French: Dance as a resource for FLE.

Dance is an art. I suggest that you talk about it in your FLE class with this educational resource for A2 and B1 levels. More accurately, you’ll be talking about a controversial subject: the dictatorship of the physical.

Introduction: dance and you.

As always, you begin slowly with a set-up that consists of doing two things. Firstly, as always, you have to give your opinion on dance in general, and secondly, on classical dance. They will only have to answer questions. Secondly, they will have to rate criteria according to their importance to becoming a professional ballet dancer.

These two activities will help to assimilate the vocabulary of classical dance and then move on to a listening.

Listening :

The first exercise starts. It is a listening that highlights some of the injustices concerning the accessibility to ballet competitions. Several dancers such as Shanti and Leslie but also former dancers will testify on what the directors of the report define as "the physical dictatorship ".

Reading about dance:

Our beautiful dancer Leslie had a little problem with her ankle. She is looking for a job related to her passion, dancing. Your students will have to read and understand her requirements in order to offer her the best job. This exercise is the same as the one in DELF B1.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD96QhvVwxo

***Speaking: ***

For discussion they will have three activities to do in pairs or in a forum.

1- “Agree or disagree”: The main objective of this activity is to get your students’ impressions to compare the different points of view on the first part of the report they have just seen.

2- “Either/or”: Students will be faced with a dilemma in several situations involving dance.

For example:

“When I get depressed: I go dancing OR I watch TV shows”.

3- “Clichés existing in your country”: your students will have to give their opinion on clichés that are still and always related to dance such as: “Dance perverts generations.”

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