Virtual Tutoring
Canadian Parents for French – Nova Scotia is proud to be offering a FREE ONLINE French Tutoring Program this fall. The 8-week program, in which students can register for a one-hour session with bilingual virtual volunteer tutors to get help with French homework to help them improve their French writing, reading and/or conversational skills, is starting soon! This program helps kids gain extra practice outside the classroom and is meant for French Second Language learners.
The program will be for children 6 to 14 years of age and will run from January 18th-March 4th 2021. Volunteer tutors are available from Monday through Sundays, daytime and evenings to support students.
Families can enroll a maximum of three kids. Registration is limited, spaces will be offered on a first come first served basis. Registration opens on January 4th 2020!
Must be a current CPF Member to register. If you aren’t already a member you can sign up by visiting the national CPF website: www.cpf.ca. Membership is FREE until March 31st, 2021.
Each child enrolled in the program will receive one hour a week session with our volunteer tutors. These sessions help build confidence when speaking French. Each child will work with volunteers from across Canada and newcomers to Canada from various Francophone countries thus exposing the kids to a variety of French accents and new aspects of Canadian and worldly Francophone culture.
Support/Resources
Looking for extra support and resources to help you with French homework? Below are many links to a variety of resources to help!
Alloprof is a website from Quebec that provides useful homework tools, including a large French virtual library and online discussion forums.
The Altas of Canada is available online in both French and English.
Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec is Quebec’s provincial library website.
Canada Channel is the largest inventory of Canadian Social Studies resources on the Internet
Nova Scotia Homework Hub is a website with online resources in French and English to help with homework.
Historica has an online resources available in French and English for history students.
ISEF allows you to search by keyword through a variety of francophone websites included in their online index.
The LangCanada.ca portal offers an abundance of educational resources, educational materials, training organizations and information that enhances second official language teaching and learning in Canada.
Library and Archives Canada provides links to many online resources for research.
Mathforum has a section for students, where they can find help with math. There is a special link on this website for Non-English Math Resource
Formatic 2000 provides a list of links to French websites on various topics that could be useful for research projects.
The University of Calgary Centre français has compiled a list of French links on a variety of topics that can be used for homework and research projects.
About.com has tips and information about the French accents for those learning French.
BonPatron is an online French grammar corrector. Students who need to verify the grammar of their homework can simply copy/paste typed French text at BonPatron for quick correction
Le dictionnaire multifunction is TV5 monde’s free online dictionary. It’s functions include a French-English dictionary, definitions, synonyms, usage, and verb conjugations.
Le grand dictionnaire terminologique is an online dictionary produced by the government of Quebec. This webpage also includes other helpful French language links.
Le Point du FLE is a web-based French language educational activities website. It includes a variety of online learning tools, as well as exercises to print and download.
Verb2Verb is a helpful website that lists all the conjugation in the various tenses for known French and English verbs.
