Dover Sherborn Middle School Curriculum Road Maps

 

Course Title:  French        Grade:  6

 

Unit:  4

 

Month Presented:  March/May      Unit Length:  8 weeks

 

Essential Question(s):

  1. What are your daily activities?
  2. How do kids talk about what they do for entertainment?
  3. What role does French play in the World?

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe what activities people do and don’t do.
  2. Express likes and dislikes.
  3. Negotiating invitations.
  4. Asking questions.
  5. Compare activities of kids around the World in French-speaking countries.

Skills: 

  1. Pronunciation of French sounds:  /a/, /i/, /u/.
  2. Daily activities vocabulary.
  3. Verbs faire and ętre.
  4. Verb conjugation of regular “er” verbs.
  5. Ask simple yes/no questions.
  6. Ask information questions with est-ce que and the subject-verb inversion form.
  7. Expressions with faire and ętre.

Instructional Strategies and Activities:

  1. Choral repetition.
  2. Communication activities.
  3. Songs/Poems
  4. Language Lab activities.
  5. Games.
  6. Reading/Writing/Listening/Speaking Exercises

 

Materials Utilized:

  1. Textbook and ancillary materials.
  2. Teacher generated materials.
  3. Student generated dialogues.
  4. Teacher generated computer exercises.

 

Assessment Strategies:

  1. Reading comprehension:  multiple choice, true-false
  2. Writing:  spelling, paragraph writing
  3. Listening:  multiple choice, true-false
  4. Speaking:  oral interviews, reading out loud, skit:  accepting and refusing invitations.

5.     In-class participation.