Sports Lessons
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Les Sports et les Passetemps Web Quest

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Lesson Plans to accompany Allez, viens 1 C H A P I T R E

4 Première étape (pp. 100–103)

Class time: 45 minutes

Sports et passe-temps

First Day

Objectives
Students will learn to tell how much they like or dislike certain activities.
Motivate
As students enter the room, on the board will be a transparency picturing various sports and activities. The instructions will be: “In your journal, write an entry of at least 2 sentences telling 2 things you like to do after school and 2 things you don’t like to do.” (5 HW points)
After students have had a few moments to write their entry and get settled, ask students what activities they participate both in and out of school, and which ones they really enjoy or dislike. Ask them if their friends like the same activities.
Teach
1. Presentation: Vocabulaire, p. 100. Again, using the transparencies, cover the activities and mime them one at a time. After miming each one, say the French equivalent and repeat it as you uncover that expression.
2. Vocabulaire: Hand out vocab list and have students categorize the activities by season with a partner on the reverse side. (Students receive 5 HW/Part points by showing the categorized list to the teacher BEFORE moving on to Listening Activity)
 
Activité 6 Ecoute! p. 100 Listen to this conversation between Philippe and Pascal. List at least two activities Pascal likes and two he doesn’t like.

PHILIPPE Eh, salut, Pascal! Tu vas en vacances à la montagne! Quelle chance! Tu vas faire des photos?
 

PASCAL Des photos?Non, je ne fais jamais de photos.
PHILIPPE Tu vas faire du ski?
PASCAL Non, pas moi. Je n’aime pas le ski.
PHILIPPE Qu ’est-ce que tu aimes faire, alors?
PASCAL Mais des tas de choses. J’aime faire de la natation. Et puis, le champion du patin à glace, c’est moi. J’adore ça. J’aime aussi beaucoup faire de la vidéo. A la rentrée, on va regarder une vidéo formidable de mes vacances.
 
3. Play the audio recording for Activity 6, p. 100 (Audio CD 4), and check for comprehension by having students list on their whiteboards at least 2 activities Pascal likes and 2 he doesn’t like. ( 1 HW/Part point for each correctly spelled item; max  5 points)
4. Have students complete Activities 1 and 2, Grammar and Vocabulary Workbook, p. 25. Allow about 5-8 minutes for students to complete, circulating as they write. While they are writing, have a transparency of the activities and ask for volunteers to fill in their answers. Then, when everyone has completed the exercise, put the transparency up and have the volunteers read the answers they have written. (1 HW/Part point for each correct answer, extra points for volunteers: max 10 points)
5. Presentation:  Grammaire, p. 101, faire de & jouer à .Read grammar explanation with students and then have class orally complete Activity 7, p. 101, together.
6. Homewor k: Assign activities 3 and 4 from Grammar and Vocabulary Workbook, p. 26.(18 HW points) Also, for extra homework points, students may create an online flashcard presentation of the vocabulary—1 homework point for every 5 vocab words (maximum 5 points). These flashcards may be created in PowerPoint or similar or at a site like  www.quia.com and emailed to the teacher. (These presentations are a piece that carries throughout the year, and each thematic topic has a flashcard presentation available to students via links on the class WebPage.)
Close
Game: Jeter et Attraper.  First, have students look back at their vocabulary list, noticing which activities use  faire  and which ones use jouer  and explain to you why. Then, have them put away books and papers. Call out an activity (ski) and toss a ball to a student, who catches it and calls out the full expression (faire du ski)

For an extra challenge or to motivate students who are hesitant to participate, students who drop the ball should be given 2 activities. This is also a good opportunity to call out other activities not included on the list (use cognates!) to see if students can guess which verb to use.
 
 

Sports et passe-temps Second Day

Objectives
 
Students will learn to tell how much they like or dislike certain activities.
 
Motivate
As students enter the room, on the board will be the transparency from the previous day picturing various sports and activities. The instructions will be: “In your journal, write an entry describing what the people in the transparency like to do. Use at least 2 expressions with the verb faire and two with jouer.” (5  HW points)
(While students are writing, circulate and look at previous night’s homework, recording points earned)
After students have had a few moments to write their entry and get settled, begin by asking if there were problems on the homework. Answer any questions. Then, ask students if they always answer questions in complete sentences. Have them suggest short answers they might give in English if someone asked whether they liked or disliked something. Then, ask them to open their texts to page 102 and compare their short answers to those in the box titled

Comment dit-on?”.

Teach

1. Presentation:  Comment dit-on,  p. 102. Have several volunteers ask you if you like different activities from their vocabulary. As you answer, use the various expressions from the vocabulary box, delivering each with exaggerated expressions and gestures to get the point across. Then, tell them how much you like other activities and ask them to indicate what they understood by using a thumbs-up, comme-ci, comme ça or thumbs down gesture.

2. Play the audio recording for Activity 9, p. 102, and check for comprehension by having students use their whiteboards to list the sports or games each speaker likes or dislikes. Students should list at least 4 different activities that they hear.(up to 5 HW/Part points)
 

9 Ecoute!p.102
 
On a school trip to Québec, you listen to your classmate talk to a Canadian student.  Write down at least one sport or game each speaker likes and one each speaker dislikes.
 
— Tu aimes faire du sport??
—Le sport, j ’adore ça, surtout le roller en ligne et le hockey. Par contre, je n ’aime pas beaucoup le volley. Et toi, tu aimes faire du sport?
 
—Le volley, pas du tout. Le roller en ligne, pas tellement. Je n’aime pas les sports d ’équipe. J ’aime bien faire du ski, et je fais du jogging tous les matins à sept heures.
3. Have students work in pairs to prepare the dialogue described in Activity 10, p. 102. This is a speaking activity not a written one! As students are doing dialogues, circulate and help with pronunciation and intonation. Groups that offer to present the dialogue to the class may earn extra oral participation points:up to  5  points.

4. Presentation: Write the sentence “You like to go bike riding” on the board. Ask students to turn it into a question in as many different ways as they can. Next, have them read  Grammaire, p. 103 (using  est-ce que for Question Formation) Write a few (3-4) statements on the board and have all students use  est-ce que  to turn them into questions in their notes. Then, have pairs of students ask and answer the questions.

 5. Survey: Have students list their 5 favorite activities and their 5 least favorite activities on a piece of paper. Next, ask them to conduct a survey of the class to find out how many people like & dislike the 10 activities they have listed, and how much using the new adverbs learned this lesson. (10 HW Points for survey) Once students have completed the survey, using Excel, they will input the data and create a chart or graph illustrating the results of the survey. Have students open the file labeled “polls” from the class website for step-by-step guidance through the process. (10 HW points for excel)

6. Homework Assign activities 5 and 6 from Grammar and Vocabulary Workbook, p. 27. (16 HW points) Also, study for quiz 4.1

Close

Have students give all appropriate answers to a series of questions and statements such as “Tu aimes le sport?” “Moi, j’aime le volley” “Je n’aime pas le ski” “Tu aimes faire les devoirs?” (Students should be able to distinguish between questions and statements and give appropriate responses)

Sports et passe-temps Third Day

Objectives
 
Students will learn about famous people, historical events, and places in Quebec. Students will listen as Emilie introduces herself, her friends, and Quebec City.
 

Motivate

Ask students what they would include in a videotape to a French pen pal. Would they show their city? Their friends? What they like to do?
 
Teach
 
1. Presentation: Nouvelles de Québec
Read the letter from Emilie to her American pen pal Leticia. Ask students simple comprehension questions, having write Vrai or Faux on their whiteboards and “flashing” the answer. If students have problems with the comprehension, have them read the letter from p. 96 of their text, discussing any difficulties they have with vocabulary.
2. Show Nouvelles de Québec Video, having students check off activities that they hear mentioned. Follow up the video with some simple comprehension questions.
3. Review the different activities not mentioned in the video and have students explain how to use faire, jouer, and est-ce que. Allow a few minutes for students to review individually and pass out their QUIZ.
Close
As students complete quiz, hand out research assignment for the following day. At the end of class, tell students that they will be using the Internet to research sports and pastimes popular with teens in France and Canada. Ask them what sports they think will be popular and have them give as many activities in French as they can. For homework, they should make a list of French terms they want to use for their search.

 
 

Sports et passe-temps Fourth Day

Objectives
Students will make comparisons of activities offered at Maisons des jeunes in France, Canada, and recreation centers in their communities.

 
The Jeux de la Francophonie 
The Tour de France
Paris-Dakar Rally
24 Heures du Mans
French Open / Roland Garros 
Le Grand Prix de Monaco

Class should be conducted in the computer lab and all students should work individually.
 

See WebQuest for this assignment
 

Your goals today are:
to comparisons of activities offered at Maisons des Jeunes in France, Canada, and recreation centers in your communities.
To learn about some of the world-renowned sporting events which take place each year in France and Canada
Once you have logged in and called up this document in Word, you should save it as “Webquest_Sports” in your directory. You will need to email this document to me when you have completed it.
 
Searching:
 
First, choose at least 3 different search engines en français for this assignment. I suggest any of the following:

 
http://ca.yahoo.com/
http://ca-fr.altavista.com/
http://fr.altavista.com/
http://fr.yahoo.com/
http://www.lycos.fr/
http://www.quid.fr/
www.nomade.fr
http://www2.sympatico.ca/
 
If you like a particular search engine in English, look at the bottom of their page: are they global? Do they have a site for “Canada” or “France”? If so, check it out!
Make sure you record the search engine’s URL in the table below.
Begin by looking at sports in general….what are the major sports or categories mentioned when you search for “Sports” using these search engines?

 
Search Engines I used:
Sports / categories
1. 
 
2. 
 
3. 
 

Next, search for sites for at least four different recreation centers for French and Canadian teens. List the French words or terms that you need to use search for these centers. (Students should answer “Maison des Jeunes” or “MJC”) Be sure to record the search terms you use, the URLs that you visit, and a brief list of the activities offered!
 
Search term(s)
URL of site visited
Activities offered
 
1. 
 
 
2. 
 
 
3. 
 
 
4. 
 

Compare the activities offered at these recreation centers with those offered here in Colchester through the schools and other organizations.
 
 

Next, visit at least 2 of the following sites for the following sporting events. Look at the French version first! What do you think? Write a short reaction about each event that you explore. Would you want to watch? Participate? Why or why not? Is it comparable to an event that takes place in the US?
 
 
 
The Jeux de la Francophonie 
The Tour de France
Paris-Dakar Rally
24 Heures du Mans
French Open / Roland Garros 
Le Grand Prix de Monaco

Now, explore the two sites in English and answer the following questions for each of them. You may also want to do searches on these events and find other sites related to them. Include a at least 3 other links that you discover during this search.
 
 
 
What is the event? (Give the French and English names)
 
 
What sport? (en français)
 
 
Where does it take place?
 
 
When?
 
 
When was the event first held?
 
 
Name several French people who have won this event
 
 
Did you find any Americans that have won?