HS French Instructional Guide

FRENCH LEVEL 4/AP

UNITÉ 2 La Vie Contemporaine

PACING

PROFICIENCY LEVEL

RESOURCE(S)

KEY LANGUAGE USE(S)

INFORM EXPLAIN ARGUE

● Entre Culture ● Thème

3-4 weeks

Intermediate Mid

NARRATE

ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S)

CULTURAL CONNECTION(S)

● How do societies and individuals define quality of life? ● How is contemporary life influenced by cultural products, practices, and perspectives? ● What are the challenges of contemporary life?

● Professions ● Rites of Passage ● Travel ● Advertising & Marketing ● Education ● Holidays & Celebrations

● Housing & Shelter ● Leisure & Sports

END OF UNIT COMPETENCY WITH LANGUAGE EXPECTATIONS

Purposeful Communication: Narrate, describe, handle a situation or transaction by asking questions using the following terms and language functions and features: ● Compare, Contrast and Connect products, practices and perspectives ● Understand essential information in authentic sources ● Exchange information and express opinions ● Present information to inform, convince and express opinions in your own and in other cultures.

Language Functions & Features: ● passé composé, object pronouns

● Vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures used to talk about and express opinion, give advice about, Professions, Rites of Passage, Travel, Advertising & Marketing, Education, Holidays & Celebration, Housing & Shelter, Leisure & Sports

https://wida.wisc.edu/sites/default/files/resource/WIDA-ELD-Standards-Framework-2020.pdf

SCAFFOLDING IN ACTION

● Use a variety of visuals with captions to define meaning of words and phrases. ● Use a graphic organizer to differentiate vocabulary, phrases, & images for students to make associations between objects & vocabulary. ● Pair with partners to practice conversation/group students to allow opportunity for them to practice speaking. Before assigning students a conversation, model the conversation, and provide sentence frames or sentence starters. ● Use gestures and oral repetition of key phrases and words in multiple contexts. ● For additional adjective practice, have students change the adjective form from masculine to femine, from singular to plural form to describe different individuals. ● Provide opportunities for more conversation with fluent speakers. ● Provide more complex text in French for students to read. ● Have students record themselves speaking the language and reflect on their progress.

Skill Building

Extension