Well the A*ttitudes AS French course will soon be hitting the schools in the shape of a flyer and trial login so that teachers can see for themselves the benefits of the resources. We based our ideas on the general lack of knowledge of French culture of young anglosaxons so the Profil section takes the learner through the context of the topic (there are 12 topics). This section also requires the student to put the verbs in which is good for reinforcing mainly the present tense. The listothèque is a very simple idea designed to give the students some ideas in a number of areas of the topic-this can be used for discussion and language development. What is clever though is the way we have then taken all the vocab and used it to practice reading practice and grammatical manipulation. I think reuse self evidently is the key to students taking in the language and emerging more fluent.
I'm currently experimenting with AS French Grammar and am using Camtasia to produce walk throughs to explain hopefully some key grammar points. I've a long way to go-I think this one gets better as it goes on but I do have a very boring, monotonous voice so I think maybe I should just do the scripts! AS level French grammar
It's good to see that the new pages I've put in to make it easier to find the literature materials are bearing fruit. All the books are now showing up on either page 1 or 2 of a google search which has happened over the last month or so. I'd not looked for a while. So for http://www.letranger.co.uk/ that is really good as lots of the first search results relate to the French restaurant in London! I'm also glad to see that http://www.unsacdebilles.co.uk/ is now right up there as there is a lot of material on the web on the book. The one that seems to be a bit intransigent is http://www.bonjourtristesse.co.uk/ That book due to the universal nature of its title is proving really difficult to get up the search rankings-I suppose it will happen gradually.
I'm currently experimenting with AS French Grammar and am using Camtasia to produce walk throughs to explain hopefully some key grammar points. I've a long way to go-I think this one gets better as it goes on but I do have a very boring, monotonous voice so I think maybe I should just do the scripts! AS level French grammar
It's good to see that the new pages I've put in to make it easier to find the literature materials are bearing fruit. All the books are now showing up on either page 1 or 2 of a google search which has happened over the last month or so. I'd not looked for a while. So for http://www.letranger.co.uk/ that is really good as lots of the first search results relate to the French restaurant in London! I'm also glad to see that http://www.unsacdebilles.co.uk/ is now right up there as there is a lot of material on the web on the book. The one that seems to be a bit intransigent is http://www.bonjourtristesse.co.uk/ That book due to the universal nature of its title is proving really difficult to get up the search rankings-I suppose it will happen gradually.
