All students in the Middle School at Franklin Regional School District take a World Language. The students continue throughout their Middle School career with the World Language that they started in the sixth grade.

The French curriculum is proficiency driven and the French sixth grade program stresses the oral component. Communication is the goal with accuracy in the spoken language primary. The students are very comfortable responding to and asking questions and can manipulate between "you" and "I" with ease. The students are expected to write what they can say; however, spelling accuracy is not demanded.

In seventh grade the students start working on their writing skills in more earnest. Oral communication now includes other subjects; students now have to manipulate "he, she, it, we, and they". The student who has difficulty replacing in English the noun with the appropriate pronoun carries the same problem into French. Likewise the student who does not grasp the concept of the order of person in English will not be able to understand it in French. My goal in this project is to address that need.

The student will work at the computer either alone or with a partner. Each student will have a worksheet to complete as the task is done. The student will stop the movie as needed; advancing to see corrections and reversing to a previous scene to retry. Optimally, the student will retry the same scenario; move forward to a variation of the task or progress to a different phase, bypassing any segment that he feels confident about.

This project uses QuickTime Player and Color It Programs. The student can have immediate corrections by clicking on the play button and going to the next slide. However, an interactive component would probably serve the student better; the student could be forced to practice several times. The project will eventually be converted to one that uses something like Netscape Composer.

The tasks will vary. The student will be asked to: order a set of words; select the appropriate word; match the French word to the English; write a sentence response.