8th Grade World Languages Lesson

Middle schoolers dive into reading, writing, and speaking, culminating in the exciting challenge of designing their own hair style, poster and scrapbook. Watch language skills soar in this engaging, hands-on experience!

This MEGA 60-page document contains everything you could possibly need to comfortably, confidently (and with as little effort as humanely possible) lead a long-term unit with your low-vocabulary middle-schoolers needing a high interest BOOST.

Tired of finding documents that are too advanced for your Core French/FSL kids or babyish and full of cartoon-y, childish clipart? This frustration is what gave me an epiphany 3 short years ago and what gave life to my store! Are you, too, losing the buy-in before you even JUMP in? Created with middle school in mind, this unit of activities, games, vocabulary and content, communication prompts, lesson plans, worksheets and templates will get your kids saying "Je me fais couper les cheveux tous les six semaines!" "Mes cheveux sont bouclés et châtains" and "À quelle fréquence laves-tu les cheveux?" in two shakes of a lamb's tail!

My Core French products are high engagement, low-level. This 60-page document has everything you need to effectively engage your students to build the vocabulary needed to become confident enough to create something that will WOW you!

In this document, you'll find:

• A 24-page Slide Deck with:

• Messages du jour

• Games (Qui suis-je?, 4 Coins, etc.)

• Recaps of vocabulary they should know (but likely forgot, who are we kidding?)

• Oodles of oral prompts, reading and writing activities.

• A 40-page teaching guide & worksheet document

• Your lesson plans for 5 formal days before projects!

• "Mes cheveux sont..." An interactive translation dictionary activity on textures, styles, colors, and cuts.

• "Mes cheveux maintenant..." A creative, writing activity.

• Printable wall numbers for 4 Corners (4 Coins)

• "Que préfères-tu?" An oral partner activity on asking and stating preferences about hair.

• "À quelle fréquence coupes-tu les cheveux?" An oral surveying activity which requires asking and answering questions and filling out a table.

• "Est-ce que tes cheveux sont..." An oral surveying activity which requires asking and answering questions and filling out a table.

• "Quel est mon type de cheveux?" A writing activity on descriptive language and using learned vocabulary to write full sentences.

• "Comment sont tes cheveux?" A printable vocabulary list for students.

• "Qui suis-je?" (Version 1) Teacher copy with prompts + additional clues.

• "Qui suis-je?" (Version 2) Teacher copy with prompts + additional clues.

• Word search with answer key.

• Printable matching game on beauty services (Vocabulary + Images)

• Printable matching game on salon accessories (Vocabulary + Images)

• Your gradebook/roster with all outcomes explored.

• Final projects section

• "Coiffures à travers le temps" (a scrapbooking project featuring baby pictures and hair cuts through time, with a focus on descriptive language and preferences)

• "Ma coupe de cheveux préférée" (an additional activity that goes with the scrapbooking project.

• "Une coiffe à la mode" (a group project on inventing a hot new hair trend and creating a poster for it!) + Rubric

• 2 scripts on asking for services in a hair salon.

• 2 fake "services menus" for hair salons.

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Need a creative way for students to learn which verbs use être as a helping verb in the passé composé? This engaging French lesson includes an original story with comprehensive listening, reading, and writing activities. After this lesson, your students will know and understand the 17 Dr. & Mrs. P. Vandertramp verbs. Here's a fun game that you can use to have your students practice conjugating these verbs.

EXPECT YOUR STUDENTS TO:

• identify verbs that use être as a helping verb
• strengthen listening comprehension at their level
• remember to make agreement on past participles
• learn new vocabulary by reading in French
• be amused by this creative story

STEP 1:

• Download, print, and distribute the Dr. & Mrs. P. Vandertramp chart.
• 17 verbs that use être as a helping verb are written in French with English translations.
• Past participles are included.

STEP 2:

• Listen to an audio recording of an original story that uses all 17 verbs that use être in the passé composé to work on listening comprehension, and to see how much students can understand.
• Download worksheet #1 and have students fill in the blanks (subjects, helping verbs, and past participles) as they listen to the story again.
• Download, print, and distribute the full text (2 pages) and have students read along as they listen again.
• Download worksheet #2 and have students fill in the blanks (helping verbs and past participles only - subjects and infinitives are included) NOT while listening to the story. 

STEP 3:

• Dictée - Listen to the audio recording and have students write everything they hear on the lines provided.
• This is a good exercise in listening comprehension, and they'll need to pay close attention to number and gender to spell the past participles correctly.
• Subject pronouns along with number and gender are included on the student response sheet.
• As they listen, they will write helping verbs and past participles.

What some teachers are saying about this lesson:

"Amazing resource! This was so comprehensive and hit all the aspects of language I was assessing at the time. I'm going to use this for the rest of my career."

"Great breakdown of the PC and of Vandertramp verbs. The audio recording was a great exercise, the right "level" of challenge for my grade 9s."

Dr. & Mrs. P. Vandertramp Verbs - Être Auxiliary Verb:

• descendre
• rentrer
• monter
• rester
• sortir
• partir
• venir
• arriver
• naître
• devenir
• entrer
• retourner
• tomber
• rentrer
• aller
• mourir
• passer

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Looking for a comprehensive French unit about going to the outdoor market in France? This resource has it all!

Resource includes:

- Five days of lesson plans

- LOTO game (fruits et légumes)

- Flashcard materials (use fruit & légume document)

- Vocabulary words & images for fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, and cheese

- “Au Marché” PowerPoint presentation with 48 colorful slides

- “Seasonal Eating” poster

- “Useful expressions at the Market” document

- 2 worksheets to be used for homework

- Skit assignments + grading rubric

- Optional language lab assignment (storyboard activity)

- 2 quizzes - One simple and one more advanced on fruits, vegetables, meats & fish, cheeses

French Listening Comprehension - Allons au Marché!

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This is a quick, ready to go lesson to teach the French verb être with a 20 slide powerpoint, a printable lesson guide, exercises, and a fun conjugation game. This lesson breaks down the sometimes tricky ways to say you are in/at a place or country, simple negation, how you are feeling, and some common expressions. This lesson makes teaching the verb être accessible, understandable, and most of all fast and easy for you!  Just print and go! See the preview for a closer look.

Looking for a quiz to match this French lesson? My Être Present Tense Translations Quiz - Google Forms Quiz or Exercise covers it!

Included:

• 8 page ready to teach French lesson on être
• 20 slide PowerPoint presentation
• Exercises and conjugation game included

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Quick French lesson to teach the verbs être and se sentir in the present tense with adjectives of feeling and emotion. This lesson breaks down these tricky irregular verbs and teaches how to use them easily followed by 38 commonly used adjectives of feeling and emotion while making agreement when necessary. This lesson helps to make teaching this concept accessible, understandable, and most of all fast and easy for you! Just print the 8 page lesson and go!

An 84 slide PowerPoint lesson is included. 38 short exercises are on the printed and PowerPoint versions. Students can complete the exercises and also check their work during the PowerPoint presentation.

Looking for a quiz to match this French lesson? My French Feelings and Emotions Adjectives - Google Forms Quiz or Exercise covers it!

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• 8 page ready to teach French lesson on ÊTRE and SE SENTIR with adjectives
• 84 slide PowerPoint presentation
• 38 short exercises on both versions, answers included on PowerPoint

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Regular ER Verbs in the Present Tense and Passé Composé + 5 Ways to Use Negation + Lesson Plan

Regular verbs ending in ER represent the largest group of verbs in French. This comprehensive lesson focuses on 15 of them, and students will learn how to use them both in the present tense and in the passé composé. They will learn how to use simple negation as well as how to say never, nothing, anymore, and not yet. This is a very comprehensive lesson in which I give lots of examples, and the way I teach it will make them feel as if we're sitting together in a 1:1 session! This lesson is perfect for distance learning.

STUDENT INSTRUCTIONS & LESSON PLAN (Steps 1 - 4 included in this resource):

➯ STEP 1 - «COURS»: Download your cours before watching the video and be ready to take notes. This is an 8 page skeleton outline of the lesson that you can print and use to follow along as the lesson is taught. There is space for you to write examples. This is an important part of the learning process as you will retain more if you actively participate rather than simply listening.

➯ STEP 2 - Lesson guide: I'm including a study guide which is a neat 6 page copy of the lesson.

➯ STEP 3 - Jennifer's live lesson notes: As I teach this lesson, you will see that I write examples, notes, tips, and other helpful grammar information directly on the screen. This is a 9 page copy of my personal notes written while recording.

➯ STEP 4 - Video tutorial on YouTube: 45 minute lesson in which I teach everything outlined on the 8 page cours.

Supplementary resources available on TeachShare:

➯ STEP 5 - Written exercise: 25 sentences to write either in the present tense or passé composé. All of them include one of the types of negation you will learn during the lesson. An answer key is included.

Modèle: Présent - Je - ne pas - souvent - parler - téléphone.

en français: Je ne parle pas souvent au téléphone.

en anglais: I don’t often speak on the phone.

➯ STEP 6 - Audio: 15 sentences using -ER verbs are included in this dictation exercise that will help you with listening comprehension and written production. All of the verbs from the lesson are used either in the present tense or passé composé, and half of the sentences use negation. I will read each sentence twice, giving you time to write what I say. An answer key is included.

➯ STEP 7 - Practice cards: Use your set of 100 practice cards to drill everything you learn during this lesson. Every verb from the lesson is included and repeated in different ways in this very useful set of cards. I'm including three versions:

• One set is for online use and does not include answers - 100 cards, 1 per page
• One set is for online use and includes answers on every other card - 200 cards, 1 per page
• One set is for printing and cutting out, answers not included (see the answers on SET 2) - 100 cards, 4 per page

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➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 3 and 4 curriculum

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