KS3 French Cover Lesson Design your own City

This lesson covers: designing and labeling your own city in French. This is an imaginary city however! Students will learn and use words search as king, queen, city walls, witches, dragons etc. This lesson works really well as a cover lesson. It is easy for non-specialists to follow but supports and challenges KS3 students of French very well. It could also be adapted for use in lessons by specialists in order to introduce / revise places in a town / city. It would be helpful but not necessary if students have learnt the verb ‘avoir’ previously, as well as using adjectives correctly in French.

Lesson involves: Differentiated objectives and starter activity (short translations related to the city).
Activity 1: Students to work in teams looking up what one can find in an imaginary / real city (displayed in French on ppt) in dictionaries, again, differentiated. Next slide gives answers to students so they can write down whatever they were unable to find. Challenges are included on each slide.
Activity 2: Differentiated translation task using key vocabulary they have just looked up in teams. Key words provided as well as higher challenge. Next slide contains answers for peer / self-assessment.
Main activity 3: 'apply' task: students design their own city using key vocabulary they have learnt. Again, this is differentiated by task with key works provided on ppt.
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