Dr Lebail's "good diet" website
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Click here to look at Dr Lebail's site.
Click here to look at the Activity on Dr Lebail's site.
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This site, compared to many of the others featured in fusée en ligne, is a relatively straight-laced presentation of tips for a good diet - and also dieting. You might want to use discretion with this website depending on your class, although the information is sensible and straightforward so is unlikely to offend. The homepage lists a whole host of different pages to head for, but the parts that we have highlighted are firstly one to determine your ideal weight ("Calculez votre poids idéal") and then a list of tips on losing weight ("Astuces pour perdre du poids"). The former feature has both a calculation and commentary on your current weight whereby height and weight is entered in centimetres and kilos, returning a comment on whether you need to lose weight, and also from your height and sex gives your ideal weight (at the bottom of this page).
Other interesting parts of the site give healthy recipes ("Idées repas") and calories found in different kinds of foods ("Guide des calories"). You could use the latter in conjunction with the information on calories found on page 110 of the Student's Book to ask pupils to create their own healthy meal for different age groups. For example, under a heading of "De 10 à 12 ans, on a besoin en moyenne de 2500 calories par jour" a list of food across three meals could be made that comes in at less than this total.
Cuisine A-Z
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Click here to look at the Cuisine A-Z site.
Click here to look at the Activity on the Cuisine A-Z site.
Click here to see the answers to the Cuisine A-Z Activity.
Cuisine A-Z is a phenomenal website for food-lovers, containing hundreds of different recipes across fourteen types of dish, along with cooking techniques, wine advice, tips for buying fresh food, plus a new recipe every day that can even be sent to you via e-mail. Having learnt the basic vocabulary and phrases for recipes in the Pages Lecture section of Unit 7 (pages 118-119) the instructions in the Cuisine A-Z recipes should be at least familiar - you might want to draw up some more terms in advance to help pupils understand. Beyond understanding the different kinds of dishes on offer from the homepage, the fusée en ligne activity asks pupils to find certain kinds of recipes for certain kinds of diets and tastes.
An alternative exercise would be to practise the phrases learnt on page 106 ("Comme entrée, il y a…" etc.) with different names of dishes listed on this site.