iPod Touch Teaching Learning Initiative in the French Classroom
Clock The Clock button is used as a stop watch and as a timer for timed activities and assessments.
Included
MLH
Vidéos
Notes
Contacts
MLH is a direct link to my PSD Moodle courses for French I, II, III, IV http://moodle.mcservices.com/moodle Students access
Moodle for resources, activities & assignments.
Videos is a link to a safe videos website (monitored by the IT Dep’t) where teachers can post YouTube videos, etc. for students to view.
The Notes button allows students to take notes or do timed writing. They may then e-mail their notes to themselves or to others.
French I students applied their knowledge of numbers and dates to add their classmates' phone numbers and birthdays into the Contacts app.
Custom
Button
Custom
Button
Included
Included
Google Google is useful for researching and looking for images. Free
Wiki Tap Wiki Tap is useful for researching basic information, history, etc. Free
Word
Reference
WordReference.com is a French-English dictionary (not a translator) that helps students with reading and writing assignments.
Safari Safari is the web browser to access addional websites on the iPods.
Free
Included
Voice
Memos
Voice Memos allows students to record themselves speaking and to listen to themselves and others, including teacher-generated listening activities.
Music
Included
Music is the traditional iPod that allows students to listen to French music and podcasts that I have downloaded. Included
Animoto Animoto allows students to create and view their own videos and videos created by their classmates.
©Melinda Larson-Horne, French teacher - Pewaukee School District - Updated 02/02/2010
For more information, contact MLH at larsmel@pewaukee.k12.wi.us
Free

iPod Touch Teaching Learning Initiative in the French Classroom
Bump uTalk
French
Bump is an app that allows students to share information (pictures, contacts, etc.) from one iPod to another. This is helpful when students are working together to form flashcard sets, presentations, etc.
uTalk French is a fun, interactive learning tool that provides key words, phrases and structures, along with tips for remembering them. Includes quizzes, speech recording and playback, native speakers, games, etc.
iGrammar
French iGrammar French is a basic French grammar reference tool with rules for verb tenses and moods, adjectives, articles, pronouns, prepositions, comparison, and object remplacement.
Free French
Tutor
Free French Tutor teaches and reviews French grammar and vocabulary with native speaker audio, puzzles and games, writeins, manual and automatic flashcards and multiple choice quizzes.
Gengo
Grammar
Gengo French Grammar reviews French grammar in a variety of modes and at various levels of proficiency.
French
Verbs
French Verbs provides the conjugation of 2100 verbs in 16 tenses and moods.
Conjugation
Nation - FR
Conjugation Nation - French is an app to practice conjugating French verbs in 15 tenses. The student is provided a verb, a subject pronoun and a tense and must conjugate the verb correctly in this fun, interactive quiz.
Flashcards for Kids
Flashcards for Kids is a fun and simple learning tool that provides pictures along with the words for objets in English, French and Spanish. Audio is provided by native speakers.
iRime iRime is a rhyming dicitionary. Students can look up words in French and find rhyming French words. This is particularly useful in French IV when we write original poems (odes, ballads, etc.).
Byki
Haitian
Byki Haitian allows students of French to hear the similarities between the French language and Haitian Creole.
Free
$7.99
$1.99
Free
$9.99
$2.99
$0.99
$0.99
$0.99
Free gFlash+
Flashcards
FlashCards and gFlash+ are apps that allow students to download pre-designed flashcards (there are several sets of French grammar and vocabulary), as well as to create their own sets of flashcards. They can put images on one side of the card, and write and/or say the corresponding French word on the other side of the card.
Free
$2.99
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iPod Touch Teaching Learning Initiative in the French Classroom
Le Figaro.fr
Le Monde.fr
Le Figaro.fr
& Le Monde.fr are online versions of Paris’ two most popular newspapers. These apps allow students to remain current on news in France, and to read the French opinions and perceptions of events that are occurring in the US. I have required students to research specific topics, but have also allowed them to find their own articles of interest. We do an activity I call Info, Sporto, Météo (News, Sports and Weather) where students talk about what happened over the weekend
(personally, locally, nationally, and in France).
Chaîne
Météo
La Chaîne Météo is a weather forecasting app for various regions of France.
Free
Free
Free
Radio France
France 24
Live
Radio France and France 24 Live allow students to listen to the French news and to watch news broadcasts. Radio France also allows students to stream French music radio stations. It is fun for them to hear what French teens are listening to (a lot of American music).
Free
Free
TF1 Vision TF1 Vision offers video clips from movies, TV shows, and news programs in French Free
Fluctuat
Fluctuat provides articles and video clips about the latest cultural news and events including box office movies, album reviews, book critiques, must-see shows and exhibits throughout France.
Sites
Qui Buzz provides videos about animals, high-tech products, news, sports, cinema, etc.
Première
Première provides information about films (American and French) that are showing throughout France. It includes trailers in
French or in English with French subtitles, ratings and critiques of these films.
Free
Free
Free
Télé 7
Télé Loisirs
Télé 7 and Télé Loisirs are French TV guides for over 70 French channels. Times are listed in 24-hour clock. It is fun for students to read plot synopses and alternative titles of their favorite American shows and to discover French TV shows.
Free
$1.99
Free Télé Pub Télé Pub allows students to watch French television commercials.
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iPod Touch Teaching Learning Initiative in the French Classroom
FigaroScope Figaroscope is a guide to restaurants and cultural events in Paris.
Paris Travel
Guide - FR
Paris2Go
Paris Travel Guide, Paris2Go, and mTouch Paris are apps that allow students to view pictures, videos, and locations of various points of interest throughout France. Paris Travel Guide also provides explanations of destinations in French.
mTouch
Paris
Météo Paris Météo Paris is a weather forecasting app for the city of Paris.
RATP Lite RATP allows students to navigate the Paris Métro subway.
Histoire d'Ici
Paris
Histoire d'Ici Paris is a historical overview of the city of Paris, with over 800 historical events. This app is especially useful in
French IV in which the curriculum is organized historically.
Musée du
Louvre
Musée du Louvre provides students with a map of the palace and a selection of the museum's most beautiful exhibits with commentary, close-ups, details and videos.
Paris à pied Paris à Pied allows students to view pictures, videos, and locations of various points of interest along a walking tour of Paris.
Free
$2.99
Free
Free
Postman
Postman allows students to create postcards with images and send them to each other via e-mail. Students send postcards from virtual trips to Francophone countries.
Google Earth
Google Earth and Maps allow students to pinpoint Francophone countries and cities. They may zoom into the satellite images to see geographical locations from a bird’s eye or street view.
Maps
$2.99
Free
Included
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Free
Free
$0.99
Free
Free

iPod Touch Teaching Learning Initiative in the French Classroom
European
Union
European Union Factbook and Quiz features Wiki facts about 27 EU members and capital cities, along with their flags, anthem, maps, etc.
Chanel
Chanel Students may watch Paris fashion shows. Students will use this app in French I when they learn clothing and perform their own fashion shows.
Printemps Printemps is a guide, size chart and catalogue for one of France's premiere department stores.
Mode Mode is a fashion news site with articles and video of Paris runway shows.
Free
Logic-Immo Logic-Immo allows students to search for an apartment in Paris (based on location and environment).
Dr. Mobile
Impact Santé
Dr. Mobile and Impact Santé are health and medicine apps that allow students to research maladies and symptoms. These apps are used during the Health until in French II.
Free
Cuisinier
20.000
Cuisinier 20.000 Recettes is an illustrated French recipe book. These recipe apps are especially useful in French II for the gastronomy unit.
Marché
Malin
Marché Malin is a tool for creating grocery lists and selecting seasonal produce, etc. French I students use this app in their unit and ordering and shopping for food. French II students use it in the gastronomy unit.
All Recipes
French
All Recipes - French is a spinner with recipes for various meals, courses and dishes.
Code de
Route
Tour de
France iCode Free is a practice driver’s test. Students are given various driving situations and are required to respond appropriately.
Tour de France allows students to view pictures, videos, and locations of various points of interest throughout the route of the famous bicycle race.
Free
$0.99
Free
Free
Free
Free
Free
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For more information, contact MLH at larsmel@pewaukee.k12.wi.us
Free
Free
Free

iPod Touch Teaching Learning Initiative in the French Classroom
Pages Jaunes Pages Jaunes are the French yellow pages.
Free
Feed Me
French
Feed Me - French is a fun game in which a little monster demands to be fed certain colors, shapes, numbers, etc. His demands are spoken in French.
Les
Incollables
Famille includes questions in various curricular areas (math, science, social studies, grammar, etc.). The questions are not difficult, but students must read the questions in French to choose the correct answers.
Jeu du
Pendu
Jeu du Pendu is French Hangman, a fun way to review and expand vocabulary.
Mime It
French
Mime It - French is a French charades game. The clues are provided in written and spoken French.
Whiteboard
Lite
Doodle
Buddy
Whiteboard Lite and Doodle Buddy are whiteboards on which students can write and draw with their fingers. There are numerous interactive activities that can be done with these apps, including pictionary games, verb relay races, spot checks for spelling, etc.
iPétanque iPétanque teaches the rules and allows students to play an video game version of a popular French pastime. Pétanque is similar to bocce ball.
La Plus Belle La Plus Belle Vie is a mystery game similar to “Clue”. Students are given clues both verbally and in writing. This
Vie game is a great challenge for more advanced students.
Wordex
French
Wordex - French is a vocabulary and spelling game using pictures and scrambled letters as clues to basic French words.
Free
$8.99
$0.99
$0.99
Free
Free
$0.99
$1.99
$0.99
Mots Mélés Mots Mélés are French word searches, a great way to review and expand vocabulary.
$0.99
Passe le Bac
PasseLeBac : Designed for French high school students studying to take the baccalaureate exam. The questions cover various curriculum areas (French, lit, science, math, etc.). Used for advanced levels of French.
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For more information, contact MLH at larsmel@pewaukee.k12.wi.us
$1.99