Learn and speak French in North London

Tools, books & material

I have a wide choice of text books methods from I which I base my lessons and adapt material for exercises and activities. Some are published in the UK or the US and others are published in France for students of FLE (Français Langue Etrangères / French as a foreign language).

books:                   

key: - * UK/US publications * FLE publications £ French for Business # for GCSE & exams

'Façon de Parler'* (Hodder Arnold); 'Taxi'* (Hachette); 'Voilà!'* (Hodder Arnold); 'Oxford French cartoon-strip Vocabulary Builder'* (Oxford); 'The French Experience'* (BBC active).
'Alter Ego'* (Hachette); 'francais.com'£* (CLE international);
'Vocabulaire explique du francais'* (CLE international);
'Bitesize GCSE French'# (BBC); 'Concentrate on French reading for GCSE'# (Hodder & Stoughton).

These books come with CD with recordings of native speakers in authentic conversations.
They are also accompanied with activity books for exercises.

Françoise Le Roux: 

The complete method of Françoise Le Roux on 5 CD, providing lessons & activities for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. Also support from her website: La Guinguette.
Some options of her website are only available to members such such as the ability to slow down the text as it is read. As a member I have access to this facility and we will be able to do some reading.
It is, with the BBC site, one of the best site for learners!

Other material                  

I also have a wide variety of learning material including flashcards & specialized pedagogic material (such as the dice pictured above). I also create my own material with my own drawings (click on pictures above for bigger version) if no interesting commercial material is to be found. It is also a good excuse to combine my passion for drawing and teaching!

My games

game 1 - a puzzle to reconstitute 5 phrases. More games are in preparation.
(at my other site Moonwalk, will open another window)

Sites   

* Very important sites for beginners: the alphabet, the numbers.
You can listen to the sounds then go back to the index to do the exercises.

help for the exercise pages: It's a FLE French site so instructions are in French:
'Ecoutez la lettre à deviner et cliquez sur la bonne case' [listen to the letter to guess then click in the correct box]; - You will have to click on the picture of headphones with ECOUTEZ, listen to the letter then click the right letter.
The exercise with numbers is harder, it goes faster! 'Ecoutez les 5 numéros et cliquez sur les bonnes cases' [listen to 5 numbers to guess then click in the correct boxes]; - Same as for the letters except that you'll be given 5 numbers without much delay between them. A bit difficult at first but it's an excellent drill and really gets you going.
                                                
* The University of Texas also has great resources for beginners, go their first chapter
   & click on the 3rd link down: l'alphabet.

* lsfrench.com has many interesting pages for fun activities:
   hangman; match the sentences; crosswords, mix words.


* Go to WordChamp to join lessons that I have set up with this site.
You will need to create an account to register as a student.
This done, login, choose 'join a class'
by entering this student invitation number: 2097177999
you will access the WordChamp Voulez-vous classes with the latest assignments.
NOTE: It will work with Internet Explorer but some options are unavailable with Firefox. I haven't tried with Netscape but stick to IE for all process related to joining a class and other options.