Jouez, Dansez et Apprenez le Français – Book, DVD and CD-Rom

Description

Drama and movement provide the ideal way to teach a foreign language. By actively involving the body, learning comes more naturally and it is easier to retain what has been learned. The simple routines in this book and DVD set combine movements with repetition of important phrases, making learning languages easy and enjoyable. You will love the activities in Jouez, Dansez et Apprenez le Français.

Jouez, Dansez et Apprenez le Français provides an active learning approach to learning popular French topics. For each topic, in addition to the main dance routine, there is also a bank of movement activities that introduce and reinforce the vocabulary, enabling the whole topic to be taught actively.

These tried and tested routines and activities have been developed by a language specialist who is also a qualified dance teacher. They have been used with students of all ages from Key Stage 1 to PGCE students. All have achieved outstanding results whilst enjoying language learning.

Pack includes:
60 page photocopiable book, DVD featuring demonstrations of each dance and subtitles in French, audio CD with instrumental music for each of the dances.

This link takes you to a part of the les couleurs video where Lynn Dryden, the author, demonstrates her dance routine.

Here you can watch how enthusiastic the children of Mountfield Primary School in Newcastle are as they learn the routine for les couleurs.