Foreign Language Web Resources

The following links are arranged according to an Oral Proficiency Model.

Novice Level
Intermediate Level
Advanced Level
Superior Level
Dictionaries
Grammar (general)
News
Other Tools
Comprehensive Sites

Novice Level

French survival kit

http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/robinson/french.htm basic vocabulary
http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/french/Lexique//habitat/hab_mainpage.html habitat et cadre de vie

Isolated words

http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jhreid/grammar/articles.htm articles
http://www.frenchlesson.com/grammar/adjectives/index.html adjectives
http://www2.lamc.utexas.edu/frgr/adv1.t adverbs
http://www.francais-affaires.com/references/indexgram/prepositions.htm prepositions
http://www.latl.unige.ch/safran/data/gramm/refer/3_const/2_pro/index.htm pronoms personnels
http://www.lire-francais.com/grammair/gg_faire.htm le verbe faire
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/gmoskos1/interexercice/pouvoir.htm pouvoir, devoir, vouloir (self-correcting exercises)
http://www.fourmilab.ch/francais/glue.html essential vocabulary and noun gender

Memorized phrases

http://www2.sp.utexas.edu/fr/student.qry 1st-year Grammar (self-correcting)
http://www2.lamc.utexas.edu/frgr/vpr1.t pronominal verbs

Intermediate Level

Conveying personalized information

http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/french/Lexique//ecole/ecole_mainpage.html école et études
http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/french/Lexique//travail/trav_mainpage.html travail et argent

Asking simple questions

http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jhreid/grammar/interrogative.htm interrogative pronouns
http://www.lamc.utexas.edu/fr/wordOrder.html questions with inverted word order

Dealing with familiar topics

http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/french/Lexique//medias/media_mainp.html media, informations, culture
http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/french/Lexique//vacances/vac_mainpage.html vacances et voyages
http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/french/Lexique//politique/pol_mainpage.html politique et société
http://www.teleshopping.fr/ shopping
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/sport.html sports et loisirs
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/emploi.html travail
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/gastron.html cuisine
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/famille.html famille
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html#virtual Francophone tourism

Creating sentences by combining sentence elements

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/gmoskos1/interexercice/negprep.htm les négations
http://www.lire-francais.com/grammair/gg_super.htm comparatif et superlatif
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jhreid/grammar/complex.htm complex sentences review

Advanced Level

Major Time Frames

http://www2.lamc.utexas.edu/frgr/tap2.t passé composé
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~gezundha/b10/passe/pcimparf.html passé composé/imparfait
http://www.latl.unige.ch/safran/data/gramm/refer/3_const/5_vbes/4_part/2_passe/index.htm participe passé
http://www.class.csupomona.edu/efl/french103/imp_pc2.html passé composé/impft/self-correcting exs.
http://www.lire-francais.com/grammair/gg_aveni.htm 2 futurs
http://www.richmond.edu/~jpaulsen/leverbe/leverbe.html formes des temps des verbes
http://www2.lamc.utexas.edu/frgr/tap1.t recent past, venir de

Narration

http://www2.lamc.utexas.edu/frgr/tap8.t temps du passé
http://www.lire-francais.com/grammair/gg_temps.htm présent, passé-composé, plus-que-parfait
http://facweb.furman.edu/~pecoy/f22/depuis.htm depuis, pendant, il y a
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html#history French and Francophone History

Description

http://www.lire-francais.com/grammair/gg_oppos.htm opposition c’est/il est
http://www.lire-francais.com/grammair/gg_relat.htm pronoms relatifs simples
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jhreid/grammar/activpas.htm la voix passive

Dealing with a complicated situation

http://www2.lamc.utexas.edu/frgr/vpp1.t formes en -ant

Creating Paragraphs

http://synapse-fr.com/manuels/CONJONC.htm conjonctions

Superior Level

Accuracy

http://www.didieraccord.com/ agreement/accord
http://perso.club-internet.fr/fzpc/Go/Synth_Gram_Texte/Concord_tps.htm concordance des temps

Support Opinions

http://home.freeuk.com/kaysey222/sub3verbs.htm use of subjunctive
http://web.bham.ac.uk/johnstf/sub2.htm conjunctions requiring the subjunctive

Hypothesize

http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jhreid/grammar/si.htm si/if clauses
http://www2.lamc.utexas.edu/frgr/tac1.t conditionnel

Extended discourse

http://www.georgetown.edu/spielmann/courses/txt/laphrase.htmGuide de la phrase, par Guy Spielmann
http://www.lire-francais.com/grammair/gg_rapp.htm rapporter un discours

Handling abstract topics

http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html#art French and Francophone art
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html#books French and Francophone literature

Dictionaries (bilingual)

http://www.fourmilab.ch/francais/glue.html essential vocabulary
http://www.june29.com//IDP/IDPupdate.html Internet Dictionary Project

Grammar (General)

http://www.fsj.ualberta.ca/griff98/ Grammaire du français intermédiaire
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/gramm.html Cours et exercices de grammaire
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/inflect.query.html Conjuguer les verbes en français
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/analyze.query.html ARTFL Project: Morphological Analysis Using the INFL Analyzer
http://www.frenchrevision.co.uk/index.htm Grammar Review (Mr. Dyer, UK)

News

http://www.liberation.fr Libération. Ce site offre un accès au journal quotidien mais aussi à des forums et des databases.
http://www.lemonde.fr Le Monde. Ce site offre un accès au journal quotidien mais aussi à des forums et des databases.
http://www.france2.fr France 2 (Télévision publique française #2). En direct (live)..
http://www.france3.fr France 3 (Télévision publique française #3). En direct (live).
http://www.adetocqueville.comThe Tocqueville Connection. The insider's Web source for French news and analyses (in English)
http://www.rfi.fr RFI (Radio France International).
http://www.arte-tv.com/hebdo/SEMAINE/real_f.html la semaine sur ARTE en Real-Video

Other tools

Listening and Speaking

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/oral.html Tennessee Bob on listening and speaking

Reading

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/reading.html Tennessee Bob on reading

Writing

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/writing.html Tennessee Bob on writing
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/vocab.html Tennessee Bob’s links on vocabulary

Culture

See my selection of cultural links. Visit these two exciting sites as a preview:

Comprehensive Sites

http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/fre180/#DIC (Pascal Michelucci)
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate (Tennessee Bob)

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