One of the first units I created when I set aside my textbook in favor of authentic materials was on the topic of vacations. This packet Vacation includes the following lessons:. However, this time I created French rather than English questions for the supporting details in the interpretive task. Due to the simplicity of the text, the students I am confident that the students will not have any difficulty providing the correct responses.
Using French in the questions allows me to model correct past tense conjugations which will then be repeated orally when we go over this activity in class. These same verb forms will then be used in the interpersonal and presentational tasks. This time, however, I created an interpersonal and presentational task to accompany the cartoon. In the interpersonal task the students will discuss images from the video in order to co-create a summary.
Although I have included the pictures in the packet, I prepared an alternate activity trotro pair which would require more significant negotiation of meaning.
Both the interpersonal and presentational activities provide opportunities for students to continue developing their ability to discuss past events, an important step in increasing their proficiency. Lesson 3 In this lesson the students will interpret a quiz provided by an RV rental company. I think this will be a high- interest text, because teenagers naturally enjoy taking quizzes like this. Screenshots are again provided in order to support the interpersonal and presentational tasks.
The value of this particular text is that it introduces a variety of vacation activities. I did, however, use the incorporate the imperfect of vouloir. I believe this is a good way to implicitly introduce this verb form, which could be used in later tasks.
