Year 8 French

Project Task.

The French collection.

INSTRUCTIONS

DUE DATE: NOVEMBER 6TH

You cannot leave this collection until the weekend before the due date.
You need to begin collecting items now.

TASK

Start collecting advertisements, articles, photos, labels, maybe notes from a radio-TV guide - anything to do with French or Francophone themes. Your list is overleaf.
In a scrap book, number each page 1 to 20. Give each page a title in French. Your teacher will help you with this.

Compulsory items.

These are mostly things to collect. Some ideas for sources are given to you.
Cut out, assemble and arrange your items attractively.
Neatly glue each item into your book and write underneath each item what it is and where you found it.
Write a sentence or two to explain your page.

Research Items

Choose three themes from the five listed.
Identify your personality and answer the two questions in your own words in two short paragraphs.
You may not plagiarise, all research must be re-written in your own words.
Evidence of plagiarism will be heavily penalised.
Find an illustration for each item. Make sure you have identified the source of your work

OTHER ITEMS

This is really a section of your own choice. You can write sentences and paragraphs, draw or cut out pictures, use material from newspapers, magazines or the Internet. In any case, you must identify the source of your work.

LANGUAGE

You are expected to use some French in your work. This will be in your titles and labels. These will be spelled correctly. Your teacher will help you with this in class.
All research work will be written in English.

PRESENTATION

Attractive presentation is expected.
If you are using labels from food, ensure that they are clean.
Pictures are to be cut out neatly.
All items should be neatly glued to the page.
Your teachers prefer original work to photocopies. You may use a word processor to present your written work.

TO HAND UP

Your completed scrap book, with a title, illustration and your name on its front cover
Your criteria sheet neatly attached inside the front cover.
All scrapbooks should pass the "shake" test!

LATE WORK

Please be aware of the College policy on late assignments. Late projects will be penalised.
As this project is given out so long in advance, extensions will not be granted.

COMPULSORY ITEMS and IDEAS

French food which is available in Australia junk mail, magazines and on the supermarket shelves.)

French methods of transport (cars, bicycles, aeroplanes, metro, TGV etc. )

http://www.renault.com/ All about Renault cars.

http://www.cyclesdeoro.com/Peugeot_home.htm Plenty on Peugeot cars and bicycles, etc.

http://www.brodie.co.uk/ Citroen cars, types for sale

http://www.essi.fr/~vallee/CNES/cnes_gb.html All about Ariane and French space technology.

http://www.arianespace.com/english/news_milestones.html Ariane rockets and their history, together with French space achievements

http://home.earthlink.net/~brucegraham/ all about Concorde and supersonic flight

http://home.earthlink.net/~brucegraham/ba_book.html more fascinating data about Concorde

French wine, champagne, beer, mineral water (Look in magazines, the Brisbane News, etc.)

http://www.champagnes.com/ Plenty of background information about Champagne wines.

http://www.fgtousa.org/wine/cognac.htm The Cognacs and wines of the Cognac area.

http://perrier.com/ All about the famous mineral water.

French news reports (newspapers)

French designer clothes (women's magazines, Brisbane News)

Travel brochures on France or French speaking countries (Weekend papers, travel agents, etc.)

French companies in Australia and their products (French Embassy, or the Yellow Pages)

http://www.france.net.au The French Embassy in Canberra.

French programs on TV (TV, Foxtel guide orTV guide in paper)

Sport in France (Tour de France, French Football teams, French Open, Sports men/women etc.) Internet, encyclopedias, sports magazines, etc.

http://www.letour.fr/ The Tour de France - everything you might need to know.

http://www.allezfrance.org/ The French soccer team

Information on a French Restaurant in your area /Brisbane (Yellow Pages, Brisbane News, "Food" section of paper, etc.)

A French recipe - from which part of France? When would it be eaten? (Cookbook, magazine, internet)

http://www.maison-de-la-france.fr/uksommaire2.html A general site which covers many useful aspects.

An account of a French place name in your area/Brisbane (Street directory, or if desperate use French's Forest area)

RESEARCH

Choose any three from below and answer the questions.

What are the most important achievements of each person?
Why should your chosen personalities be recognised as important?

A French explorer of the Australian/Pacific region

(La Pérouse, Bougainville,,Entrecasteaux, Gonneville, Allouarn, Defresne, Baudin, Freycinet, Duperrey , Dumont d’Urville - to be found for loan in the library)

A French scientist or inventor and his/her work

http://www.ambafrance.org/HYPERLAB/PEOPLE/index.html for some scientists. Marie & Pierre Curie, Louis Pasteur, Pascal etc.

http://www.rsb.org.au/braille.htm Information about Louis Braille who invented Braille.

http://www.hotair.com.au/faq.htm#17 The Montgolfier brothers and hot air balloons

http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Gustave_Eiffel.html The famous architect and Engineer.

http://www.acs.asn.au/Lumiere.html The Lumiere brothers invented the film industry in Lyon, France.

http://www.arts.cqu.edu.au/candm/scrn_std/Intro/intro_prims.html #early filmakers - The Lumiere brothers and Georges Melies

A French actor

http://www.shady-acres.com/gerard_d/ Gerard Depardieu

http://tnef.com/brigitte_bardot.html Brigitte Bardot, star and animal lover.

A French writer (poetry/ novels…)

http://www.who2.com/victorhugo.html Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables and the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

http://encarta.msn.com/index/conciseindex/6A/06A46000.htm - all about Charles Perrault, the writer of many of our most famous tales, such as Sleeping Beauty.

http://www.infoplease.com/ce5/CE029350.html All about the fable writer La Fontaine

http://kids.infoplease.com/ce5/CE029350.html All about La Fontaine.

http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~cynthias/antoine.html About the interesting explorer and writer, Saint Exupery.

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/exupery.htm More about Saint Exupery.

http://kirjasto.sci.fi/moliere.htm the great classic comedy playwright of France.

http://www.williams.edu/Astronomy/jsd/asterix/me/goscinny.html the creator of Asterix

http://www.asterix.tm.fr/english/1monde/ango_01.htm More about the creator of Asterix.

http://www.dargaud.fr/world/asterixE.html The official Asterix site.

http://www.cottleston.demon.co.uk/history.htm The Lucky Luke site

http://www.tintin.be/Biographie/biog_gb.htm Hergé - the creator of Tintin.

http://www.tintin.be/History.htm The official Tintin site.

http://www.nucleus.com/~dreamwvr/julevern.htm Jules Verne - one of the earliest sci-fi writers.

http://www.vttoth.com/verne.htm More about Jules Verne

French painter/s (Matisse, Monet, Manet, David, Rodin, Renoir, Cezanne, van Gogh, etc.)

http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/ for a big list of painters - BUT many are NOT French

CHOOSE FIVE FROM THE FOLLOWING ITEMS.

French postage stamps - a collection of real stamps

Postcards from France or French speaking countries

Famous French person/people in History

http://www.assumption.edu/HTML/Faculty/Gallo/Louis.html Louis XIV, the Sun King

http://encarta.msn.com/index/conciseindex/53/0535C000.htm Louis XIV

http://www.tchs.org/louisXIV%20%20 Louis XIV

http://www.napoleonicwars.com/life/life.shtml All about Napoleon, his wars, his life, quotes, campaingns, battles etc.

http://www.la-pucelle.de/en/index.html St Jeanne d'Arc - her story, and how she saved France from invasion.

http://hss.sd54.bc.ca/School/Pages/student/Humanities/hum9-Renata/Rikki.htm for Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and links to the French Revolution.

http://www.mast.mcvsd.k12.nj.us/french%20rev/frenchrevoltuion/MARIEANTOINETTE.html More on Marie-Antoinette

http://www.csonline.net/moulinte/moul-g.htm Jean Moulin the leader of the French Resistance in WWII, regarded as one of France's greatest men.

http://frenchculture.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa050498.htm Jean Moulin

http://www.bordeaux-city.com/cjmoulin.htm Museum dedicated to Jean Moulin.

http://members.aol.com/scotskye40/vercin3.html Vercingetorix - the French celtic leader who opposed the might of the Romans and Julius Caesar

http://myron.sjsu.edu/romeweb/ENEMIES/art9.htm Vercingetorix

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4934/rixmain.html A site dedicated to Vercingetorix and the Celts.

http://www.elysee.fr/ang/instit/biogdg.htm Charles de Gaulle - President and hero of France

http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/degaulle.htm Charles de Gaulle.

The French Revolution - people or events

http://hss.sd54.bc.ca/School/Pages/student/Humanities/hum9-Renata/Rikki.htm for Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and links to the French Revolution.

http://www.mast.mcvsd.k12.nj.us/french%20rev/frenchrevoltuion/index.html Complete seties of pages compiled by school class about the French Revolution and Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

Interesting places to visit in France (towns, historical sites, churches, sports venues, museums etc.)

http://cityguide.lycos.com/europe/france/ search by city or region

http://www.tourisme.fr/us/annu/index.htm search by theme

http://www.france.com/francescape/regions/discover.html A descriptive guide to the regions of France area by area. Has other information including an interactive quiz (which is quite challenging!)

http://www.city.net/countries/france Scroll through this site. It offers a great variety of information about France.

http://www.maison-de-la-france.com This is the French Government Tourist site for France. You can search here by region or town. This site also gives general information about France, for example, the Year 2000 celebrations, "green" holidays, etc. which may be useful for your project.

http://www.hotwired.com/rough/europe/france This is a Backpacker's Guide to France. You can search here by town and region.

http://www.tourisme.fr/annu/index.htm A general tourism site covering regions and towns.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/vftourist/vftourist.france.html A comprehensive list of town and regional sites in France.

Icons of France (flag, le coq sportif, Marianne, fleur de lys, French bread, croissants, berets, etc.)

http://premier-ministre.gouv.fr/GB/HIST/ this site offers background on some French items.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/fricon.html Information about a variety of people, places and things which are the emblems/icons of France.

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/famille.html Family Life in France and Francophone Countries. Useful links to sites which specialise in family life, children, women's issues, traditions and customs.

http://www.i-spy.com/webcams/bcam/Breadfacts All about French bread

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/fetes.html Francophone Holidays and Traditions

French comics and books (Asterix, Tintin, Babar etc.)

Places to visit in Paris with some brief information

http://www.paris.org All about Paris. This site has information on everything you would want to know about Paris - hotels, shops, cafes, history, metro/RER/bus timetables, museums, shopping, special events, etc. etc.

French money and the Euro

http://www.bergen.com/travel/eurodol199811158.htm Changing currency to the Euro

http://www.monnaiedeparis.com/default.htm French Mint site - coins - pictures of all the ones used and the Euro.

http://banque-france.fr/gb/billets/main.htm This site shows you pictures of all the French bank notes in use, and in addition, the new designs for the Euro.

A region of France

http://cityguide.lycos.com/europe/france/ search by city or region

http://www.tourisme.fr/us/annu/index.htm search by theme

http://www.france.com/francescape/regions/discover.html A descriptive guide to the regions of France area by area. Has other information including an interactive quiz (which is quite challenging!)

http://www.city.net/countries/france Scroll through this site. It offers a great variety of information about France.

http://www.maison-de-la-france.com This is the French Government Tourist site for France. You can search here by region or town. This site also gives general information about France, for example, the Year 2000 celebrations, "green" holidays, etc. which may be useful for your project.

http://www.hotwired.com/rough/europe/france This is a Backpacker's Guide to France. You can search here by town and region.

http://www.tourisme.fr/us/annu/index.htm Search by place or theme.

July 14th - the French National Day - Bastille Day

http://www.powerup.com.au/~rdale/bastille.htm

http://www.lauriston.com/food-clips/bastille-day.html

http://www.silcom.com/~taxabo/bastille.htm

Mountains and Rivers of France.

And .... if all else fails, try this one!

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/ Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links. A 4 500 link super site!! Themes include: books, literature, art, music, films, history, tourism, language, media, education and ...... and ......

Bonne chance cybernautes!

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