Introductions & Greetings

Saying hello and asking how someone is

Jolly little song introducing the following words and phrases:
Bonjour (X)! Comment ça va? & J'espère que ça va (bien). Click on the links on the page to hear the song and see the lyrics or the lyrics and chords.

http://www.southwestern.edu/~prevots/songs/?p=10

Saying hello

Very simple set of video clips from the BBC in which people either say ‘bonjour' (hello) or ‘bonsoir' (good evening). You are told what to do in English on screen. Listen, watch and repeat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/talk/video/bb_rm_greet

Greetings

Pass the mouse over any of the greetings listed to hear it pronounced clearly.

http://www.languageguide.org/txt/common/fr/

Greetings and introductions

On this page you will find a very clear and easy-to-follow set of sentences that you can use when meeting someone for the first time and getting to know them. Pass your mouse over any of the smiley faces to hear the sentence spoken aloud. The pink ones are spoken by women and the blue ones by men.

http://www.flale.com/html/lecon02.php?action=0&langue=fr

Greetings and introductions

Here you can listen to a really short exchange between 3 people as they meet each other. Click on the numbers to hear them talk and to see the sentences on screen. The sound isn't top quality, but it's acceptable.

http://claweb.cla.unipd.it/home/smazurelle/dynamots/a

Greeting friends

Very simple set of video clips from the BBC in which people greet each other and ask how they are. You are told what to do in English on screen. Listen, watch and repeat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/talk/video/bb_rm_g

La bise

This is a really great little animated cartoon all about the issues surrounding 'la bise' - who you kiss, when, how many times, etc. It is narrated and illustrated with great humour. It also contains some very worthwhile cultural information. Germans are referred to as visitors to France, but any nationality could be substituted. The level of language is quite sophisticated and the narration quite fast, but parts of it could be worked on in class with a teacher.

http://www.flevideo.com/quiz_int2.php?id=3049&pagenum=1

Introductions

Spanish site for learners of French. Six young people introduce themselves and say where they live, how old they are and what their favourite comic is. For the first three you can click on the speaker icon and hear them introducing themselves while you follow what they're saying on screen. The first one sounds like a genuine 9-year old, and the other two sound suspiciously like adults, but nevertheless, they are worth listening to, and the adults speak more clearly than the child. On the right-hand side of the page (first of the two columns) there are some pronunciation guidelines that refer to words used in the children's introductions. You can click on the speaker icon to hear particular sounds pronounced first in isolation and then in a word or words from the text. The last column contains Spanish translations for some of the French words, and so is unlikely to be of interest to most pupils unless they are studying both languages!

http://www3.unileon.es/dp/dfm/flenet/cours

Introductions

Short dialogue (from the The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Victoria, Australia) in which a girl and boy say hello, ask what each other's names are and then say goodbye. Useful for reinforcement of what has been taught in class and could be set as listening/learning homework. Click on the speech bubbles to hear the people talk. Once you get to the end of the conversation click on reset to start again.

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/french/sect02/no_1/

Introductions and meeting people

The second section of this page is a useful exam revision section with sentences that you can use when meeting people. Each sentence has an English translation.

http://www.smartphrase.com/French/fr_you-family_phr.shtml

Introductions and talking about yourself

This is a really good site to spend quite a bit of time on revising talking about yourself and asking questions about other people. To begin with, click on LEXIQUE questions / réponses. You'll see a list of statements that someone has made about herself. Clicking on each sentence brings up a little window with lots of information. First of all you can listen to the sentence and repeat it as often as you need to. There are then 4 questions. The first two are in the polite 'vous' form and the second two in the informal 'tu' form. They are the questions that you would ask to elicit the answer at the top of the window. You can also listen to them and repeat the questions. Don't be fooled by the fact that it's a small window – there's lots of information here, and lots to take in. In each case, the first of the two questions is the more formal way of asking the question, and in the second the less formal way.

When you've worked on that screen, click on EXERCICE audio to try an audio exercise. There are 10 questions. First of all click on the first audio link to hear a question (from the list of questions that you've already worked on). Then click on the 3 following audio links to hear 3 possible answers to the question. You have to pick the right one. Click on CORRECTION to see if you're right.

http://www.facebook.com/ecole.ciel.bretagne?sk=app_156218

Simple introductions / likes and dislikes

This class of 6e introduce themselves. Click on any of the children's names to get to their individual page. There are lots of good expressions for expressing likes and dislikes on this site. Further down each page another child in the class describes them – some good phrases and vocabulary. You could use this site as a springboard for producing similar texts about yourselves and your classmates.

http://www.ecolemartigny.ch/clas/mn/

Introducing yourself

Click on CV next to the names of any of the 8 pupils at this school in Switzerland to see a little bit about themselves. They are all in their early teens and introduce themselves very simply.

http://php.educanet2.ch/edunet/base/view_class.php?id_classe=10

Filling out a registration form

Here you can watch and listen as someone fills out a registration form in French. The first link is a boy and the second a girl. Listen to the questions asked by the person filling out the forms.

http://claweb.cla.unipd.it/home/smazurelle/dynamots/a1/

http://claweb.cla.unipd.it/home/smazurelle/dynamots/a1/m1/sit

Introducing yourself

Here you can listen as people introducing themselves. The language is a little more sophisticated. Click on Voir le texte to follow a transcript of the audio.

http://claweb.cla.unipd.it/home/smazurelle/dynamots/a1/m2

http://claweb.cla.unipd.it/home/smazurelle/dynamots/a1/m2/sit