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Tag Archives: French

31 Oct

ICT Tip: BonPatron identifies French spelling errors and common grammatical problems

Quick overview: The BonPatron website (http://www.bonpatron.com/en) is designed to assist FSL students write in French by identifying spelling errors and grammatical problems in their written French texts. What does it do? Using BonPatron, students type (or copy and paste) written...
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Tools and Apps bonpatron, French, fsl, grammar, spelling

6 Aug

ICT Tip: Discover France – Spoken examples of typical French phrases for FSL students

Quick overview: A website that contains examples of actual spoken French phrases. What does it do? The Discover France site is great FSL site for students with an English mother tongue. On this site, there are TONS of French phrases...
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Tools and Apps discover france, French, fsl, phrases, spoken

29 Jul

ICT Tip: Babbel – Vocabulary exercises for FSL classes

Quick overview: Babbel is a website (http://www.babbel.com) which contains spoken vocabulary exercises for a variety of everyday topics. What does it do? The Babbel site is designed for people learning a second language, such as French. The Babbel site is...
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Tools and Apps babbel, French, fsl

27 Jun

ICT Tip: AT&T voice synthesis provides help with French and English pronunciation

Quick overview: A website that will read back ANY written text in a variety of realistic sounding synthesized voices. What does it do? The AT&T Text to Speech website (http://www.tinyurl.com/k49s9) allows you or your students to type in single words...
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Tools and Apps English, French, Literacy, speech, synthesis, Tips for ALL subjects, voice

25 Jun

ICT Tip: The “Ma France” website features a multitude of media rich FSL activities

Quick overview: The BBC site Ma France is a website that contains many media rich FSL activities and exercises related to every day life. What does it do? Don’t be deceived by the “France” in the website name. Most of...
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Tools and Apps French, fsl, ma france

19 Jun

ICT Tip: VozMe – Text to sound converter website

Quick overview: Transforms written text into speech files that can be played on portable music players. What does it do? In a nutshell, the VozMe (http://www.vozme.com) website is a “text-to-MP3” converter. The term “Text-to-MP3” means that one can copy and...
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Tools and Apps English, French, ipod, Literacy, mp3, speech, text, word

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Avi Spector is an Education Consultant with the Riverside School Board and the RECIT FGA Provincial Service for General Adult Education. My focus is helping teachers create digital student resources for our community.

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