Faisons les courses - Everything you need to present food shopping in France: vocabulary, verbs, and structures; a variety of practice activities; simulations; listening and communication; entertaining creative tasks. The book has: Ideas for the classroom set-up • Supermarket "decor" • Props • Visuals (sings, backdrops, etc.) • 8 pages of clip art images (for activities, games, or transparencies) A warm-up Supermarket Scavenger Hunt activity • Increases the students' awareness of how much French is in their local supermarkets right here in the U.S. 6 pages packed with vocabulary • Specialty food stores • Vendors • Supermarket vocabulary, departments, packages • Vocabulary of food typically found in French stores (beverages, breads, condiments, dairy products, fruit, vegetables, hygiene, cleaning supplies, meat, seafood, spices, desserts) • Food shopping verbs, adjectives, and structures • Conversation cues (questions, phrases, etc.) for shopping in France Authentic elements (to root the unit in France) • Names of 14 supermarket chains • Brands (French & U.S.) of foods sold in French supermarkets • Web sites (on-line supermarkets, supermarket Web sites, company sites, Fête du pain, a commerce directory to help you find specialty stores in any French city, some supermarket photos, a shopping list you can print, etc.) • Over 40 French comptines about food • 67 expressions that have foods in them ("Je n'ai pas un radis.") PLUS... • 70 Paired-Speaking Stimuli • Listening Activities • Class Activities • Activity Sheets (Many Communicative) • Creative Tasks • 28 Skit Ideas • Riddles • Internet Tasks • Puzzles • 2-Page Board Game • Shopping Verbs And Structures • Quantities / Packaging • Overhead Projector Game • Metric Conversions • Project Ideas • Puns • Rhyming Couplets 136 pages, spiral bound.
