Elementary French for beginners using "French in Action"
by Professor Nicole Vaget

Oct.18 = Day 1: lesson in class with moderators (video)

Working with the video of lesson 2:

This is not a passive activity. Your teacher will presents the lesson using the dramatisation on video toggling with his/her finger on the "play" and "pause" buttons of the VCR, and stopping at the key points of the passage. You will be asked to repeat systematically what you hear, and to answer your moderators questions. Students listen and repeat every piece of information they are able to remember. The role of the teacher is to pause and make sure that his/her students have understood the text, by asking questions repeatedly.

  1. "Le télé-play" = Listen to the introduction by the teacher, Pierre Capretz. Meet Mireille who is rushing to her Italian class. See and listen how she greets her friends and schoolmates, madame Rosa, her uperclass friend Hubert, an old professor, her aunt Georgette with her dog Fido. Back to the class room, Pierre Capretz gets us to say that we are going to learn French.
  2. Principal points presented by professor Capretz ,"the talking head".

Link to Professor's Capretz page with suggestions for presentating the Teleplay of lesson 2