Option B - Video Animation

In pairs, you will plan, outline and animate a 5-minute video where you present, explain and
give tips about a relevant topic that is connected to the contents covered in the course

Instructions

Phase A - Planning

1. Explore the topics covered in the course

2. Think of a topic that you consider interesting and that is related to the contents of the
course
3. Find three sources of information (texts, videos, podcasts, etc.) from which you will extract
specific information for your animated video
4. Select the information you plan to include in your animated video

Phase B - Outlining

5. Go to http://animaker.com and become acquainted with the platform

6. In case the platform is not intuitive enough, watch this tutorial.
7. Select one template in Animaker for your animation
8. Discuss the number of scenes and in which parts text, audio and characters are going to
appear
9. Specify in a document the number of scenes and information in each of them

Phase C - Animating

10. Create animation

11. Make sure your animation has text, characters, transition effects an audio
12. Make sure your animation is free of errors

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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Monday:

Choose topic:
We are going to talk about France, its culture, its people, its traditions and more.
Related with Week 4, Session 16 ↣ Cultural Gallery

Select sources of information:

Videos:
France | Basic Information | Everyone Must Know
Explore French Culture Just to add a fragment to Animaker (The video has images in good
resolution)
101 Facts About France 101 Facts About France
THE TRUTH ABOUT FRENCH PEOPLE (French Stereotypes, Culture and Assumptions
about French People).

Texts:
Tour-de-France.(About Tour)
France | History, Map, Flag, Capital, & Facts
France - Country Profile

Extract specific information to use:

General information

France, officially French Republic, French France or République Française, country of

northwestern Europe. Historically and culturally among the most important nations in the
Western world, France has also played a highly significant role in international affairs, with
former colonies in every corner of the globe. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the
Mediterranean Sea, the Alps and the Pyrenees, France has long provided a geographic,
economic, and linguistic bridge joining northern and southern Europe. It is Europe’s most
important agricultural producer and one of the world’s leading industrial powers.

Important cities

The capital and by far the most important city of France is Paris, one of the world’s
preeminent cultural and commercial centres. A majestic city known as the ville lumière, or
“city of light,” Paris has often been remade, most famously in the mid-19th century under the
command of Georges-Eugène, Baron Haussman, who was committed to Napoleon III’s
vision of a modern city free of the choleric swamps and congested alleys of old, with broad
avenues and a regular plan. Paris is now a sprawling metropolis, one of Europe’s largest
conurbations, but its historic heart can still be traversed in an evening’s walk. Confident that
their city stood at the very centre of the world, Parisians were once given to referring to their
country as having two parts, Paris and le désert, the wasteland beyond it. Metropolitan Paris
has now extended far beyond its ancient suburbs into the countryside, however, and nearly
every French town and village now numbers a retiree or two driven from the city by the high
cost of living, so that, in a sense, Paris has come to embrace the desert and the desert
Paris.
Climate

France lies near the western end of the great Eurasian landmass, largely between latitudes
42° and 51° N. Roughly hexagonal in outline, its continental territory is bordered on the
northeast by Belgium and Luxembourg, on the east by Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, on
the south by the Mediterranean Sea, Spain, and Andorra, on the west by the Bay of Biscay,
and on the northwest by the English Channel (La Manche). To the north, France faces
southeastern England across the narrow Strait of Dover (Pas de Calais). Monaco is an
independent enclave on the south coast, while the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean is
treated as an integral part of the country.
The French landscape, for the most part, is composed of relatively low-lying plains, plateaus,
and older mountain blocks, or massifs. This pattern clearly predominates over that of the
younger, high ranges, such as the Alps and the Pyrenees. The diversity of the land is typical
of Continental Europe.

The physical structure of France is dominated by a group of ancient mountains in the shape
of a gigantic V, the sides of which form the two branches of Hercynian folding that took place
between 345 and 225 million years ago.
The eastern branch comprises the Ardennes, the Vosges, and the eastern part of the Massif
Central, while the Hercynian massifs to the west comprise the western part of the Massif
Central and the Massif Armoricain.

People
The French are, paradoxically, strongly conscious of belonging to a single nation, but they
hardly constitute a unified ethnic group by any scientific gauge. Before the official discovery
of the Americas at the end of the 15th century, France, located on the western extremity of
the Old World, was regarded for centuries by Europeans as being near the edge of the
known world. Generations of different migrants traveling by way of the Mediterranean from
the Middle East and Africa and through Europe from Central Asia and the Nordic lands
settled permanently in France, forming a variegated grouping, almost like a series of
geologic strata, since they were unable to migrate any farther. Perhaps the oldest reflection
of these migrations is furnished by the Basque people, who live in an isolated area west of
the Pyrenees in both Spain and France, who speak a language unrelated to other European
languages, and whose origin remains unclear. The Celtic tribes, known to the Romans as
Gauls, spread from central Europe in the period 500 BCE–500 CE to provide France with a
major component of its population, especially in the centre and west

Language

French is the national language, spoken and taught everywhere. Brogues and dialects are
widespread in rural areas, however, and many people tend to conserve their regional
linguistic customs either through tradition or through a voluntary and deliberate return to a
specific regional dialect.

Religion
About three-fifths of the French people belong to the Roman Catholic Church. Only a
minority, however, regularly participate in religious worship; practice is greatest among the
middle classes. The northwest (Brittany-Vendée), the east (Lorraine, Vosges, Alsace, Jura,
Lyonnais, and the northern Alps), the north (Flanders), the Basque Country, and the region
south of the Massif Central have a higher percentage of practicing Roman Catholics than the
rest of the country. Recruitment of priests has become more difficult, even though the
church, historically autonomous, is very progressive and ecumenical.

Economy
France is one of the major economic powers of the world, ranking along with such countries
as the United States, Japan, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Its financial position
reflects an extended period of unprecedented growth that lasted for much of the postwar
period until the mid-1970s; frequently this period was referred to as the trente glorieuses
(“thirty years of glory”). Between 1960 and 1973 alone, the increase in gross domestic
product (GDP) averaged nearly 6 percent each year. In the aftermath of the oil crises of the
1970s, growth rates were moderated considerably and unemployment rose substantially. By
the end of the 1980s, however, strong expansion was again evident. This trend continued,
although at a more modest rate, into the 21st century.

Cultural life

For much of its history, France has played a central role in European culture. With the
advent of colonialism and global trade, France reached a worldwide market, and French
artistic, culinary, and sartorial styles influenced the high and popular cultures of nations
around the globe. Today French customs, styles, and theories remain an influential export,
as well as a point of great national pride, even as French intellectuals worry that the rise of
globalism has prompted, in the words of the historian Pierre Nora, “the rapid disappearance
of our national memory.”

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