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This resource provides a list of colloquial idioms that the French use. I would use this in my beginning classes to have students create a sentence since all of the idioms are listed in the infinitive form. In my advanced classes, I would use this resource to challenge students to write a story using the idioms within their text. Accessibility: According to the WebAim Website Accessibility Evaluation Tool (WAVE), this site has 310 features of alternative text. WAVE says the site is missing or has a uninformative page title. Even though there is no page title, there is 1 Heading and 1 inline frame. Another issue present on this web page that the "Document language is missing." I am not sure how this works when the page is bilingual. WAVE also sites 21 alerts: 1 for lack of page regions and 20 related to layout table. There is also 2 issues of very low Contrast.

¡Conjuguemos! is a grammar gamification site. It provides other languages such as French and Spanish. I would use this resource as an alternative for students of all levels, but particularly those in the lower levels. If the students find verb drills helpful, they can use this source. I like ¡Conjuguemos! for its frogger like game that asks students to spell out words in French given only the English translation. The site tries to make it fun/ challenging by providing the element of urgency: if they type to slow, they risk their little frog getting crushed by fire hydrants or pianos.

I would use Apprendre le Francais avec TV5 with my 3rd and 4th level students in French. The site is entirely in French so lower level students would struggle to benefit from this site on their own. I would consider testing it out for 2nd year French students with guidance, such as part of a screen share in a synchronous lesson. This resource is truly best for higher level students since the rate of speech of videos is relatively fast. After watching videos, students answer multiple choice questions and complete other activities.

The Language Guide is a great resource for students learning French. This site allows them to practice grammar, listen to readings and learn new vocabulary. This resource can be used at all levels. Beginning students can hover their mouse over vocabulary words and they should hear how it is pronounced. There are also easy listening games that students can play. Advanced students would use the readings to increase their fluency. I would use this resource in my beginning French classes for vocabulary and listening exercises and in my advanced (level 3/AP) for readings.

This site is a language dictionary for students. They can check English-French, Spanish to French and vice versa. There are also discussion boards so students can ask the community for advice on how native French speakers would say an equivalent expression in English. It does not provide a voice pronunciation of the word, but often gives the phonetic characters to guide students how to pronounce it. I would use this as a reference source for students.

Civilisation Francaise is similar to TV5, but without video. The site has several cultural readings for students to complete. Some readings include matching, others fill in the blank. For texts with matching, I would use this to help my lower level students. The answer to the question is given on the site, but I would have students place the sentence fragments together. I would also use this resource for higher level French students since many of the texts are complex. I would make a scaffolded text for an embedded reading for lower levels and use the Civilisation Francaises text as the final text.

I would use lyricstraining as a listening activity. Students watch music videos in French and type in the missing lyric. The web version does not require you to have an account, but the mobile app does. The mobile app version does not have you type in the missing lyric but tap it from a list of words.