The French Experiment offers a varied set of resources for language learners of French including short children's stories, basic grammar information, and online lessons.

PQR66Lets you explore the front page of various French Newspapers.

The Fable Cottage: Enjoy well known children's stories in various languages (English, French, Spanish, and Italian). You can listen or read the story! Some of the titles are:

• Jack and the Beanstalk
• Cinderella
• The three Billy Goats Gruff
• Hansel and Gretel

offers a sample of free books for kids is various languages accessible online. The languages available are: English, Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish.

The language proficiency targets indicate what students are expected to do with the language at the end of each course in terms of producing language (speaking and writing), understanding language (listening and reading), and interacting with others in the language. Proficiency targets for each language are based on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Proficiency Guidelines. 

Click on each of the headings for details on the target skills for each level. 

Level	Interpersonal Communication	Presentational Mode		Interpretive Mode		Intercultural Communication
		Presentational Speaking	Presentational Writing	Interpretive Listening	Interpretive  Reading
7th Grade	Novice Mid	Novice Mid	Novice Mid	Novice  Mid	Novice High	Novice
Level I	Novice High	Novice High	Novice High	Novice High	Intermediate  Low	Novice
Level II	Intermediate  Low	Intermediate  Low	Intermediate  Low	Intermediate  Low	Intermediate Mid (-)	Intermediate  (-)
Level III	Intermediate Mid (-)	Intermediate Mid (-)	Intermediate Mid (-)	Intermediate Mid (-)	Intermediate Mid	Intermediate (-)
Level IV	Intermediate Mid	Intermediate Mid	Intermediate Mid	Intermediate Mid	Intermediate High (-)	Intermediate
Level V - VIII	Intermediate High (-) to Advanced Low	Intermediate High (-) to Advanced Low	Intermediate High (-) to Advanced Low	Intermediate High (-) to Advanced Low	Intermediate High to Advanced Low	Advanced

Learn more about ACTFL's Language Proficiency Guidelines and the NCSSFL-ACTFL Global CAN-DO Benchmark Statements.

The website Bonjour de France is a free educational “cyber-magazine,” offering a number of different activities for learning and practicing French, including Karaoke. Simply click on “KARAOKÉ FLE” to try out this tool, which mixes watching a music video and filling out a cloze form of the lyrics.

"The foreign-language newspaper sites listed here are a sample of material available on the Web free of charge:

Chinese  French  German  Italian  Japanese  Portuguese  Russian  Spanish

These news sites are selected especially for language students, but all are invited to peruse these pages at their leisure."

Source: MIT Libraries

The www.podcastfrancaisfacile.com website offers you several courses of study:

DIALOGUE : Listening to situations regarding communication in everyday life.

PHONETICS: [PHONÉTIQUE] Phonetic exercises and working on your pronunciation.

CULTURE: Listening to passages often accompanied by educational material. The passages are read slowly and at normal speed.

PLACES: [LIEUX] Listening to passages about a town or region related to France and the French-speaking world.

GRAMMAR: [GRAMMAIRE] Grammar exercises. It’s often possible to print an activity so you can handwrite it.

TRANSCRIPTION: [DICTÉES] Taking down dictation like in class! Thus, there’s no need to pause.

NUMBERS: [NOMBRES] Learning or brushing up on numbers.

SLANG : [FRANÇAIS FAMILIER] knowing some tricks for expressing oneself using French slang.

STORIES: [CONTES] Listening to stories. Each story has been adapted to simple French, sometimes twice. Thus, it is possible to listen to two versions of certain stories, each of its own respective level.

FRANCOPHONES TALK ABOUT THEMSELVES: [PARLER DE SOI] This category offers two sorts of document. You can find videos of French speakers asked to present themselves. You can also listen to the texts of these presentations read slowly or at normal speed.

VERBS & CONJUGATION : [VERBES] listening, repeating, and memorizing French conjugation.

VIDÉO: Watching and reading the scripts of different types of videos (news, advertisements, performances, songs).

VOCABULARY: [VOCABULAIRE] Reinforcing vocabulary using a specific theme (animals, work, public transportation, etc.).

BEGINNERS: [DÉBUTANT] Listening and repeating basic phrases and vocabulary.

PODCAST: See the latest podcast published, or you can subscribe (free).

The following are the Board approved instructional resources for the French language program:

Resource	Cover	Course(s)
D'accord 1 2015 Vista		French I & French II
D'accord 2 2015 Vista		French II & French III
D'accord 3 2015 Vista		French IV
Thèmes 2016 Vista		French V French VI French VII French VIII AP Frech Language & Culture
Face-À-Face 2017 Vista		French V French VI French VII French VIII AP French Language & Culture
Preparing for the AP French Exam 2012 Pearson		AP French Language & Culture
Allons au-delà! 2012 Pearson		AP French Language & Culture
Une fois pour toutes 2009 Pearson		AP French Language & Culture

Follow the links below to access more information about:

• Vista Higher Learning D'accord Series
  
• Student enrollment instructions This video provides instructions on how to enroll as a student (see your teacher for more information).
• VHL Teacher and Student Supersite access
• Vista Webinar Supersite Schedule (teachers)
• Vista Supersite Tutorials

This Playlist is part of the Easy Languages channel on You tube that presents language usage in context.

Click here to see all the videos on the Easy French Playlist.

"The ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012 describe five major levels of proficiency: Distinguished, Superior, Advanced, Intermediate, and Novice. The description of each major level is representative of a specific range of abilities. Together these levels form a hierarchy in which each level subsumes all lower levels. The major levels Advanced, Intermediate, and Novice are divided into High, Mid, and Low sublevels. The subdivision of the Advanced level is new."

Samples are available for the following languages at the ACTFL website:

 Arabic| Chinese| French| German| Japanese| Portuguese| Spanish

 "The AATFis the only professional association devoted exclusively to the needs of French teachers at all levels. The mission of the AATFis to advance the study of the French language and French-speaking literatures and cultures both in schools and in the general public. Membership is open to anyone interested in the teaching of French who is over the age of 18."

 The French Corner is a teacher's Blog created by Samantha Decker, a French teacher in upstate New York. The blog includes resources, strategies and lessons the teacher uses in her classroom.

1000 Images on The Top of my Tongue Words: "This trilingual directory provides more than 3,000 idiomatic phrases classified according to theme. Each one is inserted into a short text that illustrates its meaning and contains a digital audio file. Listening to the file allows us to fully understand all the various shades in the pronunciation. The site also includes exercises and games as well as brief, humorous animations, which contribute to the discovery of the fascinating world of colorful expressions." This resource is available in French,Spanish, and English. 

Polar FLE: Learn French while enjoying the adventures of detective Roger Duflair.

Click hereto access various links from the Modern Foreign Languages Department at the University of Tennessee - Martin
 

Click hereto access the Grammar reference index at the University of Texas at Austin. It provides written and examples with pronuntiation for each topic.

BBC French Language: Online lessons with audio, games, vocabulary, grammar explanations and exercises.