French 3: Friday September 14 2012 Lesson Plan

DUE: assignment moved to mardi, le 19 septembre! We totally changed the plan!

[80 minutes] Real French News!

• Objectives: 
  1. practice translation (use of cognates and context)
  2. develop vocabulary
  3. reinforce grammar (suffixes, roots)
  4. discuss geography, culture and history (French and world!)
• Text: "Jour de colère dans le monde musulman," Le Monde, 14 septembre 2012
• Feature article on Smart Board.
• Students collaborate to translate article paragraph by paragraph.
• If this lesson works, we may do it more frequently with other articles!

Les Devoirs: Rien! Mais étudiez fort pour l'examen de vocabulaire!