GRAMMAR LESSON PLAN

Theme: Food

Topic: “C’était si bon !” Narrating past eating experiences.

Introduction

This lesson is intended to help students’ apply their knowledge of the past tense to narrate their past eating experiences. The activities in this five-stage lesson plan allow students to learn about language forms and use them in a meaningful context. Indeed, language use, one of the seven principles of literacy, is foregrounded in the lesson plan in activities that encourage hypothesizing, reflection, analysis, and establishing connections related to transition words and preterit and imperfect verb forms used in the text. This instructional sequence engages students in the learning processes of interpretation, collaboration, problem solving, and reflection. Students interpret the effect of Available Designs on overall textual meaning; they collaborate by interacting with the text and other learners to design meaning; they solve problems by figuring out relationships between words and between words and textual content; and they reflect on language patterns, meaning, and their own writing.

Lesson learning goals

Students will be able to:

Linguistic

• learn how to identify forms of tenses, the past tense in French

• use setting-appropriate vocabulary related to food in a way that is comprehensible to a native or near-native speaker (with 80%-90% accuracy).

Cognitive

• to use reading strategies when approaching a new text in the L2.

• critically evaluate practices related to food in both target and home languages.

Sociocultural

• learn other different kinds of cuisine, ex : la cuisine polynésienne et antillaise.

• draw comparisons between these ingredients of food in both target and home languages.

Lesson learning objectives

Students will be able to:

Linguistic

• communicate beyond immediate and personal areas of interest, incorporating developed cultural knowledge into addressed topics and issues

• use the passé compose and imperfect verb forms and recognize contextually dependent uses of the passé compose and imperfect in a text

Cognitive

• develop familiarity with a variety of authentic resources

• develop skills that enable them to create meaning from authentic texts.

• formulate hypotheses about and draw conclusions based on a given text

Sociocultural

• draw comparisons between their culture and the culture of the target language.

• understand the influence of culture on the use of language.

Materials to be used for the lesson: Computer, text book: Français monde.