French Interviews: Weather, The Weekend, Vacations

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

World Languages

Grade(s)

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Overview

This novice low to novice mid-French activity allows students to gather information from four different heritage French speakers: Franck, J-C, Stephanie, and Virginie. Students are asked to gather basic information pertaining to weather, this weekend, next weekend, and vacations. After using interpretive listening skills to gather this information, students record their findings on a printable worksheet. Each section is separated allowing students to focus on one task at a time while listening to the provided links. The links to the interviews used in this activity are posted in the comment section below. Each video provides optional French and English transcripts.

Key Grammar Points in these activities include near future, to go, prepositions with places.

World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - World Languages

WL17.WL.L1.2
Interpret what is heard, read, or viewed on familiar topics using the present tense.

Knowledge

Students know:

how to recognize the difference between a question and a statement.
how to identify who is speaking.
how to identify who is being spoken to.
how to recognize the topic being discussed.
how to rely on pictures, graphs, or charts to aid in comprehension.

Skills

Students are able to:
Novice Mid Level

identify the key idea presented by a speaker or published work on a familiar topic.
differentiate between questions and statements.
gather basic information from graphs, charts and pictures.
rely on background knowledge to aid in comprehension of difficult or new words.
recognize characters and punctuation marks that are unique to the target language.

Novice High Level students are able to:

identify the key idea presented by a speaker or published work on a familiar topic.
differentiate between questions and statements.
gather basic information from graphs, charts and pictures.
rely on background knowledge to aid in comprehension of difficult or new words.
recognize characters and punctuation marks that are unique to the target language.
locate places on a map.
identify purpose of a brochure/advertisement.

Understanding

Students understand that:
Novice Mid Level

effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
other understandings will depend on the theme being taught.

Students understand that:
Novice High Level

effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
other understandings will depend on the theme being taught.

World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - World Languages

WL17.WL.L1.8
Identify characteristics of the target language and the native language.

Knowledge

Students know:

how to recognize similarities among root words in order to aid comprehension in the target language.
that conjugations can effect the formality/tone of the provided information.
that word order varies across langauge and may differ from their native language.
that some expressions (ex.

Skills

Students are able to:
Novice Mid Level

use the alphabet or writing system to express ideas.
identify appropriate situations in which to use formal and informal structures.
memorize common idomatic expressions.
match words from the target language to similarly structured words in the native language.

Novice High Level
Students are able to:

use the alphabet or writing system to express ideas.
use diacritical markings to clarify meaning when writing.
identify appropriate situations in which to use formal and informal structures.
memorize common idomatic expressions.
match words from the target language to similarly structured words in the native language.

Understanding

Students understand that:

by learning another language one can better understand how the native language works.
other understandings will depend on theme taught.

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Resource Provider

University of Texas at Austin

License Type

Attribution

https://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/sites/laits.utexas.edu.fi/files/vid_int_fr_03.p…

Custom License Type (URL)

https://creativecommons.org/licenses

Accessibility

Video resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles

Comments or Notes

Listening links for this activity are posted:

Activity #1: Weather- Franck, J-C, Stephanie, and Virginie

Activity #2: The Weekend- Franck, J-C, Stephanie, and Virginie

Activity #3: Next Weekend -Franck, Stephanie, and Virginie

Activity #4: Vacations- Franck, J-C, Stephanie, and Virginie

Approved Date

2021-06-30

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