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  • Using EdPuzzle to Build Listening Skills

    If you teach French, you’ve probably wrestled with how to get students comfortable listening to authentic French when native speakers talk at lightning speed. I’ve found that EdPuzzle is a game-changer if you use it the right way. How the app supports Language Learning Let’s be honest: listening comprehension is hard. But when students can…

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  • Picture Talk

    A compelling photo can tell a story and can be leveraged into a context for a conversation. Start by eliciting vocabulary from the students, then you can use that vocabulary to talk about the picture. You will finish by constructing a text together with your students, which you will ask them to read. Picture Talk…

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  • Songs to reinforce vocabulary from a unit

    Music gets my students’ attention. Sometimes they enjoy the tune and other times they revel in critiquing it. With Novice students music videos can serve to observe the images and use French to comment on what they see or they can listen for words (as opposed to for meaning) in the song. Here are a…

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  • Paid Resource: Movietalks from Others

    While I probably am more willing than the next person to write my own teaching materials, I find the time that it takes to make quality resources is extensive. I would rather put my energy into being present for my students. When I can rely on materials I have written in the past or on…

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