8 NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER: Les Nouvelles à travers le Canada, Réunion sur le climat, le Jour du Souvenir!

8 NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER: Les Nouvelles à travers le Canada, Réunion sur le climat, le Jour du Souvenir!

The news this week (in easy French): Halifax, nouveau robot/Calgary, des jeunes champions/Toronto, première navette électrique/Winnipeg-Manitoba, un chien vole une voiturette de golf!/Vancouver, on arrête de couper les arbres anciens/Réunion internationale sur le climat: Comment les arbres aident à réduire la température de la Terre/Le Jour du Souvenir

(Students also learn how trees help reduce global warming and climate change.)

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VIDEO LE JOUR DU SOUVENIR: EMOTIONAL (Easy level)

This powerful video is suitable for all grades K-12. The language is easy, the content is elegant and it carries a message of peace. Students learn about Remembrance Day (in levelled French).

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VIDEO LE JOUR DU SOUVENIR: PRACTICAL FACTS in 2 minutes (Easy level)

This is suitable for all grades K-12. Students learn about Remembrance Day (in levelled French). This video has quick excerpts from lessons around the topic of Remembrance Day. But the army is not just about history.

The Canadian forces today help people around the World, as we discover in this video.

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VIDEO COLLECTION: LES FORCES ARMÉES CANADIENNES

We learn about the Canadian Armed Forces (in levelled French) in this collection of videos taken by us as we meet soldiers, airmen, base commanders and recruitment officers in various Canadian Forces Bases (CFB).

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LES VÊTEMENTS ET L’AUTOMNE

This short animated cartoon introduces beginners to some clothing vocabulary. It’s just a tiny part of the complete course, “LES VÊTEMENTS”. You can find the course under the menu “LES COURS/K-12 COURSES” on Planet French.

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In Episode #248: Climate change and more!

• There’s an international meeting on climate change, and some call it the most important meeting of the century.
• It’s fall and we talk about clothes. There’s a cute animated video, and much more with the complete Planet French course, “Les Vêtements”.
• Amazing rescue in B.C.: Young Sikh Canadians use their turbans to save hikers stuck in a ravine!
• …All in levelled French!

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It’s waste reduction week in Canada! In this episode we discuss waste reduction week, visit Canada’s biggest landfill site and ask students to come up with ideas on how to reduce waste at school and at home.

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In the first part of this short video in easy French, we kick off in front of Pfizer’s headquarters. The pharma is in talks with Health Canada to get its vaccine approved for 5 to 11-year-olds. We discussed the pros and cons and invite the students to participate, in French.

In the second part of the video, we show that Summer has now changed into Fall. We discuss and SHOW the signs of Fall. After some modelling, we ask students to draft a short list of the seasons and of visible signs that help differentiate between the seasons. There’s a handy starter chart at the end of the video. You can click the image next to this paragraph to enlarge it.

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This episode starts off with the Covid situation in Alberta. It compares active cases between the provinces based on a Statistics Canada map, but there is hope:

New treatments are being developed. Scientists are using antibodies taken from lamas (yes, the animal), and making nanoparticles they use to fight the virus with.

Planet French actually goes on site to meet lamas and show our gratitude. Chalk one more point for biodiversity!

The episode concludes with students marching for the climate in Ontario and in other provinces during “Fridays for the future” marches.