General Professional Resources
Global Excite has a menu of countries in which to search, including
Excite France and Excite Germany.
Yahoo has many international sites, including
Yahoo France,
Yahoo Canada
Yahoo
Germany.and Yahoo Spain
Francité search engine from French-speaking Canada.
Debriefing Moteur de recherche a meta search engine that searches both English and French language sites for a thorough search.
Carrefour search engine for the French-speaking world is useful for specific searches dealing with Switzerland, Belgium, Québec as well as for France.
Hachette Annuaire to access the best French-language Internet sites as selected by Hachette publishers, click on this site then choose the category of choice.
Hachette Juniorfor sites geared to elementary, Middle school and early teens, this site offers links to educational sites in French pour apprendre; sites pour s'amuser;
top 20 visited sites; and a list of new sites. Spend time here and bookmark fyour favorites for use with your FL classes. The site on gastronomie for instance, is an excellent way to generate language and interest among students.
Olénet: Search engines in French and Spanish: On the left are all current French-language Search engines; select from the right for Spanish-language Engines.
Nomade Search Engine from France type in search words or topics in French; click on actualités for a summary of the day's headlines then on additional categories from the extensive menu.
Voila: moteur de recherchesearch themes and topics on this excellent search engine from France. One useful theme for investigating a wide range of topics geared to Elementary school to early High school is the Juniors link. Pull up online class papers; recipes for young cooks; online stories; online poetry sites for youngsters, all in French.
Eureka Search Engine from France an excellent search engine for the French speaking world also includes links by theme, by name and more. Check the 100 top sites in French and a collection of usefulnouvautés.
Click on Alta Vista and Hot Bot
for a pull-up menu of countries in which to search.
Click on Magellan site then on countries to bring up countries beyond the US.
Click on
Lycos for information relating to other places, including foreign travel, government and specific topics. For France, click on Lycos France.
Athena:OnLine books The mega-site with links to online French language literary collections, specific texts and textual studies. Scroll to the French Books link for a extensive source of online texts in French by authors from around the world. An excellent Swiss site by Pierre Perroud.
Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links Tennessee Bob's Supersite for all French topics. His updated site encompasses more that 5000 sites, arranged by topics. A fabulous resource for projects and backround information on almost anything French.
Swarthmore Language Lab on the Web: M Jones offers an excellent site with useful links to many languages, especially French, German and Spanish.
Foreign Language Resources on the Web: Select Steve Thorne's site for a useful index to many Foreign language data bases and other Web sites for FL teaching.
American Association of Teachers of French Home Page: AATF's excellent site maintained by Townsend Bowling at the University of Texas, Saint Antonio, is THE place to start to discover the French-language presence on the Web. Learn Technical terms in French then visit useful General Resources for French Language classes. Scroll down to join AATF and to peruse an extensive Menu including Listservs, student correspondence projects and many fine links to additional areas of interest to FL teachers. Don't miss Teaching With Internet Frequently Asked Questions. with its online Web Workshops for FL Teachers and more.
Teaching with the Web: Lauren Rosen has compiled an excellent site with ideas for teachers to use with FL classes. Click on her extensive set of links to related sites for teaching with the Web.
Glossaire informatique des termes de...terminologie informatique a French language glossary of basic technology terms put out by the Minister of Technology. The best way for technology neophytes to use is to scroll down to end of the site where one can click on to specific French computer related terms. A second option is to scroll down (derouler or defiler) the list(bypassing the alphabetic choice) and read the definition in French. Most entries include an English translation.
La Page des Lexiques: click on this page from the Ministere de Culture for French language dictionaries related to the Internet. Sites include: Un dictionnaire de néologie internet;
L'abc des réseaux; Vocabulaire d'Internet; and glossaires de termes d'informatique et d'Internet.
Quelques dictionnaires, glossaires et lexiques a central site for currently on-line Dictionaries, Glossaries and Technology related Word lists in French. Scroll to the bottom for more links.
LOKACE: Moteur de recherche francais: visit this vast French-language search engine to search a specific subject or to investigate sites included in categories for further research. Lokace includes categories for tourism, Art and Culture, government, health, communications and Human sciences and computer studies.
ECILA: moteur de recherche: sujet, La France: search here for a specific topic by typing in les mots clés in box or research more than 30 subjects related to France by clicking on topics midway down page. General topics include tourisme, presse, cuisine, annonces, html, info, photo, bibliotheque, football and much more. Use these French search engines to design projects for your class. Be sure to research each topic yourself prior to assigning to students for optimal use of the technology and of class time.
Zapping-LooK:moteur de recherche 100% en français: search for a specific topic in French or scroll down and click on catégorie for a general topic to explore.
Return to EA's Modern Language Home Page
Art and Literature Projects for French Classes
Dictons sur La Météorologie: select 10 sayings in French about weather then illustrate by way of on-line art works or your own creations.
Paris History in Art: match sites in Paris with on-line poetry or printed collections of poetry.
Un peu de poésie française: select 3 poems from this extensive list of poetry in French and illustrate or set a mood through on-line art or your own creations.
Florilège poetry: select 3 of your favorite poems in French and illustrate or set a mood through on-line artwork or your own creations.
Bonnet's favorite poems: select from Rimbaud and illustrate or set mood through your own or on-line artwork.
Fables de La Fontaine: select one fable from La Fontaine and illustrate for a young audience; adapt the theme and write and bind in book form your own variation in French for children about 9 years old. With a partner, record your works in French and English and donate to the library.
Write your Variation on Queneau: select from lines in French to create your own poem. type yours up in font of your choice and mount on fancy paper for a class book of poetry.
Journal des Enfants: poésie: copy and illustrate 2 poems and 2 jokes from French magazine for youth for a group collection. Write a poem in English in keeping with the tone of one of the French poems.
Premier Pas Sur L'Internet read main menu of this premier site for young people (including FLES age students) for a wealth of exciting topics. Select from among sections on interactive stories, jokes, comptines,games, keypals and more!
Comptines from Momes: select category of children's comptines and short poetry to listen to then to illustrate.
Carambar: online jokes at the Carambar candy site just like the blagues you've come to look for on the candy wrapper. If only Carambar virtuel could recreate our alltime favorite carambar au caramel, life would indeed be sweet!
Journal des Enfants: click here to check out the joke of the week in French at this online newspaper for young people. Forward your own blague à faire rire to add to the merriment.
Quebecoise Singers: select from an extensive list of individual Quebecoise singers including La Bolduc and Charlebois to learn about their lives and music. Students individually or in pairs research one singer, choosing favorite songs and words of each for a fascinating class project into the life, times and talents of a French-Canadian musician.
Le Bal du Prince: Interactive Novel in French: read directions, scroll down and click onQue L'Aventure commence! for first episode where you must choose your next step to unfurl the story. Fun to read and interact with story in pairs!
Vocabulaire Critique: Romans/Poésies/Pièces: select French terms, write up a few sentences in French and make collages to illustrate vocabulary. For dénouement, write up a paragraph in French telling the ending of AP class stories or English class works. Write up resumes of French novels, plays and fiction. Find examples of a jeu de mots and mots utiles to group together.
Ressources de l'Internet liées aux études cinématographiques et audiovisuelles: a vast source of databases and thematic resources about multimedia and cinemagraphic studies based within the French Imaginet site. The first place to research for all movie and media topics.
Index of Imaginet sites: y compris Musique, voyages, cyberculture, entreprises et 1001 sites d"Imaginet: click here and assign student pairs to generate a list of possible topics in each category. Research each general area to identify specific topics for further research. Use this site as a basis for a teacher workshop on Interent for French classes.
Cinopsis:Magazine Belge du cinéma International: click on ridicule for a photo gallery; research Pagnol films that we watch in our France Culture course; click on sites favoris for sites in French from Canada, France and elsewhere on French cinema; and find ample sites for spoofing the visual arts.
Electricite de France (EDF) Le Net magazine: This excellent on-line magazine put out by Electricite de France offers articles in French on topics such as Renewable Energies, The 50th Anniversary of EDF, Electric Autos. Click on Archives to pull up additional articles from prior issues. Assign one topic per group (Electonic Autos includes 9 articles) for an excellent project dealing with the environment.
Return to EA's Modern Language Home Page