Rural development, local products and agricultural tourism are fashionable concepts that future specialists in agriculture must be able to use and be familiarized with, and also to correctly comprehend in order to employ them. This paper initially outlines the notional framework of rural development or more exactly that of local development and further debates the issue of local products “produits de terroir” and their importance in the development of rural tourism. In order to form competent and well-trained people, the part of the French teacher is to choose the course thematic according to specialty. Therefore, the themes of “local products”, “rural tourism” are chosen to observe whether a connection can be made between them. The purpose of this paper is, on the one hand, to enrich the linguistic knowledge through the selection of authentic French texts, insisting on the phonetic and etymological appropriation between “territoire” and “terroir”, and on the other, to develop the communication ability in a foreign language, French in our case, a communication that should have as a support  texts that are attractive, interesting and rich in ideas. In this respect, in order for the terms to be correctly comprehended, the notions should be defined exactly, to be able to operate with them in the future.

rural development; local products; rural tourism

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