IMPORTANT! To receive credit for this assignment, YOU MUST LOGIN, LOGOUT, COLLECT YOUR STUDENT LOG PRINTOUT AND ATTACH IT TO THIS PAGE! GIVE THIS ASSIGNMENT TO YOUR INSTRUCTOR.! You will be using the Internet to complete this activity. The web pages that you will
need to visit are listed below.

PEDAGOGICAL OBJECTIVES: Introduction to the geography, economy, and culture of the Francophone world, and methods of Internet research.
 

Welcome new agent! Your mission, if you decide to accept, is to enter the secret files of the CIA and the United Nations in order to learn more about the Francophone world.  The following links are your access codes. Click to enter. 
INFONATION: Publications des Nations Unies
CIA World Factbook
The InfoNation website sometimes experiences downtime due to high Internet traffic. Most, if not all, of the answers can be found on the CIA site.

Get a printout of this page from Lab assistants. Answer the following questions using this Web page and write your answers IN ENGLISH.  The more you are familiar with Francophone countries, less is the risk of being discovered as a spy.  This page will self-destruct after quitting your Internet browser. Bonne chance!
 
1. What European French-speaking country has the headquarters of NATO and the European Union in its capital?

2. Who is the president of France?

3. What is the date and the name of the French national holiday?

4. What French-speaking nation shares an island with a Spanish-speaking nation?

5. Which of these following countries, Belgium, Haiti, Mali, Monaco, Senegal, or Switzerland, is a monarchy?

6. What is the capital of Belgium?

7. What is the capital of Haiti?

8. What is the capital of Senegal?

9. What is the capital of Algeria?

10. What European French-speaking country has three other official languages?

11. What is the date and the year of Haitian independence?

12. Is French an official language in Canada?