Dover-Sherborn Middle School

Curriculum Road Maps

 

 

Course Title:       French 8______________     Grade: _____8_________

 

Unit: _____3                                       

Month Presented:         February - April              Unit Length (in weeks):          6         

 

Essential Question (s):

                 Where and how do French people purchase and prepare foods?

                 What are the similarities or differences to the way it is done in America?

                 What are typical restaurant menus in Canada and France?

 

Learning Objectives:

To learn how to order food in a French restaurant

To express desire , ability and obligation

To read and answer questions about a story

To talk about preferences and purchasing of food and drink

To use the appropriate article in conversation and writing (le/un/du)

To read and understand proverbs using a food compariason

To develop reading strategies

 

 

 

 

Skills:

To learn vocabulary and expressions to order food, and place setting

To conjugate the verbs vouloir, pouvoir, devoir

To learn irregular verbs : acheter, préférer, payer, boire

To learn expressions of quantity and amounts

To apply common cognate principles

 

Instructional Strategies & Activities:

Choral repetition

    Communication activities

          Paired activities, skits, question and answer, teacher generated activities and

               publisher created activities, flashcards

    Language lab activities

           Audio tape activities

          Video tape activities

           Computer activities (quia.com)

           Recording and listening

Flashcards for vocabulary

Games: bingo

             Battleship

           matching

           Jeopardy

           Fleet of pen

   Performance of student created dialogues

           telephone conversations

           parent-child interviews of week end activities

   Text based exercises

   Workbook written exercises

   Teacher created written exercises

 

Materials Utilized:

   Text: Discovering French II  Blanc

    Workbook –audio and written exercises

    Ancillary textbook materials

    Large map of Paris subway system

             Activity packet to practice how to use the subway system

   

Assessment Strategies:

      Written assessments

               Spelling tests

               Grammar evaluations

       Oral assessments

               Dialogs

               Daily class participation

               Oral project:  You are a chef preparing a meal for 20 people.  Select the menu,

               according to the season and geographical region you are working in.  Purchase

               the food and describe the table setting.

               Oral:  plan a trip across Paris to various tourists sites, using the subway system