Sites for French

Four websites providing access to products and information about Carole Denise Fredericks Music Legacy LLC, Carole Frederick’s official France website, her extraordinary journey to France, and her music:

• http://www.cdfmusiclegacy.com
• http://www.carolefredericks.net
• http://www.shine.fr.st/
• http://www.tralco.com/l_carole.htm

Lyrics of many French songs both old and contemporary:

• www.paroles.net

A web site that provides a “quote a day” as well as tons of information on print material, media and modern culture and conveniences in France:

• http://www.evene.fr

Various templates for classroom activities and games:

• http://www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/countyjeopardygames.htm

A great site for Assessment Strategies, Teaching Foreign Languages K – 12, Annenberg/CPB; musical video on-line, A Nos Actes Manqués (Fredericks):

• http://learner.org

Literary texts in French:

• http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/francaut.html

On-line dictionaries in any language:

• http://www.dictionary.com/

A comprehensive web site for French teachers containing useful language websites and thematically organized authentic links; links to French language search engines and portals/web guides, rich art links, web-based activities and resources on technology implementation and access to professional organizations and journals, software information and consulting services:

• www.casadejoanna.com

Ready to use lesson plans for teachers:

• http://www.ph-ludwigsburg.de/html/2b-frnz-s-01/overmann/baf4

Useful web sites for French teachers:

• http://www.umit.maine.edu/class/teachlinks/mlclinks/frenchlinks.html

Tennessee Bob’s Famous French links:

• http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html

Download free videos in French:

• http://espacefrancophone.org/home_en.html

Two children’s sites for French speakers; good resources for current events or cultural activities:

• http://www.momes.net

Two sites for students to read several episodes of a story online and then perform interactivities based on the texts:

• http://www.ur.se/ur/sok/frameset_web.html?/lavaliserouge/index.html - suitable for beginner and intermediate levels
• http://www.ur.se/ur/sok/frameset_web.html?/chloe/index.html - suitable for intermediate to advanced levels

Sites for Spanish

A web site of a blind Puerto Rican artist who has been dubbed the “greatest living guitarist”. There is also a video in Spanish about his life that has proven popular with adolescents:

• www.josefeliciano.com

A comprehensive web site for Spanish teachers containing useful language websites and thematically organized authentic links; links to Spanish language search engines and portals/web guides, rich art links, web-based activities and resources on technology implementation and access to professional organizations and journals, software information and consulting services:

• www.casadejoanna.com

Sites for students of Spanish to work independently on grammar:

• http://www.trentu.ca/spanish/masarriba/sitemap.htm
• http://www.studyspanish.com
• http://conjuguemos.com/home/index.html
  In order to log into this site, you will need to apply for a school ID #. This ID # is needed to access the activities but as a teacher you create your own password, as do your students if/when they log on. Students can e-mail you the results of whatever they practice on this site.

Sites for Mandarin

The Chinese Teachers Association website is hosted on Ohio State University’s server. This page on their website contains extensive links to Chinese-related topics:

• http://clta.osu.edu/CLTAlinks/links.htm

The Chinese Language Teachers Association of Greater New York state. This site lists of wealth of resources for teachers including a very extensive list of Internet resources for teaching and learning Chinese:

• http://www.clta-gny.org

Have a look at SAS Middle School Mandarin teacher Rose Phan’s web site for ideas:

• http://mseagle.sas.edu.sg/rphan