Our national standards for World Language teaching advise us to use authentic resources to teach language and culture. I set out to show other teachers through example what that would look like. Find linked here a list of authentic resources to teach language and culture with suggestions of activities to use them to maximize their…

The purpose of the post is to revisit four thematic units that I have posted in the past. By reviewing these units, I want the reader to understand the connections between them and how they leverage using authentic resources to teach language and culture. I teach language and culture through resources from francophone countries in…

While learning language, Novices can learn about other cultures from authentic texts just as well as learners at higher levels if the documents are chosen carefully and the activities are scaffolded. I set out to identify a dozen authentic resources about Martinique and create activities to go with them. You will see my examples in…

Looking for authentic resources on Haïti that Novice learners can understand has been a pleasure. I have discovered art, music, stories and world heritage sites that I didn’t know about. It’s too bad that one of my students in French class had to ask me twice when I was going to teach about her mother’s…

While it is challenging to find authentic resources online from free sites, there are even more than ever before available. Now it seems possible to find ones on that come from francophone countries outside of France. One approach to curriculum writing is to start by gathering resources on a topic and then write a unit…

Let’s watch some scenes from French-language movies with our students. What is it like to watch just one scene? What can we understand from one scene of a movie? Watch scenes from a few films as a class and then rate them from favorite to least favorite in a Google Form. (Please make a copy…

Teachers can teach language and culture with one scene from a film.

This World Cup I don’t need to make as many resources for myself because there are excellent resources to be found on the Facebook page La Folie de Foot. Make sure you take a look. My 8th grade students are interested in the teams and the players. If yours are as well, you might want…