Mr. Zahakos’ Learning Experience Plan
Grade level: 8th grade (Checkpoint A)
Subject: French
Unit: Bon voyage
Day/periods: Day 1/3 day plan
Topic: Irregular past participles with the verb avoir
Content Standards:
Standard 1: Students will be able to use a language other than English for communication.
Key Idea: LISTENING & SPEAKING are primary communicative goals in modern language learning.
These skills are used for the purposes of socializing, providing and acquiring information, expressing
personal feelings and opinions, and getting others to adopt a course of action.
Performance Indicators--Students will:
Checkpoint A
o
comprehend language consisting of simple vocabulary and structures in face-to-face
conversation with peers and familiar adults
o
comprehend the main idea of more extended conversations with some unfamiliar
vocabulary and structures as well as cognates of English words
o
call upon repetition, rephrasing, and nonverbal cues to derive or convey meaning from
a language other than English
o
use appropriate strategies to initiate and engage in simple conversations with more
fluent or native speakers of the same age group, familiar adults, and providers of
common public services
Key Idea: READING & WRITING are used in languages other than English for the purposes of
socializing, providing and acquiring information, expressing personal feelings and opinions, and getting
others to adopt a course of action.
Performance Indicators--Students will:
Checkpoint A
o
understand the main idea and some details of simple informative materials written for
native speakers
o
compose short, informal notes and messages to exchange information with members
of the target culture
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Literacy Standards:
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate
to task, purpose, and audience.
Learning Experience Outcomes
Learning Experience Assessments
Students will:
- Microsoft Power Point: Review of the passé
- Review the Passé Composé (past tense)
composé with AVOIR, irregular past
using the verb AVOIR.
participles and making verbs negative in the
- Focus on the irregular past participles.
past tense.
- Review how to make a verb negative in the
- Use activities from the book to practice and
past tense.
develop students’ skills.
Differentiation
Approaching
On-level
Beyond
Allow use of textbook as well as
Allow use of the textbook for
Try to do as much as possible
a French/English dictionary for
word references.
without use of textbook. May help
word references.
lower level classmates.
Materials/
Resources
Procedures/Strategies
Day 1
Textbook
Dictionary
Sponge Activity (activity that will be done as students enter the room to get them into the mindset of the concept to be
learned)
À la gare ou à l’aéroport:
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Ask students where they would need to go to travel to a given place. Should they go
to the airport or to the train?
(If the destination given is very far or overseas, they will go to the airport. If the
destination is not too far and they can take a train, they will go to the train station)
Microsoft
Power
Point
Anticipatory Set (focus question/s that will be used to get students thinking about the day’s lesson )
What are the irregular past participles for AVOIR?
Activating Prior Knowledge (what information will be shared with/among students to connect to prior
knowledge/experience)
Remember:
Regular past participles for:
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ER é
IR i
RE u
(Take off the ending in the infinitive and add the above endings)
Direct Instruction (input, modeling, check for understanding)
PowerPoint:
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Review the verb AVOIR
Review how to put a verb in the past tense (passé composé):
ER é IR i RE u
Introduce the irregular past participles (for AVOIR)
Review how to make verbs negative in the past tense (NE PAS around the helping
verb)
Guided Practice (how students will demonstrate their grasp of new learning )
WORKSHEET
or
Page 344 activity 26- Fill in the blank with the correct verb in the past tense.
Independent Practice
No homework due to standardized tests. Get some rest.
(But finish the worksheets over the weekend have them complete for monday)
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Irregular Past Participles
1. La semaine dernière nous ___________ du ski en France.
(faire)
2. Il ____________ rester à la maison parce qu'il avait un peu
mal à l'estomac. (vouloir)
3. Mon père ____________ un verre de champagne pour
fêter le nouvel an. (boire)
4. Mon ami _____________ qu'il pourra venir samedi
prochain. (dire)
5. J' _____________ un grand manteau pour sortir, étant
donné qu'il faisait si froid. (mettre)
6. Il ______________ toute la semaine. C'était bien moche!
(pleuvoir)
7. Mélanie et Christine ____________ des magazines
pendant le voyage. (lire)
8. __________-vous_________ les médicaments? (prendre)
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Review of the Passé Composé
avec avoir
Please rewrite the following sentences by making them negative and putting them into the past
tense. Remember that ne…pas loves the conjugated verb!!!
1. J’étudie pour l’interro.(étudier)
2. Nous attendons nos amies.(attendre)
3. Il choisit un livre anglais.(choisir)
4. Elles ne travaillent pas le dimanche. (travailler)
5. Vous faites du vélo.(faire)
6. Céline achète un livre d’Astérix pour sa sœur.(acheter)
7. Je prends des photos de Notre-Dame.(prendre)
8. Jacques ne dort pas pendant le film.(dormir)
9. Nous mangeons du gâteau.(manger)
10. Tu finis tes devoirs?(finir)
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