FLE Thematic Box: Witches - French For Nerds

The Witches, Vol. 1!

A special FLE thematic box Witches full of resources and ideas to make your lessons more fun, original and creative! Designed as a game box for teachers, you have the rule book (but hey, you are free to adapt and change them!) with corrections, a guide to go further, and all the necessary material to share with your intermediate and advanced level students activities that are different from everyday life, that allow them to escape while learning more about the language and culture!

The theme of Witches is particularly great, since it allows us to work on popular and nerdy culture, but also History, through the era of the Witch Hunt! It is a real escape from everyday life, and into the twists and turns of witchcraft – and sometimes, don’t our learners have the impression that French itself is a bit witchy? Let’s show them that it isn’t!

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The contents of the FLE Witches Thematic Box

Guides and documents

The Box user guide
Reminder of your rights on the Box
Usage tips by level and type of audience
Tips, resources and ideas to go even further!

History and Witch Hunts

Dive into the medieval era with your students, and discover the terrible era of witch hunts and the Inquisition! Thanks to the inquisitors' manual and a podcast, work on comprehension, expression, linguistics and culture! Corrections are of course included.

The Witches of Alsace

Ah Alsace, such a pretty region… Which had a special place in the history of witches and witchcraft, and which still bears traces of it today!!
The video and activities combine understanding, expression, linguistics and culture! Corrections are of course included.

representation in culture

French-speaking culture is also full of witches, references, in books, films, series... Suggest to your students to work on the representation of the witch! The documents and activities combine understanding, expression, linguistics and culture! Corrections are of course included.

Today's Witches

How? Witches wouldn't have disappeared? Train your students in modern witchcraft (we promise, no deadly spells in this box!) to work on the language. The proposed video and activities combine comprehension, expression, linguistics and culture! Corrections are of course included.

For the practical side, you will find in the box:

A complete PDF including a summary, activities, document transcriptions, corrections and guides for further study
A PDF with all the activities (without corrections or transcriptions)
A PDF with all the activities and transcripts
A subfolder for each module with, each time in a separate file, the activities, the correction guide, the transcriptions.

Price: The box costs €28 for lifetime use, or less than one coffee per day for a month!

Reminder: Read the Terms and Conditions before buying, because the purchase is worth acceptance 🙂

To see what it looks like, you can also download a complementary resource on the same model, which deals with a video from France Culture: Download it for free here

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FAQs

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Find in this FAQ all the useful and important information to fully understand what the FLE thematic box will bring you!

Of course! Since I work exclusively online myself, it was unthinkable not to optimize it (please, I'm sick of the non-fillable PDFs that I struggle with)! That said, if you work in person, you can also print the documents!

Yes! The Box is designed to be usable with intermediate levels (from B1, or even a very good A2 but A2 will not necessarily be sufficient for all the resources in the box) and advanced levels. The correction sheets in the Box give you advice on how to adapt to the level.
Likewise, the box is suitable for individual and group lessons.

You have the content described a little above. You will find in the Box:

Useful documents, namely reminders on your usage rights, advice on the order of resources, etc.
Each sub-theme of the box, with links to resources, activities, corrections, usage tips
A “To Go Further” guide, with ideas for creative activities by level to explore the theme even further!

All rights are described in the Terms and Conditions, but basically:

You can use the box as part of FLE courses given live, online or in person, without taking responsibility for creating the basic content.
You can use the box as part of hybrid or distance learning, as long as the Box only represents part of your service and not the entirety of it, that this training is intended for learners and not other teachers, and without taking ownership of the creation of the basic content.
You can use the box for discussions, workshops or live sessions on a Discord-type server or any other sharing or videoconferencing tool, as long as these discussions are with French learners and without taking ownership of the creation of the basic content.
Basically, you can distribute all or part of the Box only as part of French teaching services. You cannot share the content of the Box with other teachers or personal acquaintances, its distribution is exclusively reserved for your learners!

If you have any doubts, you can contact me and ask me the question directly, explaining your project to me 🙂

A real thematic Swiss army knife, the Box costs €28 per unit, which means not even a coffee a day for a month!

Yes! Ideally, when I already have a few boxes in advance, I would like to offer a subscription so that you can receive the boxes automatically. A Premium subscription with a Discord and after-sales service to answer your questions is also being considered!

I have always been convinced that fiction, nerd culture and all these themes that allow you to escape have a positive impact on learning, especially for adults, who are always immersed in the stress of everyday life and work. And the fact is, my students love it when I offer them different themes, and when I explain grammar and linguistics to them through nerd analogies!

I use a lot of resources purchased online, and they are often great, but they lack structure, it is difficult to associate them, to combine them to really delve deeper into a theme. On the other hand, textbooks are structured but I find them bland (sorry). So, I had this idea to combine the fun of online resources and the structure of textbooks, and to tie them with a common theme that will speak to students and motivate them!

And that's how the idea of the FLE themed box was born, and I also have ideas for other themes than witches for the future.

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