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EntreCultures 4
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EntreCultures 4
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
Level 4 / Intermediate Mid — Intermediate High
Overview
EntreCultures 4 is designed to help learners build proficiency through the Intermediate Mid to Intermediate High levels by offering scaffolds for advanced themes and language. EntreCultures 4 is the last level of the EntreCultures program and equips students with the skills and knowledge to pursue advanced academic programs such as AP® or IB-level courses.
EntreCultures 4
The standards-based EntreCultures program is all about teaching French language and francophone cultures to novice through intermediate learners through the lens of interculturality. Students discover appropriate ways to interact with a variety of perspectives by exploring the lives of teens across the francophone world and engaging with authentic resources from the beginning.
EntreCultures 4 is designed to help learners build proficiency through the Intermediate Mid to Intermediate High levels by offering scaffolds for advanced themes and language. Learners are exposed to and interact with more challenging authentic print and audiovisual content including literary content. This brand-new level 4 provides opportunities for in-text reviews from EntreCultures 1-3, differentiated key concepts, and in-text learning strategies for teachers and students.
EntreCultures 4 Features
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EntreCultures 4 features a wraparound TE, providing guidance in incorporating proficiency-based instruction in your classroom, ample tips and ideas throughout each unit, teaching strategies, connections to other disciplines, and more.
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The EntreCultures series leads with AP® and IB themes. Teacher resources in the Teacher Edition outline AP® and IB themes and subthemes and provide strategies, so you can start your learners on the right foot.
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The EntreCultures series is full of unit-aligned resources from more than thirty Francophone cultures around the world, like podcasts, news stations, literary excerpts, videos, and more. Units are presented by native-speaker video bloggers, thus centering the language learning through the lens of cultural connections
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The U.S.-based native and non-native speaker authors of EntreCultures, as well as our team of expert editors and curriculum coordinators, all educators and leaders in the field, considered a variety of learner and educator styles in the backward design of the series.
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Assignable Can-Do statements in each unit of EntreCultures 4 show learners a direct connection between tasks and what they are aiming to be able to do in French. Learners can upload completed Can-Do assignments to their student portfolios to show growth, and when it is time to evaluate their learning, students can complete performance-based formative and summative assessments.
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EntreCultures 4 nurtures your learners' interculturality by reflecting on the products, practices, and perspectives of francophone communities, as well as on how diverse languages, cultures, geography, and environments affect the world around them.
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EntreCultures 4 fully aligns with ACTFL's World-Readiness Standards and incorporates the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements, performance descriptors, and proficiency guidelines.
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A Community Bulletin Board
Learners and teachers alike use the Classroom Forum anytime as their online community bulletin board. Teachers love posting lesson openers, polls, links to external resources, and more. And students can comment, exchange GIFS, and upload audio, videos, and photos.
Learning to hold a conversation
Mock conversations with pre-recorded conversation prompts challenge your learners to hone their conversational skills. Learners record themselves replying to comments and questions, and the recorded conversations can be added to their portfolio as an artifact.
Tracking Their Own Progress
Online student portfolios follow learners from unit to unit, level to level. Students can upload evidence of what they can do in the language - assigned Can-Do statements, activities, quizzes, audio files, PowerPoint and Word files, and more. This allows them to set goals and reflect on their progress related to Can-Do Statements.
Efficient, Integrated Grading
Use the online calendar to remind students of upcoming assignments and deadlines, assign tasks to specific learners or an entire class, and more. Explorer® lets you know when your students complete their work and alerts students as soon as you’ve graded. Grade each quiz question response without opening each question in Explorer®. Automatic grading is available where appropriate.
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Complete the EntreCultures Collection
Textbook
EntreCultures 1A & 1B for Middle School
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
Novice Low — Novice High
Textbook
EntreCultures 2
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
Novice High — Intermediate Low
Textbook
EntreCultures 3
Communicate, Explore, and Connect Across Cultures
Intermediate Low — Intermediate Mid
