9th Grade French Video Files

Make learning French fun with this simple, comprehensible input French lesson plan and story. This lesson plan includes a story with targeted structures that can be repeated to give your students lots of repetitions. Comprehension activities to use after the story will allow you to engage your students and makes sure that your French lesson is truly comprehensible input.

Marc loves his red pants, but all of the other kids laugh at him when he wears them. So he tries other pants - but they still laugh. Could the problem be something other than his questionable fashion choices? There are four targeted vocabulary structures that are used multiple times throughout the story. The targeted structures are:

• il s'habille

• moche

• ne comprend pas

• en solde

This very simple story is told in two different ways. There is a printable text version, and an animated mp4 version. Tell the story as you watch it (pause if you want to stop and discuss or storyask!), or just watch it for comprehension. The video is just over 5 minutes long, with pause time for students to read the text. There is a second version of the video with only the illustrations - no text - so you can watch it and do story retells. With novice low and novice mid learners, you can tell the story as is. For novice high learners, you can add more details or write a parallel story. You could even use this story at higher levels by having students retell the story in the past.

Here’s what you’ll get in this French Comprehensible Input Lesson:

• Links to the videos both with and without the text

• A printable pdf version of the story

• Comprehension question worksheet

• "Who said it?" worksheet

• Story retell worksheet

• Answer key

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you looking for a French dictée - dictation exercise with a situer un objet theme for your beginner level students? Do you struggle to find themed dictées that match beginner level French grammar?

Dictées are great activities for building listening comprehension and writing skills. This is a beginner level French dictée with a situer un objet theme.

Included:

• Five sentences
• Theme - Situer un objet
• Basic grammar
• Il y a is frequently used
• Prepositions of location - SUR - À CÔTÉ DE - DANS - À DROITE DE - DEVANT
• Nouns - BUREAU - PAPIER - DICTIONNAIRE - STYLO - VERRE D'EAU - ORDINATEUR - SAC - PORTEFEUILLE - CALCULATRICE - TÉLÉPHONE PORTABLE - CHEWING GUM - CHIEN - JOUET

Included:

➯ Video presentation of the dictée. Watch me and listen as I read each sentence two times slowly enough to understand and write at the same time. Many non-natives find it makes the listening comprehension part of dictation exercises more manageable to see the speaker's mouth. Once I've finished reading the dictation, I will present each written sentence in French along with the English translation. Once we've gone through all of the sentences and students have checked their work, I will present the complete text in paragraph form on the screen. At that time, we can slowly read through the complete text together so they can see how the separate sentences actually form a short story.

➯ Audio presentation of the dictée.. Listen as I read each sentence two times slowly enough to understand and write at the same time. This version of the exercise will be more challenging as students will not see the speaker's mouth.

➯ PDF of the numbered sentences in the dictée and the English translation.

➯ Numbered student response sheet. This is located on page 2 of the PDF.

➯ The following dictées are included in Bundled Set 1:

• Présenter quelqu'un
• Pays, langue, nationalité
• Situer un objet
• Décrire une personne
• Décrire un lieu d'habitation
• Dans la rue
• À l'hôtel
• Les heures
• La semaine
• La routine  - Verbes réfléchis

➯ The following dictées are included in Bundled Set 2:

• La nourriture
• Passé composé avec avoir
• Passé composé avec être
• Interdictions et devoirs
• Savoir, pouvoir, vouloir
• Pronoms directs et indirects
• L'entretien
• Avantages et inconvénients
• Passé composé des verbes réfléchis
• Parler de son enfance

"Dictation is the transcription of spoken text: one person who is "dictating" speaks and another who is "taking dictation" writes down the words as they are spoken. Among speakers of several languages, dictation is used as a test of language skill, similar to spelling bees in the English-speaking world."

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Want to have all of your secondary French resource needs covered? Check out the following curriculum supplement bundles:

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 1 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 2 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 3 and 4 curriculum

LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.

COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Copyright © Love Learning Languages, Jennifer Crespin

Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

Make learning French fun with this simple, comprehensible input French lesson plan and story. This lesson plan includes a story with targeted structures that can be repeated to give your students lots of repetitions. Comprehension activities to use after the story will allow you to engage your students and makes sure that your French lesson is truly comprehensible input.

Bob is a horrible driver - he's always distracted and he drives on the sidewalks frequently. Will anyone be able to change his irresponsible ways? Find out in this CI story for French learners.

There are four targeted vocabulary structures that are used multiple times throughout the story. The targeted structures are:

• conduit mal - he/she drives badly
• sur le trottoir - on the sidewalk
• a écrasé - ran over
• je ne l’ai pas vu - I didn’t see him/it

This very simple story is told in two different ways. There is a printable text version, and an animated mp4 version. Tell the story as you watch it (pause if you want to stop and discuss or storyask!), or just watch it for comprehension. The video is just over 5 minutes long, with pause time for students to read the text. There is a second version of the video with only the illustrations - no text - so you can watch it and do story retells. With novice low and novice mid learners, you can tell the story as is. For novice high learners, you can add more details or write a parallel story. You could even use this story at higher levels by having students retell the story in the past.

Here’s what you’ll get in this French Comprehensible Input Lesson:

• Links to the videos both with and without the text

• A printable pdf version of the story

• Comprehension question worksheet

• "Who said it?" worksheet

• Story retell worksheet

• Answer key

Click HERE to join my mailing list and get a free article about adapting a textbook to CI!

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Are you looking for a French dictée - dictation exercise with a trains and time theme for your beginner level students? Do you struggle to find themed dictées that match beginner level French grammar?

Dictées are great activities for building listening comprehension and writing skills. This is a beginner level French dictée with a les trains et l'heure theme.

Included:

• Six sentences
• Theme - Les trains et l'heure
• Basic grammar
• Present tense - vouloir, devoir, partir
• Futur proche - choisir
• Definite, indefinite, and partitive articles
• Pronoun Y appears a few times

Included:

➯ Video presentation of the dictée. Watch me and listen as I read each sentence two times slowly enough to understand and write at the same time. Many non-natives find it makes the listening comprehension part of dictation exercises more manageable to see the speaker's mouth. Once I've finished reading the dictation, I will present each written sentence in French along with the English translation. Once we've gone through all of the sentences and students have checked their work, I will present the complete text in paragraph form on the screen. At that time, we can slowly read through the complete text together so they can see how the separate sentences actually form a short story.

➯ Audio presentation of the dictée.. Listen as I read each sentence two times slowly enough to understand and write at the same time. This version of the exercise will be more challenging as students will not see the speaker's mouth.

➯ PDF of the numbered sentences in the dictée and the English translation.

➯ Numbered student response sheet. This is located on page 2 of the PDF.

➯ The following dictées are included in Bundled Set 1:

• Présenter quelqu'un
• Pays, langue, nationalité
• Situer un objet
• Décrire une personne
• Décrire un lieu d'habitation
• Dans la rue
• À l'hôtel
• Les heures
• La semaine
• La routine  - Verbes réfléchis

➯ The following dictées are included in Bundled Set 2:

• La nourriture
• Passé composé avec avoir
• Passé composé avec être
• Interdictions et devoirs
• Savoir, pouvoir, vouloir
• Pronoms directs et indirects
• L'entretien
• Avantages et inconvénients
• Passé composé des verbes réfléchis
• Parler de son enfance

"Dictation is the transcription of spoken text: one person who is "dictating" speaks and another who is "taking dictation" writes down the words as they are spoken. Among speakers of several languages, dictation is used as a test of language skill, similar to spelling bees in the English-speaking world."

Check out my Build Your Own French Bundle option. Select resources from my store, and if they total $20 or more I'll quickly create a special order bundle for you at 20% off. No sale items or other already discounted bundles can be included.

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Want to have all of your secondary French resource needs covered? Check out the following curriculum supplement bundles:

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 1 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 2 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 3 and 4 curriculum

LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.

COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Copyright © Love Learning Languages, Jennifer Crespin

Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

Make learning French fun with this simple, comprehensible input French lesson plan and story. This lesson plan includes a story with targeted structures that can be repeated to give your students lots of repetitions. Comprehension activities to use after the story will allow you to engage your students and makes sure that your French lesson is truly comprehensible input.

Jerome is in love with Sophie. But there's a problem - he's very, very small. So small that Sophie can't see him and doesn't know he exists. Can he find a way to get Sophie to notice him and go out with him on a date? There are four targeted vocabulary structures that are used multiple times throughout the story. The targeted structures are:

amoureux/amoureuse de - in love with
ne le voit pas - doesn’t see him
il achète - he buys
plus petit que - smaller than

This very simple story is told in two different ways. There is a printable text version, and an animated mp4 version. Tell the story as you watch it (pause if you want to stop and discuss or storyask!), or just watch it for comprehension. The video is just over 5 minutes long, with pause time for students to read the text. There is a second version of the video with only the illustrations - no text - so you can watch it and do story retells. With novice low and novice mid learners, you can tell the story as is. For novice high learners, you can add more details or write a parallel story. You could even use this story at higher levels by having students retell the story in the past.

Here’s what you’ll get in this French Comprehensible Input Lesson:

• Links to the videos both with and without the text

• A printable pdf version of the story

• Comprehension question worksheet

• "Who said it?" worksheet

• Story retell worksheet

• Answer key

Click HERE to join my mailing list and get a free article about adapting a textbook to CI!

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Are you looking for a French dictée - dictation exercise with a pays, langues, nationalités theme for your beginner level students? Do you struggle to find themed dictées that match beginner level French grammar?

Dictées are great activities for building listening comprehension and writing skills. This is a beginner level French dictée with a pays, langues, nationalités theme.

Included:

• Ten sentences
• Theme - Pays, langues, nationalités
• Basic grammar
• Present tense - être, aller, avoir, faire
• Definite, indefinite, and partitive articles
• Vocabulary - Nationality, where someone lives, professions, languages

Included:

➯ Video presentation of the dictée. Watch me and listen as I read each sentence two times slowly enough to understand and write at the same time. Many non-natives find it makes the listening comprehension part of dictation exercises more manageable to see the speaker's mouth. Once I've finished reading the dictation, I will present each written sentence in French along with the English translation. Once we've gone through all of the sentences and students have checked their work, I will present the complete text in paragraph form on the screen. At that time, we can slowly read through the complete text together so they can see how the separate sentences actually form a short story.

➯ Audio presentation of the dictée.. Listen as I read each sentence two times slowly enough to understand and write at the same time. This version of the exercise will be more challenging as students will not see the speaker's mouth.

➯ PDF of the numbered sentences in the dictée and the English translation.

➯ Numbered student response sheet. This is located on page 2 of the PDF.

➯ The following dictées are included in Bundled Set 1:

• Présenter quelqu'un
• Pays, langue, nationalité
• Situer un objet
• Décrire une personne
• Décrire un lieu d'habitation
• Dans la rue
• À l'hôtel
• Les heures
• La semaine
• La routine  - Verbes réfléchis

➯ The following dictées are included in Bundled Set 2:

• La nourriture
• Passé composé avec avoir
• Passé composé avec être
• Interdictions et devoirs
• Savoir, pouvoir, vouloir
• Pronoms directs et indirects
• L'entretien
• Avantages et inconvénients
• Passé composé des verbes réfléchis
• Parler de son enfance

"Dictation is the transcription of spoken text: one person who is "dictating" speaks and another who is "taking dictation" writes down the words as they are spoken. Among speakers of several languages, dictation is used as a test of language skill, similar to spelling bees in the English-speaking world."

Check out my Build Your Own French Bundle option. Select resources from my store, and if they total $20 or more I'll quickly create a special order bundle for you at 20% off. No sale items or other already discounted bundles can be included.

Follow my store

Newsletter - French Freebies + Flash Sales

Want to have all of your secondary French resource needs covered? Check out the following curriculum supplement bundles:

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 1 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 2 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 3 and 4 curriculum

LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.

COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Copyright © Love Learning Languages, Jennifer Crespin

Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

Make learning French fun with this simple, comprehensible input French lesson plan and story. This lesson plan includes a story with targeted structures that can be repeated to give your students lots of repetitions. Comprehension activities to use after the story will allow you to engage your students and makes sure that your French lesson is truly comprehensible input.

Juliette has a dog, a really big dog. Her dog is causing trouble at school, because he keeps eating her homework. Will she be able to convince her teacher that the dog really is hungry enough to eat her homework? There are four targeted vocabulary structures that are used multiple times throughout the story. The targeted structures are:

• a mangé

• demande

• ne la croit pas

• avait faim

This very simple story is told in two different ways. There is a printable text version, and an animated mp4 version. Tell the story as you watch it (pause if you want to stop and discuss or storyask!), or just watch it for comprehension. The video is just over 5 minutes long, with pause time for students to read the text. There is a second version of the video with only the illustrations - no text - so you can watch it and do story retells. With novice low and novice mid learners, you can tell the story as is. For novice high learners, you can add more details or write a parallel story. You could even use this story at higher levels by having students retell the story in the past.

Here’s what you’ll get in this French Comprehensible Input Lesson:

• Links to the videos both with and without the text

• A printable pdf version of the story

• Comprehension question worksheet

• "Who said it?" worksheet

• Story retell worksheet

• Answer key

Click HERE to join my mailing list and get a free article about adapting a textbook to CI!

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Are you looking for a French dictée - dictation exercise with a hotel theme for your beginner level students? Do you struggle to find themed dictées that match beginner level French grammar?

Dictées are great activities for building listening comprehension and writing skills. This is a beginner level French dictée with a hôtel theme.

Included:

• Eight sentences
• Theme - L'hôtel
• Basic grammar
• Present tense - passer, voyager, préférer, donner
• Futur proche - prendre
• Passé composé - choisir
• Definite, indefinite, and partitive articles
• Il y a appears several times

Included:

➯ Video presentation of the dictée. Watch me and listen as I read each sentence two times slowly enough to understand and write at the same time. Many non-natives find it makes the listening comprehension part of dictation exercises more manageable to see the speaker's mouth. Once I've finished reading the dictation, I will present each written sentence in French along with the English translation. Once we've gone through all of the sentences and students have checked their work, I will present the complete text in paragraph form on the screen. At that time, we can slowly read through the complete text together so they can see how the separate sentences actually form a short story.

➯ Audio presentation of the dictée.. Listen as I read each sentence two times slowly enough to understand and write at the same time. This version of the exercise will be more challenging as students will not see the speaker's mouth.

➯ PDF of the numbered sentences in the dictée and the English translation.

➯ Numbered student response sheet. This is located on page 2 of the PDF.

➯ The following dictées are included in Bundled Set 1:

• Présenter quelqu'un
• Pays, langue, nationalité
• Situer un objet
• Décrire une personne
• Décrire un lieu d'habitation
• Dans la rue
• À l'hôtel
• Les heures
• La semaine
• La routine  - Verbes réfléchis

➯ The following dictées are included in Bundled Set 2:

• La nourriture
• Passé composé avec avoir
• Passé composé avec être
• Interdictions et devoirs
• Savoir, pouvoir, vouloir
• Pronoms directs et indirects
• L'entretien
• Avantages et inconvénients
• Passé composé des verbes réfléchis
• Parler de son enfance

"Dictation is the transcription of spoken text: one person who is "dictating" speaks and another who is "taking dictation" writes down the words as they are spoken. Among speakers of several languages, dictation is used as a test of language skill, similar to spelling bees in the English-speaking world."

Check out my Build Your Own French Bundle option. Select resources from my store, and if they total $20 or more I'll quickly create a special order bundle for you at 20% off. No sale items or other already discounted bundles can be included.

Follow my store

Newsletter - French Freebies + Flash Sales

Want to have all of your secondary French resource needs covered? Check out the following curriculum supplement bundles:

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 1 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 2 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 3 and 4 curriculum

LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.

COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Copyright © Love Learning Languages, Jennifer Crespin

Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

Make learning French fun with this simple, comprehensible input French lesson plan and story. This lesson plan includes a story with targeted structures that can be repeated to give your students lots of repetitions. Comprehension activities to use after the story will allow you to engage your students and makes sure that your French lesson is truly comprehensible input.

Amadou wants to find the perfect gift for his mother's birthday. But somehow, his gifts don't work out. Can he find the right gift to show his love for her, or will she be disappointed? There are three targeted vocabulary structures that are used multiple times throughout the story. The targeted structures are:

• le cadeau parfait

• il veut lui donner

• dans sa poche

This very simple story is told in two different ways. There is a printable text version, and an animated mp4 version. Tell the story as you watch it (pause if you want to stop and discuss or storyask!), or just watch it for comprehension. The video is just over 5 minutes long, with pause time for students to read the text. There is a second version of the video with only the illustrations - no text - so you can watch it and do story retells. With novice low and novice mid learners, you can tell the story as is. For novice high learners, you can add more details or write a parallel story. You could even use this story at higher levels by having students retell the story in the past.

Here’s what you’ll get in this French Comprehensible Input Lesson:

• Links to the videos both with and without the text

• A printable pdf version of the story

• Comprehension question worksheet

• "Who said it?" worksheet

• Story retell worksheet

• Answer key

Click HERE to join my mailing list and get a free article about adapting a textbook to CI!

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Are you looking for a French dictée - dictation exercise about avantages et inconvénients for your beginner level students? Do you struggle to find themed dictées that match beginner level French grammar?

Dictées are great activities for building listening comprehension and writing skills. This is a beginner level French dictée about the pros and cons of living in the countryside.

Included:

• Six sentences
• Theme - Vivre à la campagne
• Basic grammar
• Present tense - être, pouvoir, habiter, falloir
• Infinitives - profiter, se déplace
• Il y a
• Basic negation

Included:

➯ Video presentation of the dictée. Watch me and listen as I read each sentence two times slowly enough to understand and write at the same time. Many non-natives find it makes the listening comprehension part of dictation exercises more manageable to see the speaker's mouth. Once I've finished reading the dictation, I will present each written sentence in French along with the English translation. Once we've gone through all of the sentences and students have checked their work, I will present the complete text in paragraph form on the screen. At that time, we can slowly read through the complete text together so they can see how the separate sentences actually form a short story.

➯ Audio presentation of the dictée. Listen as I read each sentence two times slowly enough to understand and write at the same time. This version of the exercise will be more challenging as students will not see the speaker's mouth.

➯ PDF of the numbered sentences in the dictée and the English translation.

➯ Numbered student response sheet. This is located on page 2 of the PDF.

➯ The following dictées are included in Bundled Set 1:

• Présenter quelqu'un
• Pays, langue, nationalité
• Situer un objet
• Décrire une personne
• Décrire un lieu d'habitation
• Dans la rue
• À l'hôtel
• Les heures
• La semaine
• La routine  - Verbes réfléchis

➯ The following dictées are included in Bundled Set 2:

• La nourriture
• Passé composé avec avoir
• Passé composé avec être
• Interdictions et devoirs
• Savoir, pouvoir, vouloir
• Pronoms directs et indirects
• L'entretien
• Avantages et inconvénients
• Passé composé des verbes réfléchis
• Parler de son enfance

"Dictation is the transcription of spoken text: one person who is "dictating" speaks and another who is "taking dictation" writes down the words as they are spoken. Among speakers of several languages, dictation is used as a test of language skill, similar to spelling bees in the English-speaking world."

Check out my Build Your Own French Bundle option. Select resources from my store, and if they total $20 or more I'll quickly create a special order bundle for you at 20% off. No sale items or other already discounted bundles can be included.

Follow my store

Newsletter - French Freebies + Flash Sales

Want to have all of your secondary French resource needs covered? Check out the following curriculum supplement bundles:

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 1 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 2 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 3 and 4 curriculum

LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.

COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Copyright © Love Learning Languages, Jennifer Crespin

Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

Make learning French fun with this simple, comprehensible input French lesson plan and story. This lesson plan includes a story with targeted structures that can be repeated to give your students lots of repetitions. Comprehension activities to use after the story will allow you to engage your students and makes sure that your French lesson is truly comprehensible input.

Joe is a potato, and he's lonely. He's got a plan to find a girlfriend - but will it backfire? There are four targeted vocabulary structures that are used multiple times throughout the story. The targeted structures are:

• seul

• il s'est habillé

• pensait

• était

This very simple story is told in two different ways. There is a printable text version, and an animated mp4 version. Tell the story as you watch it (pause if you want to stop and discuss or storyask!), or just watch it for comprehension. The video is just over 5 minutes long, with pause time for students to read the text. There is a second version of the video with only the illustrations - no text - so you can watch it and do story retells. With novice low and novice mid learners, you can tell the story as is. For novice high learners, you can add more details or write a parallel story. You could even use this story at higher levels by having students retell the story in the past.

Here’s what you’ll get in this French Comprehensible Input Lesson:

• Links to the videos both with and without the text

• A printable pdf version of the story

• Comprehension question worksheet

• "Who said it?" worksheet

• Story retell worksheet

• Answer key

Click HERE to join my mailing list and get a free article about adapting a textbook to CI!

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Woody Allen's blockbuster movie, Midnight in Paris, a love-letter to the city of Paris! My students really love watching this movie! Even if the movie is in English, there are lots of follow up activities you can do in French with your students. This is an exercise to accompany a report by a Figaro journalist, given in French (of course!). There is a link to the YouTube video, and a series of questions to be answered while watching & listening. There are ten multiple choice questions, and five more open-ended questions. You can use this as a language lab activity, or even as the listening part of an exam. ☞Just click here to follow my store! Merci! ❤️☜ You may enjoy these other French listening comprehension activities: Une Visite Guidée du Louvre: Listening Comprehension + Questions
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Are you looking to improve student comprehension and proficiency in French?  This French comprehensible input short story is a fun sample of what can be done with French CI instruction.  It is a sampler from the series of French CI units, available for level 1 and level 2 French.

This short story is for French learners who are just starting their studies. Very simple language with lots of repetition - but the story itself is interesting enough to hold their attention. It is the unit story that finishes unit 1 of the CI unit series - each unit uses comprehensible input to give your students a base of frequently used vocabulary words with some basic structures.  At the end of the unit, students should be able to easily read and understand the story - and with practice, they can retell the story as well.  

These units are especially helpful if you want to use CI but:

• You are required to use a district textbook
• You need a little bit of structure as you get your feet wet with comprehensible input
• You are required to give a district final, but want to use CI to teach your classes

The units are complete units with vocabulary and grammar in context - they cover the same material as the standard textbook programs, only with a more comprehensible input focus.

This free story can be used as a standalone activity as early as the first semester of French.  

Includes:

• short story in French
• comprehension questions
• story retell activity
• mp4 animated video of the story

This story is part of the Bonjour! Comprehensible input unit 1 for beginning French. This will give you an idea of what the units are like - each unit builds up to a unit story based on the vocabulary and grammar of the unit.

Are you looking for a fun way to combine French listening comprehension with a cultural activity about the Louvre? Your beginner students will be amazed at how much they can understand in this activity, and that will give them a good boost of self esteem!

The first step is to have your students watch the six minute video. In this video, I read a short text from a brochure to the Louvre. I read the text three times, stopping in between each reading to ask three questions (plus a bonus question).

At the end of the video, and when everyone has finished answering the questions, distribute the text, vocabulary list, and questions + answers which are located on the second page and watch the video again. Students can read along with the text on the second viewing.

Includes:

• 6 minute video
• List of useful vocabulary
• Full text in French
• Three comprehension questions in French
• One bonus question in French

Use this French listening comprehension lesson when:

• You want your students to get a boost in self esteem because they can understand
• You want your students to listen actively to spoken French at a slower pace
• Your students need bite sized chunks of French listening at this point
• You want your students to see the person speaking for easier comprehension
• You want to introduce your students to the Louvre and learn more about it

NOTE: Please excuse my backwards French flag in the background! When I recorded this video I didn't realize that the image would be flipped. Brownie points to students who recognize that it should be bleu, blanc, et rouge!

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There is a monster under the bed! That is scary for any kid, but how does the monster feel about having a little girl on top of the bed? Find out in this Comprehensible Input video lesson for French learners.

This item includes a story with targeted vocabulary structures that are used multiple times throughout the story. The structures are:

• sous le lit - under the bed

• j’ai peur - I’m scared

• il y a - there is/there are

• sur le lit - on the bed

This very simple story is told in two different ways. There is a printable text version, and an animated mp4 version. Tell the story as you watch it (pause if you want to stop and discuss or storyask!), or just watch it for comprehension. The video is just over 5 minutes long, with pause time for students to read the text. There is a second version of the video with only the illustrations - no text - so you can watch it and do story retells.

To accompany the video and printed story, there are several activity pages - a comprehension worksheets, a "who said it?" worksheet, and a story retell page. Answer key included.

To sum it up, the item includes:
✓ one mp4 file of the story with text
✓ one mp4 file of the story without text
✓ link to videos online so your students can rewatch on their own
✓ printable pdf story
✓ comprehension question worksheet
✓ "who said it?" worksheet
✓ story retell worksheet
✓ answer key

With many people doing distance learning these days, you might wonder if it is possible to use this story in this way. The answer is YES! Here are some suggestions on how you can make this work:

- Use the pdf of the story as reading practice. You might have students read it before or after you use the video.

- Use Zoom meeting (or whatever software of your choice) to tell the story with the video. Share your screen with the mp4 file. There is no sound for the video, this is done purposely so that you can use the story for storyasking. Tell the story a little at a time, pausing the video frequently to ask questions. This will help you to circle the vocabulary and structures. Add details! If the sentence says "there is a monster under the bed" - ask questions such as "is there a monster or a dog? Is the monster under or on the bed? What kind of a monster is it - big or little? Scary or nice? What is his name? Is there a monster under your bed? What kind of a monster is under YOUR bed?"

- Once you have done the storyasking part of the task, now it is time for the students to do the comprehension and retell. These are pdf files that you can send to the students. You can also share the link to the page with the mp4 stories, so the students can watch the video on their own - with or without the text - and practice retelling.

- Finally, you can have students do the retell. This can be done through Zoom, or you could have them use Flipgrid to record.

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Are you looking for a French dictée - dictation exercise with a présenter quelqu'un theme for your beginner level students? Do you struggle to find themed dictées that match beginner level French grammar?

Dictées are great activities for building listening comprehension and writing skills. This is a beginner level French dictée with a présenter quelqu'un theme.

Included:

• Ten sentences
• Theme - Présenter quelqu'un
• Basic grammar
• Present tense - être, aller, avoir, faire
• Present tense - regular ER verbs
• Definite, indefinite, and partitive articles

Included:

➯ Video presentation of the dictée. Watch me and listen as I read each sentence two times slowly enough to understand and write at the same time. Many non-natives find it makes the listening comprehension part of dictation exercises more manageable to see the speaker's mouth. Once I've finished reading the dictation, I will present each written sentence in French along with the English translation. Once we've gone through all of the sentences and students have checked their work, I will present the complete text in paragraph form on the screen. At that time, we can slowly read through the complete text together so they can see how the separate sentences actually form a short story.

➯ Audio presentation of the dictée.. Listen as I read each sentence two times slowly enough to understand and write at the same time. This version of the exercise will be more challenging as students will not see the speaker's mouth.

➯ PDF of the numbered sentences in the dictée and the English translation.

➯ Numbered student response sheet. This is located on page 2 of the PDF.

➯ The following dictées are included in Bundled Set 1:

• Présenter quelqu'un
• Pays, langue, nationalité
• Situer un objet
• Décrire une personne
• Décrire un lieu d'habitation
• Dans la rue
• À l'hôtel
• Les heures
• La semaine
• La routine  - Verbes réfléchis

➯ The following dictées are included in Bundled Set 2:

• La nourriture
• Passé composé avec avoir
• Passé composé avec être
• Interdictions et devoirs
• Savoir, pouvoir, vouloir
• Pronoms directs et indirects
• L'entretien
• Avantages et inconvénients
• Passé composé des verbes réfléchis
• Parler de son enfance

"Dictation is the transcription of spoken text: one person who is "dictating" speaks and another who is "taking dictation" writes down the words as they are spoken. Among speakers of several languages, dictation is used as a test of language skill, similar to spelling bees in the English-speaking world."

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Want to have all of your secondary French resource needs covered? Check out the following curriculum supplement bundles:

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 1 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 2 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 3 and 4 curriculum

LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.

COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Copyright © Love Learning Languages, Jennifer Crespin

Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

Make learning French fun with this simple, comprehensible input French lesson plan and story. This lesson plan includes a story with targeted structures that can be repeated to give your students lots of repetitions. Comprehension activities to use after the story will allow you to engage your students and makes sure that your French lesson is truly comprehensible input.

Marcie loves cheese. She REALLY loves cheese - so much that she smells like cheese. Her boyfriend Peter doesn't like cheese at all. How can Marcie reconcile her love for cheese with her love for Peter? There are four targeted vocabulary structures that are used multiple times throughout the story. The targeted structures are:

• sent mauvais

• Je ne t'aime plus

• Beaucoup de fromage

• il/elle met

This very simple story is told in two different ways. There is a printable text version, and an animated mp4 version. Tell the story as you watch it (pause if you want to stop and discuss or storyask!), or just watch it for comprehension. The video is just over 5 minutes long, with pause time for students to read the text. There is a second version of the video with only the illustrations - no text - so you can watch it and do story retells. With novice low and novice mid learners, you can tell the story as is. For novice high learners, you can add more details or write a parallel story. You could even use this story at higher levels by having students retell the story in the past.

Here’s what you’ll get in this French Comprehensible Input Lesson:

• Links to the videos both with and without the text

• A printable pdf version of the story

• Comprehension question worksheet

• "Who said it?" worksheet

• Story retell worksheet

• Answer key

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Are you looking for a French dictée - dictation exercise about les études, le travail, les langues et la nationalité for your beginner level students? Do you struggle to find themed dictées that match beginner level French grammar?

Dictées are great activities for building listening comprehension and writing skills. This is a beginner level French dictée about studying, work, languages, and nationalities.

Included:

• Eight sentences
• Theme - Les études, le travail, les langues et la nationalité
• Basic grammar
• Present tense - être, savoir, vouloir, utiliser, pouvoir, avoir
• Infinitives - parler, travailler, faire
• Passé composé - finir, étudier
• Definite, indefinite, and partitive articles

Included:

➯ Video presentation of the dictée. Watch me and listen as I read each sentence two times slowly enough to understand and write at the same time. Many non-natives find it makes the listening comprehension part of dictation exercises more manageable to see the speaker's mouth. Once I've finished reading the dictation, I will present each written sentence in French along with the English translation. Once we've gone through all of the sentences and students have checked their work, I will present the complete text in paragraph form on the screen. At that time, we can slowly read through the complete text together so they can see how the separate sentences actually form a short story.

➯ Audio presentation of the dictée. Listen as I read each sentence two times slowly enough to understand and write at the same time. This version of the exercise will be more challenging as students will not see the speaker's mouth.

➯ PDF of the numbered sentences in the dictée and the English translation.

➯ Numbered student response sheet. This is located on page 2 of the PDF.

➯ The following dictées are included in Bundled Set 1:

• Présenter quelqu'un
• Pays, langue, nationalité
• Situer un objet
• Décrire une personne
• Décrire un lieu d'habitation
• Dans la rue
• À l'hôtel
• Les heures
• La semaine
• La routine  - Verbes réfléchis

➯ The following dictées are included in Bundled Set 2:

• La nourriture
• Passé composé avec avoir
• Passé composé avec être
• Interdictions et devoirs
• Savoir, pouvoir, vouloir
• Pronoms directs et indirects
• L'entretien
• Avantages et inconvénients
• Passé composé des verbes réfléchis
• Parler de son enfance

"Dictation is the transcription of spoken text: one person who is "dictating" speaks and another who is "taking dictation" writes down the words as they are spoken. Among speakers of several languages, dictation is used as a test of language skill, similar to spelling bees in the English-speaking world."

Check out my Build Your Own French Bundle option. Select resources from my store, and if they total $20 or more I'll quickly create a special order bundle for you at 20% off. No sale items or other already discounted bundles can be included.

Follow my store

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Want to have all of your secondary French resource needs covered? Check out the following curriculum supplement bundles:

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 1 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 2 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 3 and 4 curriculum

LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.

COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Copyright © Love Learning Languages, Jennifer Crespin

Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.

Make learning French fun with this simple, comprehensible input French lesson plan and story. This lesson plan includes a story with targeted structures that can be repeated to give your students lots of repetitions. Comprehension activities to use after the story will allow you to engage your students and makes sure that your French lesson is truly comprehensible input.

Le Mauvais Chef is bad - really bad. He puts too much salt on EVERYTHING. He's sad and customers are angry. But is there a simple solution? There are four targeted vocabulary structures that are used multiple times throughout the story. The targeted structures are:

• trop de sel

• vous êtes

• un mauvais chef

• il met

This very simple story is told in two different ways. There is a printable text version, and an animated mp4 version. Tell the story as you watch it (pause if you want to stop and discuss or storyask!), or just watch it for comprehension. The video is just over 5 minutes long, with pause time for students to read the text. There is a second version of the video with only the illustrations - no text - so you can watch it and do story retells. With novice low and novice mid learners, you can tell the story as is. For novice high learners, you can add more details or write a parallel story. You could even use this story at higher levels by having students retell the story in the past.

Here’s what you’ll get in this French Comprehensible Input Lesson:

• Links to the videos both with and without the text

• A printable pdf version of the story

• Comprehension question worksheet

• "Who said it?" worksheet

• Story retell worksheet

• Answer key

Click HERE to join my mailing list and get a free article about adapting a textbook to CI!

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Are you looking for a French dictée - dictation exercise using il faut + infinitives for your beginner level students? Do you struggle to find themed dictées that match beginner level French grammar?

Dictées are great activities for building listening comprehension and writing skills. This is a beginner level French dictée about preparing for an interview - se préparer pour un entretien.

Included:

• Five sentences
• Theme - Se préparer pour un entretien
• Basic grammar
• Il faut + infinitive is used 5 times
• Infinitives - prendre, préparer, se renseigner, analyser, regarder, écouter, répondre, poser, faire, avoir
• Direct object pronoun LA
• Indirect object pronoun LUI

Included:

➯ Video presentation of the dictée. Watch me and listen as I read each sentence two times slowly enough to understand and write at the same time. Many non-natives find it makes the listening comprehension part of dictation exercises more manageable to see the speaker's mouth. Once I've finished reading the dictation, I will present each written sentence in French along with the English translation. Once we've gone through all of the sentences and students have checked their work, I will present the complete text in paragraph form on the screen. At that time, we can slowly read through the complete text together so they can see how the separate sentences actually form a short story.

➯ Audio presentation of the dictée. Listen as I read each sentence two times slowly enough to understand and write at the same time. This version of the exercise will be more challenging as students will not see the speaker's mouth.

➯ PDF of the numbered sentences in the dictée and the English translation.

➯ Numbered student response sheet. This is located on page 2 of the PDF.

➯ The following dictées are included in Bundled Set 1:

• Présenter quelqu'un
• Pays, langue, nationalité
• Situer un objet
• Décrire une personne
• Décrire un lieu d'habitation
• Dans la rue
• À l'hôtel
• Les heures
• La semaine
• La routine  - Verbes réfléchis

➯ The following dictées are included in Bundled Set 2:

• La nourriture
• Passé composé avec avoir
• Passé composé avec être
• Interdictions et devoirs
• Savoir, pouvoir, vouloir
• Pronoms directs et indirects
• L'entretien
• Avantages et inconvénients
• Passé composé des verbes réfléchis
• Parler de son enfance

"Dictation is the transcription of spoken text: one person who is "dictating" speaks and another who is "taking dictation" writes down the words as they are spoken. Among speakers of several languages, dictation is used as a test of language skill, similar to spelling bees in the English-speaking world."

Check out my Build Your Own French Bundle option. Select resources from my store, and if they total $20 or more I'll quickly create a special order bundle for you at 20% off. No sale items or other already discounted bundles can be included.

Follow my store

Newsletter - French Freebies + Flash Sales

Want to have all of your secondary French resource needs covered? Check out the following curriculum supplement bundles:

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 1 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 2 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 3 and 4 curriculum

LICENSING TERMS: This purchase includes a license for one teacher only for personal use in their classroom. Licenses are non-transferable, meaning they can not be passed from one teacher to another. No part of this resource is to be shared with colleagues or used by an entire grade level, school, or district without purchasing the proper number of licenses.

COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websites or network drives, unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students.

Copyright © Love Learning Languages, Jennifer Crespin

Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

Please purchase additional licenses if you intend to share this product.