Authentic materials allow the foreign language teacher to help his/her students get in contact with the target language and culture. That’s why authentic materials should be used correctly with the help of an appropriated treatment in the aim of being more effective and better-perceived as authentic by the learners. In this article, we discuss the use of authentic materials in foreign language classrooms and more specifically in French foreign language classroom. Thus, after pointing out what an authentic material is and discussing the importance of its use in teaching and learning of languages, we have prepared a teaching material of speaking/listening in French to Turkish students. The type of the authentic material was a radio program.