Textbook
website
Includes sites recommended by textbook
authors, some exercises for each chapter, textbook audio and
lab manual audio
hhttp://wps.prenhall.com/ml_valdman_cheznous_3

General resources
for
first-year French students
University
of Texas French grammar page
Exercises don't exactly correspond to
textbooks other than the one used at the University of Texas, but they
are widely used as a general reference. Watch out for that Texas
French accent.
http://www.lamc.utexas.edu/tex/
BBC
French Steps
A basic beginners' course. Video
clips can be
slow to load; try the basic version if that's a problem.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/french/lj/
BBC
French Page
Summary page of BBC resources for learners
at all levels
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/french/
French
Pronunciation
A guide to vowel, consonant sounds,
accented
letters and liaison.
http://www.frenchlesson.com/grammar/pronun/
French
numbers
http://french.about.com/library/begin/bl_numbers.htm
A variety of ways to type
accents. The easiest is probably to install the U.S.
International keyboard from your Start menu.
cartes:
carte de la France,
carte du Québec,
carte du Canada,
carte de l'Afrique, carte de l'Afrique
du Nord et du Moyen Orient , carte
de la conquête
arabe
Ch. 1
Nos
bébés. Some people
really love their pets.
http://www.linternaute.com/nature-animaux/index/animaux/animaux-domestiques/
Le
calendrier scolaire en France. France has a national
education system. Within a region, called "une académie,"
all the schools have the same calendar and vacations.
Class
notes Sep 24--review
of avoir/être, possessives
Ch. 2
Vous aimez le
bricolage? http://www.linternaute.com/bricolage/
Simplified rules of
pétanque. You can find more complicated explanations,
but this is a good start for beginners. And it's la pétanque, so
"on joue à la pétanque." La
pétanque à New York
Un champion
français Practicing
to knock out your opponent's boules
Class notes Oct 3
List of
questions you wrote on the board
ch. 3
Carte
du Canada
Population
des provinces Il y a une table quand
vous descendez la page.
composition
linguistique
Où est-ce qu'on parle français?
Anglais? Les deux?
changements
dans les pourcentages de francophones (1951-1996)
Est-ce qu'il y a plus de francophones ou moins de francophones
au Canada?
pour
en savoir plus le site proposé par les auteurs
de Chez Nous
exemples
de l'affichage en français
Return to Mary Ball web page
Ashland
University Department of Foreign Languages
Ashland
University web page