What if the most important thing to change in your French lessons is not what you teach, but the order you teach it in?
The CERCLE™ Method is a six-phase sequence for Years 7–10 French: Culture, Écoute, Rythme, Construction, Langue, Expression. Students meet French-speaking people and places first, hear and say the language before any rule, find the grammar themselves, practise for accuracy, and end every unit saying something true about their own lives.
What’s inside: the research behind each phase, in plain language · six phase chapters with classroom examples and quick-start activities · two worked examples, lesson by lesson (a 12-lesson Year 9 unit and a short Year 7 cycle) · assessment guidance with a marking guide · answers to the questions teachers ask most · a self-audit, unit planning grid, phase checklist, one-page poster · an activity bank of 35 quick activities · six printable student templates.
Linked to the Australian Curriculum: Languages (French) and the revised WA Curriculum. 60-page A4 PDF in full colour, ready to print or read on screen.
Licence: for the purchasing teacher and their own classes. To share it with every French teacher at your school, add a department licence (A$100) at erudits.com/department-licence.
Written by Christine Tolefe, a French teacher for 26 years in the UK and Western Australia, founder of Érudits and of the national French dictation competition Dicta d’Or®. Also available as a paperback on Amazon.
What if the most important thing to change in your French lessons is not what you teach, but the order you teach it in?
The CERCLE™ Method is a six-phase sequence for Years 7–10 French: Culture, Écoute, Rythme, Construction, Langue, Expression. Students meet French-speaking people and places first, hear and say the language before any rule, find the grammar themselves, practise for accuracy, and end every unit saying something true about their own lives.
What’s inside: the research behind each phase, in plain language · six phase chapters with classroom examples and quick-start activities · two worked examples, lesson by lesson (a 12-lesson Year 9 unit and a short Year 7 cycle) · assessment guidance with a marking guide · answers to the questions teachers ask most · a self-audit, unit planning grid, phase checklist, one-page poster · an activity bank of 35 quick activities · six printable student templates.
Linked to the Australian Curriculum: Languages (French) and the revised WA Curriculum. 60-page A4 PDF in full colour, ready to print or read on screen.
Licence: for the purchasing teacher and their own classes. To share it with every French teacher at your school, add a department licence (A$100) at erudits.com/department-licence.
Written by Christine Tolefe, a French teacher for 26 years in the UK and Western Australia, founder of Érudits and of the national French dictation competition Dicta d’Or®. Also available as a paperback on Amazon.
