Faisons du Shopping!

1. Faisons du Shopping!

2. L’introduction You are taking a trip to France. The plane just landed and you are waiting for your luggage to come out. Unfortunately, your suitcase was lost! Zut, zut, et zut! It appears that you are going to be in France for 2 weeks with no clothes other than what you are wearing. Fortunately, the airline feels so badly that they offer you 1000 euros to go shopping. Your assignment is to investigate French clothing stores and pick out what you would need to survive 2 weeks in France in whatever season you choose.

3. La tâche You will look at several different French stores, taking notes on the price, colors, sizes, etc., of each item you want to buy. You will select the clothes you want to buy, and create a PowerPoint presentation showing everything that you are buying.

4. La méthode Step 1:Go to several different French stores’ websites. You need to pick clothes from at least 3 different stores. Look at the clothes online and take notes about the clothes that you would like to buy and their prices. • Possible websites to visit: http://www.galerieslafayette.com - This is the website for the most famous French "grand magasin" which basically means department store. This is a very high-end store and can be compared to Bloomingdales, Macys, Saks, etc. http://www.promod.fr - This website has lots of great clothes for women. http://www.cyrillus.com - This is a large on-line store for women, men, and children's clothing. http://www.dress-for-less.fr/tmpl/de/home.tmpl - A French discount clothing site. http://www.3suisses.fr - Another large French website with clothes for everyone. http://www.laredoute.fr - Another large French website with clothes for everyone. http://www.somewhere.fr/fr/ - Clothing for men and women. http://www.saint-james.fr/ - Another large French website with clothes for everyone. http://www.kelkoo.fr/md-merchants - This website has a great list of French online stores. Not all of them sell clothes, but you can get a sense of some of the biggest French brands. • Feel free to find your own websites. • Don’t forget to convert your American clothing and shoe sizes into European sizes. Here are some links to help you do that: Clothing - http://www.i18nguy.com/clothing.html Shoes - http://www.i18nguy.com/l10n/shoes.html

5. La méthode Step 2:Now that you've had a chance to look at some clothing websites, choose what you're going to buy. For each of the items you want to purchase, you need to create a slide in PowerPoint. For each item, include: • a picture • a simple description, including the color of the item • the price: use a complete sentence • the size – la taille (petit-e, moyen-ne, grand-e) ***At the bottom of the slide, include the website where you found the item.*** • You need at least 8 items of clothing from at least 3 different websites. Make sure you don’t spend more than your limit of 1000 €! • You will share your presentation with me at kanicholl@ypsd.us Step 3: Make a rendez-vous with Madame to present 4 slides of your choosing using your best practiced français.

6. Example: • Un marcel noir • Il coûte 19,95 €. • Taille - petit http://www.promod.fr/produits/debardeur-a-col-collier-brode-noir-R6250064001.html

7. L’évaluation The whole project is worth 65 points. This is how you will be graded:

8. La conclusion After you are done with this activity, you will have browsed French clothing sites and "ordered" clothes from a French website. You will also have seen the clothing styles French young people are wearing these days. Are they different from the styles at our school?

9. Remerciments All images used were from Microsoft clip art, with the exception of the picture of the shirt. That is from www.promod.fr.