J’habite ici… French Comprehensible Input unit 8 for beginning French

A French comprehensible input unit 8 that can be used in the first year of French. It builds on the vocabulary from the previous units in the series. Includes lesson plans for 11 days, talking about housing in the French-speaking world.

This French comprehensible input unit 8 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 the house and town/city

• Handout for students to talk to each other about giving directions

• Handout for students to read about giving directions
• Internet activities for finding a house/apartment, furniture and a castle
• Unit story using vocabulary from this unit

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

• Running dictation game to accompany unit story

• Handout for unit story retell/rewrite

• Animated video of unit story

• Unfair Game to accompany unit 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, On va Sortir, Ma Famille et mes amis, Les Achats and Bon Appétit 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 1-8 are available now. All units build on the vocabulary of the previous units.