French Chat Boosters (Beginner, Intermediate)

by Sue Fenton, M Ed

French Chat Boosters is a book of supplementary communication hand-outs for students that are loaded with French to put them on the "fast track" to speaking.

A brand new concept in language materials!!

PREMISE: If we want students to speak, they need meaningful things to say.

Students need phrases for reacting to what happens in class. They need "linguistic ammunition" to express their moods and to cope in an immersion environment. Students shouldn't have to wait for Chapter 8 to say they don't feel well or Chapter 13 to say what movie they saw last weekend.

Raise the ceiling! Widen the French horizon! Give students more options, more ways to express themselves better, and allow them to "personalize" their French.

Spiral bound, 86 pages
Price: $24.95, plus shipping
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The students attach them in their notebooks and refer to them:

To increase their participation in the total immersion experience in class
To use as crutches for paired conversations on new material
To use as resources for homework, skits, and projects
To explore on their own and advance beyond the pace of the class if they want to do so

When the students see all the cool stuff on the sheets, they won't be able to resist speaking.

The chat boosters condense and streamline thematic French (vocabulary and structure) onone- to two-pagecharts, and include all the questions and sentences to make them communicative. They are packed with French! Students are curious, and will enjoy discovering cool things to say.

Some of what you'll find in the 60 chat boosters:

150 adjectives
300 expressions organized by moods & situations
100 pastimes
172 professions
140 faire expressions
C'est + 80 adjectives
Quel exclamations
A linguistic "life preserver" (when confused)
150 je present verb forms
Words to answer Où?, Quand?,Qui? (page for each)
Je future forms
Do-It-Yourself French
The home (addresses, furnishings)
Born to Shop (clothes, electronics, etc.)
Ordering in a restaurant
100 groceries

The time machine (passé composé,)
The theft of the boeuf bouguignon (past events)
When I was 5 years old...
"My Stuff" (locker, backpack, bedroom)
Je t'invite
Countries, nationalities (venir, using the adjectives)
A party (meeting people; music)
Over 100 places to go (aller, stores, events, provinces)
Playing French chef
A 40-question interview
80 serious and silly excuses (chores)
4 pages of French for coping in class
2 pages of French for discussions
French - the Language of Love
Verlan, hip expressions, baby talk
Selecting classes at the Centre d'Animation

. . . and more!