Instructional Session 14
Objective: By the end of class, you will be able to… Beginner: write sentences in French to describe people in class, giving details to compare descriptions of people in the past and present Intermediate: say sentences in French to describe people in class, giving details to compare descriptions of people in the past and present, giving details to compare descriptions of internal AND external traits in the past and present Advanced: say a series of connected sentences in French to describe people in class, giving details to compare descriptions of people in the past and present, giving details to compare descriptions of people’s internal AND external traits in the past and present, and using transition words to say more
Preparation: The Guided Oral Input strategy you will be using today is a Class Survey. This versatile strategy was first introduced in Session Seven. See that session for a more detailed explanation of the strategy. As explained in more detail in Session Seven, you can choose to use picture prompts, such as the ones in the example lesson, which you can download from our Teachers Pay Teachers store (CI Liftoff), or you can simply make a chart on the board or overhead projector to record students’ responses to the survey questions. You can choose any topic about which to survey your class, as long as the question elicits descriptions in the past and present. For example: Music you liked when you were 10 and music you like now, or school subjects/ activities you liked in elementary school versus what you like now. The example from our TpT store is about the topic of activities in kindergarten. Now, on to the lesson procedures:
Continue to greet the students in English review expectations, etc., and share the lesson objective. If you have not yet set up your Videographer, I urge you to do so now, or at the latest before you move into Session 16, the first session in the Narration cycle (Cycle Two). See the HR Manual in the Appendices for more information on setting up this and other student jobs. You might make your own Reading Workshop text, use the ones in our Teachers Pay Teachers store, such as the example below, or work with a Shared Writing text from a previous lesson. Distribute or project the text. Then, share the lesson objective if you have not already done so, check in with your Class Starter (and perhaps Videographer), and begin the lesson. Page 280
