Cultural Assimilator: Unit 6 Les Sports et Les Passe-Temps

1. Les Sports au Lycée You have an exchange student from Paris staying with you for the school year. She is very surprised to see that on the first Friday many students and teachers wear shirts with your school’s logo. She thinks this is strange because…

1. Les Sports au Lycée 1.French high school students are required to wear only blue, white, and red on Fridays to show national pride. 2.In France, it is customary to dress up every Friday for school. The boys wear suits and the girls wear dresses. 3.They don’t have the same sense of school pride and rivalry between schools since they don’t have sports teams to play each other.

1. Les Sports au Lycée 1.French high school students are required to wear only blue, white, and red on Fridays to show national pride. 2.In France, it is customary to dress up every Friday for school. The boys wear suits and the girls wear dresses. 3.They don’t have the same sense of school pride and rivalry between schools since they don’t have sports teams to play each other.

1. Les Sports au Lycée Why don’t they have school sports teams in France? 1.The French are all very nerdy and they don’t have any interest in school sports except for chess. 2.The French are not very athletic. 3.It is culturally unacceptable to wear sneakers. 4.They have local clubs that kids can join to play sports after school and on weekends.

1. Les Sports au Lycée Why don’t they have school sports teams in France? 1.The French are all very nerdy and they don’t have any interest in school sports except for chess. 2.The French are not very athletic. 3.It is culturally unacceptable to wear sneakers. 4.They have local clubs that kids can join to play sports after school and on weekends.

2. What is the most popular sport in France? le football américain le football le base-ball le basket-ball

2. What is the most popular sport in France?

3. Le Foot et La Coupe du Monde The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup (La Coupe du Monde), is an international soccer competition of senior men’s national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War.FIFA

3. World Cup Trivia! 1. Who is the current champion who won the last World Cup Title in 2010? 2. Where was the first World Cup Final held and who won? 3. In 2006, France and Italy played in the final hosted by Germany. Who won? What was the controversial action by France’s Zinedine Zidane? Spain Montevideo, Uruguay Coup de Boule- Cliquez ici Italy Uruguay defeated Argentina 4-2

4. Parkour! What is Parkour? Have you ever heard of it? Parkour? - Cliquez ici Practitioners aim to move from one place to another, negotiating the obstacles in between. The discipline uses no equipment and is non-competitive. A male practitioner is generally called a "traceur", a female a "traceuse". The term “Le parcours" was passed down to David Belle from his father Raymond Belle who is credited as the father of the sport. The term derives from "parcours du combattant", the classic French obstacle course method of military training proposed by George Hébert.

Additional Cultural Resources Lectures Culturelles de Bon Voyage, Chapter 10  pages /Audio Track #29 Glencoe Video Program, Episode 10 and 13 Check out the Sports Bloopers video on the communication center! This video includes some fun sports bloopers and an introduction to “Parkour!” After each clip, press pause for a chance to practice the vocabulary from this unit! (The video can take an entire period if you take time to review between clips)