Bon Appétit Monsieur Lapin and some of my top favourite blogs

This book called Bon appetit Monsieur Lapin written by Claude Boujon ,1985 and published by l’école des loisirs has been a popular book to read along activities to do with my young students. So I decided to put together a serie of different blogs that have produced and shared activites relating to that album. The blogs are not in order of preferences but written as a list of resources for students and French teachers.

1. A nice blog La maternelle de Laurène blog has some great activities to download.

2. A great blog by Zaubette is quite good with some good exercises and colourful activities to print out.

3. La classe de Ludivine is very informative and has many document to download for free

4. Dessine-moi une histoire. is a mine of great resources for French teachers and many activities to read and to explore and so many albums to discover.

5. Materalbumfree has lots of links and files relating to the book bon appetit monsieur lapin.

6. Le stylodevero has so many great documents to exploit vocabulary and reading comprehension

7. L ‘école des crevettes has many ideas to exploit this album and creating art projects.

This is not an exhaustive list and feel free to comment and suggest other blogs to add to this list.

Quiz 3. Learn how to book an Hotel room in French

This is a quiz to help you book an hotel room in French. If you already have a booking ( réservation). You can say I have a booking under the name of… j’ai une réservation au nom de… . This little quiz will help you use the correct phrase and vocabulary. Hope you enjoy learning with this quiz.

10 Basic French pronunciation tips for travel

Have  you ever found yourself  trying to ask the basic questions in French and not be able to be understood? I agree with you that it can get frustrating so i decide to put together a list of some useful and basic French phrases with pronunciation audio which will help you communicate with locals when travelling to France or other French countries. Being able to say some basic vocabulary will be appreciated when chatting with the locals. The locals really like when tourist make an effort to try to speak French.

1. Je voudrais une baguette s'il vous plait

I would like a baguette please

2. Où est la tour Eiffel?

Where is the Eiffel tower?

3. Je voudrais l'addition s'il vous plait

I would like the bill please

4. Pouvez vous répétez s'il vous plait

Could you repeat please?

5. Je voudrais un billet aller-retour pour Paris s'il vous plait. C'est combien?

I would like a return ticket for Paris please. How much is it?

un billet aller simple

a single ticket

6. A quelle heure part le train pour Bordeaux?

At what time is the train for Bordeaux?

7.Bonjour - hello    Bonsoir - good evening

Salut - hi           Au revoir - good bye

8. S'il vous plait - please

 Merci - Thank you

9. Je voudrais acheter un cadeau de Noël

Où est le magasin le plus proche?

I would like to buy a Christmas present where is the closest shop?

10. les villes -The cities in France- Lille - Paris- Strasbourg- Lyon -Nice- Montpellier Marseille- Toulouse- Rennes- Nantes

“The limits of my language means the limit of my world
Ludwig Wittgenstein”