Need
Give students a quick, approachable way to review each chapter’s essential language.

Chapitre en 5 is a series of five animated videos that gives beginning French learners a quick review of essential chapter content. Created entirely with PowerPoint in the summer of 2016, these animated videos quickly review content from McGraw-Hill’s Vis-à-Vis: Beginning French, sixth edition. Each episode distills one chapter’s vocabulary and grammar into a concise, reusable visual explanation.
At a glance
Give students a quick, approachable way to review each chapter’s essential language.
Five animated videos created entirely in PowerPoint, each distilling a textbook chapter into a concise review.
A reusable media series covering the first five chapters of the required beginning French textbook.
The series reflects an early drive to push everyday tools beyond their expected limits in service of learning.
Methods & tools: PowerPoint · Animation · Scriptwriting · Visual explanation
Greetings, numbers, dates, school vocabulary, and the alphabet.
Watch on YouTube ↗Campus, nationalities, school subjects, verbs, and preferences.
Watch on YouTube ↗Adjectives, clothing, colors, descriptions, and questions.
Watch on YouTube ↗Rooms, furniture, place, verbs, and question words.
Watch on YouTube ↗Family, home, weather, verbs, and possessive adjectives.
Watch on YouTube ↗