Lesson Plan Quest-ce que tu portes?

Title of Lesson
Subject
Developed By

Quest-ce que tu portes? //

What are you wearing?
Core French
Robert & Ally

Grade Level

Time Frame

45 minutes

Stage 1 Desired Results

Prescribed Learning Outcomes/ Big Ideas/ Core Competencies/ Content:
Big Idea:
- Meaningful communication is possible in French using simple, high-frequency words and patterns
- With basic French, we can describe ourselves and our interests
Core competencies:
- Describe themselves and their interests in simple statements orally and in writing
- Comprehend high-frequency vocabulary in simple texts
- Identify key information in slow, clear speech and simple texts
Content:
- Simple sentence structure with high-frequency verbs
- Simple descriptions
Lesson objectives/ student understandings:
Assessment:
Students will be able to
As students engage in the activity, the teacher
- Identify various clothing items in French
will observe and asses the extent to which
- Use previous knowledge on colours and sizes students:
to elaborate
- Recall previously learned information
- Engage in meaningful and purposeful
- Label their own clothing using full and proper
dialogue that uses the vocabulary and
sentences
structures introduced
- Transfer this knowledge onto other items
provided to them by the teacher

Timing
10
minutes

Lesson Breakdown
Lesson Notes
Introduction
- Review prior knowledge on colours and sizes: students
can do a quick game using fly swappers and colour and
size words posted at the front of the classroom. The
teacher will call out a word in English and students will
race to be the first to swat the corresponding word in
French.
- Introduce students to clothing vocabulary with exercise:
divide the class into 10 groups (3 students per group) and
have them try to match all the French and English words
in their envelopes. These are all unfamiliar to them but it
encourages them to make connections and activate prior
knowledge.

Materials
- Clothing words in
English/ French
envelopes x10
- Vocabulary handout

5 minutes

7 minutes

13
minutes

5 minutes

Review the exercise to confirm knowledge of vocabulary

words and ensure everyone has the correct answers
Lesson
- Introduce the question quest-ce que tu portes? (informal)
and quest-ce que vous portez? (formal) and talk about
the difference in usage
- Discuss with students the sentence structure for clothing
that they are wearing: je porte ____ (have this on the
board for practice with the phonetic sounds)
- Model the sentences for students and have them repeat
them out loud
- Distribute the handout with the activity (fill in the blanks
for sentences about what they students are wearing
themselves)
Sharing Activities
- Once the students have finished filling in their sheets,
they will partner up and share their sentences with one
another (teacher to monitor and check in with students to
ensure that they are on task and using the appropriate
vocabulary)
- After this, the teacher will collect all the sheets and have
some volunteers come up to draw from the pile
- Each student will read out what is written on the page and
the other students will try to figure out who it belongs to
- When the student is discovered, they will ask their peer
the questions qu-est-ce que tu portes? & they will answer
Extending Our Knowledge
- Bring students back together and introduce the idea of
purchasing an item
- Provide students with the sentence structure for I want
to buy, what colour? and what size? // je veux
acheter [insert clothing item here]. Quel couleur? Quel
taille? (write these on the board with the phonetic
sounds)
- Demonstrate the use of this dialogue for students and
then have them repeat the phrases
- Ask for volunteers to come up (in pairs) to shop at the
store (teacher to monitor and ensure that 1. The student
who is asking for the information is correct and 2. The
student that is retrieving the item gets the right one)
Conclusion
- Sum up the lesson and review what we have learned with
the students, ensure that we go over the various sentence
prompts that we included in the lesson
- Have students repeat all the phrases/ sentences that they
learned during that lesson

Board/ markers
Hand-outs (simple
sentence
structures/
questions)

N/A

Clothing items
(different colours
and types of
clothes) to set up a
store

Board/ markers

French clothing Words

Vocabulary List
Tops des hauts
French Word
une blouse
une chemise
un t-shirt
un chandail
un manteau

What it sounds like

une blooz-e
une sha-meez
un t-shirt
un shan-dye
un mon-toe

M/F
feminine
feminine
masculine
masculine
masculine

English Meaning
a blouse
a shirt
a t-shirt
a sweater
a jacket

What it sounds like

day jeans
day pan-te-lon
day shor-t
une jup
une rob

M/F
masculine
masculine
masculine
feminine
feminine

English Meaning
jeans
pants
shorts
a skirt
a dress

Shoes des chaussures

French Word
What it sounds like
des chaussures de course day show-sur de curs
des bottes
day bot
des sandales
day san-dal
des chaussures plates
day show-sur plat
des talons
day tal-on

M/F
masculine
feminine
feminine
feminine
masculine

English Meaning
runners/ sneakers
boots
sandals
flats
heels

Accessories des accessoires

French Word
What it sounds like
une charpe
une eh-sharp
un chapeau
un shap-oh
un bracelet
un brass-le
un collier
un cole-lee-eh
des chaussettes
uay show-set

M/F
feminine
masculine
masculine
masculine
feminine

English Meaning
a scarf
a hat
a bracelet
a necklace
socks

Bottoms des bas

French Word
des jeans
des pantalon
des short
une jupe
une robe

Sizes and Colours

Tailles et Couleurs

Petit(e)

Moyen(ne)

Grand(e)