Direct Nice newspaper with downloadable pdf

The recent trip to Nice was punctuated with several newspaper reading sessions our favourite cafe on the Cour Saleya. The new (or new to me) Direct Nice paper is a bit like metro but smaller and apart from nice short articles on Nice related and national themes it also has some meatier ones from the bigger papers. It was perfect for reading between gulping coffee and people watching.  Go to the Direct Nice site-you can also get the Direct papers for many other towns.

Lo and behold there is the pdf version which can be downloaded. These go right back to February 2009. I don't know how much longer this is going to last but it might be worth a look for some good meaty comprehension material. I guess for those lucky enough to have an ipad it would be nicely readable on there.

I don't doubt that there will some be frequent references to this in my A level French resources site. 

Resources galore from Nice

A beautiful week in Nice in a flat overlooking the harbour with plenty of balcony time has reminded me of all the things I love about the country after staycationing last year.  Having now got back into creating resources for alevelfrench.com of course I was on the hunt for good stuff to recommend or convert and picked up some good dvds particularly.    Number one was a TV series I hadn't heard of and which I hope is going to be good Un Village Français Series One and Two.   It cost me 35 euros from Carrefour-although it's 4 dvds and 10 programmes I think. It also has some pedagogical stuff on it too on a number of areas.

Second very interesting film is Home a birds eye view of the history of our world which brings current environmental issues into perspective.  It's absolutely beautiful down to the use of language and a high level (literally!) scientific overview.  I think many students would get a lot out of this especially if they haven't been watching all the BBC scientific epics.

The third video is a four part series "Musulmans en France" taking the long view of Muslim influence in the country.    Unfortunately there isn't a trailer for this online.