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It is important for students to keep their French ticking over in the holidays, particularly during the long summer break.

It is particularly vital to try to listen to a little French almost every day – just 10 or 15 minutes is enough.  The following is just a selection taken from the French department’s list of good websites on our sharepoint homepage:

• One of the best radio news internet sites is RFI (Radio France International)

Twice a day RFI produces two news bulletins in simpler French (go to “journal en français facile” on the menu on the left-hand side of the page.).  As well as listening to the bulletins, the transcript of the broadcast can be read on-line or downloaded (click on “lire le script”).

• If pictures to accompany the news are preferred, go to http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/info/actualite_internationale.php
• The following (English) site has lots of listening clips with transcripts and exercises: http://french.about.com/library/listening/bl-listeningindex2.htm
• The BBC site http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/tv/ links you to lots of French TV sites.
• The following sites have short videos and clips on a wide range of topical and cultural subjects:

http://www.linternaute.com/video/

http://www.curiosphere.tv/video-documentaire/0-4-1-1-toutes-les-videos

It is important too to read as much French as possible.  As well as choosing a French novel or magazine as holiday or bedtime reading, French newspapers can be read online.  The following are the official websites for the major ones:

• Le Point
• Le Figaro
• Le Monde
• L'equipe (daily sports newpaper)
• Ados  (online French teenage magazine – reading, oral topic)

The following is just a selection of websites that can offer practice and explanations of grammatical points and vocabulary topics.  Most of these are interactive offering self-evaluation and answers:

http://www.ccdmd.qc.ca/fr/exercices_interactifs/?id=90

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/gr/index.html

http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rgshiwyc/school/curric/HotPotatoes/index.htm

http://quizlet.com/subject/french/

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/home

http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/civ/

http://french.about.com/

http://avosplumes.org/

http://www.easyreaders.eu/french.aspx?tab=4

http://french-resources.org/#

http://www.frenchspanishonline.com/