Maps are fun! There is so much information! No, your students will not be bored, they will never again think map work is boring. And you will be delighted they can find places on the map! Enjoy! Maps! Maps! Maps! All with basic information! Make those grey cells work! Some countries are large both in size and population; others are small in size but large in population. Get to know the different parts of the world where French is spoken. Maps are easy to photocopy and easy to understand! Maps included: Switzerland, Monaco, Luxembourg, Haiti, the French overseas departments, France, Québec and more. Le français en Europe Le français en Amérique Subject matter: geography of French speaking world Vocabulary: countries, languages, nationalities, numbers (1-10) Grammar: être; appeler, parler, articles Oral practice: map work Homework: map work Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search All Miraflores materials are exclusively in the target language.

Content based thematic units allow students to engage with more complex subject matter despite having only a limited vocabulary. Visit Paris and identify its landmarks. Walk down a specific street and practice il y a. A map of Provence identifies the region through its painters; two songs bring alive its bridges. Sur le pont d'Avignon....Enjoy! 1. Paris 2. La rue Saint-Honoré 3. La Provence Subject matter: introduction to Paris and Provence Vocabulary: city; right and left; rivers Grammar: articles; il y a; il n'y a pas; adjectives Oral practice: identify places in Paris; find an address; identify rivers Homework: places in your own city; describe a region Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search

1. Napoléon 2. Molière 3. Astérix Introduce your students to these three icons of French culture in your first year French class. Napoléon serves as a wonderful introduction to the vocabulary of the family because it combines the family with the historic reality. The unit on Molière, who is usually taught at a more advanced level where there are a lot fewer students, permits your students to do easy comparisons between school plays and Molière's works. Finally, Astérix introduces a cartoon character who is emblematic of the French speaking world. Subject matter: introduces people and cartoon character Vocabulary: members of the family; European countries; basic vocabulary of the theater and cartoon Grammar: possessive adjectives; avoir; comment and où; interrogative pronouns Oral practice: Napoleon's family; my family; theater and plays at my school Homework: genealogical tree; a play; a cartoon Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search

French, a global language, spoken in Africa and the Caribbean! Three mini-thematic units for real beginners, one on Martinique, two on Africa. 1. Un voyage en Martinique, Pack your bags to visit the Caribbean! 2. Youssou N´Dour, Singer, musician, Senegalese 3. Le français en Afrique, Where is it spoken? Who speaks it? The diversity of the French speaking world is a relevation to most students! Teachers often look for materials that will speak to specific students. Two of the units deal with Africa: the first is about music, the second about languages. Teach musical instruments with Youssou N'Dour's band; have your students think how the languages now spoken in North and South America have displaced the original languages. Then focus your attention on Africa and see where French is spoken. This information is an excellent way of practicing quel / quels and quelle / quelles. A young tourist packs her bags for a holiday in Martinique. Review clothing to help her select the right items to pack. Once in Martinique, she writes her friend a postcard, a cloze exercise. Upon her return, she goes back to school where her teacher explains French DOM and TOM. Subject matter: geography, historical background Vocabulary: clothing, days of the week; musical instruments; colonialism Grammar: adverbs of place, aller, faire; articles; avant and après Oral practice: imaginary vacations; band, videos; French spoken in Africa Homework: imaginary vacations; music; languages Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search

I live in Quebec and it is a pleasure to share the beauty and riches of my province. Like so many quebeckers, I was born elsewhere and came here as an adult. My teaching position was in a cegep, the unique system we have here. It is a transition to university, the equivalent of grades 12 and 1st year university for those who are university bound. In addition, half of our students take the 3 year technical program. In our technical programs we have majors like dental hygiene, computer technician and also many specialities connected with airplane maintenance. I taught Spanish at Cegep Edouard-Montepetit for 27 years. These 3 units were written with my colleague and friend Marie-Claudine Rostaing. This download has three complete units. Each unit is 7 or 8 pages long. Unit 1. Quebec City. Many schools from the Northeast U.S.A. visit Quebec City. We have tried to write units to prepare, to do before your visit because that way the students will be eager to visit the places they already know about. Learn about the ramparts, the river, the upper and lower town, all at a beginners level. The word Quebec comes from the Algonquin word Kébec: the place where the river narrows. Let your students reflect on the origin of the names of other towns and cities. Unit includes: Subject matter: city Vocabulary: adjectives related to the city Grammar: adjectives Oral practice: names of cities Homework: a city Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search If you have visited Quebec City with your class and want to share your experiences, please do so in the comments section below. Thank you! Unit 2. Snow. The unit on snow includes an exercise about the amount of snow that falls in Montreal in an average winter; the cost of clearing that snow in Montreal, and the effect of salt. The song included is Mon pays (Mon pays, ce n’est pas un pays, c’est l’hiver.) Weather and clothing follow. Unit includes: Subject matter: climate Vocabulary: climate Grammar: adjectives Oral practice: winter clothing, a song Homework: one season Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search Unit 3. A female athlete, winner of several Olympic medals, provides the context to present different winter sports and the vocabulary of the body. It also is an affirmation of women in sports and women in general. Unit includes: Subject matter: winter sports Vocabulary: winter sports Grammar: combien Oral practice: winter clothing; interview with an athlete Homework: an athlete Internet: Key word list to facilitate a search All Miraflores materials are exclusively in the target language. AVAILABLE in a bundle. SIX sets of thematic units!!

Miraflores does language in context. Here is a way to learn and review the numbers 1-100 with images from Québec. This is an ORAL exercise. Some teachers might like it for review and consolidation while others use it for preseting the numbers. (Stop and repeat when your students get stuck.) Numbers 70 to 100 are hard! I have opted for not writing the numbers out because pronounciation is much better when students listen instead of reading. The numbers are in order, from 1 to 100. Students look at the image and say the number. They can work in pairs, in threes, the entire class can participate. If there are images that are of interest, take a moment to talk about Québec, Canada´s French speaking province where all the street signs are in French. Encourage your students to read the words they do not know and you will notice how they like to figure them out. The images help!

Content based materials! Beginners! Use these pictures to contextualize both clothing and colors. Learn about the Day of the Dead and integrate the vocabulary seamlessly. Everything in the target language. Miraflores la editorial dedicada a la cultura. Día de Muertos.

In Montreal all the street signs are in French! Use the signs to practice basic vocabulary of food and daily life. Use the cultural information to compare and contrast with your own community. Use the pictures to talk about Quebec, Canada´s French speaking province.

Real signs for content based language! Yes, even beginners can understand Montreal street signs. Have fun with the beginners! They may not know all the words, but will understand the meaning of the signs. Students are often afraid of reading words they do not know. Here is the way to get rid of that fear, plunge in and enjoy. Culture in content.

USEFUL - ÚTIL E- Advance cultural knowledge with assignments on daily life! Students search the web and discover Holy Week, expand their knowledge of the Day of the Dead and are bowled over by the Spanish festivals. Review vocabulary and add new words with assignments on transportation (the metro), clothing (famous designers), hotels, the classroom and food. E 1 – House for sale E 2 – Paradors of Spain E 3 – Christmas, Three Kings and Holy Week E 4 – Yummy! Delicious! E 5 – Please help this school – Example: During your travels, you visit a school in a Spanish speaking country that is in need of supplies. When you come home and tell your classmates about the school, they decide to help. SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT: List and illustrate the 5 items they need the most. Put the items on the list in order of need. Make a star beside the items you can send. Can other items be bought there? Which ones? E 6 – Another day, another festival Web search: name of festival + location – List of festivals is provided. SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT: Choose 2 festivals. On your map of Spain, write the names of the festivals with arrows pointing to each city. Add the following for each one: date(s), what you like about it. E 7 – Day of the Dead Web search: Day of the Dead - Día de Muertos - Make a photo album or scrapbook. Describe every picture. SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT: Your photo album or scrapbook of the Day of the Dead celebrations in México has a caption for each photo, with the date of the celebrations, the location, and the activity or item in the picture. E 8 – What should I wear? E 9 – Ride the subway Number of pages: 40 Teacher and student rubrics: included Name of store: MirafloresCultura

USEFUL - ÚTIL F There are assignments on Atahualpa and Moctezuma, Bolívar and San Martín, Carlos V and Felipe II, the Spanish Royal Family. In addition, both the World Heritage Sites and the Seven Wonders of the World are included. The Internet opens the door to information and allows students to see images of all the places. In many cases, students include and describe the images they have found. Sample assignment: World Heritage Sites INTERNET SEARCH KEY WORDS En español: la lista del Patrimonio Mundial In English: World Heritage Sites FORMAT FOR A – Beginners: Draw a tee-shirt and a hat. Decorate both. Add a text. Assignment: Choose ONE World Heritage Site in México. Your tee-shirt and hat have both images and writing to highlight the wonders of that particular World Heritage Site. The text gives information and your opinion. FORMAT FOR B AND C – Advanced: Write a report for the authorities. Assignment: You have just returned from visiting a WHS in South America. While you were on the site, you found a valuable historical object. Give details of your find and indicate what you did with it. Number of pages: 40 Teacher and student rubrics: included Name of store: MirafloresCultura International Baccalaureate

Bilingual writing assignments related to SPORTS – 10 Composition topics / 3 levels of difficulty plus a 4th topic called ´In my country´. Internet searches necessary to complete every assignment. It is called Useful because it really is! Culturally relevant and thought provoking! Even the rubrics are innovative! Sample writing assignment: Hurricane sale! A hurricane has devastated the Caribbean beach resort of Cancún. The owner of a sport´s store salvages some of the beach clothing. Your flyer identifies the items on sale and gives both the old price and the new sales price. Be sure to use local currency… 11. Make an ID card. Write a speech. 12. Draw the outlines of a house and it describe it. 13. Prepare an album or write a blog about your visit to a specific city. 14. Write an article for your school newspaper. 15. Write a newspaper editorial. 16. Complete a form and write a dialogue. 17. Write a composition with explanatory photographs. 18. Write a letter to complain about treatment received at a hotel. 19. Prepare a flyer. 20. Describe a World Cup mascot and… The assignments include everything from the clothing athletes wear, prizes they receive, autographs gathered, minor leagues, stadium, tickets, fans and drug abuse. Traditional and non-traditional sports are covered. Thus, there are assignments on soccer, bicycling, skiing, baseball, and more that integrate technology and advance cultural understanding. Number of pages: 44 Teacher and student rubrics: included Name of store: MirafloresCultura International Baccalaureate

USEFUL - ÚTIL A - 10 topics. Every topic is in both English and Spanish. There are 3 levels of difficulty for every assigment. Please note that there are SIX different sets of composition topics, Útil A, B, C, all the way to Útil F. No student can say - ¨I don´t know what to write about.¨ Sample beginners writing assignment: Prepare a flyer / travel brochure Mexico City is one of the biggest cities in the world. Find 3 pictures of Mexico City: something old, something new and something you really like. In your travel brochure, identify and describe each picture. Variation: Each student chooses ONE capital of a Spanish speaking country and finds 3 pictures..... Útil A has 10 topics. Each one has a specific writing assignment. 1. Prepare a flyer. 2. Prepare an itinerary for a trip. 3. Organize the information for a documentary. 4. Make a placemat for a restaurant. Every table will have one. 5. You will be interviewed. Get ready. 6. Find pictures and compare them. 7. Give advice. Good advice? Bad advice? 8. Write a dialogue for a shopping trip. 9. Create or draw a map and add the description. 10. Prepare an itinerary for a trip to Machu Picchu Students explore both the famous and the out of the way places in the Spanish speaking World. They include Machu Picchu and Aracataca; La Boquería and Bilbao; Cartagena de Indias and the Chilean Lake Region. The places are diverse: markets, beach resorts, treasure fleets. The assignments tap into students´ natural attraction to the digital media. Number of pages: 42 Teacher and student rubrics: included Name of store: MirafloresCultura International Baccalaureate

USEFUL - ÚTIL C The culture of the Spanish speaking world is so very rich! 10 Composition topics / 3 levels of difficulty plus a 4th topic called ´In my country´. Sample assignment: C3 Spanish Family Portraits INTERNET SEARCH KEY WORDS En español: el nombre del pintor + el nombre del cuadro In English: name of painter + name of painting FORMAT You work for a film studio and are casting for a film where the people and the stories in the paintings come alive. Find the right actors. Give the names of real actors and explain your choices. ASSIGNMENT Beginners A: Find Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez. The little princess, Margarita, stands in the middle of the painting. The two teen-agers, on either side, are her ladies-in-waiting. What are the people doing? What actors will play the roles of the princess and the ladies-in-waiting? Intermediate B: Find Goya´s, La familia de Carlos IV. You are casting only three or four figures. Who are they? Explain how they are related. Is their relationship important for the casting decision?... C1. Don Quijote C2. Catch the thief C3. Spanish family portraits C4. Music, the international language C5. A picture is worth…. a thousand words. … High and low cultural topics are covered. Don Quijote and Las Meninas, El Prado and the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the sardana and Venezuela´s youth orchestras. We include photography, pre-hispanic masks and Carnival costumes. Not only Frida Kahlo, but also María Félix, Lola Flores, Mercedes Sosa and Celia Cruz. Number of pages: 23 Teacher and student rubrics: included Name of store: MirafloresCultura International Baccalaureate No student can say - ¨I don´t know what to write about.¨

Presente H - The complex world of Hispanics in the United States is explored from many points of view. There are seven broad themes: art and pop artists, migrants and the border, food and music, sports and more. Please go to the Preview to examine some pages. 1. ¡Adivina! ¿Quién soy? – Students present someone without revealing his / her name and the class guesses who it is. 2. La herencia hispana – Students have many choices to describe the influence of Hispanics in the US. An example: - El Mes de la Hispanidad o mes nacional de la hispanidad es una celebración. Durante un mes hay muchas actividades para celebrar la comunidad hispana en Estados Unidos. Voy a decir cuándo es. También voy a hablar de las actividades durante el mes. Palabras clave: Mes de la Hispanidad 3. Solo un deportista puede ganar – Propose candidates for a prize. 4. El arte hispano en Estados Unidos – Rich and varied, many forms, much to admire. - El Blanton Museum of Art en Austin, Texas, tiene una colección grande. En la colección hay cuadros, esculturas y fotos. Yo voy a mostrar y explicar fotos de Miguel Álvarez Bravo y sus contemporáneos. Palabras clave: Blanton Museum of Art + Miguel Álvarez Bravo 5. Los chicanos – Defined through language and culture, this minority has great pride. An example: - Voy a hablar de un parque en San Diego, California, el Parque Chicano. El parque está debajo de una autopista. Voy a describir el parque y los murales. Palabras clave: Parque Chicano + San Diego 6. La frontera entre México y Estados Unidos – Controversial and fascinating, the border is interesting for all. 7. Comunidades latinas en Estados Unidos 1. All oral presentation topics are based on research. Key words are provided to guide the student's web research. Guidelines for research are provided. Cooperative learning is required. Suggestions are given for audience response. 2. All oral topics have three levels of difficulty, A, B and C. Each level is on a separate page so teacher can choose. 3. Level A provides the student 3 suggestions, level B gives the student 4 suggestions and level C, 6 suggestions. Group work is required to divide the work and prepare for a class presentation. 4. There is always a central theme. All topics are guided. First sentences are provided. Number of pages: 26 Teacher and student rubrics: included Name of store: MirafloresCultura International Baccalaureate

Presente G – Central America – There are nine broad topics, three are about the entire area and six are country specific. You can examine some pages in the Preview. 1. El quetzal 2. El chocolate 3. Piratas. Two examples. - Francis Drake fue un pirata inglés muy famoso. Ésta es una imagen de Drake. Voy a describir la ropa que lleva. Palabras clave: el pirata Francis Drake - El tema de los piratas y de la piratería siempre ha sido popular en el cine norteamericano. Voy a hablar de varias películas que tratan el tema y escribir cómo presentan a los piratas. - Palabras clave: piratas del cine norteamericano 4. Los derechos humanos - Uno de los mayores problemas en Honduras es la falta de medios de transporte. (Escoge UNO.) Este verano voy a ser voluntario en el Instituto Hondureño de Educación Radial (IHER) / Pedals for Progress . Nosotros recibimos bicicletas y las regalamos. Palabras clave: Instituto Hondureño de Educación Radial / Pedals for Progress 5. A comprar 6. La cooperación internacional 7. El Lago de Nicaragua 8. Parques nacionales de Costa Rica 9. El canal de Panamá 1. All oral presentation topics are based on research. Key words are provided to guide the student's web research. Guidelines for research are provided. Cooperative learning is required. Suggestions are given for audience response. 2. All oral topics have three levels of difficulty, A, B and C. Each level is on a separate page so teacher can choose. 3. Level A provides the student 3 suggestions, level B gives the student 4 suggestions and level C, 6 suggestions. Group work is required to divide the work and prepare for a class presentation. 4. There is always a central theme. All topics are guided. First sentences are provided. Number of pages: 32 Teacher and student rubrics: included Name of store: MirafloresCultura International Baccalaureate