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Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: TELLING TIME AND DESCRIBING SCHEDULES

Name: Christian Hill

Content Area: World Languages (French)

Grade Level: 9th (or 1st year of high school French)

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

Content:
I.1.1.i: School, classroom, schedule, subjects, numbers, time, directions.

Communication:
I.1.0: Students use formulaic language (learned words and phrases).
I.1.1. Engage in oral and written conversation.
I.1.2. Interpret written and spoken language.
I.1.3. Present to an audience of listeners.
I.1.5. Identify learned words and phrases in authentic texts.

Culture:
I.1.0. Students use appropriate responses to rehearsed cultural situations.
I.1.2. Recognize similarities and differences in the target cultures and between students' own cultures.

Structures:
II.2.0. Students use sentence-level elements (morphology and syntax or both) to understand concrete and factual topics.
II.2.1. Use sentence-level elements (morphology or syntax or both) to produce informal communications.

Big Ideas/Unit Goals:

Big Ideas: Communicating about time (telling time)


Understanding and describing a daily and weekly schedule

Unit Goals: Students will analyze and memorize the vocabulary associated with time and days


- Students will research the life of a historical French-speaking celebrity


and imagine that person's schedule for a week using research about the era

Unit Summary:

This unit will prepare students for understanding and telling time as well as for describing schedules (daily and weekly
schedules). Therefore, after reviewing numbers and key verbs ("to be" and "to have"), students will learn the sentence structures
for time. French people use an "ordinary" system for generic communication about time and an "official" system to tell time,
more commonly for appointments, travelling (departure/arrival times), and events (sports, TV shows, movie times, etc.). Since
both systems are used every day, students must acquire the knowledge of and proficiency for both of them. Just as with English,
some time structures involve appending the phase of the day to the time (e.g. 3 o'clock in the morning, 10 o'clock at night). This
will bring students to the next stage of the class: schedules. From phases of the day to days of the week, this unit will ensure that
students can tell the time, use expressions of time, and describe activities that typically appear in daily and weekly schedules.


Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level:
Formative:
Summative:



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Exam: telling time and
. Fill-in the blanks: review of present tense
(etymological patterns, cognates, mnemonics)
schedules
of verbs "to have" and "to be"
. Matching game: connect numbers to their
spell-out names
. Shout out: students, upon being called, says
numbers from 0-60

Drills: verbal Q&A of vocabulary and of sentence structures

Think-Pair-Share: partners first write their schedule for one day
of school, then share them
Research Graphic Organizer: the weekly schedule of a famous
French-speaking person

Lesson 1
Student Learning
Objective: ability to
understand and say the
time in the "ordinary"
system.

Acceptable Evidence
(Assessments): in-
class Q&As, exit cards,
Quizlet practice scores.

Lesson Activities:
Warm-up: teaser with a 6-minute movie clip of the clock tower scene of Retour vers le
future (Back to the Future 1). Next, digital lecture on time (1st part), including (as the
lecture opener) the study of a list of time sentence structures to spot patterns and guess
the system. Next, drill using a toy clock with moveable hands, oral Q&A on time. Wrap-
up: students in pairs create mini skits around the question, "quelle heure est-il?"
("What time is it?")

Lesson 2
Student Learning
Objective: ability to
understand and say the
time in the "official"
system.

Lesson 3
Student Learning
Objective: ability to
share one's schedule on
a given day and a given
week.

Acceptable Evidence:

Lesson Activities:

in-class Q&As, exit

cards, Quizlet practice
scores.

Warm-ups: teacher utters a series of times and students must write them all down in
number form (answers written on board); next, using a time zone map and table
teacher asks students what time it is in other parts of the world. Main lesson: lecture
on time (2nd part) "official" system. Setting the context for the need for accurate
communication (no confusion between morning and afternoon hours), comparison
with military time practiced in USA. Drill: sequence of images of digital clock times.
Practice activity: reading timetables. Wrap-up: with a map of Paris and its famous
landmarks, over which appears the charted itinerary of a DHS courier with time stamps
for each stop, students in teams of three play a game where they must say the time after
one of them prompts the other two with the name of one of the stops of the courier.

Acceptable Evidence:

Lesson Activities:

short review quiz on

understanding and
writing time; semantic
analysis of new
vocabulary.

Warm-up: quiz on expressions of time. Main mini-lesson #1: phases of the day.
Practice: telling time with the phase of the day (the full "ordinary" system). Drill:
sequence of images of clock times and phases of the day. Main mini-lesson#2: days of
the week. Analysis of vocabulary (etymology, patterns, exceptions). Instructions and
demo for graphic organizer project. Wrap-up: students question and answer each
other about the schedule of leaders of the Francophone world (e.g. Canadian Prime
Minister, Kings of Belgium and Morocco, French President, etc.).

Unit Resources:

. clock with moveable hands
. timetables (for buses, planes, trains, etc.) from real transportation companies
. French-English dictionaries
. map of the world with time zones

Useful Websites:
YouTube, Back to the Future, Clock Tower Scene in French

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuieoJaGOK4
Time zone map of the world 1

http://www.worldtimezone.com/
Time zone map of the world 2


http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
Interactive application to practice time

http://www.literacycenter.net/play_learn/numbers_fr/clock_h_fr.php
Telling time (The French Experiment)

http://www.thefrenchexperiment.com/learn-french/telling-time.php
French time phrases (Rocket Languages)

https://www.rocketlanguages.com/french/learn/french-time/
Time in French (Rocket Languages)

https://www.rocketlanguages.com/french/learn/time-in-french/