Click on the list below to go directly to the corresponding section.

1. Navigation: How to get around.

2. Diacritical Marks in French: How do I type théâtre?

3. Sound Files: How do I know which files include sound? How do I work with these pages?

4. Exercises: What kinds of exercises will I be doing and how will I do them?

• Mouse-over / Drag and Drop
• Cloze

The next exercise will open a new document in a separate window. When you have completed it, close the window and click in this window to continue.

• Text Field with Correction

Every lesson contains all of the four sentence-building exercises that follow. These will open in another window. Mots-biles and Crosswords will open in a window containing frames. Frames pages are two documents contained within one window with two separate frames. In these exercises the frames are usually upper and lower. Each frame has a separate scroll-bar. As you complete each of these examples, close the window and click in this page to continue.

• Mots-biles (frames)
• Faire des Phrases and Thème
• Crosswords (frames)

And finally the last three types of exercise.

• Dialogues: You have already seen an example of these dialogue pages. They will be used in a variety of ways during the semester. Some you will memorize; others you will expand and play in class, etc. Click on Dialogues if you wish to return to the example page. Then close that window and return to this page.
• Pages that are e-mailed to my professor
• Dossiers du Web: These activities are thematically grouped and correspond to the various topics around which each lesson is built. In the first week for example you will visit the sites of Radio France Internationale and Radio Canada. This will give you a chance to compare the hexagonal French accent with the Québecois. In Lesson 2 you learn how to describe yourself. In the Dossiers you will visit a French school class and read their own self-descriptions. In Lesson 3 you learn the various objects in a room. In the Dossiers you will visit a site which will permit you to choose a hotel room in Paris. You can access the Homepage of the Dossiers from the Homepage for this course or from your weekly syllabus. Click on Dossiers du Web if you want to browse.

1. Navigation

Homepage

You have come to this page from the Homepage for the course. This is one of the principle navigating tools you will be using. When you click on the "Homepage" button below, it will open up a small, resizeable window. Place that window in a convenient location so that you can continue to read the explanation on this page while practicing on the other. Just click in the window in which you wish to work. You may resize the homepage window if you need to. You may e-mail your professors anytime from this homepage, simply click on the e-mail address under the name.

Homepage Menus

You have the following pull down menus, from left to right, on the homepage: Informations, Leçons, Programmes, Dossiers du Web. Just place your cursor on the menu you wish to view and it will appear. Each menu has various items, some of which lead to submenus. More on that in a moment. Each item is a link to another page.

1. Informations -- This is basic information about Browser requirements and French 1B in general. This menu contains the following items:

• Browser Requirements: These are particularly important if you are not working from a computer in the Language Resource Center.
• Heures de Permanence: Office locations and hours for your professors.
• Ressources: Information about the books and web materials that will be used in the course.
• Laboratoire: The location and hours of the Language Resource Center.
• Evaluation: Information about the normal progression followed in the course and how your work will be evaluated.

Now go back to the homepage window, place your cursor on Informations, then click on the appropriate links to answer the following questions: Where is my office located, what is the name of your textbook, and what is the name of the Director of the Language Resource Center? Use the browser's back button (in the upper left-hand corner) to return to the homepage each time. When you have the answers to those questions, return to this page by clicking in it.

2. Leçons -- This menu enables you to access all the exercises and web work for each lesson. When you go back to the homepage and place your cursor over Leçons and then over Leçon 1, you will note that another menu appears. If you continue down through each lesson, you will see that exactly the same menu opens up for each lesson. Now go back and try this, then return to this page.

Do you remember what the submenu items were?

• Exercices et Jeux de Vocabulaire
• Exercices et Jeux de Grammaire
• Dialogues
• Dossiers du Web
• Quiz

When you click on the Exercices et Jeux de Vocabulaire and the Exercices et Jeux de Grammaire you will be taken to a submenu of links to the various exercises. Each of these pages has a "Home" button that will send you back to the Homepage. You may also go to the corresponding Vocabulary or Grammar Menu, or to the Programme (syllabus) for the week. The Dialogues send you to a page of short recordings of conversations that we will work on each week. The Dossiers du Web will send you to the web pages for the week. More on the Dossiers du Web later. Quiz will send you to your quiz for the week. Now go back to the Homepage and explore. Then return to this page.

You probably noticed the following symbol on the Exercices pages: It indicates that the page contains sound files. You should have your earphones on to complete these pages! Also, they tend to take a while to load. Please give them the time to load fully before you try to start working. More on pages with sound later.

Menu Bar at Top of Exercise Pages

You also probably noticed a bar like this one at the top of most of the pages you looked at. This is another navigation tool at your disposal while you are working on the exercises. Look at this example. Then go back to the homepage and go to Lesson 4: Exercices et Jeux de Vocabulaire. Navigate around with this toolbar.

Français 1B -- Leçon 8 / Programme - Pouvoir et Devoir

Link to Homepage

Link to the vocabulary or grammar menu

Link to the syllabus

Indicates the page on which you are working

Previous page

Next page

3. Programmes

These are the links to the syllabus for each lesson. This syllabus will be available at the beginning of each week that we begin a new lesson. Each week's syllabus will contain links to the exercises (Vocabulaire, Grammaire and Dossiers du Web) to be completed for that week. If you choose to use this electronic syllabus on a daily basis, you would not have to use the other navigational tools. Now click back into the Homepage window. Choose the Programme for Leçon 1 to get an idea of what we will be doing this week. Then return to this page.

4. Dossiers du Web

This menu links you to the Homepage of the "Dossiers du Web". These pages contain links to the "outside" Francophone world. You should have noticed two links to the Dossiers in the Programme for Leçon 1: "Radio France/Canada" and "Swarthmore à Grenoble". Some of the pages include exercises, some simple questions to which you are expected to respond in class. You will complete some of the pages outside of class, others will be used in class.

2. Diacritical Marks in French

Unlike English, French uses several diacritical marks. You will have to learn how to make these accent marks with your keyboard. The principal accents are the following.

Accent aigu: écrire
Accent grave: voilà
Tréma: naïf
Accent circonflexe: boîte
Cédille: garçon

Click on the the button. An overview of the keystrokes necessary to produce these accents on a Macintosh will appear in a small window. If you are using a PC scroll down to Accents on the PC.

Now practice typing these accents. Reproduce the words that appear in the box below.

3. Sound Files

This symbol identifies sound files and is found on both the Exercise and Dossier Menus:

Some sound files are embedded in the page. In order to hear these, the preferences in your Browser must be set correctly. If you are using the computers in the Language Resource Center, you need not worry about the following instructions.

You should be using Internet Communicator 4.7. Go to My Netscape and click on Download.
Then you should go to the Preferences under the Edit Menu. Go to Navigator and then Applications in the Category menu on the left of the small window. Scroll down in the right-hand window and make sure that all WAV and audio/aiff files are set to be handled by the Live Audio plug-in. To do this highlight the Application in the right-hand window and click on Edit. Use the drop-down menu to choose Live Audio plug-in. Click OK to exit. You should then restart your computer and come back to this place on the page.

Click on the button below to open a small window. Then click on the button in that window to verify that your settings are correct. Then close the window.

2. Cloze Exercises: Cloze exercises are fill-in-the-blanks. You click on the small button next to the box when you have typed in your response. If your response is incorrect, you will see an equal symbol ( = ) in the place of each incorrect letter. When your answer is correct, it will appear surrounded by two asterisks
( * ). Try the exercise below. However, begin Swarthmore and Pennsylvania with small letters instead of capitals. Then type in the response correctly.