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 any material either.
An eBook available online
The online eBook has an audio narration read by actors. It's a paced reading with a follow-me cursor, and you can adjust the reading speed.
Printed books and online books
You get both the printed and online versions of the book.
Amazing Activities
The activities use the latest neurolinguistic action-oriented approach. They feature step activities and an end of unit task.
All components are also online
Yup, you can access everything online, even from a smart phone, and it looks great!
Students can access from anywhere on all devices
You can even share access with your students. They can access it all together or individually, from anywhere.
Studies have shown that exposing students to high frequency comprehensible input leads to faster second language acquisition and proficiency. Booksmarts Everyday situations French courses expose your students to a wide variety of French speakers through texts and videos and then engage them with conversational activities around themes that resonate with their experiential universe.
What’s different about Booksmarts Planet French kits and courses
What makes our French kits different is the fact we are the only company that offers different levels within the same kit and that our content targets more “Big ideas”, more thematic life skills building, more cross-curricular subjects integration, more ethics and according to our customers, offers more in terms of humour and creative tone.
Students cycle through language and thematic activities. They also cycle through written, oral and video content as they go through the material.
FRENCH PACKS ON EVERYDAY REAL-LIFE SITUATIONS CAN IN DIFFERENT SIZES: There are 2 Packs, 3 Packs, 4, 5 and 6, 7 and 8 Packs for every budget.
A Pack is a set of multiple Kits. The more we print kits, the more we save and we pass on the savings to you.
Booksmarts make the best multi-media French kits. Students work with books, eBooks, narrated eBooks and matching videos through step-activities, completing summative tasks.
These kits are a fantastic tool for guided, shared or individual reading, listening and viewing.
The videos are stunning: they expose your students to a variety of French speakers and settings and capture the essence of the culture.
The books feature spectacular images. Every glossy section has levelled texts supported by arresting photographs that leap off the page. The quality is unlike anything you’ve ever seen in a language resource.
The activities in the teacher resources give you all you need to make your class effective. They’re packed with action-oriented, CEFR style activities leading to mastery of summative tasks.
Excerpt from teacher’s guide BIENVENUE AU SNACK-BAR
Excerpt from the BIENVENUE À QUÉBEC teacher’s guide. Students will develop language proficiency as well as integrate cross-curricular subjects and learn life skills.
3 levels of difficulty: We offer different levels in the same books, DVDs and eBooks, including CEFR levels as well as our own colour-coded easy to use scale. This gives students stretch goals and revision opportunities.
This Planet French innovation works. It ties in with the best concepts discussed by Russian scientist Lev Vygotsky and others: successive approximation and the zone of “proximal development”. I know some of Vygotsky’s ideas are controversial but this one works. French is a skill and these kits work in schools across the country.
French teachers love this, as they discuss using the kits in our preview video (fill the form on the right to access our secure demo video section and watch free previews including teachers explaining how they used booksmarts kits).
Here are 3 pages showing examples of the colour-coded 3 levels of difficulty. Each of our kits includes texts and videos at different levels of difficulty so you can use each kit at different levels and quickly apply differentiated instruction.
How to order
To order your French resources, please click on the relevant menu tab above, or click here to see current specials and deals.
For everyday real life situations kits, click here.
For French culture French kits, click here.
For other French resources, please click on the relevant menu tabs above.
Students learn better when they’re exposed to comprehensible input
They need to understand the meaning, the words, and the content should be relevant. In the “Everyday real life situations” kits and Packs, Booksmarts books and videos engage students at all French competency levels by targeting the student’s experiential universe: Their everyday life.
NARRATED eBOOKS WITH ACTOR NARRATIONS, FOLLOW-ME CURSOR AND ADJUSTABLE SPEED
You project the eBooks on any whiteboard, the audio follows with professional actors reading the text and the cursor leads. You can pause anytime and model listening and reading strategies for your students.
Your students are instantly engaged and now they can see French as relevant because they watch other Canadians (adults and students) interacting in French, in Canada, on the Booksmarts cultural videos in a variety of fun settings.
Watch this video to see excerpts of the NARRATED EBOOK, with cursor, and adjustable speed.