Showing posts with label Jules Verne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jules Verne. Show all posts

Monday, March 30, 2009

High School French: L'art d'écrire

I am excited to announce that Nallenart's program for first year high school, L'art d'écrire, has gone to press. L'art d'écrire follows the Ontario curriculum guidelines for FSF1D, grade 9 advanced French.

More than just grammar lessons, vocabulary, and exercises, the content of the course is built around the theme of self-discovery. Students are challenged to examine their likes and dislikes, the uniqueness of their personalities, and their hopes and dreams for the future.

In addition to this, students begin to explore some of the classics of French literature, such as the famous play Cyrano de Bergerac and the novels of Jules Verne.

Sample Pages will be posted soon!

Available April 6, 2009.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Bon Voyage 5: Jules Verne

Jules Verne was a writer ahead of his time. In 1865, over one hundred years before the first man landed on the moon, Jules Verne imagined such a trip in his novel De la Terre à la Lune, From the Earth to the Moon. Here are five examples of similarities between Verne's novel and the historical voyage:

Le voyage dans la Lune est entrepris par les Américains.
The trip was undertaken by Americans.

Le départ a lieu en Floride.
The departure took place in Florida.

Trois astronautes dans une capsule
Three astronauts in one capsule

Voyage d'une semaine
A week’s trip

Retour dans la mer après une orbite lunaire
Return into the sea (ocean) after a lunar orbit

You might have heard of these other famous Jules Verne novels:

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Journey to the Center of the Earth

Test your knowledge with the Transportation Crossword and Wordsearch Puzzles!

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Les Transports Workpages offers reproducible pages on the theme of transportation. Puzzles, vocabulary, verb review, and more. Suitable for grades 3-8.

24 Pages. $9.95 CAD

Available as an instant download.
Buy Now

Clicking the Buy Now button will take you to a Paypal shopping cart. After entering your payment information, you will be provided with a link to a downloadable pdf file of Les Transports. You will also receive an email link to your downloadable file.

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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Bon Voyage 4: Around the World in 80 Days

Just for fun, watch one of these film adaptations of Around the World in Eighty Days by French author Jules Verne.

1956
with David Niven, Cantinflas and Shirley MacLaine (Oscar for best film)

1989
with Pierce Brosnan, Eric Idle and Peter Ustinov

2004
with Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan and Cécile de France

Test your knowledge with the Transportation Crossword and Wordsearch Puzzles!

Visit Nallenart for more! http://www.nallenart.on.ca

Les Transports Workpages offers reproducible pages on the theme of transportation. Puzzles, vocabulary, verb review, and more. Suitable for grades 3-8.

24 Pages. $9.95 CAD

Available as an instant download.
Buy Now

Clicking the Buy Now button will take you to a Paypal shopping cart. After entering your payment information, you will be provided with a link to a downloadable pdf file of Les Transports. You will also receive an email link to your downloadable file.

Abode Reader is required to access your ebook.

For more information and preview pages, visit:

Nallenart's eBook Store

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Bon Voyage 3: Around the World in 80 Days

In 1872, French author Jules Verne (1828-1905) wrote a fantastic novel that described the adventures of Phileas Fogg, a man who bet his colleagues that he could successfully travel all the way around the world in just eighty days. In the days before airplanes this would be a pretty remarkable, if not impossible feat. The story was very popular at the time and was translated into English the next year. Perhaps you might have seen one of several movie versions of the story, Around the World in Eighty Days.

Using your atlas or globe, describe a journey that someone could take today travelling all around the world. Try to involve as many different means of transportation as you can.

Test your knowledge with the Transportation Crossword and Wordsearch Puzzles!

Visit Nallenart for more! http://www.nallenart.on.ca

Les Transports Workpages offers reproducible pages on the theme of transportation. Puzzles, vocabulary, verb review, and more. Suitable for grades 3-8.

24 Pages. $9.95 CAD

Available as an instant download.
Buy Now

Clicking the Buy Now button will take you to a Paypal shopping cart. After entering your payment information, you will be provided with a link to a downloadable pdf file of Les Transports. You will also receive an email link to your downloadable file.

Abode Reader is required to access your ebook.

For more information and preview pages, visit:

Nallenart's eBook Store