► My Hometown: Discover a comprehensive unit of work on this topic, with the example of a French town. All vocabulary and structures relevent to the descriptions are explained with examples. Includes vocab recognition and matching exercises, reading comprehension, conversation ordering and some activities have the potential to stretch the ability of the faster learner.
Shelley Kirkwood (Tauhara College) has pointed out the blog created by the students from her College sister school, College de Normandie (Noumea), while they were at her school during a recent trip to New Zealand. This blog, made of photos and captions written in French, provides a good description of these students' view of our country.
Patsy Hall (Hamilton High School for Girls) has produced this "Fiche pédagogique" to support the teaching of the Comparative with a range of activities, based on a text she wrote describing New Zealand as a holiday destination. The text can be used for a listening comprehension as well.