French Worksheets for Discovering French Bleu

[mnodonne]

Dear fellow teacher's of French: 21 June 2005 2005

How long have you been using Discovering French Bleu? This is my sixth year with the same text! I don’ know about you, but I find the workbook activities to be a bit on the easy side. Also, I find that they do not ask the students to practice all the concepts covered in the lessons.

I have tried using bits of other texts and methods, but this has always been frustrating. As you know, their vocabulary frequently does not match the grammar of our book and vice versa. Consequently, to supplement the workbook, I have been writing and developing worksheets to encourage my students to use Higher Order Thinking Skills.

There are now over a hundred-thirty worksheets covering lessons 01 through 32 for the 1993 / 2001 versions and now they have been formatted to the 2004 edition called "Nouveau." I thought that you or you school might be interested in having a set. My worksheets, written with Microsoft Word, are on CD-ROM. I really enjoy personalizing the worksheets to fit the needs of the classes from year to year. This is great because each year I can update information to include new names of faculty, dates of vacations and other time relevant information. You can’t do that with an activity book.

For you to preview and use, I have posted 10 randomly selected worksheets at Quia, http://www.quia.com/pages/french1shape.html. If you would like to have a complete set of the worksheets, they can be in the mail by the end of the week. If you would like an additional sample, I will be glad to send all the worksheets of a lesson of your choice .
To cover handling and mailing and the cost of the CD-ROM, a check for 25 dollars or 20 Euros would be appreciated.

Sincerely,

James M. O’Donnell
K-12 French / ESL teacher in Belgium
19 years teaching and still going strong.

CMR 451
Box 87
APO AE 09708
U.S.A.

10 Sample worksheets: http://www.quia.com/pages/french1shape.html