Antoine-Augustin Parmentier French reading comprehension activity Boom™ cards version

This Parmentier French reading will give your students a new appreciation of the potato.

Without the work of pharmacist Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, the French diet would likely not have so many recipes featuring the potato

. He was the first to recognize the value of this food, but his fellow Frenchmen were difficult to convince.

Learn more in this reading for French learners.

Intermediate low learners will be able to understand the reading with scaffolding and teacher support while Intermediate mid and higher will be able to read independently.

Includes reading in French with glossary of less frequent words. Respond to comprehension questions in both English and French. – you can choose which questions to assign.

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