Ma famille et mes amis – French Comprehensible Input unit 5 for beginning French

A French comprehensible input unit 5 that can be used in the first year of French. It builds on the vocabulary from the Bonjour, J’aime, le Lycée and On va sortir units. Includes lesson plans for 10 days, talking about your family and other people, and being able to describe physical appearances and personalities.

This unit includes the following materials:

• Lesson plan guide for each day

• Powerpoint with lesson for each day

• Student dictionary handout page

• Handouts to practice writing and reading about families

• Handout to practice using the je/tu/il/elle/on/ils/elles forms of ir/iss verbs

• Handout for students to talk to each other about physical descriptions

• Handout for students to read about physical description
• Handout to practice describing yourself by writing a personal ad
• Unit story using vocabulary from this unit

• Cloze activities to accompany story – one with and one without word bank

• Running dictation game to accompany short story

• Handout for short story retell/rewrite

• Animated video of short story

• Short assessments for unit: reading, listening, presentational speaking, interpersonal communication and presentational writing

Use the unit on its own or as a follow-up to the Bonjour, J’aime, Le Lycée and On va Sortir units.

Use the unit as a jumping off point to start your year off comprehensibly! This unit is especially useful if:

• You are required to teach a textbook curriculum but prefer CI – it follows some of the most common sequencing found in current French textbooks.
• You want to do CI but you need a little bit of structure.
• You are required to give a common district final – it covers many of the things found in most first semester courses.

Units 1-7 are available now. All units build on the vocabulary of the previous units. A list of the vocabulary for each unit is available here: