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French Unit on Weather

Description: 

I am looking for new ways that blended learning can be used to teach French so I decided to create a blended unit on French weather. This unit is designed to be used in a beginner level French course to introduce vocabulary and to draw comparisons between the weather of France and other countries. 

Learning Targets: 
Identify the relationship between weather and geography.
Demonstrate understanding of weather-related phrases.
Demonstrate pronunciation of weather phrases.
AttachmentSize
PDF icon French Blended Unit.pdf84.69 KB
Author: 
micheale.micol
Content Area: 
Elective Subjects
World Languages
Language: 
English
Resource Type: 
Lesson
Licensing: 
Creative Commons Licence
Grade: 
6-8
Tags: 
cohort 10-16-2017
French
cohort10-16-17
blended learning

Student prerequisite skills and knowledge

Learners need to know the French alphabet and correlating pronunciation.

How is the concept or procedure explained or demonstrated?

Students are asked to draw comparisons between the weather of France and that of their native country in a blog post. In the parent blog post, resources are provided to students in the form of web pages order help them draw these comparisons and provide help in understanding the difference between the Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature scales. Basic weather phrases are introduced via YouTube. Here, learners will have an opportunity to listen to and pause videos in order to practice pronunciation. Students will further their practice with weather phrases using Quizlet, Adobe Spark, and a screencasting program such as Quicktime or Loom, depending on which is available to students.

What concepts or procedures are being explained or demonstrated in this lesson object?

Basic weather phrases are introduced as well as comparisons between the weather in France and other countries and differences between degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius for describing temperature.

What was your experience, both successes and challenges, using this lesson object with your students?

I have not tried teaching this unit yet. The youtube videos were not created by me so prior to using the unit teachers should make sure the videos are still available. If not, teachers should look for or create other video resources describing weather in French.