Have you been wanting to try Centres in your French class, but stuck on what you could do to include the Listening strand within your routines? Let me share with you a number of activities that I've thought of or encountered …

Here's a little personal tidbit for you: I spent three months (not warm ones, might I add!) in the Magdalen Islands just north of P.E.I. for a cultural-linguistic student exchange when I was in high school. I haven't made…

If "not enough time" was my excuse for not maintaining my blog before, I guess that reason has flown out the window now. Plus, like other parents, I'm at home trying to figure out how to supplement my own children&#…

In teacher forums where I spend my free time, I am starting to see references to graduation decorations and other end of the year wrap-up stuff. So today I thought I'd share with you a few sources of potential Grad or "e…

This month, the Secondary Smorgasbord crew has organized a blog hop to coincide with an initiative proposed by Rachel Lynette of Minds in Bloom . She's truly genius at bringing the community of TpT authors together to collabo…

For ten months now, Shelley Gray of Teaching in the Early Years has inspired a couple of hundred teacher-bloggers to share thousands of ad-free posts with great tips to our blog-reading audience once a month. She called this the…

My students ask this several times a year, every single year. It always comes up. They want to know if they are learning Québécois French, French from France (aka French French), Franco-Ontarian speaking patterns and accent, or…

Just a short and sweet post. I wanted to share an authentic audio resoure I found. It's called Microphone Francophone , and it's a radio program carried on multiple radio stations (but also downaloadable and streamable - …

For this month's Bright Ideas blog post, I wanted to share a personal anecdote from the recent TeachersPayTeachers conference I attended in the U.S. There's a moral to this story. Image source: http://www.campbarakel.…

Right now, I'm speechless... I just watched this BEAUTIFUL video that absolutely touched my heart!  I know, I know... I am a total language and culture nerd. I believe that I'm in good company amongst those of us who…