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24 May 2022 Planet French Newsletter

24 May 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s happening today on Planet French/Voici l’actualité sur Planet French: All Tracks: New episode, on prend le thé avec la reine! It’s the queen’s jubilee, so we have high tea with Queen Elizabeth. We learn about tea, what to eat with it, how to prepare it and the proper way…

17 May 2022 Planet French Newsletter

17 May 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s happening today on Planet French/Voici l’actualité sur Planet French: All Tracks: New episode, 276-Batteries nucléaires-Activités d’été: LA PLONGÉE SOUS-MARINE Summer’s on the way. We’re releasing a series of new videos on summer sports and activities in levelled French. In this episode, we meet an expert deep sea diver. Plus: Gasoline…

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11 May 2022 Planet French Newsletter

11 May 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s happening today on Planet French: All Tracks: New unit “Visite chez les insectes-1ère partie” It’s spring so there’s sunshine, flowers and…bugs! Students are fascinated by insects. They’re a great topic for French. Today, we continue the unit on insects with “VISITE CHEZ LES INSECTES, 1ere partie”. Yes, yes we…

4 May 2022 Planet French Newsletter

4 May 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s happening today on Planet French: All Tracks: LES NOUVELLES: Episode #273-Lotterie-Maritimes: tondeuses-insectes A pizza delivery man’s friends aren’t sharing a piece of their $1M lottery win and the “No mowe May” movement hits Canada’s maritime provinces. What are insects good for? We go visit an expert and 3000+ special…

2 May 2022 Planet French Newsletter

2 May 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s happening today on Planet French: Absolute beginner Track: Mother’s Day and new unit “LA FAMILLE” Mother’s Day is this coming weekend so we celebrate with a few videos on “La Fête des Mères”, plus we kick off a brand new unit on family: “LA FAMILLE”. Absolute beginners track: The video “C’est…

27 APRIL 2022 Planet French Newsletter

27 April 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s happening today on Planet French: All Tracks: GUY LAFLEUR ALL TRACKS: Today’s episode pays tribute to one of the greatest hockey players of all time: The great Guy Lafleur. We take your students on a trip downtown Montreal to the Bell Centre, which houses the arena and the Montreal Canadian’s…

19 APRIL 2022 Newsletter

19 April 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s happening today : -ALL TRACKS: Friday, it’s EARTH DAY! La Journée de la Terre! It’s a planetary celebration. We have you covered with these videos, amongst others, in levelled French: -Video “La Journée de la Terre”: Il y a beaucoup d’activités partout au Canada. Click here for the video: https://planetfrench.com/courses/nouvelles-actualite-cette-semaine/lessons/la-journee-de-la-terre-partie-1/…

12 APRIL 2022 Newsletter

12 April 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s happening today : -Easy/intermediate track: We explore Easter and other religious celebrations in the video episode, “Pâques et beaucoup d’autres célébrations religieuses!”. -ALL TRACKS: BREAKING NEWS: Kinder chocolats recalled for salmonella. This timely video is called “Danger: Oeuf en chocolat”. In this episode, we go out on a hunt…

30 March 2022 Newsletter

30 March 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s highlighted today : -Today’s episode is about spring, and more specifically the basic vocabulary around spring. This is part 1. -The video “La sucrerie de la montagne, part 2” is a great summary of the traditional foods served at the sugar shack, presented by a giant smiling lumber jack,…

21 March 2022 Newsletter

21 March 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s new today and what’s coming next: -Today’s episode is full of dinosaur fun and since it’s spring we look into the tradition of changing our clocks in spring and in fall. -A young girl shares her passion for riding motorcycles with her dad. She even beats the men at…

17 March 2022 Newsletter

17 March 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s new today and what’s coming next: 224-Episode 224: Notre-Dame/Robots/St-Patrick/Erablière/Les Traditions! In today’s episode in levelled French: -Notre-Dame cathedral is being rebuilt with ancient trees -Pizza delivery robots in Toronto -It’s St-Patrick’s Day! -Both St-Pattie’s Day and the Érablière, the sugar shack are “traditions” and so we get students to…

15March 2022 Newsletter

15 March 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s new today and what’s coming next: Manitoba: Pompier autochtone de 15 ans/Terre-Neuve-Labrador: Hélicoptère en danger! In today’s news episode in levelled French: -Manitoba: A 15 year-old First Nations boy joins his brother and becomes a fire fighter to save his community. -Alberta: Vaccines are now available for the third…

8 March 2022 Newsletter

8 March 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s new today and what’s coming next: LA JOURNÉE INTERNATIONALE DES FEMMES March 8th is International Women’s Day. This important milestone marks the impact and contributions women around the world have made and are continuing to make. Click here for a short article in easy French, on Planet French: https://planetfrench.com/courses/nouvelles-actualite-cette-semaine/lessons/8-mars-journee-internationale-des-femmes/…

3 March 2022 Newsletter

3 March 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s new today and what’s coming next: This week on Planet French: INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED TRACKS: To be honest, I had something else in mind for this week’s episode. Then the world went crazy…Again… So, last weekend we took our cameras and went out to meet Ukrainians. They spoke to us, in French.…

22 Feb 2022 Newsletter

22 Feb Newsletter Here’s what’s new today and what’s coming next: This week on Planet French: ALL TRACKS: It’s Pink Shirt Day this week. Planet French features the intermediate French video La Journée du chandail rose, the easy French video L’intimidation-solutions, and the complete course “L’intimidation” at different levels of French. Click here for the…

7 Feb 2022 Newsletter

7 Feb Newsletter Here’s what’s new today and what’s coming next: This week on Planet French: ALL TRACKS: -Since Valentine’s Day is Monday, we’re covering it all through this week. This episode is about the symbols of Valentine’s Day, including jewels, chocolates and flowers. We also get hit by a snow storm and talk about…

31 Jan 2022 Newsletter

31 Jan Newsletter Here’s what’s new today and what’s coming next: -This week in episode #258 we cover the winter Olympics in Beijing, it’s the beginning of Le Carnaval de Québec (this weekend). It’s black history month, so we introduce the course “Bienvenue en Haiti”, which includes texts and videos at 3 levels of difficulty…

24 Jan 2022 Newsletter

24 Jan Newsletter Here’s what’s new today and what’s coming next: -This week we cover the winter Olympics in Beijing, a surprise in Mexico, and the Metaverse with this new episode #257, we introduce le Carnaval de Québec and la ville de Québec and we continue with winter sports. We are also running a special…

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