1. Technology Training with Steve Gibbs
Technology Integration Unit Outline
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Name: Schocher Sandrine
Project Title: Allons au café!
Project Subject: French level 1 language acquisition stage 1
Grade Level(s): 9-10
Essential Question: How to order or buy food in France?
Scaffolding How do you inquire about the price? How do you interpret an
Questions: authentic French menu? What are the cultural differences?
Where do you go to eat or drink something?
Assignment Students will create a dialogue in a café or a restaurant in
Summary: France using GoAnimate. They will update their status on
Edmodo describing their eating experience in France. They will
recreate a traditional French menu and present it to the class
using slideshare. Students will interpret a menu in French that
they have never seen before. Students will display their work in
a Wiki.
Approximate Length of Unit (days, weeks)
3 weeks
Goals:
Students will learn to order snacks and beverages in a café.
They will learn to ask about prices and pay for their food/drinks.
They will learn to use French money.
Objectives:
Students will learn to tell time (military time)
They will learn to give the date and the day of the week
They will learn to talk about the weather.
Lesson Plan Sequence of Events – give day-to-day details:
Day 1: Presentation of new vocabulary. TPR story: Ms. Schocher tells a story all in
French. She is walking with her dog bijou and they are both hungry and thirsty. She finds
money in her pocket counts it. She points to a café et….. Listening + Visuals (50
minutes)
Day 2: Show a YouTtube video with pictures and pronunciation. Students listen and
repeat food and beverage items in French. Emphasis on I would like and polite forms.
Students are in groups and practice mentioning food and beverages that they would like
to order. Review numbers. (50 minutes)
Day 3: I show students how to use Quizlet to help them memorize their new vocab.
I post homework on Edmodo and show students where they can view the video and find
the folders. Spelling and reading practice in French (numbers, food, beverages). (50
minutes)
Day 4: I post a vocab quiz on Edmodo and students take the quiz online during class. We
watch a video of people ordering food in France. Students learn how to prepare a crêpe
Save finished copy to Dropbox as LastName_Tech_Unit_Outline.docx or .rtf; save again
as a PDF. Upload both files to your wiki portfolio. Provide links to both files on Outline
wiki page. Upload the PDF version to Slideshare.net and post embed widget in wiki
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2. Technology Training with Steve Gibbs
and a quiche. We practice spelling of the vocabulary. We use mini white board. I ask
students to create their own flashcards using studyblue and send me the link on Edmodo
to verify that they did it. I ask them to get into groups I give them real French menu and
they must fill a graphic organizer showing the differences and find the borrowed food
from other culture/countries. Students use their smartphone to convert Euros into dollars
to rate the restaurant as expensive or cheap or affordable. Homework on Edmodo (writing
and mini cultural quiz) (102 minutes)
Key Websites Used:
http://goanimate.com/
http://quizlet.com/13638894/glencoe-french-1-bienvenue-chp-5-flash-cards/
http://www.edmodo.com
http://www.slideshare.net
http://voicethread.com/
http://quizlet.com/
http://www.studyblue.com/
http://www.voki.com/
Accommodations for Differentiated Instruction
Resource Student: Shorter task, one on one help during intervention (Thursday and
Friday with 36 minutes sessions)
Gifted Student: Students will visit cafés and restaurants online and prepare a
review by listing the food and the price. They can prepare a QR
Code for their reviews and post it on the wall.
Save finished copy to Dropbox as LastName_Tech_Unit_Outline.docx or .rtf; save again
as a PDF. Upload both files to your wiki portfolio. Provide links to both files on Outline
wiki page. Upload the PDF version to Slideshare.net and post embed widget in wiki
outline page