EDUC 480 - Mini-Lesson: Lesson Plan

Date: June, 16, 2015

Name: Beata, Joscelyn, Aimie

Target Student Group: Grade 5

Title of Lesson: Les Fruits
PLOs: (Connection to IRP)

Expressacquiredinformationinoralandvisualforms

RespondtocreativeworksfromtheFrancophoneworld
o Have students listen to a recorded French song. Students identify as much vocabulary as possible and
brainstorm in order to determine meaning. Replay the song once meaning is determined.
Students may enjoy songs selected for their easy lyrics, catchy melodies, and appealing rhythms. When words are provided,
students can sing along with the song or its chorus. Using rhythm instruments or movement makes this activity more fun and
integrates music and physical education.
Lesson Objectives/Student Understandings:
Assessment:
Students will be able to...
Why teach this lesson?
Thepurposeofthislessonistointroducethestudentstothetopic
offruits,specificallylearning16fruitsinFrench.

Why teach this lesson?

We want to teach this lesson so that students expand their
French vocabulary. This is our introduction to our food/
restaurant/ grocery store unit, but todays focus is on
learning fruits. Students will learn these words specifically
because it will extend their practical knowledge of
vocabulary that they can utilize in their everyday lives (for
example at the grocery store, or at restaurants).

What do I want the students to know/do/understand?

By the end of the lesson, we want the students to be able
to recognize the 16 fruits that we teach them and the
correct pronunciation for each fruit. We want them to
engage in the expansion of their French vocabulary and be
able to use these words and understand their meaning. The
repetition of methods of learning this vocabulary will aid in
the learning process by using a song, worksheet, oral
vocalization of vocabulary and an engaging game/activity.
Whatwillbelearnedandwhyisituseful
Students will learn the names of 16 fruits in French to
expand their practical vocabulary of French words. As
stated above, this is useful because these words are words
that appear in everyday life. We hope that students will be
engaged in this lesson and participate in learning the
correct pronunciation and spelling of these words.

We will assess the matching worksheet to assess their prior

knowledge of the French vocabulary words. Assess that they are
attempting to convey French meaning and attempting to sing in
French.
Observation: who is engaged and participating.
In regard to our summative assessment, our final version of
assessment will include watching students play the Slap the
Fruits Game to determine if they have learned the correct
French words of the 16 fruits. If students are consistently
forgetting the vocabulary or incorrectly responding in the game,
we will know from our summative assessment that more learning
and review of the words needs to occur.

Activities:

Greet students, introduce that well be learning about fruit vocabulary

Hook students by playing Jaime les Fruits YouTube song as an introduction to the
vocab activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ03KjwiIVM
Hand out Les Fruits Matching worksheet
Give students 5 minutes to match the pictures of the fruit with the vocabulary, remind students
to use the dictionary for words they are not sure about
Go over the words together, teacher writes the fruits up on the board and asks students to repeat
the fruits back (2 minutes).
Write the phonetic version of the word next to the correct spelling to help students pronounce
the words.

Now that students have been introduced to the fruit vocabulary, we will play: Slap the fruits! Cards will
be laid out on the floor with pictures of the fruit. (12 minutes)

Students will be divided up into 3 groups and have to sit in circles on the floor surrounding the
fruit cards.

As there are 3 of us teaching this lesson, there will be a referee at each of the groups to
determine who has slapped the card first and if they have slapped the correct card.

Students will have to sit on their knees with their hands behind their back. The teacher will
call out a fruit (using the proper French vocabulary) and students have to quickly try to slap the
correct fruit card. The first student to slap the card, gets to take it. The student with the most
cards collected in the end will be the winner.

However, if the student slaps an incorrect card they must sit out for one turn
- Objective of this activity is to get the students familiar with the French vocabulary of these 16
fruits while playing a fun and engaging game.

Materials/Resources:

worksheets
3 sets of the
16 fruit
pictures
rules of the
game
whiteboard
whiteboard
pens

Extensions:

Extendthislearningtosocialstudiestodiscusswherethesefruitsaregrownintheworld/which
typesofenvironments
ExtendlearningtodifferentkindsoffoodsandlearntheFrenchwordsforthosetypesoffoods
PotentialwonderprojectonafoodthatstudentshavetoresearchinFrenchandwriteabout.
Theycouldchoosetheirfavouritefoodorafavouriterestaurant.

Adaptations:

Adapttostudentsthatneedhelpwithpronunciationbyhavingthephoneticspellinguponthe
whiteboardbesidethewords
Adapttostudentswhomayneedextrahelpbyfloatingaroundtheroom
TellstudentstoconsiderthatmanyofthesefruitaresimilarinFrenchasinEnglish