Les Régions de la France
Lise Melin
Introduction
Standards
Objectives
Activities
Assessment
Results
Resources
Level: French 1
Introduction

 

Students will gather information on a region by exploring websites on the internet. They will analyse and evaluate the information gathered to produce an attractive poster and brochure or power-point presentation. They will organize their material to make an oral presentation. 

Students are travel agents. It is their task to convince a group of high school students that the region they have chosen is the best place to spend some time. They will do their research with an eye on a tourist agenda. Their presentations will be in English but their posters, brochures and power-point presentations will be in French. All visuals will include a map. 

Student Lesson Page:  URL: ctap295.ctaponline.org/~lmelin/student/
 

Standards Addressed

Targeted Standards

  • 2.1 Practices and Culture
  • 2.2 Products of Culture
  • 3.1 Making Connections
  • 5.1 School and Community
  • 5.2 Lifelong Learning
Reflection
2.1 Students learn about the cultural practices of their chosen region 
2.2 Students learn how a region promotes itself for tourism on the internet 
3.1 Students find out about France and its different regions 
5.1 Students access French web pages and broaden their horizon 
5.2 Students learn how to use the internet for traveling purposes 
 
 
 

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Instructional Objectives

 

Project outcome:

Students will: 

  • Recognize regions of France. 
  • Gather information on a region by exploring websites on the internet.
  • Analyse and evaluate the information gathered to produce an attactive poster and brochure. A power point presentation may repace the poster and brochure but it must be in French and include all the elements needed for excellent poster and brochure.
  • Organize an oral presentation to present the region to the class.
  • Assess their knowledge of  French regions by taking a brief quiz.

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Student Activities
Introductory Activity

Group activities:

  • Students will identify and name French regions on a map of France. 
  • Students will briefly note the geographical characteristics of each region. 
  • Students will label a blank map of France with the regions of France. 
  • Students will label a blank map of France with geographical illustrations. Examples:  mountains, the sun,  rivers... or activities like snow skiing, water skiing...


Enabling Activity(ies)
 

1) Choose the region you will visit. Begin your investgation with the site above and move onto the  sites below. Do not forget to look and find your own websites. 
 


Collect information on your region with an eye toward your poster,brochure, power-point presentation and oral presentation. 

2) Analyse and evaluate your data. 

a) For your visual: 

  • Do you have enough material in French?
  • Do you have attractive illustrations?


b) For your oral presentation: 
 

  • How are you planning to make your presentation interesting? (Using flashcards would work a lot better than reading a paper)
3) Prepare for your test. 
Take the pre-test (Student worksheet) with the map of France. 
Take the test (student worksheet) without the map of France. (for practice)

Culminating Activity

Make your oral presentations 
Take the pre test with a partner 
Study for the test (see assessment below)
 
 

Assessment
 
 
Excellent (A)
Acceptable(B-C)
Needs work(D-F)
poster
Poster contains a map of region and accurate information in French, poster is visually appealing and effort is obvious.
Poster contains a map of region and accurate information mostly in French, some effort is obvious.
Poster is lacking to varying degrees.
brochure
Brochure does an excellent job of conveying information on location, climate, sites of interest & specialties of the region. Brochure is written in French with a creative design.
Brochure does an average job of conveying information, some English and average design.
Brochre does a poor job of conveying information, too much English. General lack of effort.
power point presentation
Must encompass all elements of excellent poster and brochure.
Must encompass all elements of average poster and brochure.
Does not meet requirements for average poster and brochure.
internet search
Student provides 4 or more internet websites pertaining to region.
Student provides 2 or 3 internet websites pertaining to region.
Student provides 1 or no internet websites pertaining to region.
content research
All information is accurate. Content covers all topics included in student worksheet.
All information is accurate. Content covers half or more of the  topics included in student worksheet.
Inaccurate information. Content covers less than half of topics included in student worksheet.
Test on French regions
45 +
40+ & 35+
30+ & less
in class presentation
Student is prepared and delivers a confident presentation.Uses only a few notes. Incorporates both poster and brochure. Presents convincing argument for visiting region.
Student is fairly prepared (uses many notes) and delivers an average presentation. Incorporates poster or brochure. Presents a somewhat convincing argument for visiting region.
Student is not prepared (relies entirely on notes) and delivers a poor presentation. Does not incorporate poster or brochure. Presentation stimulates no interest in region.

 
 

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Results


The main assessment was the oral presentations and I was very gratified by their high quality. The following graph illustrates improvement since the pre-test.


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Web Resources & Supplementary Materials
Enabling Activity

 Windsor High School
Windsor California
Lise Melin:cousi@sonic.net
Last Revised: 03/21/2002