17 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 #288: The latest Canadian news in easy French: Feux Vancouver-Alberta Lego-Manitoba Nucléaire – Ontario Maths All tracks: Episode “La semaine canadienne de la réduction des…
11 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 #287: Newfoundland-Labrador: A First Nations group is trying to save the bats-We try the Batmobile too!/Manitoba: a contest for schools/Why learn a second language: interview…
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…
26 September 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: The biggest hurricane to ever hit Canada smashes into Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and the other Atlantic provinces. In new episode #285, we cover Fiona and students learn about…
19 September 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: We have two episodes related to queen Elizabeth. It’s “Le temps des pommes”/ apple picking time! We feature the super captivating episode “Le temps des pommes”, in which…
All Tracks: 283-la reine Elizabeth-Les changements depuis sa naissance en 1926 In this new Planet French episode we remember Queen Elizabeth’s life, we show excerpts from the video “On prend le thé avec la reine Elizabeth,” linked further below, and we have students revisit all the remarkable inventions that changed the world since the Queen’s…
All Tracks: On prend le thé avec la reine! Queen Elizabeth, monarch of 14 countries including Canada for 70 years, has passed. She will be sorely missed. But she lives on in this Planet French episode. La reine Elizabeth laisse sa marque sur l’histoire, et elle continue de faire rayonner son influence dans cet épisode…
27 June 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s happening today on Planet French/Voici l’actualité sur Planet French: Vidéo-LE CAMPING In this video we go camping and learn how to set up a tent. Students explain the basics. There’s even a short self-correcting quiz under the video!! Here is the link to the video: https://planetfrench.com/courses/nouvelles-actualite-cette-semaine/lessons/danger-en-camping/ Vidéo-Les vacances d’été!…
20 June 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s happening today on Planet French/Voici l’actualité sur Planet French: ALL TRACKS: Vidéo-LA FIN JUIN EST OCCUPÉE In this dynamic video: -National Indigenous Peoples Day is June 21st in Canada, -June 21st it’s the longest day of the year. The sun is out the longest. -The Monday closest to June…
13 June 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s happening today on Planet French/Voici l’actualité sur Planet French: ALL TRACKS: LE PLUS GRAND FESTIVAL DE MUSIQUE AU MONDE EST AU CANADA! The biggest French music festival in the world happens right here in Canada! Come with us and visit “Les Francofolies”, meet musicians and music fans of all…
7 June 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s happening today on Planet French/Voici l’actualité sur Planet French: ALL TRACKS: LE VÉLO, avec Samuel Le Tour de l’île: 15,000 Vélos à Montréal ! This new video has it all. French culture in the heart of Montreal, summer sports, cycling, and the basic vocabulary about bicycles taught by a…
1 June 2022 Newsletter Here’s what’s happening today on Planet French/Voici l’actualité sur Planet French: Beginner track: New lesson, c’est une pomme. Basic vocabulary building around fruits. Apples, bananas and oranges. Here is the link to the video: https://planetfrench.com/lessons/cest-une-pomme-facile/ All Tracks: New episode, #278: Top gun, a 13 year-old First Nations girl from Manitoba…
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 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…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
13 Jan Newsletter Here’s what’s new today and what’s coming next: We’ve just added a new self-correcting quizz at the bottom of episode 255 your students can do from home or school when they get back. To see how you can share lessons with your students, scroll down for more info. Planet French has the…
Welcome to 2022! Welcome to January and to 2022! In this newsletter: I’m very excited to share a 4-week planner with you around winter sports on Planet French. A new video tutorial for teachers. It will help with remote teaching. How all your students can register to Planet French Weekly Canadian news videos in easy…
What’s going on this week on Planet French: There are at least 4 hot episodes for you this week on Planet French, all in levelled French: Visit the Planet French Home page to login and access this content. To find out how your teachers and students can access Planet French, contact guy@planetfrench.com #Comment envoyer un…
What’s going on this week on Planet French: It’s another huge week on Planet French! The tremendously popular contest for French students “Écris une lettre au père Noel”! starts Today! We’re also featuring the biggest toy store in the world and we’re starting our interviews with Santa’s elves. By Wednesday we’ll be adding a new…
252-Inondations Historiques En Colombie-Britannique: Les Canadiens Mettent Leurs De Travail In this episode we cover the historic floods in BC, how BC has been rocked by successive hardships: Covid, forest fires and historic flooding. Canadians are nothing if not resilient. This short film takes you through an accelerated timeline of Canadian resilience. Visit the Planet…
VIDEO #250 Les nouvelles au Canada: Canadian news video for this week, in levelled French La frontière entre le Canada et les États-Unis est maintenant ouverte/The US border with Canada is now open. Pendant la pandémie de Covid-19, beaucoup de personnes adoptent un chien. Le refuge Beagle Paws, à Goulds à Terre-Neuve-Labrador. Emily Alford, 16 ans,…
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…
It’s Halloween and Planet French has a variety of spooky and fun content for your French students. Episode 247, teaches trick or treating covid directives, and teaches the vocabulary of candies in French. Students are invited to vote on their favorite Halloween treats. Episode “Les Zombies” is the hit short, kid-friendly film about zombies (in…
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. Visit the Planet French Home page to login and access this content. To find out how your teachers…
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…
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Here is what you will find in most of our French kits: This kit has 12 videos in easy French and intermediate French, plus new ones added. We keep adding new videos and easy French books to our kits. With online access, the kits are never stale, and always get new material. We don’t remove…
Remains of over 200 school children were found on the site of a former residential school in B.C. The story of Canada’s residential schools is tragic and repulsive. It is un-Canadian. It is the opposite of Canadian values and all we stand for and it needs to be told. In this Planet French Booksmarts video…
You’ll find 750 French resources K-12 on Planet French. The content ranges from easy courses about introductions and family, to advanced high school content for FSL and immersion. Planet French weekly Canadian news and current events episodes are mostly mindless fun in easy French, but sometimes someone forgets to turn off the camera and we…
Do boys think French is manly enough? I read a study by Kissau and Turnbull awhile back (I include a link further) that prompted me to develop some of our French materials for the testosterone part of your classroom. The study reported 70% of students who planned to drop French were male, that boys feel French…
Planet French is constantly growing, like a loaf of fresh dough in the oven. What started with a handful of videos and eBooks now has over 750 French resources, and rising! These include weekly Canadian news episodes in levelled French and 45 French courses. Just this past year, we’ve added 50+ more resources. In addition…
CLICK THE VIDEO TO PREVIEW Here is a preview of our amazing kit LES FRANCO-ONTARIENS. The kit has everything you need to cover the theme. The book has stunning photographs and the DVDs come with tons of videos. We went everywhere in Ontario and met great people. Take a look. MASSIVE, COMPREHENSIVE and FUN FRENCH KIT:…
Planet French is an online site that includes over 40 complete French courses. Each course is made up of content at three levels of difficulty spanning grades 2 to 12, to make it easy and quick for teachers to instantly apply differentiated instruction.
We’re releasing a new Booksmarts French kit: Le Moyen Äge. This kit covers the period starting at the fall of the Roman Empire all the way to the Renaissance. The level of French is perfect for immersion and extended French. It addresses the need for a compelling social studies resource that explains causal relationships rather…