French Stories and Activities for Students of
French as a Second Language

Fairy Tales and Fables from
Tapsy Tales

FSL French by Tapsy is a collection stories written by an experienced teacher of French as a second language specifically to meet the needs of early learners who need materials that are not only familiar, but are also written at a level appropriate for beginners.
Each series has a variety of French activities to reinforce the students' learning of vocabulary, grammar and content. Encourage oral particiation with the short play scripts.

French Fairy Tales
       Download Peter Pan to try out with your students.
The pdf file includes:
               • a numbered line version for easy reference when studying the text
               • a sketchbook for students to illustrate the story
               • a script version for drama or puppet play

Help to kick off a little drama - The first scenes of 15 fairy tales can be used as examples for students to write their own scripts.

Also available - 3 collections of fairy tales in ebook format. Each series has 5 popular stories with activities and glossaries. A separate colouring book version of Blanche-neige provides students with a non-verbal way to interact with the story. Truly a time saving Print and Go Collection! Check out Fantaisies françaises.

Fables
       Always enjoyed by children of all ages, fables are an excellent way of learning life's lessons through the predicaments of the animal characters.
              Download the files for Zeus et l'abeille and Le Lion et la souris. as well as the new script versions with pictures to cutout and colour to make simple stick puppets.

A great way to encourage oral participation!
             Twelve fable scripts are ready to be printed and performed by either puppets or  live actors.

Try the time-saving Ésope encore series, 3 collections of fables in ebook format. Each series has 5 familiar stories including activities, glossaries, script versions and puppet cut-outs.

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Myths
            As well as charts and information about the ancient gods and goddesses,  download the prose and script versions of Déméter et Perséphone which also include ready to print French activities.

Visit often to find out about the next set of Greek myths as well as a new series of traditional Native American creation myths.  

Myths and Legends from Many Lands
        Soon to be added Tales of the Monkey King fro ESL and Le Roi Singe for FSL.

Biographies
              Biographies are an easy method of integrating French into other areas of the curriculum. These free files contain not only the text, but comprehension questions, timeline and mapping activies, glossaries and teacher answer pages!

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