EDUC 480 - Mini-Lesson: Lesson Plan

Date: June 14th, 2016

Name:

Emma Gallop

Target Student Group: (Grade and class - i.e Grade 7 core French class)- Grade 5 Core French
Title of Lesson: La Famille
Big Idea: With basic French we can describe ourselves and our interests
PLOs: (Connection to IRP)

Exchange ideas and information by asking and answering simple questions (Communication)

Express acquired information in oral and visual forms (Acquiring Information)

Simple sentence structure with high-frequency verbs

Lesson Objectives/Student Understandings:
Assessment:

I will use informal assessments to assess the students

Students will be able to...
learning. Eg. While the students are going around and

Introduce their family members in French to

intruding their families I will walk around and get them to
their classmatesintroduce their families to me and assess their use of

Understand possessive pronouns in Frenchpossessive pronouns

eg.) mon, ma, mes

I will informally assess the students knowledge of French

vocabulary during the acting out activity

Activities:

(Hook) To introduce the lesson I will play a French song/video on

YouTube called Ma Famille (Vocabulaire de la famille) by Alain Le Lait

Discussion with class about the song- what was the dong about? Did
you recognize any of the words?

Introduce Power point slide show called La Famille- practice saying

the names of family members and using mon and ma

Students will draw a simple family tree and label their family members
using French vocabulary- eg.) Mon pere Michael, ma mere Joy etc.

Group discussion about introducing family members using voici ma

mere. Elle sappelle_____. Or voici mon pere. Il sappelle_________-

Students will then get up and move around the room and introduce
their family to their classmates- (sentences will be up on the board so
students can refer to them when they need help)

Students will then be placed in groups of 4 or 5. I will hand out a piece

of paper to each member of the group with a family member name on it
eg.) pere, mere, frere, soeur.
The papers will also indicate something that each family member really
likes to eatthis is an extension of a previous lesson on foods.

Acting activity. As a group the students will be asked to come to the

front of the class and introduce themselves only using their name eg.
Bonjour, je mappelle and telling us what their favourite food to eat is
eg.) ma nourriture preferee a manger est_____
While the students are speaking they have to act out who they are in
the family and use the correct voice.

The rest of the class with guess who each member is and what their
favourite is

Materials/Resources:

Computer with
YouTube video
ready and
connected to
screen

Power point
slide ready on
computer

a piece of white
blank paper for
each student

pieces of paper
with family
members
written on them
and a name of
a food

Extensions:

the lesson uses names of food in Frenchthis is an extension from a previous lesson

the current lesson can be extended to include the French words for uncle, aunt, grandparent and animal names for
pets eg. Cat, dog, fish

Adaptations:

As an adaptation for students who require some help I will provide handouts with the names of family members and
the possessive pronouns so that students can have them at their desks to look at.

For students who dont feel comfortable talking about their own family they will have the option to draw and an
imaginary family

During the acting activity, if students dont feel comfortable talking in front of the class they will have the option to ask
one of their group members to introduce them to the class instead.