Learning the different French Christmas traditions

Since this week should be the last teaching week before the awaited holidays, I thought I would share some ideas and links to how Christmas is celebrated by the French.
In Provence, there are many local traditions. This short video explains all the symbols of the Provencal Christmas table and meal with French subtitles:

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Mary Glasgow magazines

 

Some time ago I wrote a post about the Mary Glasgow website and how I used its free Spanish articles and audio versions. Last week I received several French sample magazines and the “Bonjour”

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Learn French – Key structure: c’est bon!

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Giving opinions in French

I am fully convinced by Michel Thomas and to me the key is for students to be able to build sentences in small steps by learning its components parts. I am not interested in my students remembering long lists of words which I know they will not retain in the long run anyway.

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Learn French – Key structure: c’est pour moi ou pour toi?

Go through each slide and try to guess the word(s) missing by saying the sentences out loud.

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Learn French – Key structure: c’est ou ce n’est pas?

Go through each slide and try to guess the word(s) missing by saying the sentences out loud.

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