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Contents

Language Skills
- Reading
- Listening
- Speaking
- Writing
Grammar and Vocabulary
- Grammar
- Vocabulary
Business English
Dictionaries
Cultural Institutes
Newspapers and Magazines
Exams and Tests
 LANGUAGE SKILLS

- Reading
- Listening
- Speaking
- Writing

Reading

Bonjour de France http://www.bonjourdefrance.com/index/indexapp.htm

You can listen to texts and dialogs in French with monolingual explanations. Later on they ask you to answer
questions about text comprehension (different levels).

Chasse aux trésors http://babelnet.sbg.ac.at/canalreve/tresor/index.htm

littéraires
You have to experience this adventure!

Polar FLE http://www.polarfle.com/

Apprendre le francais avec l’inspecteur Roger Duflair. With tasks at different levels.

Zéro de conduite! http://www.zdc-fr.com/

Texts with following tasks.

Apprendre le Français http://www.fle.fr/pro/ressources-etu/parcours7.html

Several texts for reading and listening with exercises.

LISTENING
Better@Listening http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/listening/

Video sequences and listening exercises from BBC for French with English a the language of reference. You can
study also study Spanish, Italian and German.

La chasse aux stars http://www.didierbravo.com/modulesflash/module2/module2.swf

An Listening comprehension game for beginner to intermediate level. You are a Paparazzo and have to take
photos of different characters on the basis of description you receive on your cell phone.

Courts métrages à la http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/webtv_pourcinema

carte– short movies
Funny, more serious or bizarre short movies (3-23min). A perfect Listening Comprehension training at different
levels.

Le Point du FLE http://www.lepointdufle.net/audio.htm

Compréhension audio
Different links leading you to listening files at different levels with exercises.

Les gens http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/html/toc/04.html

An interactive grammar and way to study vocabulary or extend it via video or audio interviews.

Videos of the TV http://videos.tf1.fr/video

Channel TF1
Music videos, interviews, weather, gameshows, news – updated several times per day.

Apprende le Francais http://www.fle.fr/pro/ressources-etu/parcours1.html

en France: Activités
d'écoute
Very interesting listening comprehension games and exercises!
Radio France http://www.rfi.fr/lffr/statiques/accueil_apprendre.asp
Internationale
Radio France Internationale: écoutez y choisisez un sujet, s’il vous plaît. Available in 19 Languages, with
didactic exercises for teaching French, e.g. news in an easy French with comprehension tasks and texts to look
up.

RCI Language http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/en/cours.shtml

Courses
Quinze minutes! 15 minutes to study one of the 40 chapters guided. Radio Canada Internationale has a wide
language program to study French (and English). You can choose between English, Spanish, Russian,
Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic and French as your language of reference.

SPEAKING
Alphabet Phonétique http://home.worldcom.ch/~obettens/alphabet.html
International:
Tables with vowels and consonants.
API http://www.unil.ch/ling/phonetique/api.html

Helps you learning the phonetic system of API.

API dictations http://pages.infinit.net/jaser2/Violette.html

Dictation with API signs.

WRITING

TV5 - La langue http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/lf/langue_francaise.php

francaise (La dictée
de Bernard Pivot)
M. Bernard Pivot dictates different texts. They are corrected online after having finished the exercise.

Apprende le Francais http://www.fle.fr/pro/ressources-etu/parcours4.html

en France: Activités
écrites
Writing exercises for different levels.

Correction http://www.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/ressources/auto_eval/index.html

Writing Exercises from the Office Québécois de la Langue Française: The mistakes can be “corrected” by the
French learner.

GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY

- Grammar
- Vocabulary

GRAMMAR
Bonjour de France - http://www.bonjourdefrance.com/index/indexgram.htm
Grammaire
Grammar explications with exercises to deepen your grammar knowledge.

French Online http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/%7Ecreitan/grammar.htm

Grammar Quiz
A good place to do grammar exercises online. Sometimes with sound material.

Exercises de français http://www.restena.lu/amifra/exos/index.htm

A lot of exercises to study grammar and vocabulary as well. With corrections and explications.
Tex's French http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/gr/index.html
Grammar
A lot of grammar explications with exercises.

French Online http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/%7Ecreitan/grammar.htm

Grammar Quiz
They are checking in different ways your grammar knowledge starting from the indefinite article un, une and
des till the subjonctif.
Grammaire au CM http://pcolleu.free.fr/grammaire/

Des exercices pour des élèves du lycée en France. Grammar exercises for French High School Student.

Exercices Interactifs http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/gmoskos1/interexercice/inter2.htm

Different grammar task with English as the language of reference.

Grammaire interactive http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/dglf/

Découvrez la grammaire interactive de la langue française. Get to know an interactive grammar of French
language.

VOCABULARY

Lexique FLE - http://lexiquefle.free.fr/

apprendre le français
Visual Learning of vocabulary with exercises and dictations.

Bonjour de France - http://www.bonjourdefrance.com/index/indexvocab.html

Vocabulaire

Bonjour de France - http://www.bonjourdefrance.com/index/indexexpresidiom.htm

Expressions
Idiomatiques
Bonjour de France - http://www.bonjourdefrance.com/index/indexjeu.htm
Jeux
Learn vocabulary and idiomatic expressions assigning images and via listening. Very diverse methods at
different levels!

BUSINESS LANGUAGE

Economy in France http://frit.lss.wisc.edu/fda/

In the Bibliothèque you find different information about the economic structure and business culture in France
with vocabulary help and exercises on text comprehension. In the column Entretien a lot of tasks on listening
comprehension are to be answered. You have also the possibility to write a text and to get a correction from
the author.

Le Français des http://www.fda.ccip.fr

Professions
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry from Paris – la Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris –
redacted four exercises to test your French Business knowledge. If you want to check the right answers, you
have to remind them before.

Glossaire du site http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/insof-sdf.nsf/fr/h_so03335f.html

canadien des
entreprises et des
This glossary offers more than 250 terms and explications about finance.
consommateurs
Dictionary French http://www.projetdafa.net/
Business Language
A dictionary for vocabulary related to French business language ( français des affaires).

French Language for http://www.murielle-cahen.com/lexique.asp

Law - Droit
Lexique juridique : Here you can look up juristic terms in French.

COMPLETE LANGUAGE COURSES ONLINE

Bonjour de France http://www.bonjourdefrance.com/

A complete language course with exercises for reading and listening comprehension, with grammar and
vocabulary tasks.
Maison de Quartier http://www.maisondequartier.com/

Go to „Maison de Quartier“ and discover the inside of the house. In the class room you can get explications
and exercises. Very useful for beginners!

BBC Education – http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/

French
This is a French online course for beginners and advanced with the most important sentences for your
vacations, with grammar and listening comprehension tasks, games and pronunciation trainings. Besides, there
is a Business Module and a video online course for the first communicative scenes.

Languages Online http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rgshiwyc/school/curric/HotPotatoes/

A relatively complete learning material for grammar and vocabulary. Games and listening comprehension tasks
round up this language program.

Le vent en poupe http://www.utas.edu.au/french/language/ventenpoupe/titres.htm

Cours de français intermédiaire.

Apprende le Français http://www.fle.fr/pro/ressources/classeb.html

en France: Activités
7 exercises (parcours) at different levels with a focus on grammar, research, reading, listening or writing.

DICTIONARIES

Dictionary overview http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/dictionnaires.html

One homepage where you can find all sorts of dictionary available for French Language. Very useful!

CULTURE AND CULTURAL INSTITUTES

Academie française http://www.academie-francaise.fr/index.html

La Academie française is the cultural institute for French Language and Culture.

Le francais dans le http://www.fdlm.org/

monde
Revue de la fédération internationale des professeurs de français - FLE - Français langue étrangère. A
magazine for French teachers and other enthusiasts de la langue française.

Poetry http://www.poesie.webnet.fr

Anthology of French Poetry (with more than 3400 poems) from the Middle Age till the 20th Century. Quelques
versions sonores.

Literature http://www.swarthmore.edu/humanities/clicnet/fle.html
http://fis.ucalgary.ca/links/featuresfr.htm
http://www.storyvox.com/

La littérature comme vous ne l´avez jamais entendue: textes divers à écouter. For those who are interested in
French literature.

TESTS AND EXAMS

Test de Français http://www.campus-electronique.tm.fr/TestFle/
langue étrangère et
seconde
Do you want to know your level of French? Try it.

Centre de Langue http://www.fda.ccip.fr/default.asp?metaid=23

Gives you an overview about different language certificates.

CIEP - TCF-Test http://www.ciep.fr/tcf/index.htm

Test de connaissance du français. Test your knowledge!

CIEP - DELF http://www.ciep.fr/delfdalf/

DELF – version junior. Diplôme d'études en langue française.

DALF - Diplôme approfondi de langue française.

MEDIA
TV
TV5
http://www.tv5.org

France 2
http://www.france2.fr

France 3
http://www.france3.fr

TF1
http://tf1.fr

La cinquième, journal et magazine de la santé

http://www.lacinquieme.fr/js/

RTBF, la télévision belge

http://www.rtbf.be/info

TSR, la télévision suisse romande

http://www.swissinfo.org

Radio Radio-France-Internationale
http://www.rfi.fr

Radio-France (France-Inter, France Culture, France-Musique)

http://www.radio-france.fr

RTBF, la radio belge

http://www2.rtbf.be

Radio-Canada
http://radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/

RFO, la radio des DOM-TOM:

http://www.rfo.fr

Cinema Extraits de Swimming Pool (Ozon) :

http://www.francois-ozon.com/francais/ozon.audiovideo14.html

Newspapers Le Monde
http://www.lemonde.fr/

Le Figaro
http://www.lefigaro.fr/

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