Tour de France

FREN 106

Un Tour de France virtuel
Instructions and Web Sites to Visit

Heard of the "Tour de France"? Here is your opportunity to experience one without leaving your chair. Using the Internet (check the websites given below), you are going to spend a few days touring France and visiting 2 different cities. You will be identifying what are the monuments, sites, museums, beaches, attractions worth seeing, where you will be sleeping and eating, and what makes this area worth visiting.
At the end of that Tour, when you are back home, your local high school invites you to write a short article for the school newspaper about your trip to France.

Directions

Check some of the websites given below and select 2 cities in France that you would like to visit.
Check thoroughly the website(s) of each of the city/region selected. Expect to spend at least 2-3 days (virtual) in that city.
While visiting each city, answer a questionnaire posted on the web.
Hand to your professor (at the indicated date) one filled questionnaire for each city that you visited.
Make sure you keep all the information that you have gathered.

Websites/ French Search Engines

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