Montréal, Québec, Canada is the second largest French-speaking city in the world. It has four daily newspapers. The French-language newspapers (La Presse, Le Journal de Montréal, and Le Devoir), and the English-language paper, The Gazette. La Presse is the largest one.
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/
As an end-of-the-year project for French I students, they will view a screencast (or several shorter ones) about how to navigate a French newspaper. Our foreign location of study has been Québec Province, Canada. They have already done other assignments on the Internet regarding Montréal, giving and following directions using Google Maps for example. The screencast will show them how to navigate a French Montréal newspaper, La Presse, and search for specific information contained within the various pages of the paper. Being relatively new to the study of world languages, navigating and searching for information that is entirely in French can be a daunting task. Having a screencast that they are able to replay at will should help ease some anxiety and wear and tear on my shoes from having to run around to show several students the same thing over and over. This assignment would serve as an end-cap to the Québec unit. It would review directions, weather words, dates, telling time, and other key vocabulary and allow them to apply it in a real-world situation. Learning to navigate a newspaper will help for further advanced lessons on grammar, reading, and writing summaries or responses to articles.
Scenario: You are going to be in Montréal with your family on vacation this summer. You are the only one who speaks French. You have only the French newspaper La Presse to help you out. What are you going to do? When are you going to do it? Will you be able to do it? How much does it cost?
Follow Madame Wellman’s screencast on navigating a French newspaper. You are going to learn how to find the weather, when certain tv shows are on, what concerts/activities are happening and when among other things. As a class, we are going to view the screencast together. Relevant questions and answers will come next. Then you are going to open a new Internet window (to keep the screencast available for replaying as needed) and find/answer the following. Remember your family is counting on you! Bonne chance!
La Presse de Montréal
View the screencast for each topic, as needed. Then answer the following in French.
-- La Météo/The Weather: You are planning on taking a bus for a day trip to Longeuil. What will the temperature and weather be in Longeuil tomorrow afternoon?
-- Les Actualités/The News: You are a little homesick. How would you find out what is happening in the U.S.? Write the name/headline of one story.
-- Les Arts et Spectacles/Arts & Entertainment: Your little brother wants to see a movie. Use the schedule to pick a kids’ movie to see. Write the name and address of the theatre, the name of the movie, and when you are going to see it.
-- Horaire télé: Mom and Dad are tired from walking around town all day. They want to watch a show, in English. They love Jeopardy!. What days and times is Jeopardy! on?
-- What is casse-tête? What do you do? Can you figure it out? Show Madame when you are done with it.
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