If you’re a Core French teacher looking to incorporate a brand new weekly routine, Francophone Fact of the Week is for you! Let’s explore why this French classroom routine is one of the best ones out there.
What is Francophone Fact of the Week?
Francophone Fact of the Week is a weekly French routine that combines intercultural awareness, reading, and responding to questions in French.
If you’ve been following me, you know that I love teaching Core French with a range of daily and weekly routines. It’s super effective for me and my students love it as well! To learn more about how and why I integrate diverse routines in my teaching, click here.
What are the benefits of incorporating Francophone Fact of the Week into your French routines?
Building Intercultural awareness into your routines
Early in my career, I made it a goal to be very intentional about teaching French through an anti-oppressive lens. I wanted my students to understand that the French are not the only ones who speak French!
Now that I am almost a decade into my career, I can target intercultural awareness in a million ways. However, having a routine that teaches about the diversity of the French world every single week at every level is still very useful!
If you’re like me, you sometimes struggle with how to do this in a novice-level French class. I have created facts for absolute beginners, so it’s a no-brainer to ensure that we hit this competency every week!
Teaching about diverse Francophone cultures through “fait francophone de la semaine” strengthens the understanding of “why we learn French.”
We don’t learn French to memorize grammar and vocabulary.
We learn French because it serves as our entry point to discovering the diverse cultures, identities, and lived experiences of French speakers.
Integrating Francophone Fact of the Week into your routines ultimately supports this intention behind teaching and learning French.
Novice Francophone Fact of the Week
These Novice Francophone Fact of the Week slides were created for beginners learning the French language.
My own students love these. I love seeing the spark of curiosity in their eyes and the confidence that they actually understand what the fact means!
They’re engaging, accessible, and eye-opening.
Intermediate Francophone Fact of the Week
Next up, the Intermediate Francophone Fact of the Week resource targets all of the same skills as the novice version.
They’re just a little more complex than the novice versions.
Advanced Francophone Fact of the Week
Lastly, the advanced Fait francophone de la semaine is my favourite!
There are so many unique, empowering, and resilience-demonstrating stories out there. It was such an honour to write about some of these stories for advanced French students!
Foster intercultural awareness and strong reading skills with the Fait francophone de la semaine routine for French class
