LESSON PLAN

Title:​ The weather ​ Subject: ​Grade 8 core french

Time: Strand: ​listening, speaking, writing

Desired Results

Lesson Description

Students will learn how to talk about the weather in french using basic, everyday language and
vocabulary.

Ontario Curricular OVERALL Expectations

A2. ​Listening to interact:​ interpret messages accurately while interacting in French for a variety of purposes
and with diverse audiences.
B1. Speaking to Communicate​: communicate information and ideas orally in French, using a variety of speaking
strategies and age- and grade-appropriate language suited to the purpose and audience.
B2 Speaking to Interact:​ participate in spoken interactions in French for a variety of purposes and with diverse
audiences.
D1. Purpose, Audience, and Form:​ write French texts for different purposes and audiences, using a variety of
forms and knowledge of language structures and conventions appropriate for this level.

Ontario Curricular SPECIFIC Expectations

A2.2 - Interacting:​ ​Respond with understanding to what others say while participating in interactions of
various lengths about everyday matters and matters of personal interest
B1.2 - Producing Oral Communications:​ produce rehearsed and increasingly spontaneous messages in French
to communicate ideas and information about matters of personal interest, with contextual, auditory, and visual
support.
B 2.2 Interacting:​ exchange information and ideas with the teacher and their peers in guided, increasingly
spontaneous spoken interactions about matters of personal interest, with teacher modelling and support as
appropriate.
D1.3 Applying Language Conventions:​ communicate their meaning clearly, using parts of speech appropriately
and following conventions for correct spelling, word order, and punctuation.

Learning Goals

Success Criteria

- I can answer and ask a partner the 7 questions and answers on my worksheet with a partner
- I can unscramble all 7 sentences with the help of images.

Assessment

Assessment Mode: oral/ performance/ written

Assessment Strategy:
Assessment Tool: Handout
Materials

● Cue cards
● Vocabulary handout
● Scrambled sentence worksheet
● Question and answer in partners worksheet
● Ticket out the door

Lesson Format:

What Teachers Do/Say What Students Do/Say

Introduction (5 minutes)
● ​Walk into class with their own handouts at their desks and a ● Reading french
stack of cards in the centre of the table. phrases from cue
● Cue cards will have a picture of a type of weather & the french cards/handout.
phrase. ● Saying french
● Students will go one at a time and act out weather to their phrases about
group. weather.
● All students will observe the “actor” of the group and try to
guess the corresponding weather type using the french phrase
found on the provided handout (which each student will have)
● Each student will have a turn by acting out one of the cue
cards

BODY (Jeremy)
Activity One (7 minutes)
1. ​Hand out fill in the blank partner worksheet
2. The students with an “A” on their worksheet must partner with
someone who has a “B” on their worksheet (Partner A has the Work in partners to fill out
words to fill in the blanks for partner B and vice versa). information from one
3. Students will ask/answer questions while filling in the blanks on another. This will include
their own page. Choose a student to help model the first them speaking and listening
question and walk through the first question with the students to their partners in french.
as a group. By the end, both partners will have the seven
answers and questions with the help of their partners. (As a
teacher, circulate and ensure that students understand and are
on the right path). If there is extra time, ask students to share a
few answers with the class.
Activity Two (5minutes)
1. Pass out sentence unscrambling worksheets. Explain that they
have scrambled french sentences with visual images to help Unscramble words to form
them unscramble. Model the first one to demonstrate how to sentences to explain the
proceed, working independently. weather depicted by the
2. Circulate and give help where it is needed as this will not be visual images provided.
evaluated.
3. Take up the answers as a class. If there isn’t ample time to
allow students to share their answers, read through them aloud
 to speed up the process while asking if they still understand
and are following.

Conclusion/Reflection (2 minutes)
● This concluding activity is a ticket out the door. ● Reading phrases
● Guide student’s reading of the two questions. about weather.
● Encourage students to answer questions by applying their ● Writing phrases
knowledge of their newly learned phrases about weather. about weather.
● This can be used as an evaluation tool.

A. Questions Réponses (Answers)

1. Quel temps fait-il? __________________________

2. ______________________ Il neige / it’s snowing

3. Quel temps fait-il? __________________________

4. ______________________ Il fait chaud / It’s hot out

5. Quel temps fait-il? __________________________

6. ______________________ Il est nuageux / it’s cloudy

7. Quel temps fait-il? __________________________

B. Questions Réponses (Answers)

1. ______________________ Il pleut / it’s raining

2. Quel temps fait-it? _______________________

3. ______________________ Il fait froid / it’s cold

4. Quel temps fait-il? _______________________

5. ______________________ Il y a du vent / it’s windy out

6. Quel temps fait-il? _______________________

7. ______________________ Il fait du soleil / it’s sunny

Nom / Name: _______________________ Date ________________

Critères de succès / succes criteria:

- I can create a french sentence with the help of an image and scrambled words.
- I can start a french sentence with a capital letter and end with a period.

Create sentences by unscrambling the words above the images that they describe.
1. pleut Il 2. neige Il

Phrase: ______________________
Phrase: __________________

3. froid Il fait 4. soleil du Il fait

Phrase: _________________________ Phrase: _________________________

5. Il chaud fait 6. nuageux est Il

Phrase: __________________________ Phrase: _________________________

7. vent a Il y du

Phrase: __________________________
Répondre aux questions suivantes.

1. Quel temps fait-il pendant une belle journée de randonnée?

_______________________________________________

2. Quel temps fait-il pendant une belle journée de ski?

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