Vive la France!

The following links will provide you with connections to resources in the French language and about French culture.  They will assist you in completing special projects and familiarizing yourself with the French language and cultures around the world.  Enjoy!

 

Websites to help you study at home

French 1: Excellent website for review at home (this is the textbook website). Select "Online Student Edition" and enter the password that your teacher gave you in order to access the textbook online (in case you forgot yours at school!) and to access some online exercises in addition to the chapter review.  At the end of the chapter, select "Chapter Activities", and then choose the chapter that you wish to review. Select "World News Online" for links to current event websites in French. Select "Web Explore" for links to sites about various topics of interest in French.  http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078656303/student_view0/
French 1: le fast-food  http://www.quickhamburger.fr/index1.html

 http://www.mcdonalds.fr/

French 1: la cuisine  http://www.timhortons.com/fr/index.html

 http://www.bistrodhubert.com/fr/indexsommaire.htm

 http://www.restaurant-la-chaumiere.fr/

 http://www.fra.cityvox.fr/restaurants_paris/Restaurants

French 1: le supermarché  http://www.champion.fr/index.cfm?id=formulaire.cfm

 http://www.allosupermarche.be/cgi-bin/allosupermarche/web_store/web_store.cgi?page=../fr

French 1: review exercises for  French 1; not tied to our textbook, but good.  http://www.marincatholic.org/French/frenchbleu.html
French 2: Excellent website for review at home (this is the textbook website). Select "Online Student Edition" and enter the username (BONVL205) and password (yaN6pRef) in order to access the textbook online (in case you forgot yours at school!) and to access some online exercises in addition to the chapter review.  At the end of the chapter, select "Chapter Activities", and then choose the chapter that you wish to review. Select "World News Online" for links to current event websites in French. Select "Web Explore" for links to sites about various topics of interest in French.  http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007865605x/
French 3: textbook website for review at home with online workbook exercises and quizzes.  http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/french_3/book_home.htm?state=IL
French 2: review exercises for the French 2 Discovering French book that we don't use. http://www.marincatholic.org/inc/html/marincatholic/content/french/frenchblanc.html
French 3: review exercises for the French 3 book. http://www.marincatholic.org/inc/html/marincatholic/content/french/frenchrouge.html  
 
French 3: virtual trip to Paris.  http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/civ/Voyage/paris.htm

http://www.tourisme.fr/office-de-tourisme/paris.htm

http://www.cybevasion.fr/france/tourisme_departement_paris_75.htm

http://www.fra.cityvox.fr/restaurants_paris/Restaurants

http://www.parisinfo.com/fr/

French 3: provinces; coats of arms and symbols.  http://www.heraldique-europeenne.org/Regions/France/Provinces_France_0.htm
French 3: provinces; click on a region, then cities in the region; pictures are great!  http://www.cybevasion.fr/france/index.html
French 3: provinces; click on a region on the map.  http://www.french-travel.us/France/Regions/index.htm
French 3: provinces; select the province from the drop-down menu at the top of the page. http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Provinces/prov_intro.shtml
French 4, 5: links related to Trésors du Temps.  http://www.glencoe.com/sec/worldlanguages/french/tresor_du_temps/enrichment/index.html
French 4, 5: links related to Trésors du Temps and grammar.  http://mum.neric.org/~jnotarni/tresors.html
A great online dictionary, with verb conjugation help.  www.wordreference.com
A visual dictionary: click on a topic, then on the picture to get detailed French phrases.  http://www.infovisual.info/index_fr.html
Use this site to learn/review vocabulary; select a category, then hover over the pictures to hear the phrase  http://www.languageguide.org/francais/grammar/
This website has a lot of exercises to practice grammar and vocabulary concepts.  http://gailhyatt.com/
Any level: help with grammar.  http://departments.vassar.edu/celt-bin/frenchex.pl
Any level: help with grammar.  http://www.utm.edu/staff/globeg/gramm.shtml
Any level: help with grammar.  http://www.frenchabout.com/
Any level: a good site to review verb tenses. Create your free student account. Click on "students", then "create free student account". The school ID is 978, then use your first initial and last name as the username; make the password exactly the same as the username.  http://www.conjuguemos.com/
Any level: this website has some interesting exercises for different levels.  http://www.linguaweb.ndirect.co.uk/pages/frenlev1.htm
Any level: need help conjugating verbs?  http://www.verbix.com/languages/french.shtml
For practice listening to French TV: click on "dernière édition cliquez ici"; wait for "détection multimédia" to finish, then click "validez"; listen to the news  http://videos.tf1.fr/video
For practice listening to French radio; open 2 windows, so that you can read the script and click on the appropriate icon in order to listen http://www.rfi.fr/fichiers/langue_francaise/languefr/francais_facile.asp
A good online dictionary. French-English.  http://www.dicomani a.fr/index. php?option= com_frontpage&Itemid=1
A great online dictionary! French-French.  http://atilf.atilf.fr/tlf.htm
Listen to songs as you read the words.  http://www.southwestern.edu/~prevots/songs/
For practice listening to old French TV or radio broadcasts; use the second link to select themes to listen/watch  http://www.ina.fr/; http://www.ina.fr/voir_revoir/index.fr.html
A super site for French weblinks.  http://www.uni.edu/becker/french31.html
To find out more about France in general.  http://www.discoverfrance.net/
Think that you're good at French? Try the games on this site.  http://www.transparent.com/games/

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Francophone Newspapers

French students need to practice their language skills!  To assist the Naperville Central High School French students with their practice, the French teachers recommend the newspapers found at the link below.  It has a listing for MANY newspapers from the French-speaking world.

 

 

 Paris and Beyond

Discover interesting places in France with other francophone countries through this link to other Internet sites.  You can window shop, visit Roman ruins, read the news, find out the weather, discover what movies are playing in Paris.  Use information from this source to bring to your French teacher.  On t'offrira peut-être quelque chose!

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Paris and the NCHS exchange to France

       

 

 

Le français pour les jeunes

A good general site to find information of interest to young people.  
Les enfants utilisent l'Internet aussi facilement que le téléphone. De nombreux sites spécialement conçus à leur intention attendent leurs visites et les guident pas à pas.

Especially appropriate for those seeking information about people in French speaking countries around the world.  
Le site pour enfants francophones et jeunes francophiles.

         Premiers Pas Sur Internet: http://www.momes.net/

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