Examples
1. A Walk In The NeighbourhoodContinue the Story - A Walk In The Neighbourhood
Students complete the ending of a story involving a walk around the neighbourhood with Veronique and her dog, Coco.
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2. Continue l'histoire - Une motoContinue the Story - A Motorcycle
Students complete the ending of a story involving a mysterious motorcycle found on a gravel road.
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3. L'aventure d'un enfantA Child's Adventure
This activity enables students to creatively order a series of images and write a story based on the order of events established.
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4. L'histoire d'une porteThe Story behind a Door
Have students devise a story based on the door they would choose. This resource could be used to practice or even assess the use of a grammatical feature (such as the past tense) in a communicative context.
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5. C'est quoi cette discussion ?Who's Talking?
Let your students interpret the image in this resource by having them come up with a conversation thread for the scene pictured. Emotions and facial expressions can be used as a lens to focus the description.
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6. La foule folleThe Crazy Crowd
Drawing on learners' unique perspectives, this activity lets students think of a story based on the image of an adolescent in a large crowd.
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7. Le symbolismeSymbolism
In this task, learners will develop a story to explain the curious picture. This resource may be used as a preliminary task to get students in the mindset of analyzing symbolism.
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8. La course de la peur !On the Run!
Students construct a story based on a prompt and a visual cue. The tension in the situation is palpable! Will the heroes in the story make it out safely?
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9. À la laverie libre-service !At the Laundromat
Provided with a visual cue of an unfortunate incident in a laundromat, students must write a story to describe the events surrounding the picture. This activity could be used within a lesson on comedy quite easily.
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10. Histoire d'HalloweenA Halloween Story
In this spooky task, students will describe the events that led to the scene pictured. Readers beware: the stories developed by students may be horrifying! Lessons teaching suspense could integrate this resource well.
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11. La guerre est une opinion?Is War an Opinion?
In this task, students will write a short essay based on questions found in the resource. A discussion before hand can help with brainstorming and unpacking key ideas behind propaganda and nationalism. This resource is designed for higher level French students.
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12. Une porte mystérieuse dans la forêt enchantée
A Mysterious Door in the Enchanted Forest
Harnessing students' listening abilities, this audio resource will tell the beginning of a tale that students will have to finish. The transcript is also provided as a pdf file to support students.
Harnessing students' listening abilities, this audio resource will tell the beginning of a tale that students will have to finish. The transcript is also provided as a pdf file to support students.
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*To access a particular task, download all files associated with it. For example, Ordering and Sorting 2.3 includes two files that must both be downloaded to access the material.