♦ "The French Chat Boosters" communication handouts by Sue Fenton has been one of my BEST RESOURCES and cannot live without it...I keep that book in my briefcase at all times." Kay Romero, Colorado Springs, CO
♦ "Last year, I purchased and began to use your wonderful book – French Chat Boosters. My students treasured the photocopies of the charts I gave them." B.Kornrich, MD
"If we want students to speak, then they need things to say!" Sue Fenton, the author
DESCRIPTION:
♦ A bestseller with an exciting approach.It’s like a text for both Levels 1 and 2, but full of only conversational language...all ready to SAY! Modeled sentences, questions, structures, idioms, vocabulary, etc. related to 66 Level 1 & 2 topics. The concept grew out of the author's classroom where she created the handouts becasue the text was "too slow" and she wanted her students to be able to speak more and have fun doing so.
♦ BUT...no intimidating grammar rules. No exceptions to remember. No need to figure out forms from charts. No fear of making mistakes! The handouts are ready to let the students SPEAK! And they are offered thousands of sentence patterns with choices to make self-expression more meaningful and realistic. Get the studets comfortable SAYIING and learning it first; the gramnar fine-tuning can come later.
CONTAINS: 1) 66 very thorough handouts on Level 1 and Level 2 topics (from 1 to 4 pages each; single-spaced and packed.)
EXAMPLES OF SOME HANDOUTS:
300 mood/situational expressions to use in class (4 pages,) J'aime + 194 activities, a party (meeting, music, refreshments, pointing out people ,) inviting (activities, declining, accepting, & making the plans.) Vandertramp, preterite and imperfect tenses (bank robbery,) my stuff, MOI (dozens of things about me,) restaurant ordering and food, 40-question interview, aller (going, going to places, places to go, questions about going, etc.,) reflexives, conditional, object pronouns, born to shop, future, Comment est + 172 adjectives, play chef with 100 ingredients, Quel + 60 nouns, and so much more.
♦ A MUST-HAVE for any Level 1 and 2 classroom which has speaking as a priority.
♦ A GOLDMINE and huge time-saver for teachers.
ALL THE LANGUAGE IS READY TO SAY!
1) Students use the conversational language on the handouts, follow modeled sentence patterns, and can even make substitutions.
2) Students are exposed to FAR MORE language.
3) Each RICH handout can be treated as a whole UNIT.
4) Great for teaching new material, stimuli for paired speaking, student resources for preparing class skits or written projects. A lot less running to dictionaries and writing funky French.
5) No spoon feeding. Where a text might expose them to a dozen adjectives, the handout gives them over 150! So many more choices!
USES:
1) as a handout as a UNIT for teaching new structures, verbs, grammar, etc. Lots of examples.
2) creating speaking-based written and speaking homework assignments
3) for creating stimuli to use as a basis for paired conversations
4) a wealth of resources that students collect and keep attached in their binders. They can use the material in their class presentations, skits, in homework and on projects – and the French will be correct.
5) setting up class simulations (stores,
6) as a motivating tool for speaking (interest, proficiency, fluency.) Students will be thrilled at how much access they have to spoken French. They will be excited at how much French they are learning and saying.
Spiral-bound 8 1/2" x 11"
110 pages
