Dis-Moi Dix Mots 2025 EDITION

This year, as every year, the French Cultural Services in Miami / Villa Albertine and the Alliance Française Miami Metro launch, across the schools of Florida (either with a French bilingual Program or offering French classes taught as a foreign language) the 2025 edition of the “Dis-moi dix mots” contest.

Each year, a theme intended to convey a message about the French language and ten words illustrating it are chosen by the various French speaking partners of the OPALE network: France, Belgium, Quebec, Switzerland and the International Organization of the Francophonie (representing 84 states and governments). 

Objective

The purpose of the contest is to invite the students to play and express themselves and give free rein to their creativity with ten words in either a literary or artistic form: ten words to write, recite, sing, draw, photograph or film...!

2025 Edition : « Dis-moi dix mots pour la planète »

“Tell me 10 words for the planet"(literally) … 

This edition resonates with current issues, inviting us to explore major environmental challenges such as climate, biodiversity and resource conflicts.  To rethink our relationship with the world, let's act together to decarbonize, protect flora and fauna, and move towards energy and digital sobriety. These issues are a privileged field of action for language. The lexicon adapts, innovates and clarifies. It allows us to better name this complexity.

Here are the 10 words:
biome, buttiner, canopée, conséconscient, débrousser, empreinte, glaner, palmeraie, solaire, vivant

Students in Elementary School (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade) are allowed to use only 5 of the 10 given words in their work.

Categories and Participation Criteria

The contest is divided into four categories based on the participants' grade level:

• Elementary School (1st and 2nd grade)
• Elementary School (3rd, 4th, and 5th grade)
• Middle School (6th, 7th, 8th grade)
• High School (9th, 10th grade and above)

Individual Works

Students may participate individually in the categories listed above by submitting one single piece in one of the following formats:

• Written Work: A text (story, poem, essay, etc.) incorporating the ten given words. 
  Comic strips, even though the drawing will be appreciated, will be classified under the written work category.
• Drawing or Craft: A visual work (drawing, painting, photographs, etc.) incorporating the ten words. If the artwork includes a paragraph, it will be considered as a written work.
  Only one winner will be chosen for plastic works.
•  Videos are not accepted in the individual categories.
  

Here's how the podiums will look like and what gifts will be given to the winners:

Collective Works

Collective projects will be evaluated in the following three formats no matter the grade:

• Written Work: A text (story, poem, essay, etc.) incorporating the ten given words. 
  Comic strips, even though the drawing will be appreciated, will be classified under the written work category.
• Drawing or Craft: A visual work (drawing, painting, photographs, etc.) incorporating the ten words. If the artwork includes a paragraph, it will be considered as a written work.
• Video incorporating the ten given words. 

Here's how the podiums will look like and what gifts will be given to the winners:

Exclusion Criteria

The following submissions will be excluded from the contest:

• Works with fewer than 5 words for elementary school students (1st to 5th grade).
• Works with fewer than 10 words for middle and high school students (6th grade and above).
• Works that do not contain all the requested information (first and last name, grade, title, ...)

Registration and Submission

• To participate, teachers must submit the students' works before April 4th 2025
• Works should be submitted (PDF and MP4 only) to dismoidixmots@af-miami.org
• Please ensure that each submission meets the contest criteria and chosen format.
• Please ensure that all the following information appears on each production (lack of information may result in exclusion) 
  
  First Name:
  
  Last Name:
  
  If collective work: First and last name of each participant
  
  Grade:
  
  Name of the School or Alliance Française:
  
  Name of the Teacher:
  
  Date:
  
  Work title:
  

Evaluation Criteria

The winners will be decided by a jury composed of four francophone. The entries will be judged on the following criteria:

• Creativity and originality
• Relevance and use of the ten words (or 5 words for elementary school)
• Adherence to the theme "For the Planet"
• Artistic and technical quality of the work (according to the chosen format)
• Respect of the rules
  

Announcement of Results

The official results will be announced on April 22, in celebration of Earth Day. 

By taking part in this contest, the students commit themselves into turning in genuine and unpublished work which may be freely used for cultural and educative purposes. 

 

Bonne chance !

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