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Balades d'hiver - Dialogues

Low intermediate/Intermediate (Grades 6 and up) Theme/vocabulary: Winter activites and sports like dogsledding, sugaring off, the Ottawa Winterlude and more. This reader contains four 250-word dialogues, 40 activities and an exhaustive French-English lexicon. 1. Au bal de neige Alice and François plan a trip to the bal des Neiges in Ottawa. Discussions on the various activities that take place during Ottawa's three-week Winterlude Festival. 2. Les Délices de l'hiver Fançois helps Sofia get out of the winter blues by showing her many different winter activities and sports. 3. Le Temps des sucres Marine and Diego go sugaring off. Discussions on maple syrup preparation and the activities during a day spent at a sugar shack. 4. En traîneau à chiens Émile and Amanda take a dog sled tour in the Canadian Wilderness. Descriptions of the dog sledding experience including techniques, the outdoors, the dogs and a stay in a log cabin. 48 pages. Colour. ISBN 0-88510-506-0. $7.95 each. End-of-book activities also sold as separate, reproducible worksheets.