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Le "Café Français" du Printemps dans le New Hampshire
Friday, May 8 at 5:30 p.m.
NH Institute of Politics, St Anselm's College
100 St Anselm Dr, Manchester, NH
This edition of the Café Français will feature a presentation in French by Grégoire Chabot and Jean-Claude Redonnet of their new play
Jeanne et Osithée, about the fictional meeting of their two ancestors: two Francophone women, one from France and the other from Maine. Le Café Français is a networking event created by the Consulate and allowing French teachers to meet and discuss their pedagogical practices in a convivial setting. This spring, we want to thank the Franco-American Center of St Anselm's College for welcoming us and the AATF of New Hampshire for our continuous collaboration. This Café Français will provide you with
resources to help enliven French curriculums and culture in your local environments - as well as wine and cheese. Venez nombreux! Please register by May 1st by clicking here. This event is free and open to educators of French
and heads of world languages in New England. (Illustration: Claude Monet, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1865-1866, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.) |
Deadline: Friday, May 1, 2015
To all New England universities faculty & staff! The Cultural Service of the Consulate of France in Boston, along with the Cultural Services of the Embassy of France in the United States, is pleased to organize for the second consecutive year the presentation of the "French Consulate in Boston Excellence Award" to reward a student who has been particularly active in promoting French language and culture on campus. Nominate one of your students before May 1st!
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Thursday, April 16 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
St Michael's College
One Winooski Park, Colchester, VT
A few places are still available for the third and last workshop by Gilberte Furstenberg, on April 16th. Designed to provide teachers with a different way to teach French culture, Gilberte Furstenberg's workshop offers a new dynamic approach to educating students on complex aspects of French culture, including attitudes, behaviors, values and mindsets in today's France, while avoiding stereotypes. This workshop is
free and open to all New England high school and middle school teachers of French. To register by Apr 13, click here. LEARN MORE |
Thursday, April 23 from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. (EST)
The French Embassy in the United States is currently offering a cycle of three web seminars ("webinars")
on the teaching of French as a foreign language. The second such workshop will take place on April 23rd on the theme: « Mettre en œuvre des mini-projets en classe de FLE : de la consigne à l'évaluation », enabling you to acquire methods and material to organize mini-projects with your class. The webinar will be followed by a session of Q&A, and an online forum will be put in place afterwards to allow teachers to exchange with colleagues around the webinar. Sign up before April 17th by writing to
webinaire-cla@univ-fcomte.fr with your name, email address and date of birth. You will then receive a login and password to access the CLA online payment service. Inscriptions cost $10 and are limited to 95 participants. LEARN MORE |
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| FORMATION DES ENSEIGNANTS |
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Formations pédagogiques pour professeurs d'université
Du 18 au 22 mai et du 25 au 29 mai
Ohio University & Michigan Technological University
Trois formations pédagogiques pour les professeurs d'université seront proposées par le Centre de langue française de la Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie de Paris et les Services culturels de l'Ambassade de France aux États-Unis. Les frais de formation sont pris en charge par les Services Culturels. Inscription avant le 10 avril. 18-22 mai : Introduction à la démarche FOS
(Français sur objectifs spécifiques), Ohio University. Plus d'informations ici. 18-22 mai : Français scientifique et technique, Michigan Technological University. Plus d'informations ici. 25-29 mai :
Français de la santé, Michigan Technological University. Plus d'informations ici. |
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| ONLINE RESOURCES |
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This year for the first time, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States present The New Faces of French Animation. A compilation of nine of the best French short animated films from the 2014 Annecy International Animated Film Festival is available for free for non-commercial screenings for the year 2015. Contact Pervenche Beurier
to get your copy of the DVD, Blu-Ray, or DCP version while supplies last! Program guidelines here. READ MORE |
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An online resource to learn about climate change
The website COP21, in connection with the UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris which will be held in December 2015, is now online and available in French, English and Spanish. READ MORE |
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The sailing of an exact replica of L'Hermione, Lafayette's ship, from France to New England this spring can be the perfect opportunity to study with your class French involvement in the American Revolution. This website offers a wealth of information and visual resources in French about L'Hermione, from the role of the Marquis de Lafayette, to information about seafaring in the 18th century or even French society during the Enlightenment.
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TV5 Monde is offering an exciting new digital library that contains a choice selection of classics in French literature. The digital library offers not only online copies of the full texts, but also educational resources containing reading and literary analysis strategies. They will also be publishing news reports from the francophone world every Friday, accompanied by bonus teaching materials
to help approach these news reports in a classroom setting. Both resources are free of charge. READ MORE |
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Teach your class about France's regions with this useful website. Learn about regional particularities, cultural practices, culinary specialties and local history thanks to these detailed portraits of each region, with media resources. Photo: the Chenonceau castle in the Pays de la Loire region LEARN MORE |
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The American Association of Teachers of French in Rhode Island provides a very useful page with a number of resources for convincing parents, students and school administrators of the benefits of learning French. READ MORE |
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| GRANTS AND PROGRAMS |
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May 18 to August 14
UMass Amherst Continuing & Professional Education
The University of Massachusetts Continuing and Professional Education Program will offer a number of French Studies Summer Online Courses, each worth 3 to 4 credits. These will be held in two sessions, May 18th to June 26th and July 6th to August 14th. The program will include, in particular, a course on Love and Sex in French Culture (more information here) and a course on African film (more information
here). CLICK HERE FOR A DETAILED LIST OF COURSES |
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| FIELD TRIPS |
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Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street
Woonsocket, RI
The Museum of Work & Culture in Rhode Island offers guided tours in French. This museum is a good opportunity to experience hands-on history with visits of the mills and farmhouses in which immigrants, many of them French Canadian, came to work at the end of the 19th c., including children working in difficult conditions. Tours cost $6
per child and are followed by a screening of Un Rêve Américain, sponsored by the Delegation of Quebec in Boston. For more information or to schedule a tour, contact Anne Conway, Museum director, at aconway@rihs.org. LEARN MORE |
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| DANS VOTRE RÉGION |
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If you are looking for resources we published in a previous Bulletin Educatif, fear not: all our previous newsletters can be found in PDF format on the website of the consulate! Ideas and comments are welcome. READ MORE |
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