a list of the courses I am teaching this year - my favourite websites which might help you Please see each course page for homework listings and links to worksheets and more. This semester I am teaching French 8, 10, 11 and 12. See each page for a complete course description. I teach in room 203. My tutorial times are upon appointment, usually after school.
Favourite websites: I use these sites quite often, and some of them you might also find useful for grammar practice or finding out more info about France, Quebec or Francophone culture, music and other things. I will add in websites as I find them; please let me know if you find any sites that you think are great! google aboutfrench
l'imparfait: http://french.about.com/od/grammar/a/imperfect.htm?nl=1
http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/ This is a site about languages of the world; fun! This site is about ordering in a restaurant in France:
http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/menu.htm?nl=1
I googled self-correcting grammar exercises in Fr and got this: http://www.columbia.edu/~ab410/drills.html http://www.lepointdufle.net/ Don’t be put off by its being in French! http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/ http://www.polarfle.com/indexbis.htm (this looks fun!!) French Online Grammar Quiz
http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/%7Ecreitan/grammar.htm
Good grammar exercises with answers (beginning and intermediate levels)
French Sites for anyone who is interested in French:
1) translating: There are many online sites that translate words and phrases. Here are a few:
a) WordReference http://www.wordreference.com/ b) Free2ProfessionalTranslation http://www.freetranslation.com/ c) Google Language Tools http://www.google.ca/language_tools?hl=en * you can also you MS Word to translate......go to 'tools' > 'language' > 'translate' > and a box pops up on the right side of your screen. 2) Grammar a) BonPatron http://www.bonpatron.com (this site doesn't translate but corrects your grammar/spelling errors 3)Listen and Repeat There are some great online sites that provide to audio for a variety of words and phrases. Here a few sites. a) Bonjour:*** This is an outstanding site for hearing and repeating French words, phrases and sounds. The audio is clear and quick. The choices are large. For example, you may choose from a variety of lists including greetings, seasons, time, touring and more. http://www.bonjour.com/
another cool listening site: you will learn about accents
http://french.about.com/od/listening/ss/topicalindex_2.htm?nl=1 b) BBC: This site also provides quick audio for a variety of French phrases (as well as for other languages). http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/quickfix/ski.shtml c) Free Online Lessons : This BBC site also provides online lessons for free. http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/lj/ 4) Top 20 Activities in French : this is a ranked list of links to a variety of activities:
http://www.quia.com/shared/french/ 5) French as a Second Language : a) This is a Canadian site with numerous resources for teaching French as a second language. http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/french.html b) This second site is a sponsored by the Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers. http://www.caslt.org/teachers/teachersfsl.htm 6) French Dictionary a) Synonym Dictionary http://dico.isc.cnrs.fr/dico/fr/search b) This site uses a variety of well-known dictionaries for translating back and forth. http://www.lexilogos.com/anglais_langue_dictionnaires.htm c) French English Dictionary http://dictionary.cambridge.org/default.asp?dict=F d) http://wordreference.com/
7) Pronunciation Guides
a) AskOxford http://www.askoxford.com/languages/fr/toi_french/pronunciation/ b) This site pronounces words but it is a bit cumbersome and slow (two different links provided) http://french.about.com/library/begin/bl_begin_vocab.htm http://french.about.com/library/pronunciation/bl- audiodico.htm c) This is a general guide http://www.ldsmissions.net/fpm/fpg.html d) languageguide.org: Listen to specific vowel sounds in words. This is very helpful for a beginning French student. http://www.languageguide.org/francais/grammar/pronunciation/
e) This is a great site that provides the written translation and audio for some basic essential phrases http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/quickfix/ski.shtml
f) Check it out: free tutoring! More Free Tutoring: CORE FRENCH LearnNow BC has recently expanded the free tutoring services by adding Core French in Grades 9-12. The Core French Live Tutors are waiting to hear from your students! They are available every week from Monday to Thursday 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Students can even communicate with their live tutors in the french language by changing their keyboards (there are instructions and videos to explain how). Let your students know they can login and say "aide"!
8) There is now a French encyclopedia in the library for beginning French students!
L 'Encyclopédie Découverte for beginning French students. With thousands of articles, illustrations, and maps, and an easy-to-use interface.
More info: http://www.worldbookonline.com/sales/products?id=XWBF g) This site has some practice for listening comprehension:
http://french.about.com/library/listening/bl-listeningindex.htm
Introduction to simple spoken French that will help students (grade 7+) learn useful sentence structures to order meals, introduce themselves, find their way in a city... Students may appreciate learning French using this practical approach, a change from textbooks. http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/lj/menu.shtml
Do you want to know more about trips? See my pages on Quebec exchange.
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