This document provides instructions for a project where students will design and present their dream house. They must create a floor plan of the house and label each room in French. They also need to give the house a French name. Then, students will be split into groups where half will be salespeople presenting their house design to the other half acting as customers. Salespeople must give a 3-minute pitch in French about the features of their house design and be prepared to answer customer questions. The project will be graded on the quality of the written floor plan and sales pitch, as well as the oral presentation and conversation skills of the students. Students are provided a rubric focusing on vocabulary, effort, pronunciation and comprehensibility for the assessment

1. La Maison de mesRêves / My Dream House
Create or Draw your dream house and label each room in French
Give your house a name in French, like “chez Jerome” of “Le Paradis”
Prepare a presentation / sales pitch about your house in French
DUE DATE: AFTER SPRING BREAK ! (FRIDAY, APRIL 5TH)
One half of the class will be sales people and give their sales pitch to the potential buyers from the other
half of the class. The sales period will last approximately 15 minutes. Customers will look at the homes for sale,
listen to the sales pitches and ask questions they have, in French, of course! Customers will choose one house they
wish to purchase. They will write the name of the home and its architect on a ballot and turn it in. Any house
purchased will earn 3 extra points for the architect who designed it. Then sales people and customers will switch
roles, and the sales process will take place once again. Customers will receive a ballot to purchase the one house of
their dreams.
Grading:
Complete house plan with rooms labeled in French + sales pitch in French (visual + writing): 36 points
Sales pitch and conversations w/customers people in French (speaking): 24 points
Standard Based Performance Assessment (SBPA): Presentational writing + speaking; Interpersonal speaking
You will need to write a script to sell your house. Include the following:
1. Describe the various rooms, and outdoor parts of the house. Use adjectives to make them seem appealing, e.g.
unegrande piscine etune petite fontaine. Use sentences with “There is/are-il y a un…”
2. Talk about the community. Is your house near a park, a museum, a school? Why is that good (what can you do
there?)
3. Be persuasive. Include lots of details and a variety of words.
4. Talk for at least 3 minutes. (25 sentences minimum)
5. Answer questions about your house.
You’ll need to turn your script in at the end of the project.
You need to rehearse SERIOUSLY to do a good job with this project.

2. Nom:______________________ Prénom:_______________________ P:____
House Project Rubric (writing)
Describes house in detail, with adjectives and location prepositions, your house has a name
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Describes surroundings (next to, to the right, to the left, in front, behind…)
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Uses a variety of vocabulary and structures (there is, it’s, it has…)
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House plan is labeled correctly in French, with extra details
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Includes at least 25 sentences if you work alone (15 per person in groups)
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Shows effort to go beyond the minimum
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SPEAKING PORTION (you must either memorize it or sound spontaneous)
6 = SOUNDS POLISHED, REHEARSED, GOOD PRONUNCIATION, DOESN’T READ
5-4= COMPETENT, GOOD PRONUNCIATION, READS SOMETIMES
3 = COMMUNICATES MAIN IDEAS, READS, OCCASIONAL PAUSES, SOMETIMES UNCLEAR
2 = COMMUNICATES SOME IDEAS
1 = COMMUNICATES VERY LITTLE, USES ENGLISH
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The house project will not be accepted without a visual ( a floor plan, a 3 D house)
You can work in group of maximum 4 with a group agreement form and a tasks/collaboration list.
All students must present, write and speak equally.
Divide and delegate tasks to each other.
Each students must turn in their own writing portion and have at least 15 sentences minimum.

3. USEFUL EXPRESSIONS FOR THIS PROJECT:
IL Y A ……………THERE IS
IT IS ……………..C’EST
IT HAS………….ELLE A
THE HOUSE HAS……..LA MAISON A
Location preposition: devant, derrière, à gauche, à droite, àcôté de, sur, sous, loin, en haut, en bas
Adjectives: grand, petit, beau, belle, ancient, vieux, vieille, moderne, élégante, all the colors (bleu, rouge, vert, jaune
etc.) immense, minuscule, charmante, agréable, somber, clair, large, étroit, etc….
Other rooms and features:
Une piscine, un Jacuzzi, un court de tennis, unefontaine, double garage, un étage (floor), une tour (a tower), une terrace
(an outside patio) etc..