Please Note: This is an exemplar of what a consensus map for a level 3 target language could look like. Of course, the teachers of a target
language may need to rearrange the sequence, add/delete items, and customize it to fit the needs of their target language and their students.
We will continue to engage in conversations, reflection and revisions as we explore how to more clearly align and articulate our higher level
language consensus maps.
World Language Consensus Mapping Exemplar- Level 3
7 units.
Plus review
Essential Question (s):
(culture aspect included)
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Theme/Unit
Content
Students can… (I, I, P)
1. Vacation and
travel
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Countries
Continents
Making travel
preparations
Hotel
Train station
Airport
Customs
If statements
(conditional) review
Review past tense
Review future
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Identify countries
on a map
Ask about a
vacation
Say what they
would do in
different locations
if they could
Express necessity
Ask about what
has been done
Get travel
information
Ask for
information at a
train station or
airport
Buy tickets and
Teaching Strategies
Resources
Assessment
Strategies (I, I, P)
 Create a travel
brochure and
travel
presentation to
the class –
convince them
your trip is the
best
 Blank maps – fill
in designated
countries and
write sentences
saying what they
would do if they
could go there.
2. The great
outdoors
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3. Entertainment 
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Camping
Nature
Animals
Activities
Past tense review
French: “être en train
de” – in the process
of
The future
Future of irregular
verbs
The verb to run
Books
Movies
TV shows
Music
Relative pronouns
Present participles
Interrogative
pronouns
Demonstrative
pronouns
Review
comparatives/
superlatives
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4. The body and
health
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Parts of the body
Injuries
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make a
transaction
Pay hotel bill
Identify
vocabulary
Say what
happened
Describe
circumstances
Say what they
were doing when
something else
happened
Tell what they will
do
Wonder what will
happen
Identify genres
and give examples
of each
Describe a book or
movie
Ask for and give
information about
media/
entertainment
Ask about
preferences
Recommend or
advise against
something
Give opinions and
why
Identify body parts
Ask and tell how
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Verb-board
races
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Write a story
about a weekend
camping trip
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Game show
simulation
speed games for
genres (students
give examples of
genres on slips
of paper – two
come up at a
time and race to
identify the
genre first)
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Written
Book/movie
review
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Body drawings
and label
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Giant body
drawings
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5. Work
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Illnesses
The doctor
The pharmacy
The subjunctive of
regular and irregular
verbs and when to
use it
The gym
Exercise and
exercising/eating well
The conditional
“if” statements
Professions and
services
Telephone and formal
letter
Future review
The future perfect
Present participles
The verb to drive
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6. Once upon a
time
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Legends
Fairytales
fables
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you feel
Describe
symptoms
Give advice
Complain about
health
Sympathize with
someone and
express concern
Identify
professions and
describe what
they do and where
they work
Ask about future
plans w/ work
Ask about job
descriptions
Make polite
requests
Make a phone call
Write a formal
letter
identify
set the scene for a
story
continue and end
a story
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Round robin w/
illnesses
assigned –
express concern
and give advice
French: Almost
French, Sarah
Turnbull
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Dialogue at
doctor,
pharmacy, or
emergency room
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Simulate a
professional
phone
conversation to
get an interview
Create a job
announcement
Reply to a job
announcement in
the form of a
formal letter
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French: Shrek
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students read a
fairy tale in the
target language,
rewrite it in their
own words,
create an imageonly power point,
and then tell the
story to the class
with no notes
7. History/
Colonization
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Historical accounts
from countries of
language
War vocabulary
The past perfect
Sequence of tenses in
indirect discourse
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Relate a sequence
of events in the
past
Tell what
happened to
someone else
Describe the
concept of
colonization and
the effects on
language in
countries
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French: La
Bataille d’Algers
Hotel Rwanda