Chez soi CD-ROM

Subject: French
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 11 - 14
Order Number: 9185

This resource on the topic of home and family is suitable for students in their earlier years of learning French, although use with more experienced learners may also be appropriate – e.g. for revision or with the less able. The resource comprises a variety of lively material, much visually appealing, aimed primarily at practicing communication skills.

Material falls into 3 main categories:

• items for teacher use on the OHP or laptop, intended largely for oral work; these include colourful visual representations of the key vocabulary, at different levels of difficulty, each with a separate written version that may or may not be added – e.g. as an “overlay” on the OHP – together with various stimuli for the use of language in realistic, everyday situations such as introducing family members
• attractive and stimulating worksheets which enable students to consolidate the work led by the teacher in various ways: pair work to afford further speaking and listening practice, and individual reading and writing tasks to be completed either in class or at home, some of which relate to the student’s own experience
• puzzles to practice vocabulary and spelling whilst at the same time adding an important element of fun.

Topics covered are

• family members - including personal details (age, marital status etc)
• pets – including description and opinions
• the home: location, rooms, contents, activities, opinions.