EDUC 480 - Mini-Lesson: Lesson Plan

Date: 23 June 2015

Target Student Group: (Grade and class i.e Grade 7 core French class) Grade 5 core French
Title of Lesson: Quel Temps fait-il ?
PLOs: (Connection to IRP)
New Curriculum
Level A 1.1: use visual aids, actions, lists, and graphic organizers
use visual and context clues to guess meaning
Level 1.2: continue to develop word bank of useful expressions to aid in more spontaneous
communication
Old curriculum (grade 5)
It is expected that students will:
-ask and respond to simple questions (Quel temps fait-il?)
Lesson Objectives/Student
Understandings:
Students will be able to...

Ask and respond to simple questions

Use correct pronunciation, and

correct themselves accordingly after
being corrected.

Assessment:
Formative: Teacher is observing to ensure students use
proper pronunciation and understand what is being asked,
and how to answer.

Activities:

Introduce todays lesson (weather) as a re-cap of their knowledge from

previous lesson

Hand out pictorial word reference page

Teacher goes over pronunciation; students repeat [go over vocabulary

words and how to ask the what the weather is like and how to answer]

Todays activity: Charades (the first team to correctly guess all of the
weather scenarios wins)
1. Split the class into 2 teams. Each team stands in a circle facing one
another.
2. Each team gets a bucket filled with the weather flash cards. The first
student pulls out a card. The team must ask quel temps fait-il? and
then the actor may begin acting. Students must guess the answers
using the proper French vocabulary (may use cue cards)
3. Once the first card has been correctly guessed, pass the bucket for the
next student to act. Repeat until the whole bucket is done.
When one team is finished, they are encouraged to help the other team
finish.
To close, teacher asks students if they have any questions about
pronunciation.

Materials/Resourc
es:

1 copy of
vocabulary
words for each
student

2 buckets

2 sets of
weather cue
cards

Extensions:

Studentsmaychoosetocreatetheirowncharadecardsbasedonbizarreweather,orbasedonthe
weatherinadesignatedarea.

Adaptations:

Students are allowed to keep their vocabulary cards with them; if they need help with
pronunciation, they may also write down the phonetics.
If students are confident with their pronunciation and vocabulary, they may choose to not have
their cue cards available
If students are uncomfortable with the performing aspect of charades, they could have the option
of playing Pictionary and drawing the weather. Students would still be required to guess using
French vocabulary learned.