Photoceans
Photoceans
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Photoceans is a website devoted the sea and underwater marine life. The site is divided between reports on sealife and a beautiful collection of underwater photography. The forty or so reports are written in traditional French but at a reasonably high level. However the some of the site is available in English as well, so there are opportunities for comparing the translation to the original. The activity focuses again on the headings for the different parts of the site, but also has a more open-ended task for pupils to find names of animals in the site that they recognise. An alternative version would be just to find as many different animal names and write down the English and French for them.
The homepage of
the website has an animated strip of pictures that moves past, which will not
work unless your computer(s) have Macromedia Flash installed. To install Flash
for free, click here
.
NB. You do not need
Flash installed to use the rest of the site.
The C.A.T.S. Website
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Click here to look at the C.A.T.S. site.
Click here to look at the Activity on the C.A.T.S. site.
Click here to see the answers to the C.A.T.S. Activity.
This is a personal homepage dedicated as you might guess to cats - the writer has based the site round his/her cat Misty, and collected photos and stories of over fifty other cats belonging to children across France. The site is quite simple to get round and centres on the main page with the menu down the left-hand side. The fusée activity has one closed set of questions relating to the different features of the site and their names, and then an open-ended task to find out information about some of the cats - the idea here is to extract part of the description that they recognise, not just to repeat a French phrase that they don't know the meaning of. There is ample opportunity to practise names of pets here - cats are not the only ones that feature!
The site has numerous other feline-related parts to it that could be used in class, such as favourite catfood recipes, cat-problem forums and so on. C.A.T.S. has many amusing bits of animated graphics which should work on any computer - however, on the opening page there is an option to see the "Intro en Flash" which should be avoided, especially if your computer(s) don't have Macromedia Flash installed (To install Flash for free, click here ).