French Language Resources
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Instructional Videos and Laser Discs
L'ABC de l'économie
PICS, University of Iowa. 4 VHS videocassettes (60 mins. each) : color. French, no English subtitles. "An excellent series of 39 five-minute segments ideal for use in Business French and other intermediate and advanced French courses that stress listening comprehension and the development of technical vocabulary. Topics progress from the simplest explanation of what money is to the concepts of banking, foreign exchange, income, employment and ultimately the welfare of everyone."
- BF6
1. It's all part of the economy
2. The market and markets
3. The secret of money
4. Banking: from savings accounts to bills of exchange
5. Insurance: sharing the risks
6. Stock market and commodity exchanges
7. Employment: working, earning, buying
8. Rents, interest, profits, wages -- income.
- BF8
17. Selling and marketing
18. Inflation: when the prices learn to run
19. Cartels and concerns
20. Monopolies and oligopolies
21. Paper security: morgages, shares, bills of exchange
22. The national income: millions nobody can buy anything with
23. Price and wage freezes: patent recipe or senseless venture?
24. Investments: paying today for tomorrow's production.
- BF9
25. Subsidies: politics with the banknote
26. Productivity: the advantage of specialization and mass production
27. Rationalization
28. UNCTAD
29. Buffer stocks
30. Embargo and boycott
31. Protectionism
32. Industrialization
- BF10
33. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
34. The International Monetary Fund
35. The OECD
36. Most- favored-nation agreements
37. Regional development policies
38. Automation
39. The World Bank
Les Bretons chez eux
PICS/FIPSE, University of Iowa. 1 CAV videodisc (60 min.) ; color. Accompanying print technical guide and contents/transcript guide. "This collection was carefully chosen for use at the introductory level. The twenty segments depict various aspects of life in the small towns of Brittany. Selections include: petites annonces (short televised ads ranging from a little girl seeking a new cage for her hamster to an old woodsman hoping to exchange his chain saw for a black and white TV); interviews with townspeople (what makes them happy, what makes them angry, etc.); local cooks revealing their recipes (blackberry jam, rabbit in mustard sauce, boiling an egg); features about local events and local personalities; students discussing life in high school; and more."
Dès le début
BBC. -- Chicago, IL : Films Incorporated, 1988. 1 VHS videocassette (five 15 min. programs) : color.
Le français des affaires: Parts 1 and 2
Gérard Augé et Claude Le Ninan. -- Paris : Didier, 1993. 2 VHS videocassettes (PAL format) : color.
- Cassette 1 (53') contains L'Industrie: COBRA, leader mondial du bracelet-montre (15'); SM2E, sous-traitant électronique (12'); L'AMY, premier lunetier français (14') and Le Commerce: M2R, agence agréée en informatique (12').
- Cassette 2 (47') contains Les Services: CIAL 1, banque pour l'industrie (12'); CIAL 2, banque pour l'industrie (8'); TNT Express Worldwide, transporteur international (16'); SERGE BASTIEN COMMUNICATIONS, agence de communication (10').
France from within: Tape one
Bernard Petit Video Productions. -- Boston, MA : Heinle & Heinle Publishers, Inc., 1985. 1 VHS videocassette (one hour) : color. Accompanying print item: Study guide. "Tape 1 features travel on the T.G.V., an open-air market, preparation of a salade niçoise, the game of boules, a winery tour, a Parisian café, and interviews with chef-cuisinier Paul Bocuse, a young law student, a lycée philosophy professor, a mère de famille in Grenoble, and an engaging Parisian bouchère."
France panorama: the video magazine of France today
New York, NY : Eagle Multimedia Services, Inc. and Antenne 2, 1989. 15 VHS video cassettes (45 min. each) : color. Holdings: Vol. II, nos. 1-8 (1989-90) Vol. III, nos. 1,2,4, 5 (1990-91) Vols. 8-10 (1989) Accompanying print "Resource Guide for Teachers and Learners". Holdings: no. 1 (1988) Vol. II, nos. 1-8 (1989-90) Vol. III, 1,2,4, 5 (1991) nos. 8-10 (1989). "Actualités, vie quotidienne, sports, mode, chansons, publicité."
France-Régions
PICS/FIPSE, The University of Iowa. 1 CAV videodisc (60 min.) ; color. Accompanying print technical guide; transcript. "A collection of regional video from all corners of la France héxagonale, including thirteen segments ranging from one to twelve minutes in length. View Aspects de la Normandie from Rouen to the herbages which bring us the marvels of Norman cheese, and on to magical Mont Saint-Michel; La Bourgogne des grands vins, "where it seems only grape vines grow and every village is home to a famous vintage;" and Marseille whose accents echo from the old port and its fish market to the terrain de pétanque; visit the coast and marketplaces of Brittany; follow a day in the life of a young Corsican boy; learn about the autres métiers of farmers in the Franche-Comté; see the diversity of activities in the Rhône Alpes; and tour the vineyards of Médoc." (PICS Catalogue)
French Alive
Bernard Petit. -- Boston, MA : Heinle & Heinle Publishers, Inc., 1988. ISBN 0-8384-1568-7. Accompanying print items: Viewer's workbook (Barbara Blackbourn), and Tapescript. "With this . . .video. . .first-year students of French can experience the excitement and richness of francophone cultures while they hone listening skills and develop language proficiency. Filmed on location in France, Switzerland and Canada, the eighteen episodes in this video program relate to the basic communication needs of beginning students: making introductions, getting directions in town, shopping, eating in a restaurant or café, and more. With French Alive! you'll vacation with a French family along Lake Geneva, go shopping in Tours, take a skiing lesson in Val-d'Isère, and share many experiences with native French speakers. A Viewer's Workbook provides abundant pre- and post-viewing activities to develop language skills and cross-cultural understanding. The eighteen programs in French Alive! parallel the themes and situations of Allons-y!: Le français par étapes (2nd ed.). . . The video and Viewer's Workbook may also be used independently or with any other text."
French Hexagone: The Documentaries
PBS Adult Learning Service. 2 VHS videocassettes (30 mins. each) : color. Episode #101: "Les messagers de l'ombre, Part I" = "The messengers of the shadow" Episode #102: "Les messagers de l'ombre, Part II." "These two documentary films give an account from a historical angle of the attitude of French publishers and writers, including Louis Aragon, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Paul Eluard, Robert Brasillach, Ramon Fernandez, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre and François Mauriac during the Occupation, the Liberation and the purge. The splits in French literature from 1944-1950 often led the writers and publishers from their salons to courtrooms and cells or even in front of the firing squads."
French in action
Annenberg CPB Project. 27 VHS videocassettes : color. (Each lesson is 30' long; 2 lessons per videocassette). 27 laserdisks : color (Print barcode guide: Lessons 1-26; 27-52).
French in action videoconference
Annenberg-CPB Project. 1 VHS videocassette (approx. 120') : color. Videoconference on teaching methods using French in Action held April 1, 1995.
French means business
PBS-ALSS; BBC, 1995. 4 VHS videocassettes : color.
- Cassette 1 (45'): Covers Unit 1-5 of the guide and includes the following topics: Greetings, Jobs, Products, Setting Up Meetings. Presented in French, this first program contains material which was filmed with the documentary series.
- Cassette 2 (45'): Covers Unit 6-10 and the topics: Job Recruitment, Socializing, Marketing, Bringing Conversations to a Close.
The French way
Bernard Petit. -- New York, NY : Heinle & Heinle Publishers, Inc., 1986. Video of everyday activities in France. Accompanying print items: Viewer's workbook / Miriam Espeseth, Bernard Petit. ". . .focuses on real people accomplishing tasks in authentic situations throughout the francophone world. Your students will observe people greeting each other in a café, asking directions on the street, ordering food at the grocery store for a picnic, buying clothes in a department store, getting a room at a hotel, buying train tickets, taking the métro, and more."
Great reasons to learn French
Teacher's Video Company. 1 VHS videocassette (40 mins.) : color. English.
Ici la France: Part B
Modules 13-20. 1 VHS cassette (Modules 13-16) 1 VHS cassette (Modules 17-20) Holdings: 1 copy each module.
The Project for International Communication Studies (PICS)
University of Iowa. A: Classroom vignettes: teaching language with video. 1 VHS videocassette. B: La sécurité routière. 1 VHS videocassette. C: Télé-Pics Pilot (includes Télé-CLIPS and Télé-PROGRAMMES). 1 VHS videocassette (30 min.) : color. D: Télématin. 1 VHS videocassette. E: Un village se met à table. 1 VHS videocassette (25 min.) : color.
Molière: L'oeil en coulisses
PICS/The University of Iowa, 1991. 1 VHS videocassette (56 min.) ; color. French, no English subtitles. (Antenne2, 1988) Accompanying print Videoguide / Elizabeth Joiner and G. Buford Norman, Jr. : "Developed from original materials in the French Theater series from le Centre National de Documentation Pédagogique (CNDP, Paris)." "Twenty-two excerpts from six Molière plays plus interviews with five famous French actors and directors. The interviews include discussions of the six plays, Molière's career, how to act and stage his plays, the importance of Molière for today's audiences, and some of the issues raised by the plays. The plays excerpted are Le Malade imaginaire, Le Misanthrope, Tartuffe, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, L'Ecole des femmes and Amphitryon."
Pleins feux sur la révolution, 1789-1799
Eagle Multimedia Services, Inc. and Centre Régional de documentation pédagogique de Lyon. -- New York, NY : Eagle Multimedia Services, Inc., 1989. 1 VHS videocassette (35 min.): color. "Récit animé de la Révolution française réalisé à partir des documents iconographiques du Musée de la Révolution française di Vizille, de phrases célèbres de cette période, de musique d'époque et se présentant sous forme de reportages, scènes de rue, compte rendu de séances de comités, lettres, mémoires, etc. Accompanying print items: Sommaires and Tapescripts.
Pour Tout Dire: Modules I & II
National Film Board of Canada, 1988. 1 CAV Videodisc (50'), color Programs 1-6 Holdings: 1 videodisc.
97 publicités télévisées : pour découvrir la langue et la civilisation françaises
Paris : Hachette. 1 VHS videocassette (60 min.) : color.
Télédouzaine
PICS. 1 CAV videodisc (60 min.) ; color. "Twelve features from Antenne 2 were selected to interest and motivate elementary to intermediate-level French langugage students. An alternate French soundtrack with simplified narration has been provided by Michel Laronde." Segments include: Le chanteur Francis Cabrel Extrait de Astérix Grands prix de la publicité Le festival de rock à Rennes Schtroumpfland Deux météos
Victor Hugo et la révolution
PICS/The University of Iowa. 1 VHS videocassette (67 min.) : color. French, no English subtitles. "Victor Hugo and his turbulent times, seen through the popular art of the period, including spectacular shots of Hugo's own paintings and their subjects. Useful for nineteenth-century civilization courses as well as literature courses."
General
- "Dolly and Frank's workshop."
- "The natural approach, G. Rosaies"
- "Effective language teaching, Rosaie's method"