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Posted onMay 3, 2024May 10, 2024 activities, Canva, culture, featured, france, francophonie, french culture, writing

Les phryges ! Getting Students Excited About the 2024 Paris Olympics

I recently came upon a wonderful activity idea from French teacher Chelsea Peeters on the French Teachers in the US Facebook group, which I adapted […] Read More

Posted onJune 15, 2023May 18, 2025 Canva, featured, poetry, writing

They’re Poets and They Know It! (2023 Update)

This is an update of a post I first published back in 2019. Click here to read the original post. In recent years, I have […] Read More

Posted onDecember 14, 2021December 14, 2021 assessment, Canva, featured, grammar, learning, speaking, writing

Setting Realistic Communicative Expectations for Novice Low and Novice Mid Learners

I’ve been teaching novice learners for nearly 12 years. When I first began, I was more grammar and accuracy focused in terms of my expectations […] Read More

Posted onApril 15, 2021July 26, 2021 Canva, edtech, games, gimkit, hybrid learning, remote learning, writing

In Praise of Gimkit’s “Draw That” Mode

  Gimkit recently released a new mode called “Draw That”  While they say it won’t be around forever, I am hopeful that it will come […] Read More

Posted onDecember 6, 2019 activities, applications, reading, Socrative, writing

5 Uses for Socrative

Full disclosure:  Socrative did not pay me anything to write this article, in fact they did not even ask me to write this article!  I […] Read More

Posted onMay 21, 2019June 7, 2023 grammar, poetry, projects, writing

They’re Poets and They Know It!

With our revamped curriculum this year, I had an opportunity to try some new projects with my students.  Over the past year, I have developed […] Read More

Posted onOctober 20, 2017 authentic resources, authres, culture, writing

Meaningful World Language Cultural Activities

Today my colleague Robin Murray are giving a presentation at the New York State Middle School Association (NYSMSA) Conference called “Meaningful World Language Cultural Activities.” […] Read More

Posted onMay 7, 2017 writing

Three Fun Writing Activities

I’m sure I’m not the only teacher who has found that many students dislike writing. In this post, I will share three fun activities I […] Read More

Posted onFebruary 25, 2017 activities, listening, vocabulary, writing

Les Parties du Corps

Parts of the body can be a difficult topic to make contextual.  With the right activities, though, it can be a lot of fun to […] Read More

Posted onMay 8, 2016 edtech, grammar, reading, speaking, writing

Quel personnage de Disney es-tu ? A Reading, Writing, Speaking Activity

This activity is based on Amy Lenord’s Superhero Talk Read Talk Write Lesson.  I took elements of her lesson and adapted them to suit a […] Read More

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My name's Samantha Decker and I'm a middle school French teacher from Saratoga Springs, NY. I started The French Corner in high school as a resource for French students, and have since expanded it into a blog for French teachers. Read more about the blog here.

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