S34 General Teaching Considerations Orienting Students to the Student Textbook Because PROMENADES treats interior and graphic design as an integral part of students’ language-learning experience, you may want to take a few minutes to orient students to the student textbook. Have them flip through one unit, and point out that they are all organized exactly the same way, with two short lessons and a concluding Savoir-faire section. Also point out how the major sections of each lesson are color-coded for easy navigation: blue for Contextes, green for Roman-photo, purple for Lecture culturelle, orange for Structures, teal for Synthèse, red for Savoir-faire, and dark blue for Vocabulaire. Let them know that, because of these design elements, they can be confident that they will always know “where they are” in their textbook. Emphasize that sections are self-contained, occupying either a full page or a spread of two facing pages, thereby eliminating “bad breaks” and the need to flip back and forth to do activities or to work with explanatory material. Finally, call students’ attention to the use of color to highlight key information in elements such as charts, diagrams, word lists, activity models, titles, and help boxes such as Coup de main, Boîte à outils, and À noter. Flexible Lesson Organization PROMENADES uses a flexible lesson organization designed to meet the needs of diverse teaching styles, instructional goals, and institutional requirements. For example, you can begin with the unit opening page and progress sequentially through a unit. If you do not want to devote class time to grammar, you can assign the Structures explanations for outside study, freeing up class time for other purposes like developing oral communication skills; increasing awareness of francophone television broadcasts; building listening, reading, or writing skills; learning more about the French-speaking world; or working with the video program. You might decide to work extensively with the Savoir-faire section in order to focus on students’ reading and writing skills and their knowledge of the French-speaking world. On the other hand, you might prefer to skip these sections entirely, exploiting them periodically in response to your students’ interests as the opportunity arises. If you plan on using the PROMENADES Testing Program, however, be aware that its quizzes, tests, and exams check language presented in Contextes, Structures, and the Expressions utiles boxes of Roman-photo. Identifying Active Vocabulary All words and expressions taught in the illustrations and Vocabulaire lists in Contextes are considered active, testable vocabulary. The words and expressions in the Expressions utiles boxes in Roman-photo, as well as words in charts, word lists, and sample sentences in Structures, are also part of the active vocabulary load. At the end of each unit, Vocabulaire provides a convenient one-page summary of the items that students should know and that may appear on tests and exams. You will want to point this out to students. The Nouvelle orthographe In 1990, the Académie française officially approved a series of new recommended spelling rules, popularly known as the Nouvelle orthographe, which began to take broader effect in 2016. Because the traditional spelling rules remain in effect and many francophones hesitate to adopt the new ones, PROMENADES continues to follow the traditional rules. Nevertheless, alternative spellings are accepted in Supersite activity answer keys. IAE-36EDUCATOR TOOLS S34
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