Resources For Teaching Languages Online

Teaching online is becoming a great and flexible way to work for teachers and students looking at saving time travelling and having more work flexibility. I have been teaching French online for a few years now and I have found tons of resources online through research and in participating in different groups online such as Facebook group called Ultimate support for online tutor which is run by Joanne Kaminski. Teaching online requires having a platform and Zoom is my favourite platform along with Bitpaper,and they can be used independently. Some tutors also use microphones and lights but if you are starting off you can use a tablet or a computer or even a mobile phone and the Zoom platform. Below is a list of different sites and tools that are available for teachers and students of all ages to use. The resources are available for children and adults. Teaching French online is a fun way to teach and learn whilst giving you the ability to reach students all over the world.

Some websites with interactive games to learn languages online

1. Digital dialects is an interactive site to learn different languages and covers different themes such as vocabulary , grammar and phrase structure .This website has several audio and visual games to help the students practise the language.

2. Logiciel educatif is an interactive website with different level of language and different games.

3. Book creator is a digital bookmaking site. The students can create their own digital books with own images or drawing ,text,links to other sites and own voice audio recording.

4. Quizlet is an interactive platform where a teacher creates their own flashcards and quizzes online.

5. Language Guide has some audio vocabulary and phrases and texts in a different languages.

6. Duolingo Stories provides many audio stories and exercises online.

7. Boom cards learning helps you create flashcards online games.

8. The Fable cottage has many bilingual stories in different languages

   Some Tools, resources and sites for online language tutors

   1. Class kick is a platform where teachers can create online lessons and exercises for students.

   2. TV5 monde Enseigner provides many videos with transcript and some pdf files for students and teachers.

   3. The French podcast is a website with a great number of audio conversations available with transcript.

   4. Fluent key is a new one for me but looks interesting as it provides some videos with subtitles in different languages as well as interactive comprehension games for students. and can be use for The Ci input teaching Compelling and Comprehensible Input based on Dr Stephen Krashen research.

   5. Edpuzzle is a free assessment - centered tool to allow student and teacher to create online videos and create quizzes and comprehension questions about the videos.

   6. Loom is a site that allows to create and share quick videos

   7. Screencast-o-matic is site to create your own videos and share them online

   8. Educaplay makes you create your own educational games and activities

   9. Educandy is also a site where you can create interactive games in minutes

   10. Flipgrid allows teachers to create grids to facilitate videos discussions where teachers can pose questions.

   11. Flippity to easily turn Google Spreadsheets into a set of online flashcards and other cool stuff

   12. Alice Ayel has a membership website which has plenty of videos to help students learn French using comprehensible input strategy.

   13. Google classroom makes it easy to share files.

   14. Kahoot is a game based learning platform for interactive learning

   15. Quizizz is a free gamified quizzes for every subject to play in class or at home.

   16. Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own online games and stories

   17. Realtimeboard allows board collaboration.

   18. Lyricstraining where you can learn a language with music and filling in blanks for the song lyrics.

       Tools

   19. Hue camera is a an alternative to standard classroom camera and allows you to share a text book page with your students online and is used by many tutors online

   20. Green screen is another tool to be use for video background as well as microphones

   21. Canva helps you create posts, videos, digital books and so much more.

French Free Bilingual Book for children .The vegetables-Les légumes

Here is another audio book in the book serie illustrated and written by Boxy that I am uploading.

Learn French with online games - Food vocabulary

Learning French can be fun and when playing online games . These games will help you to learn vocabulary about food related topics. Many of my students play interactive online games during on our online lessons and enjoy memorising words and playing games as they learn. I made a short version of a game and hopefully you will find these games useful.

My 30 Favourite Free sites to learn French Online

I often get asked in my lessons where could I find a good site to learn French? There are plenty on the internet and it becomes a real mine field trying to find the right one. These are my suggested sites and have been posted in a random order.

My top picks are

1. TV 5 monde has different levels from beginners to advanced.This site also has videos with transcriptions and some grammar exercises. This is well worth a visit because it has so much content for French learners.

2. Francolab and Francolab junior are two Canadian sites run by the TV5 version in French Canadian language. You will listen to stories and songs and there are exercises to complete. A good way to practise listening in French.

3. Digital dialect is a great site for children and adults alike. I often suggest children’s sites to my students to practice their French.This one has plenty of games, some grammar exercises , vocabulary, pronunciation and many more games for beginners.

4. Language gym was founded by Gianfranco Conti who has lots of expertise in foreign language teaching.This is a free interactive website which provides online learning grammar and vocabulary exercises. I strongly recommend looking at this site.

5. Langageonline is great site to practice French listening.You will find some exercises to complete and many games and songs. There are loads of French resources for teachers and students.This site has been created by the Department of Education in Victoria in Australia and is very interactive and engaging for beginners students.

6 Le point du fle is an exhaustive resource site for teachers and students with grammar and vocabulary for all levels.

7. language guide has grammar exercises as well as text audio with a transcription. The text has words hidden in English to help you work out the translation.

8. Reverso site specialises in online translation aids such as online dictionaries. It gives you several translations of the same word in different phrases and context.

9. Miam is a French Canadian site that provides educational games about food and eating healthy for children and recipes and some interactive games for children along some recipes. Miam means “yum” in French which is quite a suitable name for that site.

10. The French experiment is a site for children with free grammar and vocabulary lessons. This site has some well known children’s stories translated in French.

11. Je parle quebecois is a great site that has some cultural articles . You will find many funny videos to teach Quebecois french accent and language and some expressions typically French Canadian. Well worth a look!

12. Phonetique is a site that provides many audio exercises such as alphabet or word in French that enable you to replay the audio and listen to the pronunciation.

13. Podcast francais facile a site with audio and transcript from learning how to order in a cafe in French or asking for directions or simply learning some grammar exercises or reading text.

14.Learn French with Alexa has a series of videos to learn French. Alexa has created several videos on Youtube which are bilingual French and English where she explains the rules in a very funny, interesting and easy way to understand for beginners students.I always suggest her videos to my students.

15. French today is run by Camille Chevalier and has so many blogs on cultural topics, places to visit, grammar and conjugation exercises, many bilingual audio articles. This is a very comprehensive site about French learning and the grammar rules are explained with lots of examples and easy way to learn French.

16. La chanson en cours de FLE a site created by Carmen Vera Pérez with plenty of songs adapted to different levels but mainly intermediate and above.The songs are very useful to learn verbs conjugation and vocabulary.

17. French games and interactive website for children and quite easy to navigate.

18. Hello world is such a great interactive site for children with load of resources and different themes and providing audio games and vocabulary lessons and a lot more.

19. Tex’s French grammar is a very well designed grammar site with lots of easy explanation about grammar rules.

20. NewsinslowFrench a site where you can finally listen to the news at a slower pace. You might need to subscribe to have access to the whole site.

21. Lawless French is another Free site with load of content, grammar, vocabulary, audio exercises.

22. RFISavoir offers a series of bilingual broadcast on different topics and current affair news.

23. Thoughtco has thousand of resources for students and teachers of second languages.

24. Canadian parents for French Prince Edward Island. This site offer resources to parents as well as for students and has several resources sites for learning French such as a video site called illustrated.

25. Baby bilingual blogspot has plenty of resources to help parents raising bilingual children.

26. Lyrics training is a site for music lovers. If you like listening to French music and learn songs this site has a an online karaoke exercises where you get to fill out the missing words of the songs.Lots of choices of songs. Great for students or teachers of French.

27. Comme une francaise videos founded by Geraldine provide some interesting free and engaging videos about French language and culture.

28. Quizizz as the name says the site offers quizzes to create or that you can use. You do need to signup to use their site.

29. Francais avec Pierre videos. This site offers many free videos which are very entertaining and easy to listen to.

30. Bonjour de France offers lots of resources to learn French online from vocabulary ,grammar and comprehension exercises for teachers and students.

Some Free Apps such as Duolingo or Mosalingua are great for daily French practice. Some of those apps don’t really explain the rules but they can be useful to learn vocabulary and listening to some phrases in French.

“One language sets you in a corridor for life .Two languages open every door along the way
Franck Smith”