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TitleJeux Olympiques in French
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To begin the year, I plan to "profiter de" the interest in the Olympics by
beginning with a sports unit.

There is some GREAT stuff in French on the official web site.
Start with the Espace Jeunesse:
http://www.athens2004.com/fr/Youth2004/youth
and play one of the games, look up events and athlete biographies, etc. etc.
Sorry, Spanish teachers: site is in English, Greek & French, although you
could go to Athletes/Biographies and see what events each country is
entering...

For Canada's athletes: http://www.rds.ca/jo/ in French
And TF1's coverage of French athletes:
http://www.eurosport.fr/home/pages/V4/L3/S82/sport_Lng3_Spo82.shtml

Blaz, D. Les JO. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv.
FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (12 Aug. 2004).

This site has over 13,000 specific terms related to the Olympics. You can
view very technical vocabulary for each sport by clicking on the link for each
sport.
http://www.lexique-jo.org/2004/lexique.cfm?type=1

I am using some of this on a bulletin board for the beginning of the
year: "Let the Learning Begin!" I'll also have participating Spanish and
French-speaking countries information. The NBC site has a neat country
section:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/countries/index.html

von Werder, R. Olympics Vocabulary: French, Greek, English. Foreign
Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU
(12 Aug. 2004).
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