French Videos
Panorama de la France
Profils des Français
Optiques: la vie quotidienne
VidéoFrance
VidéoPasseport Français
Panorama de la France
Designed for advanced beginning through high intermediate students, this
sixty-minute video filmed entirely on location in France brings authentic,
everyday French into the classroom. Divided into eight segments of approximately
seven minutes each, Panorama de la France takes students on a lively tour
of France, including a trip aboard the famed TGV train, and visits to Nice,
St. Tropez, a small community in the Alps, a historic town in the center
of Burgundy, and three other fascinating locales. Natives and visitors are
interviewed in each location, commenting ont he communities, talking about
day-to-day life, and giving students a glimpse of the attitudes of the French
toward their country and their towns. With this video cassette, students
will experience the language as the French really speak it and gain an understanding
of French culture as they sharpen their language skills. This program includes
an Instructor's Manual that provides a complete transcript for each
video segment, along with various student activities to help students focus
on various aspects of French language and culture brought out in the video.
For VHS.
Order Number: E1485X $129.95
Profils des Français
Designed for low intermediate through low advanced students of French, this
sixty-minute video filmed entirely on location in France is part of the
same series as Panorama de la France. Divided into eight segments of approximately
seven minutes each, Profils des Français introduces students to French
people of all ages and walks of life. In each segment, Jean Noël Rey,
director of the video, interviews a person or a group of people about their
lives, their interests, and their views on the world around them. The subjects
range from a young couple in Paris to a gendarme, from a restaurant owner
and his wife to a group of schoolchildren in Poitiers. Each person interviewed
provides a fascinating glimpse into everyday life in France. This package
includes an Instructor's Manual with complete transcripts for all
the video segments and several student activities. For VHS.
Order Number: E1471X $149.95
Optiques: la vie quotidienne
Designed for high intermediate through advanced French students, this sixty-minute
video is a fascinating and culturally authentic program filmed entirely
on location in France. Divided into eight segments of approximatey seven
minutes apiece, Optiques: la vie quotidienne focuses on a range of issues
of immediate concern to the French today. Some segments highlight challenging,
controversial topics,s uch as racism, politics, and advertisig in society.
Other deal with subjects like meals and shopping that provide an informative
glimpse of French daily habits and ways of thinking. People of all ages
and walks of life are interviewed in the segments, providing a lively, sometimes
surprising variety of views on contemporary issues. This package includes
an Instructor's Manual complete with a comprehensive transcript for
each video segment and various student activities. For VHS.
Order Number: E1468X $149.95
VidéoFrance
All three videos in the series: Panorama de la France, Profils des Français,
and Optiques: la vie quotidienne. For VHS.
Order Number: E1467X $399.95
VidéoPasseport Français
A sixty-minute video program, filmed entirely on location in Paris and Bordeaux,
features authentic language in everyday situations. Complete with audio
and print components, 15 units give students the listening and speaking
practice they need in essential daily topics: greeting people, ordering
drinks and snacks, getting and giving information and directions, expressing
likes and dislikes, describing the weather, stating intentions, shopping,
making travel arrangements, and much more. The complete Vidéo Passeport
Français package includes the sixty-minute video, an audiocassette
of the video sound track, a Resource and Activity Book for additional
listening, speaking, and writing practice based on the video units, and
an Instructor's Manual containing unit-by-unit plans, transcriptions,
and cultural notes. For VHS.
Order Number: 21597X $173.25