3 October 2022 Planet French newsletter

Here are our suggestions of news and course content we recommend this week on Planet French. Bullet points here, details below:

• All tracks: Episode #286: Welcome to Fall. C’est l’automne! We introduce students to the four seasons and to fall. What happens in fall? What do you notice? Why does the temperature get cooler?
• All tracks: Episode #286: It’s l’Action de grâce, Thanksgiving! What is Thanksgiving?
• Beginner track: Video “L’automne et les vêtements”  (It’s fall. We wear warmer clothes).
• All tracks: Le skateboard au stade olympique: we meet expert skateboarders in Montreal. If you’re good at one board sport, are you good at all of them?
• Intermediate Track: Le roi Charles, la monarchie et la Grande Charte (King Charles, the monarchy and the Magna Carta).
• All tracks: Hockey evaluations are starting for kids across Canada. We have you covered with the complete course: Bienvenue au hockey featuring texts and videos at all levels plus activities.
• It’s “Le temps des pommes”/ apple picking time! We feature the super captivating episode “Le temps des pommes”, in which we take your students on a visit to a very special apple orchard. We learn how to pick apples, and which apples to use for what.
• Video les fruits/c’est une pomme/beginners
• Checkout the home page on www.planetfrench.com for links to all the above, or visit www.planetfrench.com and click the loupe top right corner for the quick search function.

Finding a lesson on Planet French is easy: visit www.planetfrench.com, click on the loupe search (top right corner) and type in your keyword. We also populate the front page of Planet French with the most relevant lessons each week. More suggestions below. Enjoy!

All Tracks: News/Les nouvelles episode #286

• All tracks: Episode #286: Welcome to Fall. C’est l’automne! We introduce students to the four seasons and to fall. What happens in fall? What do you notice? Why does the temperature get cooler?
• All tracks: Episode #286: It’s l’Action de grâce, Thanksgiving! What is Thanksgiving?

Beginner track: Video “L’automne et les vêtements”  (It’s fall. We wear warmer clothes).

This is an absolute beginner, super easy video part of the complete course “Les vêtements”, found on  Planet French. 

Here is the link to the video: https://planetfrench.com/courses/les-vetements-et-la-mode/lessons/les-vetements-et-lautomne-facile/

All Tracks: Le skateboard au stade olympique de Montréal:

• All tracks: Le skateboard au stade olympique: we meet expert skateboarders in Montreal. If you’re good at one board sport, are you good at all of them?
• Click this link for the video: https://planetfrench.com/courses/les-sports-extremes/lessons/le-skateboard-au-stade-olympique/

4 and up immersion/intermediate-advanced FSL Tracks: Le roi Charles, le pouvoir, la Grande Charte

Do kings and queens have actual power? This short video from the course “LE MOYEN ÂGE” shows how the balance of power tipped after the Magna Carta (in French)

K-12: LE HOCKEY. Complete course in French for all levels

Hockey is our national sport, with good reason ! It’s fast, it’s exciting and we are passionate about it.

In this kit, young hockey players explain the rules, the positions, the equipment, the players, the teams, plus a behind the scenes very special visit to the Montreal Canadiens Hall of Fame !

There’s a full teacher’s guide with activity and summative task suggestions, there’s an eBook as flip book and another one that’s narrated by actors, and there are videos matching each of the book chapters.

There are texts and videos for all levels, colour-coded for quick differentiation.

Here is the link to the course: https://planetfrench.com/courses/le-hockey/

You can also find it on the Planet French home page at www.planetfrench.com

All Tracks: C’est le temps des pommes!

Welcome to the apple orchard! We visit an amazing orchard and take a deep dive to the “core” of apple picking and which apples to use for what.

Bienvenue au verger ! Nous visitons un verger formidable avec Matthieu, un expert. Matthieu nous montre comment on fait pousser des pommes, comment cueillir des pommes, des citrouilles et des fruits “très spéciaux“!

Gabrielle nous montre les différentes sortes de pommes. Est-ce que tu sais qu’il y a différentes sortes de pommes? Tu apprends quelles pommes il faut utiliser dans quelles situations.

Nous écoutons une légende basée sur des fruits. On examine les tartes aux pommes, les citrouilles et notre équipe est attaquée par des abeilles!

All Tracks: Summative task ending the unit “Bienvenue à l’école”

The course Bienvenue à l’école introduced your students to school as a theme. Step activities built on each other with new vocabulary and content. These step activities lead to a summative task to complete the unit.

The activities and the summative task are found in the teacher’s guide of the unit Bienvenue à l’école found here:

L’ÉCOLE (cours)

To find out how Planet French/Booksmarts courses work, check out the tutorial video here: https://planetfrench.com/tutorials-how-to-navigate-planet-french/

All Tracks/beginners-intermediates: Introductions-BONJOUR BOB!

The BONJOUR BOB kit is the new, fun way to teach SIMPLE GREETINGS, introductions, simple commands, family and other basics in VERY EASY FRENCH.

Take your students of French from A0 through A2 to B1 CEFR levels (Ages 5 to 75).

In the first episode, MAX is having problems at school when an alien, BOB, slams his spaceship onto Earth, running from the evil and sinister CROLKS!

This video lesson is part of the course bonjour Bob which features a teachers guide inspired by the CEFR

To watch the episode login first to planet French then click here:

02-Bonjour Bob-Episode 1-Video

BEGINNER TRACK: Qu’est-ce que c’est? C’est une pomme!

This short video introduces fruits and basic structures “qu’est-ce que c’est? C’est…”, “est-ce que c’est…?”

To watch, login and click here: https://planetfrench.com/courses/ma-sante-junior-facile/lessons/cest-une-pomme-facile/

It’s part of the PLanet French course “Ma santé-facile”