Introduction: Language Skills
Gut! provides a comprehensive set of interactive activities for German teachers and learners, featuring more than 500 exercises, over 100 of which have audio samples of native German speakers. It is an easily navigated resource, organised for each year of study and includes reading, writing and listening exercises.
[http://gut.languageskills.co.uk/]
Introduction: Dicover Paris
Be ready for a drive through the true Paris with our guide Jean Croissant who will tell you everything you need to know about this mysterious unparallel city.
[http://www.discoverparis.spb.ru/]
Introduction: Clicnet Swarthmore
This excellent site is effectively a clearing house to over 3000 sites covering every aspect of French art, culture, language and literature. Over 300 of these links are to teaching sites. Resource references cover the classical and contemporary, include a useful section on French media and provide annotated literature texts with commentaries and suggestions. There is even a feature on humour in French literature. If you can't find what you want by starting here you almost certainly don't need it.
[http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/]
Introduction: Channel4Learning - Hopping
Available this autumn 2001, the Channel Hopping website is an interactive passport application form to help Key Stage 3 French students practise their vocabulary.
[http://www.channel4.com/]
Introduction: Real French
Free internet resources for teachers and learners of French.
[http://www.realfrench.net/]
Introduction: Lingunet
This site forms part of the developing Virtual Teachers Centre within the Government's National Grid for Learning. It is maintained by the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (CILT) and provides first class resources for teachers in both Primary and Secondary schools. It has a bank of language-related websites and gives teachers excellent advice on appropriate materials and staff development opportunities. This is a must for any language teacher in the UK. It also provides a nationwide forum for Language teachers where they can exchange ideas and resources. Materials available on the site are subject to copywright.
[http://www.linguanet.org.uk/]
Introduction: Yahoo French
These sites are accessed easily for any number of languages. These are identifiable by URLs such as those above or can be accessed by clicking on the appropriate country link on the Yahoo UK page. These sites are appropriate for high level language users as they provide opportunities for Web Searches in the target language. This requires a good standard of reading and comprehension plus an understanding of common usage and idiom. The pages are set out identically to the English language version.
[http://fr.yahoo.com/]
Introduction: Majstro
It uses more recent (and in some cases significantly larger) versions of the vocabulary files at the Travlang site, and the user interface is somewhat more sophisticated.
[http://www.majstro.com/]
Introduction: BBC Languages
Take the Test and find your level in French, Spanish, German and Italian.
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/]
Introduction: The Howard School Bonjour
This is a wonderfully professional example of a school web site, offering far more than simply examples of pupil's work and policy documentation. Instead there's a wealth of interesting ideas that are guaranteed to appeal to children studying French. The translations of Bart Simpson's lines on the blackboard ('Je n'ai pas vu Elvis') are a hoot.
[http://www.bonjour.org.uk/]
Introduction: ARTFL
Over 20,000 French texts including the Diderot Encyclopaedia, Roget's Thesaurus and the French Bible. ARTFL is also working on several collaborative projects with French educational institutions.
[http://humanities.uchicago.edu/]
Introduction: French Lessons
Lessons tackle vocabulary, nouns, verbs and adjectives. There is also a section that enables students to test and assess their performance.
[http://stp.ling.uu.se/]
Introduction: European Schoolnet
The objective of the European Schoolnet (EUN) is to promote the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) among schools in Europe. The site includes information, resources and links.
[http://www.eun.org/]
Introduction: French for all at all Levels
These interactive exercises support the national curriculum for French. There are revision notes for secondary education and A-level.
[http://www.frenchrevision.co.uk/]
Introduction: French Advanced Search Engine
Quick access to news, weather, television programmes and even horoscopes alongside a francophone search engine.
[http://www.wanadoo.fr/]
Introduction: Foreign Languages for Travellers
An excellent site which can help you learn, study or develop further almost any language in the world. Brush up for that modern language exam on this site.
[http://www.travlang.com/]
Introduction: Learn French
Links to lessons/courses & tools, GCSE vocabulary exercises, voice board with feedback offered. Newsletter containing a link to an authentic French medium Internet site with suggestions for language work.
[http://www.homestead.com/]
Introduction: Jump - Gate
This site provides a comprehensive basic course in French with text explanation and audio links. It is appropriate for anyone who wishes to improve their oral skills in the chosen language and requires multi-media facilities on stand-alone PCs or networks. It can also be used by Mac users. Systems will require an appropriate media-player to gain the full benefit of this site. Lesson 1 on Pronunciation gives full advice on pronunciation of single vowels. Accentuated vowels and combinations of vowels and consonants, all with audio back-up. Subsequent lessons deal with other grammatical components together with topics such as The Family.
[http://www.jump-gate.com/]
Introduction: Systran Translations
Struggling with a translation in French, German, Spanish or Italian? Type in the text and this site can help.
[http://www.systransoft.com/]
Introduction: French Inside Out
This BBC course covers various aspects of French life and is an excellent introduction to France. It focuses in English on five towns, Paris, Montpellier, Lyons, Toulouse and Montpellier.
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/]
Introduction: France 3
This lively site, illustrated with animations, is aimed at French children and therefore attractive to bright year 11 UK schoolchildren. It is a good source of teenage colloquialisms.
[http://www.france3.fr/]
Introduction: Foreign Languages for Travellers
An excellent site which can help you learn, study or develop further almost any language in the world. Brush up for that modern language exam on this site.
[http://www.travlang.com/]
