Some Activities to Make Learning French More Engaging / Level B2-C1 Here’s a song performed by Jo Dassin, a perfectly bilingual singer. The French version is particularly useful for practicing verb tense agreement with our students: “Si + imperfect / present conditional.” Here’s a video of this song so you can hum along: As a […]
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Some Activities to Make Learning French More Engaging / Level B2-C1 Here’s a song performed by Jo Dassin, a perfectly bilingual singer. The French version is particularly useful for practicing verb tense agreement with our students: “Si + imperfect / present conditional.” Here’s a video of this song so you can hum along: As a
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When Urbain apologizes to the “vegans” at the Montreux Festival, only to end up declaring his love for the French language, you really have to master a language quite different from the one taught in our classrooms, and yet his lexical liberties and colloquialisms are quite common and perfectly understandable to the majority of native
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Here is a selection of EASY exercises to get you started gently… To be or to have? Review of the present tense Many of – a thematic vocabulary list related to a specific topic. Gardening -the song of the month is on the same topic: In the Countryside -a spotlight on an artist (film or
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Steve, a Francophile student, shares his film review of "Délicieux" (2021) The story takes place just before the French Revolution, around 1780… The main character is a chef who works for a duke but gets fired because some of the guests don’t like his food. In fact, the chef loves to innovate and create new
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