I don't know about your students, but mine don't especially love taking down notes! I don't love notes, either, but they can be a great tool for studying and review if they are set up in a user-friendly way. For French vocabulary review, I like to set up the notes as a French-English dictionary. The students use a notebook and dedicate one page for each letter of the alphabet. I like Hilroy 32-page exercise books because I can pick them up at Walmart the week before school starts for only $0.05 each! To jazz up the booklets, you can glue on a simple cover. I spend the first class setting up the book with my students. I use three columns: ENGLISH WORD I set the alphabet by English word, as it makes it easier for the students to find what they are looking for. FRENCH WORD I have my students include an article for all nouns to help them remember the gender of the noun. WORD TYPE I ask my students...