LESSON PLAN FOR PRESENTATIONAL COMMUNICATION (READING)

Theme: Food

Topic: French eating habits.

Introduction

The lesson seeks to help students improve on their reading skills. Students are engaged in a pre-reading activity in which they try to predict what the text is about just by looking at the title of the text “Le repas en France”. Then they look at the pictures in the text of cheese and match them with the appropriate name, provided by the instructor. At the end of the lesson, students do a survey of American eating habits and compare them to those discussed in the text.

Lesson learning objectives

At the end of this lesson, students will:

Linguistic

• learn about traditional French breakfast, lunch and supper.

• learn how to use the partitive in negative constructions.

Cognitive

• develop skills to make textual comparisons and identify the linguistic differences between prose and a written interview.

Sociocultural

• Students reflect on whether the notions presented in the text have a similar meaning in their culture or how these notions may have evolved over time.

Lesson learning goals

Students will be able to:

Linguistic

• read and understand texts about French food and eating habits.

Cognitive

• develop abilities in critical and functional analysis of texts by comparing an interview and the prose genres of texts.

Sociocultural

• draw comparisons between American eating habits and French eating habits .

Materials to be used for the lesson: Text from Français-Monde, and random pictures of French food.

Detailed lesson plan