Le Petit Prince - Mini Flashcards

Florence Lyons (Matamata College) made miniflashcards, based on selected Quotes from Le Petit Prince.
Download the document below.  Ensure all the pictures have loaded before hitting "Print".  You then need to print both sheets before  glueing them back to back. Laminate them, then cut each square. Florence prints one set per 2 students and suggests you can do heaps of different activities ( listening, reading, speaking etc...) once students have them at hand.

Le Questionnaire de Proust

  The Proust Questionnaire is a questionnaire about one's personality. Its name and modern popularity as a form of interview is owed to the responses given by the French writer Marcel Proust.   This questionnaire is often used now by journalists to find out some aspects of various celebrities' personalities.  First of all students can read more in English about the questionnaire on the Wikipedia article and familiarise themselves with its content before reading the questions in French .  They can then prepare their answers and write them in on the online form , which can be printed or linked to a wiki or webpage.

Le Dormeur du Val, Arthur Rimbaud.

Henriette Tuzzolino (Tikipunga High School) has been inspired by Ruth's "Prévert en images", and has created a PPT on 'Le dormeur du Val'. She has presented it to her combined senior class by playing the first slide, discussing the themes, meaning, vocab and the grammar (participe présent, conditional, adverbs).  Henriette then gave the students the worksheet with gaps (more gaps can be added) before discussing the English translation. She then played the rest of the PPT and encourage students to memorise the lines. Henriette reports her students really got involved and enjoyed it.  As a follow up, she suggests the listening activity in 'Tapis Volant 3- unit 12' (p.165 Workbook) where 4 young people give their opinion on the poem.

Le Dormeur du Val, Arthur Rimbaud

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Après la bataille, Victor Hugo

Preparing NCEA Level 3 students for discussion and conversation, with 3.3 in mind.

Estelle Seaman (Rangitoto College) has created this comprehensive PPT presentation comparing the two war poems, Dormeur du Val and Après la Bataille. Estelle is using the PPT after both poems have been read and some discussion has already occurred (see powerpoint on Figures de Style further down) It is meant to be a framework for the students to produce a written text, although her ultimate aim is to use these poems as part of the 3.3 task on literature.

Les Figures de Style

Figures of Speech in Le Dormeur du Val, Arthur Rimbaud

Reading Poetry and Building Discussion Points towards a 3.3 Task

In this PPT, Estelle Seaman (Rangitoto College) provides a brief outline of some of the figures of speech used in Dormeur du Val - she insists it is not a comprehensive document on figures of speech yet this PPT offers more that just a starting point! Estelle sees it rather as a means to give the students a taste for discussing poetry and to add something to their arsenal of discussion points to use in the 3.3 conversation task on literature - use in conjunction with the powerpoint on war poems above.

La Cigale et la Fourmi

Le Corbeau et le Renard, Jean de La Fontaine

An Introduction to the "fable" and an opportunity for students to write their own.

This excellent presentation by Estelle Seaman (Rangitoto College) is about the genre of fables. Used in conjunction with the reading of La Cigale et La Fourmi and also Le Corbeau et Le Renard. It introduces the genre, talks about the characteristics of a fable and ends with the students writing their own fable. I also found the podcasts on learnfrenchinboston.com useful for listening practice and had worksheets for these. The ultimate aim is for the students to be able to talk about these fables in their 3.3 task about literature, and with this PPT they have an opportunity to first practice this in writing.

Prévert en Images