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PAGE EIGHT ONTARIO TODAY SATURDAY, JANUARY 23 French- 1 You, [Yuet 'MAN, WOMAN, CHILD, Here Wish ome little community have aching muscles, has done about then it's OLYMPENE teaching of French in public school. Teacher Filion for you. Wonderful in the treatment of bruises, cuts BY RICHARD CAMERON and abrasions. Everyone likes its cooling, large colored drawing hangs on the blackboard. Using ] . his hands, the teacher indicates: "Marie est la soeur healing action -- no burning -- just the fresh- de Jean. Maintenant, qui est la soeur de Jean?" Several hands immediately go up and one small voice answers: "Who is John's sister?" Keep it 'round the house. "Non, non!" cautions the teacher, and shakes his finger. Then he repeats: "Qui est la soeur de Jean?" A girl snaps her fingers. The teacher beckons her to answer. "Mary is John's sister," she says proudly and sits AT ALL down. DRUGGISTS "Bon! C'est correct." This, it is soon guessed, is a lesson in French. It is a sample of the "Tan-Gau" method, and the scene is a grade eight class at. the Kapuskasing Diamond Jubilee Public school. The teacher is Paul-Emile Filion, a man on whom the school board is counting heavily to make a risky venture succeed. Teaching French in elementary schools is nothing new in Ontario, nor in the Dominion. Ottawa has been offering the subject in its public schools since 1930, and: Timmins, a Northern Ontario town of 28,000 population, has been making French available to its public school students for several years now. Several other towns and cities across the nation are experimenting and nation- wide trend is developing that may one day see all ele- mentary schools producing bilingual students. But the inclusion of French in the elementary curriculum is still a controversial subject. Kapuskasing, in the very heart of Northern Ontario, over 560 miles north of the provincial capital, is the first community of less than 6,000 population to begin a pro-. gram designed to make its citizens fluent in both national. languages. For a small community, it was a bold step and a risky gamble, but with a population that is almost: evenly split between French-speaking and English-speak-, ing, the chances of success are good. est, most penetrating rub you've ever used. MADE IN CANADA BY NORTHROP & LYMAN Pupils identify pictures, in French,