The unit on Europe and the European Union was used as the second unit in a Year 8 course which followed a Year 7 course with Mapwork and Tropical Rain Forests in one school . Every student in Year 8 had a lesson a week of Geography in French. The Europe section lessons 1-5 had an assessment at the end which looked at the physical and human geography of Europe in the context of a tour of Europe(see that resource) . The European Union end of unit assessment is a debate about advantages and disadvantages of the EU which is backed up by extended writing in the form of speeches for and against. There is therefore the opportunity to use written and spoken french at a high level. There are exemplars of student work . There are writing and speaking frames to support. There are many video clips with listening cards to support comprehension. The unit has a student handbook which can be used by students ot write in and keep as a reference resource. This unit looks at the history of the EU, what the EU provides for its citizens, how it is funded and what the advantages and disadvantages of the EU are. It looks at Brexit and its implications amid this debate.

This lesson can take one or two lessons depending how many elements you build into it . The handbook contains listening cards within it which accompany the videos and also have copies of the different country details . There is a main powerpoint which has clips within it which take you through the reasons for its formation. There is cute clip of babies wearing nappies . Students identify the countries of the EU by noting the different flags on the babies nappies !!.

This lesson takes the students through many arguments for and against the EU. It uses video clips and powerpoints also to model the language that can be used . There are writing frames to help the students construct writing about agruments for and against .

This lesson involves matching pictures to text to discover the implications for daily life in the EU. The task is in the student handbook.

The lesson uses video clips and support materials in the handbook to look at the issue of migration into the EU

This is the first lesson of a year 7 course of Geography in French. Students produce a venn diagram to classify Geography

This lesson looks at the difference between primary, secondary and tertiary industries. Students then classify job types into primary, secondary and tertiary. They then ask other students via a questionnaire what jobs their parents and carers do and then classify them. They produce a bar chart to display the information. They compare these stats with national data.

This lesson takes a fictitious settlement and looks at locating it in the best possible position . This can take up to 3 lessons as the students , decide on location, then look at the amenities that they need. They question each other in french to find the best amenities. they then draw a plan view of the settlement which uses mapping skills. Then they explain why they have chosen site and the amenities. There is a wrting frame to support with writing in French. As this was a module near the beginning of the course there are some instructions in English. However when delivering the teacher would use French and point to the english at the same time so that students became used to the unit vocabulary.

This lesson uses OS map and aerial photography to look at the locational factors for a car factory. Student use the map to find evidence of the reasons for the location of the Peugeot factory in Coventry. this factory has now closed but a similar exercise could be replicated for other UK car factories. It will show you how to use Geographical map work skills and French to achieve a good outcome .

This lesson looks at the adaptations that desert animals have to ensure their survival. It uses video clips , extracts from the handbook and powerpoints to provide students with knowledge and understanding which can then be applied to the design of a desert animal . the desert animal design forms an end of unit assessment. Students love this !! There are word frames and some student exemplars

This lesson looks at rainfall processes, anticyclones and the working of the Hadley cell. It looks at the difference between day and night in the desert. It uses video clips, powerpoint , rainfall cards and climate graphs to convey concepts. The concluding exercise looking at the difference between day and night enables the student to assimilate many of the concepts studied previously. This lesson exemplifies the notion of high level conceptual input with lower level language needs which enable the student to access the thinking .

This lesson starts with the students drawing what they think a stereotypical desert is . It end with a comparison of their drawing with what they have learnt in the lesson. There are extracts from authentic text plus video clips with sub titles and listening cards.

This course was based on the French Geography CLIL course on Mapwork . Colleagues Lauren Kimble , Chris Scott and Maren Blume all helped to transfer this into German . The students loved it . The lesson plans take you through the whole unit of work. The unit ends with an assessment where students use maps to design a tour for a German family in their local area. There is a student handbook which the students used as a workbook to write in as well as a reference resource .

This lesson starts with an activity that is really fun and has a strong message about giving directions. Students have to describe how to get to a place in the school using compass directions and paces. They then give the instructions in German to other students who have to find the place. they will discover that although compass directions are useful , they also need accurate measurements as students’ paces will vary . This may take a whole lesson before going on to develop the lesson on 4 and 6 figure grid references . When delivering the 4 and 6 figure lesson always take care to make sure that everyone gets the idea of 4 figure before going onto 6 figure . To make sure that those who grasp it quickly are involved all the time, give them the role as a student supporter who goes around the class helping others. Also get students up at the front of the class to demonstrate how they got their answers .

This is a living graph activity . See the methodology booklet for details of how to teach it .

There is a picture of an exemplar of the outcome of this assessment in the methodology booklet . There is guidance for students in the handbook .

This series of lessons was used by Year 8 students who had completed a few lessons about drugs and peer pressure in year 7 . In year 8 they built on this by carrying out their own research about drugs in french and designed a board game based on it . They used the theory of multiple intelligences which they acessed through an interactive quiz and then applied the learning to a board game . There is also the opportunity to discuss employment opportunities linked to multiple intelligences .There are key words links to playing the board game and self and peer assessment in French .

This lesson looks at the lead up to the decision to leave the EU and looks at the possible implications of Brexit

This lesson involves setting up the classroom with products which involve purchasing choices . For example washing up liquid which is environmentally friendly and that which is not. Different types of Tuna , line caught and others, fair trade chocolate , organic chocolate , supermarket basic brand . There is a form in the student handbook which can be used . Students go around the product and note the price (see page 84 of the student handbook) Students add up the prices of a fair trade , environmentally friendly products and those that are neither.They are given a budget and decide which products to buy There are powerpoints about fair trade to explain how it works. Students then justify the choices of product that they have decided to buy. There is an example of student writing

Scale is difficult conceptually. That is why students start by drawing a bird’s eye view of a bedroom . They then use OS maps and look at who may use each scale of map .