Difficulty: Intermediate
France
In the next segment of this Il était une fois... episode on ecosystems, the Maestro teaches us how to build a butterfly garden. You can build one anywhere—even on your apartment balcony!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
In part seven of this episode on the ecosystems, the young students are on a field trip (a marsh trip to be exact), where they witness firsthand the destruction of this precious ecosystem. But this is not a new phenomenon: once upon a time in Polynesia...
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
In the final part of this Il était une fois... episode on the ecosystems, the Maestro explains what happened to the people and the famous statues of Easter Island. It's a lesson we'd do well to learn from.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
The Maestro gives us an overview of some of the major innovations of the last century, from the invention of the radio to the discovery of the first exoplanet. We've come a long way in just a few decades!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
In the second part of this Il était une fois... (Once Upon a Time) episode on technology, the kids attend a technology show in Japan, where they play some amazing virtual reality games... and some practical jokes.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
The home of the future includes a talking refrigerator that gives you chocolate bars for breakfast! Unfortunately, it also includes some pesky robots....
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Technology not only helps clean up our planet, but also allows us to explore the entire universe. According to the astrophysicist Alfred Vidal-Madjar, in five hundred years, we will have visited all the planets in the solar system.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Modern technology comes to the rescue! Planet Earth has a chance of recovering from man-made pollution.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
A group of smart young people found revolutionary ways to solve our planet's woes. Electronic books, Internet mail and much more...
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
The students present the Maestro with various solutions for eliminating pollution on our planet, including vertical farms and biotechnology.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
In the last segment of this Il était une fois... episode on technology, we learn more about what vertical farms can do to help the planet thrive. The first commercial vertical farm recently opened in Singapore.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Enjoy the classic tale Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), as told by Patricia.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
The original version of Le Petit Chaperon rouge, written by Charles Perrault, has a more gruesome ending than the one you might be familiar with. Patricia concludes the tale in this video.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Patricia introduces the famous French animated series Il était une fois (Once Upon a Time), which follows a time-traveling family through the high points of human civilization and into the future. We have several episodes available on Yabla, which you can find here, and more coming soon!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Santa is overwhelmed and needs a hand! He can't keep up with the task of making a special toy for every child on the planet, so he puts an ad in the local papers.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Who knew that young animals go to school while their parents are at the psychiatrist's? At least that's what happens in this cartoon, Les Zooriginaux, known in English as "Wild Instinct."
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
It seems that what we consider "bad manners" are actually good manners to lions! Watch Leon the lion teach his young cub the art of behaving badly at the dinner table.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Junior's first lesson in becoming a ferocious lion involves arriving late to school and acting up in class. He already has a pretty impressive roar!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Junior's training to become King of the Beasts comes to a standstill when his dad puts him through the ultimate test... eating humans!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
With the help of his special bear friend Ursula, Junior learns to be true to himself and remain the sweet and helpful lion cub that he is. Unfortunately, this decision sends his dad back to the psychiatrist....
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Leon and Lea are a lion couple who are going through a bit of a rough patch. As King of the Jungle, Leon might think he can come home at all hours of the night, but Lea has other plans for him... The Latin phrase says, "Alea jacta est," meaning "the die has been cast." Here, it's Lea who's casting them.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
When Lea leaves Leon for Orni the platypus, Leon tries to woo his wife with a poem. But will she fall back in love with his "torrid charm"?
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Leon's marriage is in trouble. His good friend is hatching a plot to help him win Lea back, but will it work?
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