Two upper level French projects: Culture & Language
Robert
Ponterio, SUNY Cortland
Second Language Educators Conference, SUNY Cortland, September 22, 2018
http://web.cortland.edu/flteach/wksp/slec2018.html
I. Creating new activities to liven up two classes
Seeking new ideas for teaching about culture and language
1. Nineteenth-century French Literature - Romanticism, Realism, Symbolism
Using music to teach about other aspects of culture in the Second Empire of Napoléon III (1851-1870)
Jacques Offenbach's satirical Operettas (Opéra Bouffe)
2. Modern Communications in French
"Authentic" language in a popular current French soap opera
Demain nous appartient, TF1 (https://www.tf1.fr/tf1/demain-nous-appartient)
Use of free subtitling software to develop titles in French (transcription) and English (translation) for scenes from current episodes (focus on technology of modern media)
II. Changements dans la société sous le IIe Empire
III. Subtitling a soap using free software
a. Subtitles
IV. Questions? Comments?