Where do you live ? / Où habites-tu? (cardinal points + geographical features)

Lesson aimed at a higher set of Yr7s (and including differentiation both to adapt to different levels and to differentiate within the class), covering the vocabulary of cardinal points as well as geographical features (by the sea-side, in the countryside,…). Also includes 4 weather expressions as a stretch.

Based on the new GCSE (Edexcel).

A two-hour lesson.

Lesson 1:
Introduces “j’habite” as a basis, and stretches with “je voudrais habiter” as well as opinion + habiter.
Language presentation through listening of the cardinal points.
Follows another listening at sentence level with the cardinal points and a map of France with cities (differentiated activity depending on the level of the class).
Speaking activity in pairs / groups: trapdoor.

Lesson 2:
Language presentation of geographical features (à la campagne, à la montagne, en ville,…).
Practice through a reading.
Further practice through a guided writing.
Leads to a dictation with sentences grouping all the knowledge seen over the last two lessons.