Unit Plan
NAME: Yaxin WANG
LANGUAGE: French
LEARNING PATHWAY: 1B (Languages-Alphabetic)
YEAR LEVEL: Year 8
DURATION: 4 weeks
Unit Purpose:
Key Ideas
Communication
Understanding
language
Understanding
Culture
Essential
Learnings
Equity
Perspectives
Unit 2 - School
Unit Schedule
Topic
Week 3
Lesson1
Revision of
previous
knowledge:
classroom
objects/
pattern
sentence: il y
a…
New topic:
French days
of the week
Lesson2
Lesson3
French days
of the week
Revision of
the days of
the week
New topic:
subjects
Key
issues/conc
epts to
address
Classroom
objects
E.g. Il y a
des
crayons.
Days of the
week:
lundi
mardi
mercredi
jeudi
vendredi
samedi
dimanche
French days
song
Match
French
words with
the correct
English
meanings
Vocabulary
test
Listening
activity
Wordlist:
l’anglais
…..
Tasks/asses
sments
Resources
Homework:
Wordlist of classroom objects, see
appendix 1
Language
Perfect App
Learn to
recognise
the
vocabulary
PowerPoint presentation ‘classroom
objects’
Flash cards
Textbook exercises: Allons-y p.55 dans
la sale de classe
Ipad App: Language Perfect
Homework:
find the
planets
related to
the days of
the week
In-class test
on the days
of the
week, mark
by each
other and
go to term
grade
Listening
activity
regarding
days of the
week
PowerPoint presentation
Textbook: Allons-y
Flash video: les jours de la semaine
(French days of the week)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp
wf5N0rfVE
Listening activity in activity book:
p.47&48
Wordlist, see appendix 2 ‘subjects’
part
Textbook: Allons-y
Week 4
Lesson 1
Review
subjects
vocabulary
My favourite
subjects/
subjects that
I dislike
In-class test
Oral and
written
exercise:
e.g.
J’aime le
français.
aimer
detester
adorer
…
Classbook
making
Lesson 2
Timetable
Differences
between
French and
Australian
schools
Listening
activity:
school
timetable
Timetable
making
Read the
article that
compare
French
schooling
with
Australian
Lesson 3
Conversation practice
on p.58
Warm-up
activity:
teacher
asks
Informal
subjects
vocabulary
test on
Language
Perfect App
Language Perfect about subjects
Textbook p.56; p.66-67
A4 papers
Colour pencils
Classbook:
everyone
create one
sentence
about the
preference
of subject.
Draw
pictures
and write
down
related
classroom
objects
words on
the paper
Make own
school
timetables
in French
using days
of the
weeks and
subjects
vocabulary
Textbook: Allons-y pp.68-69
French School
Activity book, listening exercises
List the
differences
between
French and
Australian
school
systems
Oral and
written
conversatio
n about
Language Perfect
Activity book
New topic:
Months
questions
regarding
“salutations
” to refresh
students’
knowledge
of greetings
timetable
and subject
preference
Wordlist, see appendix 2
Textbook Allons-y p.58
Homework:
review
conversatio
n for test
Students
work in
pairs first
and teacher
will get two
groups to
read their
conversatio
ns
Week 5
Lesson 1
Review
months
New topic:
conjugation
of -er verbs
Lesson 2
Year 8
Conciliation
Day
Lesson 3
Written
conversation
test
Review -er
verbs
Months:
Avril
Mai
…
Months
song
Conjugate
the regular
-er verbs :
e.g.
regarder
ecouter
…
In-class test
on
conversatio
np.58
Er verb
Test on 12
months and
mark
between
each other
Conjugate 2
regular –er
verbs
Homework:
review –er
verbs on
Language
Perfect
Assessment
: Writing
down
conversatio
n on p.58
about
Song ‘quel est las date de ton
anniversaire’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc
wcGwaS_2w
PowerPoint presentation, see
appendix 3
Handout: -er verb conjugation table,
see appendix 4
Textbook: Allons-y p.61 er verbs
Language Perfect
Worksheet of assessment, see
appendix 5
Assessment Rubrics
PowerPoint Presentation about
New topic:
birthday
exercises:
recall the
conjugation
, conjugate
jouer and
travailler
Translate
sentences
Week 6
Lesson 1
Excursion
Oral
practise
about
birthday
Art Gallery
TourFrench Art
subjects
and
timetable
birthday
Oral
conversatio
n between
two
students,
record on
iPads
Guided tour Consent form
at the Art
Gallery of
Ipads
S.A.
Take photos
of art
pieces
students
interested
in
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Keynote
presentation
Reflection on
the excursion
Keynote
presentatio
n preparing
Keynote
presentatio
n
Assignment
:
Prepare an
oral
presentatio
n about the
French Art
using
Keynote
Continue
working on
Keynote
and oral
presentatio
n
Textbook: Allons-y
Word list, see appendix
Rubrics, see appendix