Les Transports Workpages – $9.95 CDN Make French unit studies easy with Nallenart’s Workpages series! Les Transports (lay trahz-POHR = transportation) is a resource book of reproducible worksheets with a theme of transportation and travel, the verb aller, etc. Puzzles, vocabulary, verb review, and more. Designed for classroom or homeschool use. 24 pages. Suitable for grades 3-8. … Read more
Jules Verne was a writer ahead of his time. In 1865, over one hundred years before the first man landed on the moon, Jules Verne imagined such a trip in his novel De la Terre à la Lune, From the Earth to the Moon. Here are five examples of similarities between Verne’s novel and the … Read more
Just for fun, watch one of these film adaptations of Around the World in Eighty Days by French author Jules Verne. 1956 with David Niven, Cantinflas and Shirley MacLaine (Oscar for best film) 1989with Pierce Brosnan, Eric Idle and Peter Ustinov 2004with Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan and Cécile de France Test your knowledge with the … Read more
In 1872, French author Jules Verne (1828-1905) wrote a fantastic novel that described the adventures of Phileas Fogg, a man who bet his colleagues that he could successfully travel all the way around the world in just eighty days. In the days before airplanes this would be a pretty remarkable, if not impossible feat. The … Read more
How can one travel? To show a means of transportation in French, it is important to choose the correct preposition. Ask yourself, “In or on?” If it’s “in,” use en. If it’s “on” use à. Par exemple: by car (in a car) = en voiture by bicycle (on a bicycle) = à bicyclette entrain, bateau, … Read more
How do you get there from here? Use one of these ways of travelling: train = trainbateau = boatautocar = coach busavion = airplanevoiture = carhélicoptère = helicopterautomobile = carautobus = busdos d’éléphant = the back of an elephantvélo = bikebicyclette = bicyclepied = on footmotocyclette = motorcyclemotoneige = snowmobilecheval = horse Test yourself and … Read more