Maison & Travaux
Maison & Travaux
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Maison & Travaux is a bi-monthly DIY magazine that uses their website to post a few of their latest articles online, and also to advertise the other things to read in their new issue. Once you've loaded up the opening page, you need to click on the "Maison & Travaux" logo in the middle of the illustration to go to the "Sommaire" menu. This lists what's available in the latest issue and is the basis for the first question in the fusée activity.
Our activity concentrates firstly on identifying the different parts of the magazine, and then gets students to summarise the articles featured from that month's issue. These articles are pretty difficult and pupils are not expected to understand the main bulk on content, but should try to understand the gist of the article - which usually can be understood from the titles (along with a dictionary as necessary) plus some guesswork from the photographs!
UGC Cinemas Website
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UGC is one of France's biggest cinema chains, and their website has a large range of services from membership cards to mailing lists to film showing times, which is what our activity focuses on to practise telling the time as taught in Unit 4. To get to this part of the site, you have to click on the "Prochaines séances" heading in the "Films et séances" list on the left-hand side of the screen.
After choosing the city where you want to watch a film, there is a choice of either new releases or other films currently showing, and an approximate time. This finally brings up the specific showing times: these are done using the 24-hour clock, so unless you have already taught this to them, they have to convert these to their 12-hour equivalents. Some pupils might need assistance with this depending on how familiar they are with this concept in English.