Towards the end of each unit of the Student's Book in each stage of fusée, you will find several website addresses. These are also listed here on the fusée en ligne website. They have been selected because they are:

• of potential interest to young people
• relevant to the theme of the unit
• written wholly or mostly in French
  
  

Websites vary enormously in their accessibility. Some are written in a trendy "street" language, often without professional editing. This is very challenging for non-native speakers, let along young learners. However, they also allow a fresh approach to a theme, some up-to-date lexis, and a seasonal flavour. For some students, surfing the net will always hold more appeal than reading a book or a magazine page.

Each website listed on the fusée website is accompanied by comprehension activities in an interactive format, also on this site. These activities are also all contained in the photocopy masters, at the end of the book. Many websites are regularly updated, and the activities therefore often concentrate on the language appearing on the homepage (page d'acceuil), or on the categories of information readers can look up, rather than always on the information itself. Here is one possible way to proceed:

• First, make sure you familiarise youself with the French site(s) before you let students explore it,and also read the notes on the site in the teacher's section.
• Let students explore the site towards the end of their work on the unit - this could either be done as a class using facilities in your school, or independently, using computers at home.
• Direct students to the activity sheet for the website first (or give them the copymaster if you prefer to use it instead), and let them familiarise themselves with the questions and activities on it. The activities have been written entirely in English, to balance the fact that the website itself will be written in authentic French, usually with no allowances made for foreign learners.
• Once students have some idea of what the site is about, let them go to the site itself and try to answer the questions.
• If students have no difficulty carrying out the activities on the copymaster, you can then ask them to go back to the site and bring back new information that you have found.
  
  
  

Some websites offer a choice of languages (or at least English) besides French. Students must obviously agree to use the French version to get any linguistic benefit from the task.

However, in some circumstances, you could ask them to look at the English version for at least part of the site, compare it with the French one and draw up their own glossary.

NB. The website addresses and accompanying activities are up-to-date when the fusée website was last updated, but due to the constantly changing nature of the Internet, it is advisable to double-check the sites and exercises before using them with students.