US Travel Advisory France Part 1

In this class, the students studied a text entitled US Travel Advisory.Unfortunately I don't know the source of this text - a friend who had been an assistant suggested we use it when we were working as 'lectrices' at the university and it worked very well with the students!
Once we had established that it was a humorous text based on the stereotypes of the French we had already discussed or seen, I asked the students to work in groups of 3-4 and assigned them different paragraphs to work on. They had to identify criticisms and positive aspects of France as well as the advice given to American tourists and the image projected of these same tourists by the text. If we had time, we also discussed which stereotypes they thought were justified or not. I projected this worksheet to help the students organize their ideas.
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Stereotypes 2: The Simpsons, The Crêpes of Wrath Episode

This lesson follows on from the first Stereotpyes one. We used this worksheet and watched an episode from series one of the Simsons in which Bart goes to France. While watching, the students made notes on stereotypes, cultural references and positive and negative aspects of the following cultures/nationalities: American, French and Albanian.

Stereotypes Part 1

To follow on from our work on the film "L'Auberge Espagnole" we worked on different national stereotypes, firstly about English-speaking countries and after about France and French people.

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