Which profile best describes you right now? (Or maybe profiles in the plural…)

You’re just looking for practical information visualized in an appealing way:

Do you know what events are happening which days?

Here’s a one-page calendar of the events. See at a glance (admittedly in small print 🤣) what is taking place when.

Sometimes you just need the basics! The essentials!

But I like for things to be pretty and rich in information. There is a lot of thought that goes into how I represent things. And this is the most straightforward way I’ve found to capture all the information in a way that shows you the progression of the different events and the patterns.

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You’re looking for language practice:

It’s in both French and English!

Since English is my native language and the language I’m watching in.

And in French since the Olympics are in France, I’m a French teacher and I’m incorporating the language at home with my family in a way that feels right for us.

Here are some ideas:

Talk about what is happening on certain dates: This is a great way to work in telling the date, the days of the week.

This can be a way to work in talking about timelines (especially in talking about the passé composé if you’re using this after the Olympics are over) or what is or isn’t happening on a given day (a way to practice negation with “ne…pas“). Teachers, you’ll know what to do with this. But I’m happy to share in more detail how I’d use it, whether in the classroom or at home.

Use this in conjunction with the French sports flashcards to build vocabulary, learn the pronunciation and which sports are masculine or feminine. You can print these out and laminate them!

You’re looking for materials to use with kids:

I think this is a great way to look at the schedule each day and see what events are taking place and what you might want to watch. And if the chosen sport isn’t on LIVE, then sometimes we do a replay from the days before. It all works out in the end!

This calendar will be for bigger kids if using independently, but I’m making sense of it with my 5-year-old since she is asking to watch the JO (Jeux Olympiques) every day, first thing in the morning! Sometimes we do watch then, even though I don’t want to start the day with TV. Usually we manage to put it off until later in the day. But it is summer and this only happens every 4 years! It’s an opportunity, a special experience that she’ll remember. We might as well take advantage of it!

With this calendar, use the visuals of the French sports flashcards that I’m sharing next! And I’ll share which sports have been the most popular in our house!

Or maybe the Olympics are already over by the time you see this but you can STILL use this as a useful exercise:

Practice reading a table and noticing patterns: What sports take breaks every few days? What sport ends before another begins?
Think ahead to the next Olympics! Do you know where the summer 2028 and 2032 Olympics will be held? Can you guess? Hint: It’s appropriate that I’m writing in English. You could Google it or I’ll save you the trouble in the next blog post!

You want to inspire curiosity, conversation and connection:

Let’s save that for the next post!

A bientôt!

Anna

P.S. I’m curious to see how you’ll use the resources! And I’d love any stories, experiences, thoughts, or feedback that you have.